P. L. Travers wrote the original book to depict Mary Poppins as a magical wish-fulfillment nanny who can change reality to fit children's needs. That is not witchcraft, but simple fantasy.
Actually, the point that the man was so obsessed on serious focus of money his life lacked laughter. The "mugging" of the small child over saving the coin. In America, I taught my kiddos to save money in the KEY Bank, yes we saved coins only to have each child save about $35 - $45 a year ( I actually think that is good consideration to each child getting a game). The KEY Bank closed each account and kept every cent as the fine print stated amount to low for them to keep track of.
Bert doesn't only help Mr Banks realise he should be more present for his kids. He also help the kids understand why their father act tough. I love this character. He doesn't have much but he sure is wiser than he looks.
A lot of people call someone "Uncle" that is not blood related. It's no big deal. And as far as Dick Van Dyke's accent. It didn't bother me. And the evil Mary Poppins? LOL Those are not the kinds of things that would make me critical of a good movie or TV show.
Had an Aunt Grace who was somehow related to an uncle by marriage, and lived in his and his wife's attic; this was explained to me when my preference for her over"real" relatives was noted. She was a wonderful woman, never married, kept house for them for years (finally got her own place); I enjoyed pointing out to Aunt Ava the house had looked better before and her parakeet usually sounded like Grace, so the "useless" complaints stopped. They got a nice inheritance from Grace.
You can’t judge a movie by today’s values and standards. It’s a 60s movie with a story line around 1910. Give me a break!! Mary is practically prefect in every way!! 😂
This woman could depress a hyena. As a child & as an adult I take this movie for what it was meant to be, a wonderful adventure. You must really be the life of the party. WoW
@@anniespencer1936 Are you serious? How are you underdogs? Women are the most privileged creatures known to western society. Just look at how many double standards western society has stacked to your favour? You live in a society where you as a women can get away with assaulting a man twice your size. And even if you don't legally get away with it, there's a 95% that said man twice your size didn't knock the living shit out of you for assaulting him. Feminism revolves around a false narrative that women are victims in society and that they are underprivileged. And in contrast to society, none of that narrative is true. Western women live by double standards, self victimization, unnecessary petty conflict with each other. Women get most of the government benefits, IE handouts. Women get custody of a child 99% of the time in divorce court, while the man gets divorce raped through child support and alimony. Divorce courts are biased towards women almost 99% of the time. Just look at the stats. Suffrage, what fucking suffrage? Even after the women's liberation movement, you'd think that you'd see more women in the military, right? Now by military, I'm talking about front lines. And by more women, I mean to expect a 50/50 ratio of men and women in the military. But real stats say otherwise. You'd think that after the women's liberation movement that you'd see more women in STEM field. If feminism has been such a great thing, where the fuck is the female version of Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein? It's only a matter if time before their discoveries become obsolete in practice, and to this day, it's mostly men that are benching most of the STEM plates. Amd you'd be a complete moron if you think this country has gotten better ever since women have gotten into positions of political power. You of all people should know that our immigration policy has weaken ever since women began to take seats of power. Women were responsible for the prohibition act that took hold in the 20s and 30s. And look what that got us, Al fucking Capone. Yeah, women got their liberation after years of being kept in check by men, but overall you've done jack shit with your liberation. But guess what, women have only gotten worse, and in fact dumber as a whole in the west after the feminist waves. Instead of having more women graduate with STEM degrees, you have em graduating with useless degrees like the Liberal Arts, Sociology, Gender Studies, Transgender studies, you name it... You wamen have everything in a silver plate right now, what the hell are you complaining about? You live in a society where you can get away with hitting a man twice your size and surprisingly have the possibility that he won't knock the shit out of you, and all because the type of your genitals. What are you even on about feminism?
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I had such a crush on Julie Andrews when I was a kid. I remember to have been 8 times at the theater to watch Mary Poppins. I knew it inside out, and I could sing the lyrics of every song in the movie, and I never got tired of it.
"Bert" is actually an amalgamation of several characters which are entirely separate in the original book. Also... it's a Disney movie for kids, so of course Mary Poppins is hammed up and has special powers. She also "threatened to call the police" by telling the local Constable the kids already knew i.e. he was a symbol of authority and could talk sense into them, also a means of scaring them. She wasn't going to report a crime and have them arrested ffs.
@@MadDuckofAus - Well, let's be honest...we both clicked on this, and enjoyed it enough to come down and read through the comments. It's a harmless post by a youtube monetizer, and it was fun. Silly, yes. Bad? I don't think so.
* Mary Poppins attended Hogwarts and was at the top of her very posh and proper Gryfindor class. This is where she and Bert met and fell in love initially. He’s a total Hufflepuff and-although magical-not as well-versed in spells as Mary Poppins, which is why he must stay in London and can’t travel with her. Upon Hogwarts graduation, she was offered a professor job filling in for Mcgonagal, but she lovingly declined because she felt the unloved and neglected kids in England needed her more. She visits the love of her life, Bert, whenever possible. * The countryside chalk picture was the location of their first date and later proposal and marriage. Jane, Michael, Mrs. Corey, Andrew, and Uncle Albert all attended the wedding. * Mary Poppins comes from a long line of gifted witches, which is why her magic is so effective and effortless. * Bert also attended Hogwarts, which was quite a surprise to his working class, cockney, family of fun-loving Muggles. * Bert and Mary Poppins’ magic must always be a secret, or else they’ll be in trouble with the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts. This is why Bert is always job hopping and Mary Poppins only stays with one family a little while. In the books, Mrs. Corey is Mary’s cousin and Uncle Albert is her uncle. She/Bert are obviously somehow related to Mr. Dawes Sr. because he suffers from the same magical laughing illness that Uncle Albert deals with.
And it's also why she discourages the kids from relating the story of the painting. Because if the ministry found out she had shown two muggle children true magic, she would be in a heap of trouble. So she insists it is just a product of their imagination.
That's the thing these days, over thinking movies. "Transformers is unrealistic because during the highway fight Optimus Prime hits a city bus that proceeded to blow up in a firey ball. City busses are powered by diesel fuel and wouldn't react the way gasoline does."
Yes. It's just a movie. That is something people agonised over for months putting together, storyboarding, writing scripts, designing visuals, arranging songs, wrangling with the original author and working out how to combine animation and live action sequences. They did this so successfully that it is one of the most successful movies of its decade and it still occupies a niche in the brains of most people in the western world today. I think it is worthy of some critical analysis. Or are you just averse to thinking in general?
Transformers is a sci-fci fantasy movie based on a cartoon which was based on a toy. Mary Poppins is meant to be a morality play for children. There is a difference.
Historically the term "cockney" originally applied to people from any English city. Only later did it become restricted to people born within " the sound of Bow bells"; i.e. the bells of St Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside in the City of London.
A few years ago, I was walking past St Pauls Cathedral, with my son, aged three. There was some sort of ceremony going on inside, and we happened to be there as they all processed out. The Queen was first out the door, in a beautiful dress and matching hat. But because of where we were, my son thought she was someone else. He ducked past the police lines and ran up the steps of the cathedral screaming "Mary! Mary Poppins!". She was gracious enough to pat him on the head, and a police officer returned him to me, saying it was the funniest thing he had seen in ages!
