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.
A flashback scene shows P.L. Travers as a small girl watching her father in his bank office shouting at an imaginary enemy and throwing papers around. She sees her father being reprimanded and sacked for his outburst. Robert falls off a stage while giving a speech to a crowd of onlookers.
Travers Goff is depicted clean shaven in all his scenes in the film, and Pamela insists that Mr. Banks must not have a moustache in Mary Poppins (1964), for this reason. However, Travers Goff's photographs show him with an even larger moustache than David Tomlinson's Mr. Banks had.
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.
The bank worked him to the bone and drove him to drink. Her father was always concerned with making money to support his family, which led to more drinking. Money destroyed her father, and therefore she doesn't care for it. Money is also the reason she had to go to Walt Disney for aid.
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.
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.
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.
What does Mr. Banks want Michael to do with the tuppence?
In one scene, Poppins encourages the Banks children to pay a woman a “tuppence” for bread crumbs to feed the birds (in the movie, Michael Banks is encouraged by his father and other bankers to instead invest his tuppence).
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.
Travers, Disney devoted two decades to bring the nanny that is "practically perfect in every way" to the silver screen. In the early 1940s, Walt Disney made his daughter Diane a promise: he would adapt her favorite 1934 children's book, British author P.L. Travers' Mary Poppins, into a big-screen masterpiece.
The idea that Travers demanded no red also features in the film Saving Mr Banks, when she claims she had simply gone off the colour. Despite this request, there is plenty of red in the final Mary Poppins film.
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.
Climactic Moment: After Walt leaves, Mrs. Travers finally signs the contract. Resolution: Mrs. Travers attends the Hollywood premiere and experiences personal catharsis through the movie.
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.
The problem is that Mr. Banks (you remember the father from the movie, right?) will never attract Mary Poppins. This was his job ad: “Required: Nanny. Firm, respectable, no-nonsense.”
We realize that Mary Poppins came not to fix the children, nor was this their journey, but to fix Mr. Banks, a character, dragged down by conflicting loyalties. The wind changes and Mary Poppins must now leave the Banks children, presumably to help assist another family.
What happened to Michael's wife in Mary Poppins returns?
Sadly, Michael's wife has died, and he's struggling to bring up his children and maintain his house and finances by himself. Just as the bank is about to foreclose on his mortgage, Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt) flies in on her umbrella to care for Michael's children.
Now take a look behind the scenes of “Saving Mr. Banks” to find out how they brought 1961 to life here at Disneyland and at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, Calif. “Saving Mr. Banks” opens in wide release December 20.
The parents (David Tomlinson and Glynnis Johns) don't take much notice of their children Jane and Michael, and it is only until a mysterious woman named Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews) appears from the sky that things begin to change.
David Tomlinson as George Banks, Mary Poppins' employer and strict father of Jane and Michael. He works at the Dawes Tomes Mousley Grubbs Fidelity Fiduciary Bank in London. He is a driven and disciplined man.
Goff had her first role in the troupe as Anne Page in a March 1921 performance of The Merry Wives of Windsor. She decided to go by the stage name of "Pamela Lyndon Travers", taking Travers from her father's name and Pamela because she thought it a "pretty" name that "flowed" with Travers.
Disney was a shy, self-deprecating and insecure man in private but adopted a warm and outgoing public persona. He had high standards and high expectations of those with whom he worked. Although there have been accusations that he was racist or antisemitic, they have been contradicted by many who knew him.
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.
