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  1. [Movie Review] Saving Mr. Banks@claudio831888d

    Saving Mr. Banks is a film produced by Walt Disney and narrates the difficult evolution between Walt Disney and Pamela Lyndon Travers, writer and author of the novel by Mary Poppins. Unlike what one might think, the rapprochement between the two authors has been difficult and very long, about 20 years of courtship by Walt Disney.

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    Pamela has been the author of many books in the past but today, after a long absence from the publishing world, she is on the verge of bankruptcy and is in danger of losing her London home. To his regret he decides to collaborate with Walt Disney for the making of the film as long as, before grant the rights of Mary Poppins, the author takes care of all the details and it is she who has the power decision-making. However, Walt Disney and the dedicated team are amazed by the profound contempt that Travers feels for the hard work done and above all they notice a strong discordance of view on the figure of George Banks, the stranger father of the children and employer of Mary Poppins, claiming that he was not a cold and cruel man, as everyone painted him.

    In the film there are many flask backs of Pamela as a child together with her family and these feedbacks focus solely on the figure of the father, a little present man and alcoholic, whose life dies due to an illness when Pamela has not even reached the 'adoloscenza. Walt Disney understands that the hatred for the making of the film comes from the sad memories of the writer, who wants to preserve the meaning of the story of Mary Poppins who takes inspiration from the advent in the adolescent age of Aunt Ellie, who will take care of the family and bring serenity into the home.

    Walt Dinsey so goes to Pamela Lyndon Travers, after discovering that he is actually the pseudonym of his father while his real name is Helen Goff, and she explains how difficult his life has been and how the story of Mary Poppins can become an example and a help for all children who are going through a dark period of their lives. Only after this meeting, the author will grant the rights of the book and the film will finally be made with great satisfaction from both.

    Really very intense, beautiful and exciting film. We often ask ourselves how the authors manage to create such imaginative and funny stories but never will we imagine that these stories are born from traumas or negative experiences related to their own life and that the authors try to play down to overcome these inauspicious events themselves. I recommend watching the film to the whole family because it is very educational although moving!

    ITA

    Saving Mr. Banks è un film prodotto dalla Walt Disney e narra la difficile evoluzione tra Walt Disney e Pamela Lyndon Travers, scrittrice e autore del romanzo di Mary Poppins. Diversamente da quanto si possa pensare, l'avvicinamento tra i due autori è stata travaglia e molto lunga, circa 20 anni di corteggiamento da parte della Walt Disney.

    Pamela è stata un'autrice di molti libri in passatto ma oggi, dopo una lunga assenza dal mondo dell'editoria è sull'orlo del fallimento e rischia di perdere la sua casa londinese. A suo malinquore decide di collaborare con Walt Disney per la realizzazione del film a patto che, prima di concedere i diritti di Mary Poppins, l'autrice curi tutti i dettagli e sia lei ad avere il potere decisionale in merito. Walt Disney ed il team dedicato restano però stupiti dal profondo disprezzo che la Travers prova per il duro lavoro svolto e notano soprattutto una forte discordanza di veduta sulla figura di George Banks, padre estraneo dei bambini e datore di lavoro di Mary Poppins, sostenendo che non fosse un uomo freddo e crudele, così come lo dipingevano tutti.

    Nel film ci sono tantissimi flask back di Pamela da bambina assieme alla sua famiglia e questi feedback si concentrano unicamente sulla figura del padre, un uomo poco presente e alcolista, la cui vita si spegne a causa di una malattia quando Pamela non ha raggiunto neanche l'adoloscenza. Walt Disney capisce che l'astio per la realizzazione del film nasce dai tristi ricordi della scrittrice, la quale vuole preservare il significato della storia di Mary Poppins che prende spunto dall'avvento in età adoloscenziale della zia Ellie, la quale si prenderà cura della famiglia e porterà serenità in casa.

    Walt Dinsey così si reca da Pamela Lyndon Travers, dopo aver scoperto che in realtà è lo pseudinomo del padre mentre il suo vero nome è Helen Goff, e spiega lei di quanto anche la sua vita sia stata difficile e di come la storia di Mary Poppins possa diventare un esempio ed un aiuto per tutti i bambini che attraversano un periodo buio della propria vita. Solo dopo questo incontro, l'autrice concederà i diritti del libro ed il filmsarà finalmente realizzato con grande soddisfazione da parte di entrambi.

    Film davvero molto intenso, bello ed emozionante. Spesso ci chiediamo come gli autori riescano a creare storie così e fantasiose e divertenti ma mai immagineremo che queste storie nascono da traumi o esperienze negative legate alla propria vita e che gli autori cercano di sdrammatizzare per superare loro stessi questi infausti avvenimenti. Consiglio la visione del film a tutta la famiglia perchè è molto educativo sebbene commovente!

