Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
Director John Lee Hancock created the biographical drama film, Saving Mr. Banks (2013). The screenplay was written by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith. At this time, Diarmuid Russell, a agent in London, urges Pamela ‘P. L.’ Travers to travel to Los Angeles and meet with Walt Disney. For the last twenty years, Disney has been pursuing the film rights to her Mary Poppins stories after promising his daughters he would make a movie based on them. Despite her financial struggles and dwindling book royalties, Travers has consistently refused Disney’s efforts due to her concerns about how he might portray her beloved character. However, upon realizing she could lose her home if she doesn’t find a new source of income, Russell reminds Travers that Disney has agreed to two important conditions: no animation and unprecedented script approval. Finally, she reluctantly agrees to make the trip. Throughout the film, flashbacks showcase Traver’s difficult upbringing in Allora, Queensland in 1906 – an experience that greatly influenced her creation of Mary Poppins.
Travers looked up to her father, Travers Robert Goff, as a loving and imaginative figure. Unfortunately, his struggles with alcoholism ultimately led to multiple job losses, straining her parents’ relationship and causing her mother immense distress and even an attempted suicide. When Travers was just seven years old, Goff passed away from tuberculosis. After his death, her practical and strict aunt joined the household and became a major influence for the character of Mary Poppins. While in Los Angeles, Travers was taken aback by the city’s atmosphere and its excessively cheerful inhabitants – like her friendly limousine driver Ralph. Upon arriving at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, she met with the creative team behind the film adaptation of Mary Poppins: screenwriter Don DaGradi and songwriters Richard and Robert Sherman. Travers was unimpressed by their presumptuous attitudes and casual behavior, which she also found distasteful in Walt Disney himself.
Date of download: 2015-11-11T17:22:34+00:00
Cast:  Emma ThompsonP.L. Travers (Helen Goff)  Annie Rose BuckleyHelen (Child)  Tom HanksWalt Disney  Colin FarrellTravers Goff  Ruth WilsonMargaret Goff  Paul GiamattiRalph  Bradley WhitfordDon DaGradi  Jason SchwartzmanRichard Sherman  B.J. NovakRobert Sherman  Kathy BakerTommie  Rachel GriffithsAunt Ellie |
Director John Lee Hancock created the biographical drama film, Saving Mr. Banks (2013). The screenplay was written by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith. At this time, Diarmuid Russell, a agent in London, urges Pamela ‘P. L.’ Travers to travel to Los Angeles and meet with Walt Disney. For the last twenty years, Disney has been pursuing the film rights to her Mary Poppins stories after promising his daughters he would make a movie based on them. Despite her financial struggles and dwindling book royalties, Travers has consistently refused Disney’s efforts due to her concerns about how he might portray her beloved character. However, upon realizing she could lose her home if she doesn’t find a new source of income, Russell reminds Travers that Disney has agreed to two important conditions: no animation and unprecedented script approval. Finally, she reluctantly agrees to make the trip. Throughout the film, flashbacks showcase Traver’s difficult upbringing in Allora, Queensland in 1906 – an experience that greatly influenced her creation of Mary Poppins.
Travers looked up to her father, Travers Robert Goff, as a loving and imaginative figure. Unfortunately, his struggles with alcoholism ultimately led to multiple job losses, straining her parents’ relationship and causing her mother immense distress and even an attempted suicide. When Travers was just seven years old, Goff passed away from tuberculosis. After his death, her practical and strict aunt joined the household and became a major influence for the character of Mary Poppins. While in Los Angeles, Travers was taken aback by the city’s atmosphere and its excessively cheerful inhabitants – like her friendly limousine driver Ralph. Upon arriving at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, she met with the creative team behind the film adaptation of Mary Poppins: screenwriter Don DaGradi and songwriters Richard and Robert Sherman. Travers was unimpressed by their presumptuous attitudes and casual behavior, which she also found distasteful in Walt Disney himself.