I actually found Bert’s accent quite enjoyable. I didn’t really think he was trying to have a british accent, but a speech that fits the character. It made me remember the character more compared to if he had a true british accent, Bert wouldn’t have stranded out to me.
As a child my parents' friends were known as aunt this or uncle that - they may have been someone's aunt or uncle but not mine...it was a way for me to be able to refer to them without being too familiar (as just using their name would be); things have changed as at school everyone was known by surnames, now first names are used. In this case the moniker "Uncle" is a polite way for children to to refer to the friends of adults; adults using the moniker to refer to the friend to the children.
that's interesting. When I was growing up my babysitter had us called her boyfriends Uncle. Even as a kid I noticed she got around. I would call them "Uncle".
Exactly so. I was Auntie AbsentWithoutLeaving to all the kids of my best friends, and the same went for my kids to my friends. "Auntie" or "Uncle" can be a honorific bestowed by the true family, without any blood relationship at all.
Me too! I noticed DVD's execrable Cockney accent even when I was little, and I'm not English - but the character was so charming and supportive of the children you just didn't mind...
I thought everyone did. As for "gaslighting", most adults I knew did that all the time, "they're children, they'll forget all about it", though they remembered at least some lies they'd been told back when. My mother never kept her stories straight, most irritating.
Kathryn Geeslin what child hadn’t been gaslighted, and still are? Christmas, Easter bunny (they don’t lay eggs), and tooth fairy, please. They have something to say about everything and everyone, what about their own selves?!
Jose Hernandez what is the matter with you, are you mental?! You could be a bit more discreet and have common sense when adding your comment, your what’s wrong with the world today!
Lyndsey Newman As a huge fan of a series that were made into movies it can be super frustrating when the movie is not like the book or leaving something out. That being said, P. L. Travers was so pissed off about how the movie turned out she didn’t go to the premiere.
As I understand though they do combine him with at least one other character because the guy who they have the tea party on the ceiling with is named Mr. Wig.
@@amandacassidy4957 I didn't know that. I remember that he was very happy that the workers on the set were singing and whistling "Step In Time" on their own.
If you actually read the books you would know that, that’s how Mrs. Banks is and Mrs. Travers who wrote the books thought that Glynis Johns was the perfect choice to capture that “loving but distracted” nature.
Yep. Though I don't remember being distracted by anything in particular in the books (certainly not the suffrage movement). Just a proper high status lady of the age who does love her children but feels it's someone else's place to do most of the dirty work of actually raising them.
Even as a kid, I thought that Mrs. Banks' deferring to her husband was sideways patronizing, to keep him in the dark about her feminist ideas. Reminds me of Mrs. Howell, from Gilligan's Island, and the "Dreadful! Wonderful! Dreadful...." schtick when Mr. Howell was blathering on, and she was primping at the mirror, or with her nails, or something and just responding without really being that interested in what he was talking about.
Any chance she had absolutely NO clue that these WERE books first of all!!?! Outrageous!?! Infuriatingly! ! This is why Disney should RE~ release ALL its movies onto the big screen & give those uncultured newer kids & millennials opportunity to see what a REAL movie is & how the rest of us react to it, & give us gen~x & y~ers a chance to see some of these old movies on the BIG screen, with a REAL crowd, AND make us ALL be in ONE room together AGAIN watching it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
joseph nolen The problem with banks is, that they create money out of thin air and then charge interest for it. The privilege of money creation should not be in private hands. Google positivemoney, Monetative (if you can read German), or moneyreform movements in general...
I've read where Disney never tired of satirizing banks or bankers in his films, along with academic pomposity, snobbish wealthy elites., etc. In his earliest years, in trying to get his studio established, and beyond, he'd had to deal with numerous banks/financial institutions over debt, getting funding for films and projects, many near bankruptcies, etc., thus developing an overwhelmingly negative image of them. The "Fidelity Fiduciary Bank" of MP is the ultimate Disney lampooning of them!
According to IMDB, Mary Poppins and Mrs. Banks never talk to each other in the entire movie. It also says that most of the women auditioning to be Jane and Micheal's nanny are actually men in DRAG. I went back and watched the movie and indeed-some of the nannies had beards and mustaches!
Zachary Siple. Yes that is correct. Thus the comedy, as it is a musical comedy. Many are the same chorus actors that were the sweeps in the rooftop number.
I worked on a production of Mary Poppins the musical that a local theatre department did. (I was on stage crew!) Miss Banks in the musical was a much stronger character. She argues with her husband on getting a Nanny, something that her husband wants because all the admirable London families have one, and heck she has an entire musical number about her husband being less of a workaholic, (entitled Being Missus Banks.) Also, all the actors of Mary Poppins on Broadway suggests that she is an Angel. I know the Movie and Musical are very different, I just decided to give some commentary based on my knowledge.
Thankyou for your post. As an angel - protecting the children and giving them comfort in her presence and confidence, yet also confronting them with dangers which teach them important moral lessons and how to grow up and think for yourself - is how she always made best sense to me in the books, and also to some extent in the film.
Mary is that person who is so organized and intelligent that she makes tasks and troubles just disappear. Jeeves is the same. To disorganized or slovenly persons these people seem like magicians. The person that can enter a messy room and walk out ready for military inspection, without breaking a sweat. Mary's magic is from the young children's POV. Spoonful of sugar is such magic. They eventually learn to clean their own room, which, before Mary, seemed an impossible task. She and Bert described the magical trips by using imagination, yet we the viewers actually SEE the trips. It is a CHILD'S MOVIE. The discussion while darning is to remind them it didn't actually happen IRL.
Many writers and artists (Conan Doyle, Dickens, Matisse) have waxed lyrical or painted romantically when inspired by London smogs... it's a shame the reality of them could be so deadly (there was a killer one in 1952).
Foreign visitors sometimes exclaimed about the wonderful black stone used for major buildings in London - not realising it was soot covering the underlying stonework.
I very much agree, its a beautiful romanticized vision, soot and all. But a little smokey and spooky, consistent with the feel of the film. But also things aren't always what they appear, Burt is scary with soot all over his face, but as he shows the children its just him under all that.
Mary made Albert cry so they could come down from the roof. It's a metaphor. Also Mary didn't get aggressive when denying the kids going to a magical land. She is allowing the children to enjoy themselves, but also keeping the grounded in reality. Another metaphor.
Dick Van Dyke was utterly brilliant in the role, except for the lousy accent. Well, it would have been a miracle if he could have imitated proper cockney intonation. So it's Walt Disney's fault if it's anyone's. If he'd cared about realism, he could have hired any of a number of top English actors for the part (such as Stanley Holloway from "My Fair Lady"). While I always wince a little, I don't let his accent spoil an otherwise excellent movie.
alannothnagle "If he'd cared about realism." *main character flies in on an umbrella with a talking parrot head, proceeds to perform acts of telekenisis and defy laws of physics in carpetbag*
It's supposed to be Victorian London isn't it ?. London was a smoggy dismal place back then they are only trying to be historically accurate. At least the kids in the movie had a banker as a father it's the poor in London that where really suffering.
