This movie is about Walt Disney and P.L. Travers. One who created Mickey Mouse, full of life, dreams, and happiness; and one who created Mary Poppins, strict, proper, and realism. I guess it really portrays the Walt Disney I learnt from story book, and how "proper" an English woman is. Haha :)
Walt would like to make a movie of Mary Poppins, and had been trying to pursue P.L. Travers for 20years! Wow, imagine his determination, spirit, and courage!!
As I watched further, I learnt more about P.L. Travers, her background, her childhood, and (somehow) it always back to our childhood memories.
Her actual name is Helen Goff, she is an Australian, who loved her father so much. She created Mary Poppins story based on her own experience, expectation, and imagination.
This movie portrays the difficulties of the Disney team when making the movie of Mary Poppins. I quite enjoyed the acting and was able to imagine the exact scene. Bravo to Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson, and the team!! :) :)
Sometimes the English accent brings different colour, although I'm still not quite used to it :) but Disney movies always managed to affect me emotionally by watching it.
Below is one example of the conversations, which amused me. Hehehe....
[Travers gives Ralph a list of people to his handicapped daughter, Jane]
Ralph: "Albert Einstein, Van Gogh, Roosevelt, Frida Kahlo" - What is this?
P.L. Travers: They all had difficulties. Jane can do anything that anyone else can do, do you understand?
[beat]
P.L. Travers: Look on the back.
Ralph: [turns it over] "Walt Disney."
P.L. Travers: Deficiencies in concentration and hyperactive behavior. Explains everything!
Love,
