After watching and analyze the movie entitled “Saving Mr. Banks”, the writer found out the theme in the movie which is “once you made a promise, you have to keep and realize it, and we have to lower our pessimist thinking and be more positive to other people”.
Deriving its title from the father in Travers's story, Saving Mr. Banks depicts the author's tragic childhood in rural Queensland in 1906 and the two weeks of meetings during 1961 in Los Angeles, during which Disney attempts to obtain the film rights to her novels.
Saving Mr. Banks alludes to and explores an interesting psychological concept called sublimation. Sublimation is a mature and resilient coping mechanism in which pathological impulses or traumatic experiences are transformed into socially acceptable actions or creations.
Mary Poppins is a story about life's tradeoffs and the importance of finding balance, understanding and fulfilling obligations, and subordinating personal ambition.
The Revisionist World of Disney: Mary Poppins, Walt Disney and Saving Mr. Banks
What lesson do you think Mary Poppins came to teach the Banks family?
If there's one thing that anyone who has seen Mary Poppins would agree with, it's the fact that with the right amount of imagination, anything is possible. Mary instills this idea in the Banks children, and it's something that anyone who has ever accomplished anything that seemed impossible can attest to.
George Banks, more commonly known as "Mr. Banks", is the former secondary antagonist in the 1964 film, Mary Poppins. He is similar in character to George Darling from Peter Pan, and was inspired by P.L. Travers' own father, himself a strict, no-nonsense banker and was inspired by Walt Disney's father, Elias, as well.
Is Saving Mr. Banks the true story of Mary Poppins?
Saving Mr. Banks is based on a true story. Well, it's based on a true story the way the movie Mary Poppins is based on the book Mary Poppins — which is to say loosely, and without some of the really unusual and intense juicy parts.
In the movie, Mary Poppins helps the Banks family to become closer together. She does this by showing them how fun it can be to work together as a family and how entertaining it is to have family time. For example, when she takes them on an outing to the park, she encourages them all to play together and have fun.
Banks, Travers Goff being the inspiration for Mr. Banks and his namesake is foreshadowed early on when it's first revealed on Travers' office door that he is a bank manager, contrary to the implication that the character is named Banks because of his love for money.
In her will, PL Travers left her literary estate (including the copyright in Mary Poppins) upon a settlement, the beneficiaries of which were her descendants and a charity she had set up.
Saving Mr. Banks is lovely in many ways, including its lead actors, Thompson and Hanks, who are irresistibly winning. But it's a tale of two stories, both of which are indulged, making for a tonally uneven film. To start, the movie Mary Poppins is a fairy tale.
Saving Mr. Banks shows that many writers use they personal experience and life and become a part of the author. It is hard for writers to let go and particularly for Travers, as she has so much invested in Mary Poppins, so much of herself in it. Her books allowed her to have some wish fulfilment.
Walt Disney is the one who has the goal of Saving Mr. Banks: his external, specific goal is to get Travers to sign over the rights to make a Mary Poppins film. P.L. Travers, although suffering from some financial difficulties, resists this goal.
Through the movie are a series of flashbacks that show P.L. Travers's tragic childhood in an outback Australian country town in 1906. It was this experience that inspired her Mary Poppins books.
Accuracy: Mostly true. Saving Mr. Banks does paint the father, Travers Goff, a little more positively than he actually was, but the basics — i.e. that Goff was an alcoholic, failed bank manager with an immensely romantic imagination — are all correct. Even the pear flashback toward the end has some basis in reality.
It was in 1924, while Travers worked as a journalist at a London newspaper, that she came up with the idea for a novel about a whimsical-yet-stern nanny called Mary Poppins. The name, Travers told the BBC, came from the inscription "M. Poppins" written in the flyleaf of one of her favorite books as a child.
The movie about Walt Disney (played by Hanks) and his mission to persuade “Mary Poppins” author P.L. Travers (played by Thompson) to allow him to turn his daughters' favorite book into a movie includes scenes filmed at Disneyland park over two days in November 2012.
George heads down to the bank to meet his fate. Predictably, he gets fired. The bank board blames him for the run on the bank that happened earlier in the day. Dawes Jr.
Sherman and Robert B. Sherman. The song sung by the stodgy old bankers at the Dawes, Tomes, Mousely, Grubbs Fidelity Fiduciary Bank, led by the "Elder Mr. Dawes" (Navckid Keyd), to George Banks's two children, Jane and Michael, in an attempt to get Michael Banks to invest his tuppence in the bank.
Mary Poppins in Travers' books is strict and no-nonsense, asserting her unusual brand of discipline over the four (later five) Banks children in her charge. Mary is very vain and is always admiring herself in the mirror and other reflections.
Jack was an apprentice to Bert (who was played by Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins), and he's all grown up in Mary Poppins Returns. Miranda said that one of the things Jack learns from Bert is to not forget how to view the world with imagination, even as a grown-up. He elaborated, “[Jack] remembers Mary Poppins.
At a time when 'Disney princesses' were shown to the world as people who were almost always dependent on the presence of a 'prince' to rescue them, 'Mary Poppins' appeared, slowly descending from the heights in her umbrella to make it clear that a woman does not have to depend on anyone to shape her life.
