Saving Mr Banks- Film Review

Saving Mr Banks- Film Review

Saving Mr Banks is a drama based on the classic film Mary Poppins. With a great cast of actors such as Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks, Saving Mr Banks is based on a true story.
The story is about Pamela Lyndon Travers - the writer of Mary Poppins and Mr Walt Disney and the relationship they share as he adapts her book to screenplay.  With very different priorities  for this classic book Disney wants to fill the film with songs, dancing animated penguins and made up words to the horror of the writer.  We soon learn that Mrs Travers is a hard to please and opinionated english woman. With flash backs to Mrs P.L Travers childhood we see that Mrs Travers was effected by her childhood and her fathers death making her  a very closed and protective character. .

I really enjoyed this film as it incorporated many feelings such as laughter,( a wonderful scene where the song writers and Mrs T sing "Let's go fly a kite")  empathy and grief ( the scene when Mrs Travers father dies.) As well as the subtlety of shooting her childhood in sepia and the Disney film in technicolour.  We all know and love Mary Poppins, the family film but Saving Mr Banks adds so much more background information and layers to the main characters and storyline, and gives us an insight into the remarkable lady who wrote the book. Emma Thompson gives a fine performance  as P.L Travers and as a difficult, unlikable character, who we slowly come to understand.