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[Vaquero]

The Daily Beast? Really?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

They couldn’t think of a better title? Audiences will think this is a sequel to “Saving Private Ryan” - which also starred Tom Hanks.

[GeronL]

“True Story” should be in scare quotes. Hollyweird and TV never tell the “true story” of anything without taking liberties and artistic license

[DJ MacWoW]

It’s rated PG-13. *sigh*

[Arm_Bears]

I could care less.

[Beowulf9]

I actually never cared for that movie. But...I see red. Did that get resolved or what?

[Darksheare]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic

True story?
Expect there to be differences between the reality and the relating.
Kinda like the linked movie “trailer”.

[Stentor]

Saving Mr. Banks goes behind the scenes of the ferocious battle to make what was to become the famous 1964 musical adaptation.

I had best repent. I know I'll be forced to watch that for eternity at the point of a pitchfork.

[a fool in paradise]

For 20 years, Travers refused to grant the rights to Disney. Eventually she said she would relent, but only if the movie was made to her specifications, which ranged from choosing the precise tape measure used in one scene to the exclusion of the color red from the entire movie.

Maybe she's the one who started to movement to change the name Washington Redskins.

Wanted to eliminate one of the primary colors from the visible spectrum. Right. Well, he could've opted for black and white.

[Fiji Hill]

“I won’t have her turned into one of your silly cartoons … These books do not lend themselves to prancing and chirping,” she says, railing against animation and musicals".

After seeing how Disney butchered Felix Salten's classic story Bambi--A Biography from the Forests (Berlin: Ullstein, 1923), I would grant that P. L. Travers has a valid point.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Obligatory. The Mary Poppins trailer re-cut as a horror movie. Scary Mary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic

(As an added bonus, the trailer for The Shining, re-cut as a romantic comedy.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmkVWuP_sO0

[jocon307]

I’ll steer clear of any and all controversies here, but I do want to say that Mary Poppins is the first movie I remember seeing (it might well be the first movie I ever saw - we did not go to the movies much at all) and I still remember how much my whole family enjoyed it. It’s a very happy and special memory to me.

[Alex Murphy]

Saving Mr. Banks goes behind the scenes of the ferocious battle to make what was to become the famous 1964 musical adaptation. For 20 years, Travers refused to grant the rights to Disney. Eventually she said she would relent, but only if the movie was made to her specifications, which ranged from choosing the precise tape measure used in one scene to the exclusion of the color red from the entire movie.

I'm reminded of the lawsuit over Disney's ongoing rights to Winnie The Pooh:

Pooh would no doubt scratch his fluff-stuffed head in disbelief at what's going on. Shirley and her daughter, Pati, are embroiled in an epic legal battle with the Walt Disney Co. over the merchandising rights to the world's most beloved bear. Shirley's former husband, Stephen Slesinger, acquired the merchandising rights to Winnie the Pooh in 1930 from his creator, A.A. Milne. After Slesinger died, Shirley granted the rights to Walt Disney himself. Now Shirley's company, Stephen Slesinger Inc., accuses Disney of cheating it out of royalties for nearly two decades. Her lawyers want Stephen Slesinger Inc.'s contract with Disney voided so they can shop Pooh around to competing entertainment companies.

Disney vigorously disputes the allegations. The company paints Shirley and Pati as freeloaders whom Disney has made fabulously wealthy through its shrewd marketing of Pooh. Instead of being grateful, argues Disney, Shirley and her daughter have attempted to stretch the terms of a yellowing contract to bag royalties on all sorts of things, even home videos, which were beyond anybody's imagination in 1930.

Billions of dollars are at stake in the lawsuit, which is scheduled to go to trial in March. Pooh videos, teddy bears, and other merchandise generate $1 billion in annual revenues for Disney--the same amount as Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, and Pluto combined.
-- from the thread The Curse of Pooh (About Disney Lawsuit, which I hope Disney loses)

[UnwashedPeasant]

Mary Poppins is one of the very best family movies of all time. Hard to think of many that are in that league.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Hanks? - must be a hit job on Disney....

[Conservative4Ever]

Never much liked Mary Poppins, and Debbie Reynolds should have won the academy award that year for unsinkable Molly brown, rather than Julie Andrews.

[mfish13]

Red? Mary Poppin’s bow tie and scarf are red.

[HokieMom]

I saw this movie this weekend and found it absolutely charming and give it two thumbs up. I loved it and the men in the audience seemed to enjoy it as well. Great for date night. I see lots of Oscar nominations on the horizon. Even if one never saw, didn’t care for, or has forgotten ‘Mary Poppins’ this movie is still enjoyable on its own.

http://movies.disney.com/saving-mr-banks

[Rebelbase]

Watched it a few nights ago. It alternates between two timelines, the interactions with Disney and Co. while the movie was in production and childhood events in Travers’ live that were the inspiration for the Mary Poppins Story.