It´s Edwardian London in 1910, and you are absolutely right, they are historically accurate. London was a grim place back then and people thought and behaved that way, maybe even more than the movie depicts. I think whoever wrote this video was looking at the movie with 2018 eyes.
Steven Crumb No no no. London wasn't dismal. Dismal is a human perceptive viewpoint. There were fogs. But not all year-round. There were some grim areas as well as some high to do affluent areas. It was one of, or the worlds most populated and cosmopolitan City(s). There were parks where the buttercups grew. The sailing boats sailed and twists of candy were an assortment of colours. Dismal is like the cobwebs spun by others which were blown away by the summer breeze or the likes of Mary Poppins. Fogs were not there in summer. In summer they had regattas, Ice Cream, cricket and the galloping galloper's carousel, all with it's own music.
I do not think it was a dark movie at all. I do not understand why some folks insist on overanalyzing movies and songs instead of just enjoying them. I am an adult but i did not think any of those things that were brought up here. It is a lovely, made up story with a happy ending. Compared to most of the kids movies out today, it is marvelously innocent. I do not care for much of the material out there for children to watch today---even Disney movies. Hollywood seems to think their job is to indoctrinate and hypersexualize our children.
Murder is one person intentionally killing another person. Mr Dawe's son thanks Mr Banks in the park for making the last moments of his exceedingly aged father's life joyful, in laughing for probably one of the few times in his life. London is grim in the film? Pffft. Look up Mary Poppins matte paintings by Peter Ellenshaw, and you'll see the backdrop paintings used in this film. They are gorgeous paintings, and I can't say how many times as both a child and as an adult I wish I could have been within that world with the children and Mary at the top of the smoke staircase staring at that beautiful painted London gold-tinted foggy vista, or that I could have sat on a bench-chair admiring the beauty of the entirely painted fog-filled park illuminated by lamp-lights that Mr Banks walks through on his way to the bank. Even the sea captain's house facade was mostly skillful 2D paintwork. Bert is always in a job in the film. He's making an income and a living, however meagre, from his work, and he is overall optimistic that things will turn out. His accent never bothered me as a kid, or in watching the film now an adult. His good nature outshine any inaccuracies in his accent. Some of the other points I agree with, some I don't. But I've loved this film for over 35 years. Each to their own opinion on it :)
Ha. Very good points totally about the backdrop of London! The Ellenshaw painting scene orign is one of the ones that Mr.Banks (2013, which see) detailed. "BUT NO cartoons" (Emma Thompson reflecting vocally one of Pamela L.Traver's many famous demands..)
As for Mr Banks replacing Mr Dawes that is not how it would have worked. Mr Dawes the younger would have taken over and everyone else would have moved up. Mr Banks might have been made a Junior Partner in the firm though.
Of all the worlds explored by Mary and the kids in the film, I loved the chimney-sweep's rooftop world the most. I even rented a loft in an industrial area in Chicago for a while simply because of the views out all the windows of the surrounding rooftops. Sunset viewed from that building was THE BEST, and I secretly always thought I might catch a glimpse of chimney sweeps dancing across the rooftops.
What I noticed is how gorgeous Julie Andrews is with dark hair, I mean seriously she's beautiful personally I think she was prettier than Audrey Hepburn (but to be honest I never really understood the Hepburn thing to begin with)
"this is a pretty terrible bank", wow... It's amazing how the message that the story tried to convey went right over your head. Mary Poppins is one of the very few and special Disney films that are quite critical of capitalism and modern society. The whole segment where the kids just want to feed the pigeons and the banker is insisting that it would be a waste of money to use the tuppence to purchase a bag is deeply moving. It appeals to the children's genuine and spontaneous generosity and paints capitalism as, well, exactly what it is: a tautological economic system where monetary gain is its only goal and fosters and unsatiable greed. Mary Poppins and Bert are like super heroes to me. They see society just like it is while staying creative and noble. They might struggle to make ends meet but at least they're still human. And so are the kids because, well, they're just kids. Why would they want a savings account? We don't get enough content like this anymore, you know, critical and deep, both for kids and adults. If I ever have kids, this will be one of the films I will absolutely show them.
Ok, why ruin the childhood of so many? The movie is supposed to be for children, mainly, and by doing this, this has ruined the movie for so many. The movie is innocent, fun, and wonderful. DON'T tear this loveable family movie down like this. IT's wrong. And on a side note, MR. VANDYKE is from my hometown, Danville Illinois. He comes back from time to time.
Gypsy_ Heart , I'm not really upset, I was speaking about those who watch the movie, for what the movie is, fun! Why ruin a really good movie past or present by picking it apart? Why not just enjoy it?? I'm not mad or anything, I just enjoy movies for entertainment.
Disney films were made for the whole family back then - and the main narrative is actually tracking Mr Banks - him finding himself. Hence the "making of" film being called Saving Mr Banks...
Astral Cosmos Celestial the Third Arthur C Clarke ""Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." The Doctor has a magic wand (sonic screwdriver) and a magic box (TARDIS).
I'm n adult of 49 yrs old n this is still my absolute favourite film in fact my partner just bought it 4 me . Whoever did this clearly needs abit of magic n happiness in there lives???!!!! Don't analyse it??....just sit back n enjoy the most amazing magical n Beautiful film EVER MADE ???!!! WITH THE 2 VERY BEST ACTORS ON THE PLANET???!!! Dick Van Dyke's accent is GORGEOUS I don't care that it's not perfect that's why I like it n NO-ONE ELSE COULD EVER play lovely Bert the way he does ???!! It's a beautiful film just enjoy it X
To you, kane wible, and all 36 and counting who liked your comment - Yet you're here, having watched the video and taken the time to comment on it. You must have enjoyed it on some level or you wouldn't be here.
Well in defense of Mrs. Banks they had to make her absentee to a degree in order to justify the presence of Mary Poppins in the first place. Also you missed a big one. That the movie is set in 1910 that's only 4 years before world war which means they're in for some hard times anyway before they're out of their teens
I lol-ed at the one about how dark and dreary London is in the movie when (correct me if I'm wrong) that was just how it was with all the soot and smoke from the industries of the times.
Mrs. Banks didn't do much because back in those days, women of a certain social class were actively encouraged to not take much personal care of their children. If you went on a walk, a nanny would be expected to be seen pushing the stroller or you would be seen as hard up financially. It was a strange time.
@nene w Okay, two things. One, babysitting and childcare are not quite the same thing. It's a necessity to leave your children with someone if you work. But middle and upper class women in that day and age were mostly prohibited from working, and yet they still were expected to not care for their own children because it was not befitting someone of their standing. The British were extremely classist. Also, of what social standing was your great grandmother, because that can have a lot to do with child mortality in the early part of the 20th century. Medicine was booming, which was why families started to grow in size, because the old standard of having 6 to 10 children, only for 3 to survive to adulthood was the norm until about 1880. Then medicine hit hard, and we could keep the children alive, leading to the modern necessity of having only a few children. If your great grandmother was very poor, or if she had inherited health complications, such as a low immune system, that could very easily lead to child death.
it seems like you havent search a lot for Marry Poppins, because in the the movie ''Saving mr. Banks'' you can understand why everything happens. it is a story that P L Travers wrote to express her childhood it isnt dark there is no witch, no bad city, no killers, no mum that doesnt care, no bad things, it is just a sad story that Walt disney tried to make it happy. i agree that there are some parts that are very sad, but this is because of the century not because it is dark and every kid can understand them but doesnt care.