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  2. Saving Mr. Banks Movie Review@antonireviewer1919d

    I would personally love to thank Tony Whatley II a.k.a. The Black Critic Guy and Mat Brunet a.k.a. AniMat for introducing me to this film. I had such a blast watching this film and really tugged at my heartstrings effectively. Enjoy the review and let me know what your opinions are as well.

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  3. REVIEW : "Saving Mr. Banks" (2013) - Movie by John Lee Hancock@mandibil2304d

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    Sometimes a movie really takes me by surprise. When that happens it is always, or almost always, because of the story. One of the aspects I don't like in a film is when it sort of forces itself upon me and presses too hard to make the point it wants to make. I guess it works at times, but usually it just takes those little emotional hints and details out of the experience that mostly is what makes the difference.

    Saving Mr. Banks, on the surface, looks like an ordinary, run of the mill kind of small drama, and maybe to some extend it is. But what it does so surprisingly well is to establish characters, very quickly, that are both likeable and somewhat unlikeable (in a likeable way) and lets us get deep under their skin. This is not that easy to do and make you feel the same feelings they have but it works beautifully here.

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    Walt Disney (Hanks) has tried for almost 20 years to get P. L. Travers (Thompson) to sell the rights to her famous bedtime story Mary Poppins. He has not succeeded and this is not least because of extreme differences in ideals of artistic quality. Travers will not let Walt Disney-fy her beloved and very personal story.

    And the personal aspects of her story and her characters are what drives this movie forward. Disney is sidetracked to a supporting role in the face of the emotional journey Mrs. Travers is going to go through when she on grounds of her economy eventually agrees to go to the Disney headquarters to "supervise" a try at developing Poppins for the big screen.

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    From the first word Travers utters it is pretty clear that she is a woman who is used to get things her way. At the same time we also get an idea that her behaviour may have something to do with things that happened a long time ago in her childhood and has something to do with her father.

    The people at Disney, including Walt, do everything they can to please her and try to fit her at times weird ideas into what could possibly be an adaptation of something looking like a Disney production. But it is an uphill battle and more than a few times it seems that Travers is against everything just for being against everything.

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    As we get to know her backstory better, the reason for her behaviour and her relation to the story starts to unfold and take shape. In fact, it is close to becoming the back story that takes steals the show rather than the somewhat simplistic Disney "environment" she is in.

    We do get a bit of cultural clash between the colourful Disney fantasy and the more stiff upper lip English form that is Poppins. And Travers leaves no doubt about where she stands on the "quality" of Disney´s "animation" and maybe slightly sentimental style.

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    Halfway through the second act, when Travers hostility is dangerously close to becoming repetitive, the movie takes on a more serious and deeper expression. She starts to realise, slowly but surely, that maybe facing what she needs to face is what she needs to do to get on with her life. Her own childhood "traumas" and Mary Poppins go so closely in hand, that if she keeps it locked up for ever - she herself will lock up emotionally, forever.

    And maybe letting Disney, under her helm, adapt the thing into a movie is the katharsis that she needs. Her backstory, which is a very moving and joyful relation to her father, a rare case in movies when a relation between a parent and a child is expressed as positive (and not least by a father), and serves as an expression of how she finally comes through to the other end.

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    I love almost everything about this movie. And that is saying a lot for something I thought would be some kind of average, mainstream sentimentalist drama. It has its share of sentimentality but it is measured correctly and dosed out at the exactly right moments. The moments when you need that sentimentality to identify with Travers emotional state.

    It does not use any kind of fancy cinematography or any outlandish scenery to impress me or force emotions on me. It just does the tried and tested ways of telling a coherent and interesting story that anyone (possibly) can identify with. It is a bit of a relief that these kinds of well told, unpretentious movie-stories can still appear.

    The most important aspect of this movies success though, is its ability to connect flashbacks with the "present day" story (1960´s). There are many discrete little transitional elements that echo between the timeframes and it makes it a joy to switch back and forth between them, rather than becoming a necessary explanatory tool, in order to make anything in the Disney setting work. This is an aspect I don't think I have seen so well executed before and I must sincerely recommend this movie for fitting these parts so well together, so that both timeframes work on an individual emotional level and also together in a cohesive story. Bravo.

    This one gets my highest recommendations for a practically flawless gem of a delightfully watchable drama that will grab your feeling and never let you go until the end. it is a brilliantly told story about coming to terms with your past and not letting it steer your present and keep you tied up in an emotional knot. The actor performances are generally very good, in their mostly undertoned style, specifically Emma Thompson. She really shines in this role and it feels like she was pretty much born for it. Even a small chauffeur role for Giamatti is nicely incorporated.

