Mary Poppins

On the data. Three things, and the first is the one people are least ready for. The books are not the film. P. L. Travers's Mary Poppins is vain, brusque, frequently rude and never explains herself. There are no songs, there is no arc for the father, and the chapters are largely self contained adventures rather than a story. Some of the early books also contain racial caricature that Travers herself revised in later editions after complaints. Eight books were published between 1934 and 1988. Travers hated the film. She objected to the animation, to the songs, to how the father was handled, and she never allowed Disney to adapt another book. When a stage musical was finally made decades later, her estate insisted no one who had worked on the Disney film could write for it. Saving Mr. Banks is Disney's film about that argument, and it lands on Disney's side. It is an enjoyable film and it is not a neutral account. On the 1964 film: Dick Van Dyke's London accent is famous enough to be a byword, and he has apologised for it more than once. He returns in the 2018 film in a different part. The sequel is not a remake. It has the same shape as the first film on purpose, with a new song in every slot where the original had one, which some people find affectionate and others find hollow.

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