My theory on the terrible accent is that Bert was tourist that decided to stay on instead of going back to the US. With jobs difficult to come by and going from gig to gig, he would definitely make friends who do have the recognizable speech pattern and cockney accent-- which in turn influences his speech pattern and makes him sound like he is trying to talk like them.
Brilliantly formulated! My dad made his living by the following dictum: There's an innocent explanation for any set of facts! I guess Van Dyke never had a legal professional think about the matter. As for the English actors not commenting, they're not directors, so it's not their job, and who wants to imply that the director doesn't know what he's doing? And so there you are with plenty of work just trying to do your part, but nooooo, you had to open up your lousy trap and now you're stuck tutoring Bert and being asked to second guess every syllable that comes out of him. They wisely stfu.
He didn't need to be a tourist! Quite a few British families emigrated to the USA around the late Victorian/Edwardian period. Not all of them found it to their liking and they returned with a few children in tow. On census records you find things like birthplace 'Michigan, USA' turning up for young children. So no problem with Bert's mixed-up accent. As a child I thought he was somehow Mary's cousin and Uncle Albert was an uncle they had in common.
When I was a kid I thought the movie was just about a nanny helping some unhappy kids but now I think it's about a nanny helping a cold, unhappy father who has lost touch with his family
If the producer of this video wants questions answered, just read the books. Uncle Albert is Mary Poppins uncle, Albert Wig. Mrs Banks was only a suffragette in the movie not in the books. Whilst Mary is always enchanting, she isn't a sweet goody-goody but is demanding, quick-tempered & egotistical. The film isn't faithful to the books in many ways. I love the movie but the books are far more fabulous!
Worse accent Evuur !! LOL. Get a life. It is Fiction. It's fun, it's magical. The film is set in the Edwardian era which was less strict than the Victorian era. I would suggest that people do their research before they start criticising.
In the german version the old man didn´t die laughing. He was flying up laughing and so he was with the kites in the sky and very happy there. "Daddy won´t come down. He wants you to become the chairman of the bank, Mr. Banks!"
I feel like Mary Poppins "gaslit" the children as a tactic as to not excite them when it was bedtime. That's always been my interpretation. As cruel as it may seem, but things were different back then -shrug-
I always considered the film to be a cautionary tale of sorts that when the world appears to be doing everything to keep you down or to crush your spirits, your imagination and sense of humor can always lift you up (laughing literally lifts people up in the film) and make the world seem less harsh
Another mistake that always bugged me was the Robin in the Spoonfull of Sugar song is a North American Robin. It would be a European Robin if it is suppose to be London.
Actually the reason that the clients demand to withdraw their money isn't due to any moral conundrum. The clients misunderstood and simply thought the Banks was trying to get him to invest money in the bank due to financial trouble. They all thought that this was a sign of the bank failing, and nobody in their right mind would leave their assets in a bank that might vanish any second.
I took it as one of Mary's eccentricities, or as a lesson to Jane and Michael that they shouldn't get carried away with re-imagining the awesomeness of a chalk drawing fantasy world at the expense of reality. As a kid watching that scene, the beautiful lullaby she sings to the children afterwards restored my faith in her 'goodness' almost instantly.
The theory that Mary and Bert are such proficient storytellers, that the kids god caught up in the stories and could see themselves there makes a lot of sense to me now, as an adult.
The Mary Poppins in the books does the same thing repeatedly. As a child reading the books I think I just accepted it as part of the common get-out clause:'the adults mustn't be told because they wouldn't believe it anyway' that appears in a number of fantasies. (The alternative is the child waking up and finding it all a dream, as in 'Alice' and Masefield's otherwise wonderful 'Box of Delights'). Allows the child to accept or semi-accept magic while also recognising that the adult world has no place for it.
+Katy I'm so glad you mentioned "Box of Delights"! I haven't read it since I was a child and had forgotten the author's name. I must track it down again. Thankyou!
Hello Jeffrey, 'The Box of Delights' is certainly still in print and is an enchanting (no pun intended) read. I didn't come across it until I was in my forties, and now re-read it every year as Christmas approaches. Have you also read 'The Midnight Folk', which actually comes before 'Box of Delights' and introduces Kay, Sylvia Daisy Pouncer and Seekings?
First off while I am glad that you pointed out that there were underlying heavies in the movie, they are more noticeable for adults because they see the problems that are faced with the adults in the film. But no Mary Poppins is not a witch, and Uncle Albert is Mary’s Uncle. Mary and Albert come from a family that have magical abilities and I wouldn’t be surprised if Mary Poppins and another Walt Disney movie character, Englantine Price, the apprentice witch from Bedknobs and Broomsticks, were in fact cousins. I mean they’re both English ladies and they have magical abilities. From the way Bert interacts with Mary, I am going to say that they knew each other in their youth. The reddish pink dress that Mary wears when they march on the roof tops with the black stockings is like a peak into her past, like she was a little racey when she was young before she became a nanny. In the movie Saving Mr. Banks, it is shown that Mary Poppins cane not to destroy Mr. Banks, but to save him. The reason that she keeps shutting the children down after their jolly holiday is because I think she wants to keep that memory private, in the end you can see that she’s struggling letting the Banks’s go, she even remarks after Jane asks,”Don’t you love us?” She responds, “And what would happen to me may I ask if I loved all the children I have said ‘Goodbye’ to?” She is trying to stay detached but when her parrot-headed umbrella confronts her, it’s revealed that she has a hard time saying goodbye, but she silenced him and says, “That will be quite enough of that, thank you.” As far as Winifred Banks is concerned, the writers at Disney needed something for Mrs Banks to be doing so that way she wasn’t taking an active part in the children’s lives as well. The writers realized that this time period that the film was set in was right around the time of the suffragette movement in England. So that’s why she wasn’t there for children. The books by P. L. Travers portray Bert as a jack-of-all-trades which is why he is seen doing all sorts of odd jobs through out the film. The Bird woman is Mary’s example to Jane and Michael of being kind to someone even if it means something small like giving a little piece of yourself. Tuppence a bag is that little piece of yourself. And when Mr. Doors Sr. Took Michael’s tuppence, Michael had expressed that it was his money and he and Jane wanted to feed the birds instead of investing it and that’s what lead him to fight the extremely old man to get it back and they ultimately cause an unintentional run on the bank and that leads to a massive panic and the bank is forced to close its doors until the fuss dies down. When Mr Doors Sr. dies in the end he as well as Mr. Banks are transformed into a better human beings. Saving not only Mr Banks but Mr Doors and his son who followed in his footsteps and their associates, in the end you can see Mr Doors Jr and his associates flying kites as well. The caption for the other nannies responding to Mr Banks’ add in the paper are called the imperfect nannies and Mary Poppins has the one that the children made that Mr Banks tore up and threw into the fireplace to which she responds to and gets rid of the other nannies, so she can answer the children’s add instead because they know what they need in their life more than Mr Banks does at that point.