    10/10

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  4. My Review: Saving Mr Banks [ENG-ITA]@claudio832374d

    Saving Mr. Banks is a film produced by Walt Disney and narrates the difficult evolution between Walt Disney and Pamela Lyndon Travers, writer and author of the novel by Mary Poppins. Unlike what one might think, the rapprochement between the two authors has been difficult and very long, about 20 years of courtship by Walt Disney.

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    Pamela has been the author of many books in the past but today, after a long absence from the publishing world, she is on the verge of bankruptcy and is in danger of losing her London home. To his regret he decides to collaborate with Walt Disney for the making of the film as long as, before grant the rights of Mary Poppins, the author takes care of all the details and it is she who has the power decision-making. However, Walt Disney and the dedicated team are amazed by the profound contempt that Travers feels for the hard work done and above all they notice a strong discordance of view on the figure of George Banks, the stranger father of the children and employer of Mary Poppins, claiming that he was not a cold and cruel man, as everyone painted him.

    In the film there are many flask backs of Pamela as a child together with her family and these feedbacks focus solely on the figure of the father, a little present man and alcoholic, whose life dies due to an illness when Pamela has not even reached the 'adoloscenza. Walt Disney understands that the hatred for the making of the film comes from the sad memories of the writer, who wants to preserve the meaning of the story of Mary Poppins who takes inspiration from the advent in the adolescent age of Aunt Ellie, who will take care of the family and bring serenity into the home.

    Walt Dinsey so goes to Pamela Lyndon Travers, after discovering that he is actually the pseudonym of his father while his real name is Helen Goff, and she explains how difficult his life has been and how the story of Mary Poppins can become an example and a help for all children who are going through a dark period of their lives. Only after this meeting, the author will grant the rights of the book and the film will finally be made with great satisfaction from both.

    Really very intense, beautiful and exciting film. We often ask ourselves how the authors manage to create such imaginative and funny stories but never will we imagine that these stories are born from traumas or negative experiences related to their own life and that the authors try to play down to overcome these inauspicious events themselves. I recommend watching the film to the whole family because it is very educational although moving!

    ITA

    Saving Mr. Banks è un film prodotto dalla Walt Disney e narra la difficile evoluzione tra Walt Disney e Pamela Lyndon Travers, scrittrice e autore del romanzo di Mary Poppins. Diversamente da quanto si possa pensare, l'avvicinamento tra i due autori è stata travaglia e molto lunga, circa 20 anni di corteggiamento da parte della Walt Disney.

    Pamela è stata un'autrice di molti libri in passatto ma oggi, dopo una lunga assenza dal mondo dell'editoria è sull'orlo del fallimento e rischia di perdere la sua casa londinese. A suo malinquore decide di collaborare con Walt Disney per la realizzazione del film a patto che, prima di concedere i diritti di Mary Poppins, l'autrice curi tutti i dettagli e sia lei ad avere il potere decisionale in merito. Walt Disney ed il team dedicato restano però stupiti dal profondo disprezzo che la Travers prova per il duro lavoro svolto e notano soprattutto una forte discordanza di veduta sulla figura di George Banks, padre estraneo dei bambini e datore di lavoro di Mary Poppins, sostenendo che non fosse un uomo freddo e crudele, così come lo dipingevano tutti.

    Nel film ci sono tantissimi flask back di Pamela da bambina assieme alla sua famiglia e questi feedback si concentrano unicamente sulla figura del padre, un uomo poco presente e alcolista, la cui vita si spegne a causa di una malattia quando Pamela non ha raggiunto neanche l'adoloscenza. Walt Disney capisce che l'astio per la realizzazione del film nasce dai tristi ricordi della scrittrice, la quale vuole preservare il significato della storia di Mary Poppins che prende spunto dall'avvento in età adoloscenziale della zia Ellie, la quale si prenderà cura della famiglia e porterà serenità in casa.

    Walt Dinsey così si reca da Pamela Lyndon Travers, dopo aver scoperto che in realtà è lo pseudinomo del padre mentre il suo vero nome è Helen Goff, e spiega lei di quanto anche la sua vita sia stata difficile e di come la storia di Mary Poppins possa diventare un esempio ed un aiuto per tutti i bambini che attraversano un periodo buio della propria vita. Solo dopo questo incontro, l'autrice concederà i diritti del libro ed il filmsarà finalmente realizzato con grande soddisfazione da parte di entrambi.

    Film davvero molto intenso, bello ed emozionante. Spesso ci chiediamo come gli autori riescano a creare storie così e fantasiose e divertenti ma mai immagineremo che queste storie nascono da traumi o esperienze negative legate alla propria vita e che gli autori cercano di sdrammatizzare per superare loro stessi questi infausti avvenimenti. Consiglio la visione del film a tutta la famiglia perchè è molto educativo sebbene commovente!

    Movie URL: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/140823-saving-mr-banks?language=en-US

    Critic: AAA

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