Trailer for Walt Disney Biopic "Saving Mr. Banks"

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http://collider.com/saving-mr-banks-trailer/

I think this movie will be amazing. Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson, judging from the preview, look like they will have great on-screen chemistry.

This looks good. I like story behind the story movies.

And books also. I recently read a book by the woman who played Veruca Salt in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. It had a lot of behind the scene photos and interesting info about the other actors and movie personnel.

I like movies that are based or inspired by true stories.

There are two other movies that are based on actual events and have release dates set for Oscar season this year:

Foxcatcher
Steve Carell plays billionaire John DuPont, who suffered from paranoid schiziophrenia
and killed an Olympic wrestler in 1996.

American Hustle
New movie from David O. Russell, which focuses on a corporate scandal that happened in 1978.

Allow me to be the very first to say it looks positively dreadful. When I first heard about the film, I rolled my eyes. P.L. Travers never got the idea of Mary Poppins as Disney portrayed her. At least until the checks came rolling in after the movie when people started buying all the books. She was not an interesting person, and was quite stubborn. Not a good basis for a character, no arc whatsoever. I also knew that Hollywood would find it impossible to portray Walt Disney realistically. What an awful impression by Tom Hanks. Walt was from Kansas, not the South. He had a midwestern 'twang'. He also chain smoked, swore, drank whiskey, and bullied his employees. He was, in short, a prototypical American entrepreneur.

It might do well as a 'family film' but historically it's inaccurate.

To be honest, I'm rather inclined to agree with that opinion - I'm not exactly sure what it is Disney are trying to achieve with this movie (mind you, I'm not sure what possessed them to do John Carter and the Lone Ranger either).

As is widely known, P.L. Travers and Disney fell out massively over the Mary Poppins adaptation, so much so that Travers forbade any further American influence on any future Mary Poppins adaptations, including a musical that she was only approached about in her 90s, way back when. I can't help thinking that there may be tears before bedtime over this film if audiences don't acknowledge that despite the historical origins, parts of Saving Mr Banks will be heavily fictionalised. Brave decision Tom Hanks made though --- it's certainly different....

If what I have read is true, Walt did little more than make sure P.L. Travers was kept too busy to notice what was being filmed. When the film wrapped, she wanted changes made and Walt told her flat out to read her contract, buried in the small print was a clause wherein she only had input before and during filming. She spent years telling anyone who would listen that Walt was an awful person for altering her stories the way he did. She finally relented when all of her books kept selling because of the movie. She was also an Aussie, but I don't know what sort of accent she spoke with.

Wikipedia hints that she may have been bisexual.

Actually, a Mid-Western accent is often mistaken for a Southern accent. In the trailer, Tom Hanks does sound like he is from the South, but that's the way he sometimes sounds when giving interviews.

PL Travers began refusing to sign over the rights for Mary Poppins in 1938 out of fear Disney might turn her creation into a stereotypical Disney princess.

Also, it should be considered irrelevant that Walt Disney may have been an Anti-Semite, though he was friends with many Jewish people during his life. It should also be considered irrelevant that Walt Disney may have been a racist. While it is true Disney did make racially insensitive remarks, no evidence has ever surfaced that Disney was racist towards any non-white group.

I did go to see it. I felt that this will probably be the only time Disney Inc will allow an actor to portray Walt. To be completely honest, I broke down and cried. Having grown up watching the weekly Disney TV show, I felt very emotional about most of the movie. It's unspoken in the movie, but Walt died two years after Mary Poppins premiered. The closing credits showed the actor's names and actual photographs of the real people they portrayed in the film. That, and the reel to reel tape recorder playing Traver's actual voice, with the reel running out was quite emotional.

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I concur. While watching the movie myself {I saw Saving Mr. Banks a few days ago.}, I too felt very emotional during the movie, mostly during the flashbacks.

At the end of the movie, everyone stood up and clapped. Some audience members were indeed crying and IMO, the ending was bittersweet.

Most of it was mostly true, except for the scene where Walt chases Travers back to London. What he tells her about his abusive father was true, however.