2013 Saving Mr. To understand Banks, you must first see Mary Poppins, a 1964 Disney film. The film "Mary Poppins" (starring Julie Andrews; also starring in the 1965 film The Sound of Music) is a film adaptation of Mary Poppins, a novel published in 1934 that is deeply entrenched in British childhood. This novel remains deeply entrenched in the childhood emotions of many Americans and British people to this day. And the 2013 film Saving Mr. Banks is a film that tells the story of how the novel was made into a movie by Walter Disney from the perspective of PL Travers, author of Mary Poppins.
Whether by coincidence or always on Disney's mind, this novel, nearly 30 years after its publication, took Walt Disney's interest, and, after long persuading the author, Mary Poppins brought the world's attention to the film. I got it back, and that's great. In 2014, it was even introduced as a special medley to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the birth of the movie at the BBC Proms held in London in the summer/autumn of the year. Emma Thompson's grumpy Travers role was great, and Tom Hanks, who portrayed Walter Disney's bizarre expressions well, was also great. will do There was a recent Hollywood remake of this Mary Poppins, but, like all the other remakes, it was rubbish. I do not recommend this movie because I think that success in Box Office does not necessarily make it a masterpiece, and the content is also poor. I knew the remake was going to fail, but one of the reasons was for the lead actress. Julie Andrews had great acting and singing skills, but even the shock effect she delivered made it impossible for today's actresses to keep up. But Emily Blunt??? Especially Emily Blunt? Give me a break.
In fact, the birth of the novel Mary Poppins has a very sad background behind it. The author Ms. Pamela L. Travers is an autobiographical tale of her gloomy childhood turned into a novel, when, in fact, the author's father (a failed bank manager) nearly died of illness, when a distant relative, a middle-aged woman, came home as a nanny. It is said that many things that were very confusing due to his father's illness were based on his memories of magically organizing and finding stability. To be more specific - in the early 1900s, a nanny starts a new job in the home of a couple and their two daughters living in a poor family in a small town in England. She was a very capable but cold-hearted nanny (actually, the man's aunt), who was very strict and disciplined to put the house in order. The reason they hired such a strict nanny was that the husband of this young couple, a bankrupt banker, was dying of an illness, and his wife could not afford it. Eventually, the young husband dies, and his first daughter (the daughter weeping and mourning over her father's broken promise to fix the household items, toys, and especially kites) grieves for the rest of her life.
The girl's name was Helen Lyndon Goff, later PL Travers, and she became famous for writing a series of novels called Marry Poppins. The story of her childhood is intact in the novel, and the strict nanny also appears. But in the novel, her story ends with a happy ending - and the nanny appears in the novel as a nanny named Mary Poppins (with magical power), who is a successful banker with two children, but is faced with a major crisis in her business. Go into the house as a nanny, make this blunt banker husband and father caring (and the father corrects the daughter's year), help the house get it right again, and then go back to the magical world .
With this background, the 2013 film Saving Mr. To see Banks, I think you have to see Mary Poppins (1964).
It's a movie with a lot of really good songs. Rather than thinking of famous lines, the songs come to mind first. One of them is the song "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!" This extraordinarily long word means extraordinarily good or wonderful. It makes me happy to say this word out loud - even the person who wrote the song heard it when they were young, the origin is unknown. The lyrics go like this:
T's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious If you say it loud enough, you'll always sound precocious Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Um diddle, diddle diddle, um diddle ay Um diddle, diddle diddle, um diddle ay Um diddle, diddle diddle, um diddle ay Um diddle, diddle diddle, um diddle ay
Because I was afraid to speak When I was just a lad My father gave me nose a tweak And told me I was bad
But then one day I learned a word That saved me achin' nose The biggest word I ever heard And this is how it goes, oh
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Even though the sound of it is
something quite atrocious If you say it loud enough,
you'll always sound precocious Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Um diddle, diddle diddle, um diddle ay Um diddle, diddle diddle, um diddle ay Um diddle, diddle diddle, um diddle ay Um diddle, diddle diddle, um diddle ay
He traveled all around the world And everywhere he went He'd use his word and all would say There goes a clever gent
When Dukes and Maharajahs Pass the time of day with me I say me special word And then they ask me out to tea
Oh, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Even though the sound of it is
something quite atrocious If you say it loud enough,
you'll always sound precocious Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Um diddle, diddle diddle, um diddle ay Um diddle, diddle diddle, um diddle ay
No, you can say it backwards,
which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalalirupus But that's going a bit too far, don't you think?
So when the cat has got your tongue There's no need for dismay Just summon up this word And then you've got a lot to say
But better use it carefully Or it could change your life For example, yes, one night I said it to me girl And now me girl's my wife, oh,
and a lovely thing she's too
She's, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
How about following along while watching a video from BBC Proms? I recommend it.
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