Why do you have to take a perfectly happy movie and turn it into a movie full of poverty and deceit and butchery? Poo on you!! Mary Poppins will always be practically perfect in every way!!
If you DIDN'T watch this movie as a child, DON'T back seat review the movie as an adult now! Although released in '64 it was not set in '64 so your comments of movie to real life in 1964 are out of line. Why don't we talk about crappy remakes. Possibly Mary Poppins Returns to name just one.
I genuinely believe Mary Poppins pretends she hasn't done the magical adventures she does with the children because she doesn't want the children growing up in a fantasy. She does the adventures too keep them happy and have fun but then denies it happens to keep them mature-ish.
Bert (Dick Van Dyke) has to play all those “different jobs” because in the book there was a person for each job, but it wouldn’t make for good story telling in a movie like this.
Mary Poppins vs. Phoebe Figalilly. ...hmm, younger crowd....ok.. Phoebe was in TV show in 70's.. *Nanny and the Professor* alright Mary Poppins vs Mrs.Claus in Rap battle.
As a kid, I remember thinking that Mary Poppins was bit scary, a bit frightening. You knew she was a very powerful 'something,' but you never knew quite what, or what direction that power might take. As an adult, I recognize her as a sort of elemental, whose power is neither good nor bad, it is simply part of her nature.
Well, Bert is struggling to make ends meet because of the gross economic inequality and massive social disruptions of late Victorian/early Edwardian capitalist economies, made even worse by the sparse-to-nonexistent social safety net. The old woman selling pigeon feed is another face of this. Calling it a "gig economy" is a cutesy and grotesque understatement. Labor movements, revolutions, and thriving socialist and communist parties didn’t happen throughout the Western world for no reason. London looks like a grim place in the movie because London WAS a grim place, as was every other major city. But, leave it to Disney to glaze over all of this with gobs and gobs of treacle.
bert's accent is actually pretty accurate to certain parts of the south haha and he sounds like he has a little speech impedament with it, which i think makes it a little more unique, but that's just me
The part about mrs banks is a bit to much forcing todays ideals into the past. Only a fool would criticize something like that for not following through with todays version of what you think they should have been.
honestly mr dawes wasn't that out of line he was just trying to help mr banks teach his kids the value of investing. the kids wishes really don't matter as the parent has the say
Quite clearly this is the perception of an American. Why would you want to deeply analyse such a lovable movie which is over 50 years old. Chill out, it's only entertainment!
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Mary Poppins isn't a witch, is she?
The List could be . . Probably ask someone at Hogwarts.. 😆
José Arturo Hagrid’s wand is in his umbrella. Favorite movie: Mary Poppins. Favorite book/movie series: Harry Potter ⚡️
The List of course she isnt
P. L. Travers wrote the original book to depict Mary Poppins as a magical wish-fulfillment nanny who can change reality to fit children's needs. That is not witchcraft, but simple fantasy.
Probably a Time Lord. How else does she get all that stuff in her bag?
You forgot to mention how totally friend-zoned Bert got.
Ri Ri Spex nah there is something there some unspoken thing
uhhhhhhhhh yea she was his nanny
@@hydracdxv Bert's the chimney sweep. Not the kid 😂
Ri Ri Spex key word Mate (Was) not trying to sound rude also tomorrow will mark the 56 anniversary of the movie
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As a child I was massively entertained, and that's all I cared about. Period
same to me
Mark BestBuddy Same
Me too
Exactly!!! When we could enjoy whimsy without worrying about a PC filter...
Exactly.
Just because someone dies laughing at your joke, doesn't make you a murderer.
it might..
Naw. They died happy. And from internal injuries caused by a laughing-induced heart attack making them fall back to the ground.
I'd like to see someone convicted for "joking someone to death". Manslaughter? Reckless endangerment? Hah!
Actually, the point that the man was so obsessed on serious focus of money his life lacked laughter. The "mugging" of the small child over saving the coin. In America, I taught my kiddos to save money in the KEY Bank, yes we saved coins only to have each child save about $35 - $45 a year ( I actually think that is good consideration to each child getting a game). The KEY Bank closed each account and kept every cent as the fine print stated amount to low for them to keep track of.
Thats right! It's negligent homicide or is it involuntary manslaughter? hhmmm..
Things Only Adults Notice: How hot Mary Poppins was
Agree. Julie Andrews was/is Stunning!
Mrs. Banks (Glynnis Johns) was HOTTER!
@@tonyt2588 surprised she's 95
I was a child, and I noticed that. Like, we all did.
@@kensdiary2641 13 year olds shouldn't be using profanities.
Bert doesn't only help Mr Banks realise he should be more present for his kids. He also help the kids understand why their father act tough. I love this character. He doesn't have much but he sure is wiser than he looks.
A lot of people call someone "Uncle" that is not blood related. It's no big deal. And as far as Dick Van Dyke's accent. It didn't bother me. And the evil Mary Poppins? LOL Those are not the kinds of things that would make me critical of a good movie or TV show.
Just Me I call one of my good friends my sister. We’re not related at all
AwakeningSunshine Oh yes, that too! And people will call someone brother that they are not related or Aunt so it's not just Uncle.
Had an Aunt Grace who was somehow related to an uncle by marriage, and lived in his and his wife's attic; this was explained to me when my preference for her over"real" relatives was noted. She was a wonderful woman, never married, kept house for them for years (finally got her own place); I enjoyed pointing out to Aunt Ava the house had looked better before and her parakeet usually sounded like Grace, so the "useless" complaints stopped. They got a nice inheritance from Grace.
Yeah, like those "friends" your mom has over.
SETTLE DOWN.
You can’t judge a movie by today’s values and standards. It’s a 60s movie with a story line around 1910. Give me a break!! Mary is practically prefect in every way!! 😂
Definitely! Mary Poppins is Practically perfect in every way💘…
This woman could depress a hyena. As a child & as an adult I take this movie for what it was meant to be, a wonderful adventure. You must really be the life of the party. WoW
She's right about the suppressed femininsm though.
Haha agreed!!
@@anniespencer1936
Feminism is cancer, though.
Please tell me you're joking. Feminism is the best thing that's ever happened to women. Why do you want us to be the underdogs?
@@anniespencer1936
Are you serious?
How are you underdogs? Women are the most privileged creatures known to western society. Just look at how many double standards western society has stacked to your favour?
You live in a society where you as a women can get away with assaulting a man twice your size. And even if you don't legally get away with it, there's a 95% that said man twice your size didn't knock the living shit out of you for assaulting him.
Feminism revolves around a false narrative that women are victims in society and that they are underprivileged.
And in contrast to society, none of that narrative is true.
Western women live by double standards, self victimization, unnecessary petty conflict with each other.
Women get most of the government benefits, IE handouts.
Women get custody of a child 99% of the time in divorce court, while the man gets divorce raped through child support and alimony.
