yeah, noozguru, I think that post of yours went in deep. I actually did not
enjoy Saving Mr. Banks though I love Emma Thompson and I thoroughly enjoyed the
character of her chauffeur.
Spoiler alert:
I think Ginty's Dad was embodied in two of Travers' fictional characters: Mr.
Banks, of course. But I also think the character of Bert was inspired by her
Dad.
On Thursday, January 23, 2014 4:43 PM, Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
What about that Harlan Ellison review on YouTube I pointed to a month ago? And
we get to thank Disney for the lame DMCA, oh eyepatch. ;-)
On 01/23/2014 01:08 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:
>This is a strange movie for *me* to be reviewing, and even stranger to be
>reviewing positively, but react to it positively I did. After all, it's a
>Disney movie, and worse, it's *about* Walt Disney, someone whose sensibilities
>with regard to fairy tales and the dilution of them I do not admire.
>
>And yet. I was charmed by many things in this film.
I felt that the script was wonderfully written, and
directed just as well. And there have been exactly
*zero* other films this year that knocked my socks
off by the strength of their "ensemble performances"
the way this one did. The combination of Emma
Thompson as the irascible P.L. Travers, arguing
tooth and nail with Walt Disney (Tom Hanks, better
than I would have imagined) over whether she was
going to give him the film rights to her book "Mary
Poppins" are pretty much unbeatable from start to
finish. Add to them Paul Giamatti as her limo driver
in L.A., Colin Farrell as her father in flashbacks,
and Annie Rose Buckley as Travers herself as a
child, and this is pretty much a dream cast,
crafting a dream.
>
>Yes, it's schmaltzy, yes, it's a bit of a tearjerker
in parts, and yes, it's manipulative. But it
*works*, and it's a damned pity that the Academy
Awards chose to ignore it, except for its musical
score. The Golden Globes, to their credit, at least
nominated Emma Thompson as Best Actress, and in my
opinion she acted circles around any of the other
nominees, or at least the ones whose films I've seen
so far.
>
>The real P.L. Travers was supposedly a total bitch
who, according to her own adoptive grandchildren,
"died loving no one and with no one loving her."
This film showed a better side of her, one that I
wish the old tyrant had gotten to see in life. If
she had, she might have lightened up a bit and
learned to laugh at herself a bit more, and thus had
a happier life.
>
>
