Thursday; March 21
For several weeks Jeane had suggested
that I should watch the movie, “Saving Mr. Banks” so we watched it the other
night. For those of you who haven’t seen
it, it is the story of how Walt Disney obtained the rights to the book “Marry
Poppins”. I have to admit that the
setting and costumes were very good and Tom Hanks was remarkable in his
portrayal as Walt Disney; however, I did not like the movie. As I reflected on the show, I think the
reason I didn’t like it was that I just couldn’t connect with P. L.
Travers. I don’t know if it was Ms.
Traver’s nature or the way Emma Thompson portrayed her, but I found her disposition
to be self-serving and augmentative. I
might have been able to tolerate a little bit of it, but it lasted too long
which soured me on the rest of the movie. The reason I bring this up is not to
critique the movie (and honestly, I don’t figure that the director, John Lee
Hancock, really cares about my opinion), but I did get to thinking about how
people perceive …