Divorce courts are biased towards women almost 99% of the time. Just look at the stats.
Suffrage, what fucking suffrage? Even after the women's liberation movement, you'd think that you'd see more women in the military, right?
Now by military, I'm talking about front lines. And by more women, I mean to expect a 50/50 ratio of men and women in the military. But real stats say otherwise.
You'd think that after the women's liberation movement that you'd see more women in STEM field. If feminism has been such a great thing, where the fuck is the female version of Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein? It's only a matter if time before their discoveries become obsolete in practice, and to this day, it's mostly men that are benching most of the STEM plates.
Amd you'd be a complete moron if you think this country has gotten better ever since women have gotten into positions of political power. You of all people should know that our immigration policy has weaken ever since women began to take seats of power.
Women were responsible for the prohibition act that took hold in the 20s and 30s. And look what that got us, Al fucking Capone.
Yeah, women got their liberation after years of being kept in check by men, but overall you've done jack shit with your liberation.
But guess what, women have only gotten worse, and in fact dumber as a whole in the west after the feminist waves. Instead of having more women graduate with STEM degrees, you have em graduating with useless degrees like the Liberal Arts, Sociology, Gender Studies, Transgender studies, you name it...
You wamen have everything in a silver plate right now, what the hell are you complaining about?
You live in a society where you can get away with hitting a man twice your size and surprisingly have the possibility that he won't knock the shit out of you, and all because the type of your genitals. What are you even on about feminism?
I had such a crush on Julie Andrews when I was a kid. I remember to have been 8 times at the theater to watch Mary Poppins. I knew it inside out, and I could sing the lyrics of every song in the movie, and I never got tired of it.
"Bert" is actually an amalgamation of several characters which are entirely separate in the original book.
Also... it's a Disney movie for kids, so of course Mary Poppins is hammed up and has special powers. She also "threatened to call the police" by telling the local Constable the kids already knew i.e. he was a symbol of authority and could talk sense into them, also a means of scaring them. She wasn't going to report a crime and have them arrested ffs.
We're so sorry,Uncle Albert... we're so sorry if we caused you any pain. ~Paul McCartney.
I was thinking the same thing myself. LOL.
Ali - Google it. It’s an old song by Paul McCartney.
I've always thought those two should be connected somehow
I still have that song in a 45. Love it!
Flip side was "Too Many People"!
The Mary Poppins in the movie is still a LOT nicer than the Mary Poppins in the books.
That's HARD to IMAGINE! !!!
To quote another Disney movie, "If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it." Same goes for movies. So stop it. 😄
thats the problem these days people have forgotten how to just enjoy movies
@@MadDuckofAus - Well, let's be honest...we both clicked on this, and enjoyed it enough to come down and read through the comments. It's a harmless post by a youtube monetizer, and it was fun. Silly, yes. Bad? I don't think so.
To artguy66
EXCELLENT!!!!!!!
Julie Andrews is such a stunner! What a gorgeous woman! 😍😍
* Mary Poppins attended Hogwarts and was at the top of her very posh and proper Gryfindor class. This is where she and Bert met and fell in love initially. He’s a total Hufflepuff and-although magical-not as well-versed in spells as Mary Poppins, which is why he must stay in London and can’t travel with her. Upon Hogwarts graduation, she was offered a professor job filling in for Mcgonagal, but she lovingly declined because she felt the unloved and neglected kids in England needed her more. She visits the love of her life, Bert, whenever possible.
* The countryside chalk picture was the location of their first date and later proposal and marriage. Jane, Michael, Mrs. Corey, Andrew, and Uncle Albert all attended the wedding.
* Mary Poppins comes from a long line of gifted witches, which is why her magic is so effective and effortless.
* Bert also attended Hogwarts, which was quite a surprise to his working class, cockney, family of fun-loving Muggles.
* Bert and Mary Poppins’ magic must always be a secret, or else they’ll be in trouble with the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts. This is why Bert is always job hopping and Mary Poppins only stays with one family a little while.
In the books, Mrs. Corey is Mary’s cousin and Uncle Albert is her uncle. She/Bert are obviously somehow related to Mr. Dawes Sr. because he suffers from the same magical laughing illness that Uncle Albert deals with.
You HAVE to write the fan fic. on this mash-up!
And it's also why she discourages the kids from relating the story of the painting. Because if the ministry found out she had shown two muggle children true magic, she would be in a heap of trouble. So she insists it is just a product of their imagination.
Love it!
I feel like she also so could have been a Ravenclaw, but I love that you made her be a Gryffindor. Please expand on this!
Thank you for such a lovely backstory.. must share.
I think your over thinking the movie...Its a freakin movie
Dan Wynne based on a novel
That's the thing these days, over thinking movies.
"Transformers is unrealistic because during the highway fight Optimus Prime hits a city bus that proceeded to blow up in a firey ball. City busses are powered by diesel fuel and wouldn't react the way gasoline does."
Yes. It's just a movie. That is something people agonised over for months putting together, storyboarding, writing scripts, designing visuals, arranging songs, wrangling with the original author and working out how to combine animation and live action sequences. They did this so successfully that it is one of the most successful movies of its decade and it still occupies a niche in the brains of most people in the western world today. I think it is worthy of some critical analysis.
Or are you just averse to thinking in general?
its superfrag......(fades out)
Transformers is a sci-fci fantasy movie based on a cartoon which was based on a toy. Mary Poppins is meant to be a morality play for children. There is a difference.
The cockney accent belongs to part of London, not the entirity of the UK.
To Americans, there are two English accents - Cockney or Downton Abbey.
Dude, London is IN ENGLAND. That makes Cockney an English accent. Nobody said it was the only one.
Historically the term "cockney" originally applied to people from any English city. Only later did it become restricted to people born within " the sound of Bow bells"; i.e. the bells of St Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside in the City of London.
...and your source is???
@@MrPercy112 - Honey, this ain't wikipedia. You want sources, go google it yourself. ;
A few years ago, I was walking past St Pauls Cathedral, with my son, aged three. There was some sort of ceremony going on inside, and we happened to be there as they all processed out. The Queen was first out the door, in a beautiful dress and matching hat. But because of where we were, my son thought she was someone else. He ducked past the police lines and ran up the steps of the cathedral screaming "Mary! Mary Poppins!". She was gracious enough to pat him on the head, and a police officer returned him to me, saying it was the funniest thing he had seen in ages!
1. Mary Poppins was definitely a Hogwarts grad. 2. She was a hottie.
Hmm, I’ll leave you wondering.
Harry potter is rubbish, no one can sing dance and have you in bed before you know it.....cor blimey!!!
I actually found Bert’s accent quite enjoyable. I didn’t really think he was trying to have a british accent, but a speech that fits the character. It made me remember the character more compared to if he had a true british accent, Bert wouldn’t have stranded out to me.
Same.
As a child my parents' friends were known as aunt this or uncle that - they may have been someone's aunt or uncle but not mine...it was a way for me to be able to refer to them without being too familiar (as just using their name would be); things have changed as at school everyone was known by surnames, now first names are used.
In this case the moniker "Uncle" is a polite way for children to to refer to the friends of adults; adults using the moniker to refer to the friend to the children.
