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‘Mary Poppins’ Is a Subversive Critique of Modernity
The Gospel Coalition ^
| 2017
| Dean Abbott
Posted on 08/01/2018 11:59:29 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege; All
This guy has too much time on his hands. It’s a movie made from a very popular book. The gist of the story is NOT Mr. Banks’ Mid-Life Crisis.
The Daddy goes to work to make money to afford his family a luxurious lifestyle. The Mom is kind of a ditz. The Children are taken care of by a Nanny (who is Magical!) which was pretty much the norm for that place in time and their economic status.
Does EVERYTHING need to be analyzed to the Nth degree? Everything?
Sit down, shut up and pass the popcorn! It’s Movie Night!
P.S. Don’t let this guy analyze ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ or, ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ or, ‘Doctor Doolittle’ or, ‘The Nutty Professor!’
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posted on
08/01/2018 12:28:16 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
To: rfp1234
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posted on
08/01/2018 12:30:22 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
You don’t say so. Disney feminism is anti-modernist??
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posted on
08/01/2018 12:32:24 PM PDT
by
aspasia
To: CondoleezzaProtege
Mary Poppins is a witch. The chimney sweep is the wiccan Stag figure and the gay uncle is just a fairy.
Mary is all about rebellion to Christianity. Mary is far to the left of Bank's wife who wants the vote for women.
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posted on
08/01/2018 12:32:36 PM PDT
by
DungeonMaster
(...the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light...)
To: Steely Tom
In Mary Poppins, the children discover that their father is not the perfect tower of strength they had thought he was I see. Perfect gift for on Father's Day.
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posted on
08/01/2018 12:35:11 PM PDT
by
aspasia
To: DungeonMaster
Mary Poppins...is selling socialism.
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posted on
08/01/2018 12:40:50 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
Lost me when they got the street address wrong.
17 Cherry Tree Lane.
All this talk of allegory and Mary Poppins reminds me of people trying to read politics into The Wizard of Oz. Stop and think. It MAY just be a fun story for children that takes place when social upheaval is happening.
I think your complaints are with the 1910s, not, with Disney.
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posted on
08/01/2018 12:41:27 PM PDT
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
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posted on
08/01/2018 12:48:12 PM PDT
by
aspasia
To: Diana in Wisconsin
I always took it be a criticism of parents who are detached and not terribly interested in their children - the dad a pain in ass taskmaster who worshiped the bank, the mother a paint in the ass women’s libber who blew off the kids to go protest, hiring the help to be the parents.
To: Conan the Librarian
It MAY just be a fun story for children I don't buy that either. Something tells me it's Turkish Delight.
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posted on
08/01/2018 12:51:46 PM PDT
by
aspasia
To: Steely Tom
A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down.
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posted on
08/01/2018 12:51:59 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
I always thought the deep meaning to Marry Poppins was that Brits are weird.
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posted on
08/01/2018 12:52:40 PM PDT
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: Jeff Chandler; ETL
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posted on
08/01/2018 12:52:54 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
Never saw it. Have wondered once or twice along these many years what the hell it was about.
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posted on
08/01/2018 12:53:28 PM PDT
by
TalBlack
(It's hard to shoot people when they are shooting back at you...)
To: Charles Martel
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posted on
08/01/2018 12:54:15 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Video is restricted for me. Need to sign in to view it. And don’t recall UN or PW for YouTube account.
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posted on
08/01/2018 12:56:14 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: BenLurkin
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is not one word.
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posted on
08/01/2018 1:06:59 PM PDT
by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
To: ETL
Do you know how many times I tried to fly with a umbrella? Our roof was the starting point I knew I needed “lift”
To: BenLurkin
A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down. All right! You've got me there. Touché!
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posted on
08/01/2018 1:16:14 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
To: Conan the Librarian
It MAY just be a fun story for children
From what I remember of “Saving Mr. Banks,” this is all Disney had in mind; to create a fun story for his two daughters.
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posted on
08/01/2018 1:20:35 PM PDT
by
rwa265
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