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Why You Should See Disney’s Saving Mr. Banks #SavingMrBanks

December 16, 2013 by Momstart 2 Comments

Saving Mr. Banks is an excellent movie that evoked so much emotion out of me. I cried as hard watching Saving Mr. Banks as I did when I watched DreamWorks The Help. I have a feeling that I cried like that because I just recently lost someone in my life that meant the world to me. So you might want to take some tissues with you just in case a memory falls down your cheek.

Saving Mr. Banks is the story of how Mary Poppins popped out of the story books and onto the movie screen. It’s the only movie I’ve ever seen about Walt Disney and it was really interesting to learn about his personality and his passion. Tom Hanks plays Walt and he did an amazing job. Walt Disney began his quest to get the rights to P.L. Travers’ book “Mary Poppins” in the early 1940s. Although it took nearly 20 years to obtain the rights, when “Mary Poppins” was finally made, it won five awards of its 13 Academy Award® nominations: Best Actress (Julie Andrews), Best Effects, Best Film Editing, Original Score and Original Song. Among the nominations were Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. The film also won a technical Oscar® for Petro Vlahos, Wadsworth Pohl and Ub Iwerks for conception and perfection of techniques of color traveling matte composite cinematography.

In Saving Mr. Banks we meet P.L. Travers and everyone she had to work with to make the movie. Two of my favorite characters were the Sherman brothers because they were so creative and they made me smile in moments where I was on the verge of tears. Richard and Robert Sherman composed the original score and wrote the 1964 Oscar®-winning song “Chim Chim Cher-ee.” They are portrayed in the film by Jason Schwartzman (Richard) and B.J. Novak (Robert). Walt Disney was very fond of the song “Feed the Birds,” which apparently touched him with its message that it doesn’t take much to give love. Disney would call the Sherman Brothers up and ask them to come play the song, so they would go to Disney’s office and play it for him. It became a regular almost-every-Friday ritual.

P.L. Travers played by Emma Thompson was a women protecting her character, and really she didn’t want Disney to have anything to do with her Mary Poppins. However, Walt really personified with her and got down to what Mary meant to Travers and together they worked out some really deep issues. It felt like at least what was portrayed in the movie, that Walt helped Travers heal. Because she started writing again after she had a heart to heart with Walt.

Saving Mr. Banks is a fantastic movie, it’s a journey of a love story of a little girl and her father and healing from a great loss and disappointment. And the end result being a beloved movie celebrating it’s 50th year, Mary Poppins!

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SAVING MR. BANKS opens in theaters limited today and opens wide on December 20th!

Mary Poppins 50th Anniversary Blu-Ray & DVD December 10th & New Bonus Features

December 9, 2013 by Momstart Leave a Comment

The beloved story of Mary Poppins 50th Anniversary Edition is being released tomorrow on Blu-ray & DVD and Digital Copy just in time for the new movie Saving Mr. Banks. Saving Mr. Banks is the back story of the writer who created Mary Poppins and the journey she went on with Walt Disney. She was very worried about what Walt would do to what she called “her family”. Watch Mary Poppins again before going to see Saving Mr. Banks.

Synopsis: Releasing from the Disney Vault in celebration of its 50th Anniversary, creative visionary Walt Disney’s classic shines for the first time on Blu-ray. Starring Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews in her Academy-Award winning role, and featuring iconic toe-tapping songs including “A Spoonful of Sugar” and “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” Mary Poppins is a movie experience your family will enjoy again and again. An all-new digital restoration adds even more magic – helping bring the award-winning songs and amazing picture to life like never before. Share the music; share the magic; share the joy of Mary Poppins this holiday on Blu-ray Combo Pack & HD Digital December 10.

Talent: Julie Andrews (The Sounds of Music, Princess Diaries) as Mary Poppins; Dick Van Dyke (TV’s “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” Night at the Museum) as Bert/Mr. Dawes Senior; David Tomlinson (Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Love Bug) as Mr. Banks; Glynis Johns (The Court Jester, While You Were Sleeping) as Mrs. Banks; Karen Dotrice (The Gnome-Mobile, Upstairs, Downstairs) as Jane Banks; Mathew Garber (The Gnome-Mobile, The Three Lives of Thomasina) as Michael Banks.

New Bonus Features: BLU-RAY & HD DIGITAL:

· Mary-OKE’s – New piece highlights popular music from the film, specifically “Spoon Full of Sugar,” “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” Step In Time,” “Chim Chim Cher-ee” and allows viewer to sing-along to animated words that display onscreen in unique ways.

· Becoming Mr. Sherman (TBC by theatrical team): Join actor Jason Schwartzman as he sits down for a fun and musical-filled afternoon with Richard Sherman. In the new film, SAVING MR BANKS, Schwartzman portrays the Disney Legend… half of the famous composing team, the Sherman Brothers who wrote all the classic songs from MARY POPPINS, as well as many other favorites. Hear heartwarming, revealing stories about the making of this beloved musical, get more insight on working with Walt Disney, and get a unique sneak peek into SAVING MR BANKS, starring Tom Hanks, and Emma Thompson.

How Mary Poppins Became a Movie: Saving Mr. Banks #SavingMrBanks

July 14, 2013 by Momstart Leave a Comment

I never knew there was such an interesting story behind the beloved movie Mary Poppins. Walt Disney had to work to get this story from book to the big screen and Saving Mr. Banks tells us that story. Here is a trailer that was released last week.

Two-time Academy Award®–winner Emma Thompson and fellow double Oscar®-winner Tom Hanks topline Disney’s “Saving Mr. Banks,” inspired by the extraordinary, untold backstory of how Disney’s classic “Mary Poppins” made it to the screen.

When Walt Disney’s daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book, P.L. Travers’ “Mary Poppins,” he made them a promise—one that he didn’t realize would take 20 years to keep. In his quest to obtain the rights, Walt comes up against a curmudgeonly, uncompromising writer who has absolutely no intention of letting her beloved magical nanny get mauled by the Hollywood machine. But, as the books stop selling and money grows short, Travers reluctantly agrees to go to Los Angeles to hear Disney’s plans for the adaptation.

For those two short weeks in 1961, Walt Disney pulls out all the stops. Armed with imaginative storyboards and chirpy songs from the talented Sherman brothers, Walt launches an all-out onslaught on P.L. Travers, but the prickly author doesn’t budge. He soon begins to watch helplessly as Travers becomes increasingly immovable and the rights begin to move further away from his grasp.

It is only when he reaches into his own childhood that Walt discovers the truth about the ghosts that haunt her, and together they set Mary Poppins free to ultimately make one of the most endearing films in cinematic history.

Inspired by true events, “Saving Mr. Banks” is the extraordinary, untold story of how Disney’s classic “Mary Poppins” made it to the screen—and the testy relationship that the legendary Walt Disney had with author P.L. Travers that almost derailed it.

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SAVING MR. BANKS opens in theaters limited on December 13, 2013 and opens wide on December 20, 2013!