Exactly. I'm called an Uncle in regards to most of My friend's kids, despite not being actually related to any of them.
that's interesting. When I was growing up my babysitter had us called her boyfriends Uncle. Even as a kid I noticed she got around. I would call them "Uncle".
Im Auntie to my boyfriends grandbairns.
Exactly so. I was Auntie AbsentWithoutLeaving to all the kids of my best friends, and the same went for my kids to my friends. "Auntie" or "Uncle" can be a honorific bestowed by the true family, without any blood relationship at all.
They say this is all things only adults will notice... I noticed most of this as a child XD
Me too! I noticed DVD's execrable Cockney accent even when I was little, and I'm not English - but the character was so charming and supportive of the children you just didn't mind...
I thought everyone did. As for "gaslighting", most adults I knew did that all the time, "they're children, they'll forget all about it", though they remembered at least some lies they'd been told back when. My mother never kept her stories straight, most irritating.
So It's More Like Amelia Bedelia Of Historical Victorian England!
Kathryn Geeslin what child hadn’t been gaslighted, and still are? Christmas, Easter bunny (they don’t lay eggs), and tooth fairy, please. They have something to say about everything and everyone, what about their own selves?!
Jose Hernandez what is the matter with you, are you mental?! You could be a bit more discreet and have common sense when adding your comment, your what’s wrong with the world today!
The person who plays uncle Albert also voices Mad Hatter in the Disney classic Alice In Wonderland
Uncle Albert is a character straight from the books. DO SOME RESEARCH BEFORE YOU CREATE A VIDEO.
Lyndsey Newman As a huge fan of a series that were made into movies it can be super frustrating when the movie is not like the book or leaving something out. That being said, P. L. Travers was so pissed off about how the movie turned out she didn’t go to the premiere.
Travers was actually never invited but showed up for the premier, only to pick a fight with Walt Disney for the umpteenth time.
As I understand though they do combine him with at least one other character because the guy who they have the tea party on the ceiling with is named Mr. Wig.
Also in saving mr banks they explain it. Also in the books though I havent read them until recently and accepted the story for what it was
there is a book? you got me fucked up i havent caught up in the manga jet my merry popins lore ends with that movie
Walt Disney's favorite song was Feed the Birds.
It still makes me cry. There's a terrible sentimentalist dwelling in this jaded person somewhere...
I believe it was "Step In Time".
@@Tony-5000 No. Disney said it was 'feed the birds' by himself once.
@@amandacassidy4957 I didn't know that. I remember that he was very happy that the workers on the set were singing and whistling "Step In Time" on their own.
If you actually read the books you would know that, that’s how Mrs. Banks is and Mrs. Travers who wrote the books thought that Glynis Johns was the perfect choice to capture that “loving but distracted” nature.
Yep. Though I don't remember being distracted by anything in particular in the books (certainly not the suffrage movement). Just a proper high status lady of the age who does love her children but feels it's someone else's place to do most of the dirty work of actually raising them.
Lyndsey Newman I tried reading the next book but,wow. It was a mind trip.
Lyndsey Newman exactly!
Even as a kid, I thought that Mrs. Banks' deferring to her husband was sideways patronizing, to keep him in the dark about her feminist ideas. Reminds me of Mrs. Howell, from Gilligan's Island, and the "Dreadful! Wonderful! Dreadful...." schtick when Mr. Howell was blathering on, and she was primping at the mirror, or with her nails, or something and just responding without really being that interested in what he was talking about.
Any chance she had absolutely NO clue that these WERE books first of all!!?! Outrageous!?! Infuriatingly! !
This is why Disney should RE~ release ALL its movies onto the big screen & give those uncultured newer kids & millennials opportunity to see what a REAL movie is & how the rest of us react to it, & give us gen~x & y~ers a chance to see some of these old movies on the BIG screen, with a REAL crowd, AND make us ALL be in ONE room together AGAIN watching it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but...banks ARE out to snag up every dollar that ain't nailed down...lmao
Yes! I thought it was all pretty well done - good satire!
Yeah it seemed like a normal bank to me...
joseph nolen The problem with banks is, that they create money out of thin air and then charge interest for it. The privilege of money creation should not be in private hands. Google positivemoney, Monetative (if you can read German), or moneyreform movements in general...
I've read where Disney never tired of satirizing banks or bankers in his films, along with academic pomposity, snobbish wealthy elites., etc. In his earliest years, in trying to get his studio established, and beyond, he'd had to deal with numerous banks/financial institutions over debt, getting funding for films and projects, many near bankruptcies, etc., thus developing an overwhelmingly negative image of them. The "Fidelity Fiduciary Bank" of MP is the ultimate Disney lampooning of them!
According to IMDB, Mary Poppins and Mrs. Banks never talk to each other in the entire movie.
It also says that most of the women auditioning to be Jane and Micheal's nanny are actually men in DRAG.
I went back and watched the movie and indeed-some of the nannies had beards and mustaches!
Zachary Siple. Yes that is correct. Thus the comedy, as it is a musical comedy. Many are the same chorus actors that were the sweeps in the rooftop number.
Zachary Siple 😂😂😂😂😂
I've also heard, I think, that some of the nanny applicants were crew members.
This list is ridiculous!
thank.... you.
Yep
Say that again..
Agreed!!
Am I the only one who laughed crazy hard when that one banker screamed "Daddy, come back!" 😂
I worked on a production of Mary Poppins the musical that a local theatre department did. (I was on stage crew!) Miss Banks in the musical was a much stronger character. She argues with her husband on getting a Nanny, something that her husband wants because all the admirable London families have one, and heck she has an entire musical number about her husband being less of a workaholic, (entitled Being Missus Banks.) Also, all the actors of Mary Poppins on Broadway suggests that she is an Angel. I know the Movie and Musical are very different, I just decided to give some commentary based on my knowledge.
Thankyou for your post. As an angel - protecting the children and giving them comfort in her presence and confidence, yet also confronting them with dangers which teach them important moral lessons and how to grow up and think for yourself - is how she always made best sense to me in the books, and also to some extent in the film.
Mary is that person who is so organized and intelligent that she makes tasks and troubles just disappear. Jeeves is the same. To disorganized or slovenly persons these people seem like magicians. The person that can enter a messy room and walk out ready for military inspection, without breaking a sweat.
Mary's magic is from the young children's POV. Spoonful of sugar is such magic. They eventually learn to clean their own room, which, before Mary, seemed an impossible task. She and Bert described the magical trips by using imagination, yet we the viewers actually SEE the trips. It is a CHILD'S MOVIE. The discussion while darning is to remind them it didn't actually happen IRL.
I don’t agree with the look of London. I think it’s beautiful.
Many writers and artists (Conan Doyle, Dickens, Matisse) have waxed lyrical or painted romantically when inspired by London smogs... it's a shame the reality of them could be so deadly (there was a killer one in 1952).
Foreign visitors sometimes exclaimed about the wonderful black stone used for major buildings in London - not realising it was soot covering the underlying stonework.
I very much agree, its a beautiful romanticized vision, soot and all. But a little smokey and spooky, consistent with the feel of the film. But also things aren't always what they appear, Burt is scary with soot all over his face, but as he shows the children its just him under all that.
