That's an aspect of Saving Mr. Banks that I didn't discuss in the post, which was long enough already. As the title suggests, in the movie Disney finds the key to Travers' psyche by realizing that Mary Poppins has come to save the father - i.e. really Travers' father.
There's two problems with this, though. First, of course, is that in the books this doesn't happen. Mr. Banks is neither as distant as he begins in the Disney MP, nor as feel-good as he ends in it. In the books, he's in favor of Mary Poppins from the very beginning, but she has little to do with him directly.
The other problem is that the psychoanalysis doesn't match onto the flashbacks. The character in the movie who's supposed to be the original of Mary Poppins, whom I think is Travers' aunt (mother's sister), though I'm not sure, comes but she doesn't in any way save the father, who is dying prettily of TB.
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Date: 2013-12-17 06:46 pm (UTC)There's two problems with this, though. First, of course, is that in the books this doesn't happen. Mr. Banks is neither as distant as he begins in the Disney MP, nor as feel-good as he ends in it. In the books, he's in favor of Mary Poppins from the very beginning, but she has little to do with him directly.
The other problem is that the psychoanalysis doesn't match onto the flashbacks. The character in the movie who's supposed to be the original of Mary Poppins, whom I think is Travers' aunt (mother's sister), though I'm not sure, comes but she doesn't in any way save the father, who is dying prettily of TB.