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Post by blackvault on Jan 7, 2014 20:07:26 GMT -6
Ya'll see this flick yet? It's based on the true story of Walt Disney promising her daughter to bring her favorite book Mary Poppins to the big screen, and i never knew Mary Poppins was a book originally until this movie came out it was by P.L Travers who wrote the book in the movie saving mr banks she has a stuck-up snob personality not sure if the character was like that in real life though. Emma Thompson portrayed the role of P.L Travers, And i just love this movie so much and when it comes out on Blu-ray I'll pick it up And getting Tom Hanks to play Walt Disney was such a good choice love this film  |
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Post by mh on Jan 7, 2014 22:40:07 GMT -6
i haven't seen it, but it looks really good. we go the movies on wednesday a lot (free popcorn day!), so i might end up seeing it tomorrow. emma thompson got nominated for a golden globe award and will probably get an oscar nomination. i'd be nice if she won it. i used to thunk she was really hot in her quirky way, back before electricity
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Post by blackvault on Jan 12, 2014 0:49:23 GMT -6
hahahaahahaha yeah that will be cool after seeing the movie I'll get Mary Poppins the dvd version at my local best buy since on the best buy website it tells you what product is at a local best buy and well the dvd version of Mary Poppins is, The actual Travers was real difficult to work with after the research i saw and she had some mysterious dislike towards Americans even hated Dick Van Dyke according to an interview from him the year before last. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious That word is so hard to pronounce lol And if they ever do a Movie based on the making of willy wonka i wonder what it would be like because i know the author of charlie and the chocolate factory disliked the film.  |
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Post by Babu Baboon on Jan 13, 2014 6:30:23 GMT -6
i haven't seen it, but it looks really good. we go the movies on wednesday a lot (free popcorn day!), so i might end up seeing it tomorrow. emma thompson got nominated for a golden globe award and will probably get an oscar nomination. i'd be nice if she won it. i used to thunk she was really hot in her quirky way, back before electricity
That picture's hot anyway because it looks like she might lean down and start kissing Gina Davis. |
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Post by Babu Baboon on Jan 13, 2014 6:32:18 GMT -6
hahahaahahaha yeah that will be cool after seeing the movie I'll get Mary Poppins the dvd version at my local best buy since on the best buy website it tells you what product is at a local best buy and well the dvd version of Mary Poppins is, The actual Travers was real difficult to work with after the research i saw and she had some mysterious dislike towards Americans even hated Dick Van Dyke according to an interview from him the year before last. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious That word is so hard to pronounce lol And if they ever do a Movie based on the making of willy wonka i wonder what it would be like because i know the author of charlie and the chocolate factory disliked the film. How the heck can anybody hate Dick Van Dyke? Was it the bad cockney accent? |
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Post by mh on Jan 13, 2014 14:55:02 GMT -6
YES baboon, it was the bad cockney accent! I'm so glad you brought this up. it was the worst English accent in film history until keanu reeves and winona ryder did bram stoker's dracula! if hugh laurie can do a perfect transatlantic amercian accent in HOUSE how come ... okay, sorry, i'm gonna stop now. and if you ever saw 'the seven percent solution', robert duvall did an unbelievably perfect accent as dr. watson. oh, sorry i forgot, unlike those 2 sleep-walking turds reeves and ryder, robert duvall is an actual actor! that being said, i loved dick van dyke in mary poppins as a kid. who could hate dick van dyke? dick van dyke never hurt nobody!!! entertainment.time.com/2011/08/22/top-10-worst-fake-british-accents/slide/dick-van-dyke-mary-poppins-1964/ |
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Post by Babu Baboon on Jan 13, 2014 16:38:56 GMT -6
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Post by mh on Jan 14, 2014 0:05:20 GMT -6
omg, that is unbelievable! wow! but i believe it. cubby broccoli offered everybody & their mama the part of james bond after connery left. and james brolin (josh brolin's daddy) was set to do octopussy, until, thank g-d, aging but still a billion times more suitable than brolin, roger moore decided to come back. hit was offered to burt reynolds, clint eastwood, richard burton, and adam west (!) at one time or another
 
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Post by mh on Jan 14, 2014 0:22:33 GMT -6
i haven't seen it, but it looks really good. we go the movies on wednesday a lot (free popcorn day!), so i might end up seeing it tomorrow. emma thompson got nominated for a golden globe award and will probably get an oscar nomination. i'd be nice if she won it. i used to thunk she was really hot in her quirky way, back before electricity
That picture's hot anyway because it looks like she might lean down and start kissing Gina Davis. YOW! i didn't realize that was gina davis! but i see it now. if she were wearing the 'earth girls are easy' swimsuit in this pic, i would almost certainly lapse into a coma. maybe i will anyway
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Post by Doc Quantum on Jan 14, 2014 18:43:26 GMT -6
Harlan Ellison posted the above video on his YouTube channel. He makes some good points that help explain why P.L. Travers was dead-set against letting Walt Disney adapt her Mary Poppins character to screen, and why she resisted for well over a decade of Disney's efforts to convince her. I can't blame her, since she was so close to her character that it was painful to see how Mary Poppins was "Disneyfied". The Mary Poppins character in the Disney movie was changed from the character she created for the books -- if you don't want to read the books yourself to see what those changes were, you can find the changes discussed on various sites. Also, the "Saving Mr. Banks" movie is a whitewash of what really happened, with an ending that was completely made up. In real life, to her dying day, P.L. Travers regretted letting Disney get his hands on her character.
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