Most movies display England as dirty, gloomy, and poor.
Pink Magic Ali Pink see on RUclips at Mary poppins sings Pink Floyd
Mary made Albert cry so they could come down from the roof. It's a metaphor.
Also Mary didn't get aggressive when denying the kids going to a magical land. She is allowing the children to enjoy themselves, but also keeping the grounded in reality. Another metaphor.
Dick Van Dyke was utterly brilliant in the role, except for the lousy accent. Well, it would have been a miracle if he could have imitated proper cockney intonation. So it's Walt Disney's fault if it's anyone's. If he'd cared about realism, he could have hired any of a number of top English actors for the part (such as Stanley Holloway from "My Fair Lady"). While I always wince a little, I don't let his accent spoil an otherwise excellent movie.
Holloway was too old but Tommy Steele or Tony Newly would have been perfect.
alannothnagle his voice was fitting what if he didn’t learn how to speak properly? He didn’t get paid well and soo
alannothnagle Dick plays two roles in the film. Only ever gets mocked for one of them though
Yes, he's fantastic as the bank president! But he's great as Bert too, regardless of the shaky accent.
alannothnagle "If he'd cared about realism."
*main character flies in on an umbrella with a talking parrot head, proceeds to perform acts of telekenisis and defy laws of physics in carpetbag*
It's supposed to be Victorian London isn't it ?. London was a smoggy dismal place back then they are only trying to be historically accurate. At least the kids in the movie had a banker as a father it's the poor in London that where really suffering.
It´s Edwardian London in 1910, and you are absolutely right, they are historically accurate. London was a grim place back then and people thought and behaved that way, maybe even more than the movie depicts. I think whoever wrote this video was looking at the movie with 2018 eyes.
"King Edward's on the throne, it's the age of Men"
Carlos Galliath If it's 1910 it is Edwardian the Victorian era ended in 1901.
Back then everyone burned coal and everything was covered in soot.
Steven Crumb
No no no. London wasn't dismal. Dismal is a human perceptive viewpoint. There were fogs. But not all year-round. There were some grim areas as well as some high to do affluent areas. It was one of, or the worlds most populated and cosmopolitan City(s). There were parks where the buttercups grew. The sailing boats sailed and twists of candy were an assortment of colours. Dismal is like the cobwebs spun by others which were blown away by the summer breeze or the likes of Mary Poppins. Fogs were not there in summer. In summer they had regattas, Ice Cream, cricket and the galloping galloper's carousel, all with it's own music.
I do not think it was a dark movie at all. I do not understand why some folks insist on overanalyzing movies and songs instead of just enjoying them. I am an adult but i did not think any of those things that were brought up here. It is a lovely, made up story with a happy ending. Compared to most of the kids movies out today, it is marvelously innocent. I do not care for much of the material out there for children to watch today---even Disney movies. Hollywood seems to think their job is to indoctrinate and hypersexualize our children.
Murder is one person intentionally killing another person. Mr Dawe's son thanks Mr Banks in the park for making the last moments of his exceedingly aged father's life joyful, in laughing for probably one of the few times in his life.
London is grim in the film? Pffft. Look up Mary Poppins matte paintings by Peter Ellenshaw, and you'll see the backdrop paintings used in this film. They are gorgeous paintings, and I can't say how many times as both a child and as an adult I wish I could have been within that world with the children and Mary at the top of the smoke staircase staring at that beautiful painted London gold-tinted foggy vista, or that I could have sat on a bench-chair admiring the beauty of the entirely painted fog-filled park illuminated by lamp-lights that Mr Banks walks through on his way to the bank. Even the sea captain's house facade was mostly skillful 2D paintwork.
Bert is always in a job in the film. He's making an income and a living, however meagre, from his work, and he is overall optimistic that things will turn out. His accent never bothered me as a kid, or in watching the film now an adult. His good nature outshine any inaccuracies in his accent.
Some of the other points I agree with, some I don't. But I've loved this film for over 35 years. Each to their own opinion on it :)
Also note that Peter Ellenshaw was English.
One of the greatest matte artists of all time and these are some of his best.
Ha. Very good points totally about the backdrop of London! The Ellenshaw painting scene orign is one of the ones that Mr.Banks (2013, which see) detailed. "BUT NO cartoons" (Emma Thompson reflecting vocally one of Pamela L.Traver's many famous demands..)
As for Mr Banks replacing Mr Dawes that is not how it would have worked. Mr Dawes the younger would have taken over and everyone else would have moved up. Mr Banks might have been made a Junior Partner in the firm though.
Of all the worlds explored by Mary and the kids in the film, I loved the chimney-sweep's rooftop world the most. I even rented a loft in an industrial area in Chicago for a while simply because of the views out all the windows of the surrounding rooftops. Sunset viewed from that building was THE BEST, and I secretly always thought I might catch a glimpse of chimney sweeps dancing across the rooftops.
I think David who played Mr.Banks is the most wonderful actor
Uncle Albert is Mary Poppins uncle
What I noticed is how gorgeous Julie Andrews is with dark hair, I mean seriously she's beautiful personally I think she was prettier than Audrey Hepburn (but to be honest I never really understood the Hepburn thing to begin with)
"this is a pretty terrible bank", wow... It's amazing how the message that the story tried to convey went right over your head.
Mary Poppins is one of the very few and special Disney films that are quite critical of capitalism and modern society.
The whole segment where the kids just want to feed the pigeons and the banker is insisting that it would be a waste of money to use the tuppence to purchase a bag is deeply moving. It appeals to the children's genuine and spontaneous generosity and paints capitalism as, well, exactly what it is: a tautological economic system where monetary gain is its only goal and fosters and unsatiable greed.
Mary Poppins and Bert are like super heroes to me. They see society just like it is while staying creative and noble. They might struggle to make ends meet but at least they're still human. And so are the kids because, well, they're just kids. Why would they want a savings account?
We don't get enough content like this anymore, you know, critical and deep, both for kids and adults. If I ever have kids, this will be one of the films I will absolutely show them.
Ok, why ruin the childhood of so many? The movie is supposed to be for children, mainly, and by doing this, this has ruined the movie for so many. The movie is innocent, fun, and wonderful. DON'T tear this loveable family movie down like this. IT's wrong. And on a side note, MR. VANDYKE is from my hometown, Danville Illinois. He comes back from time to time.
Karen knicely if you were going to be so upset by it why even watch it? I don't watch ones of my favorite movies
Gypsy_ Heart , I'm not really upset, I was speaking about those who watch the movie, for what the movie is, fun! Why ruin a really good movie past or present by picking it apart? Why not just enjoy it?? I'm not mad or anything, I just enjoy movies for entertainment.
Karen knicely oh ok, good
Karen knicely these little snippets suck, they need to worry about getting real jobs and leave poor Burt alone!
Disney films were made for the whole family back then - and the main narrative is actually tracking Mr Banks - him finding himself. Hence the "making of" film being called Saving Mr Banks...
Mary Poppins is a Time Lord, not a witch.
Amy Bennett same thing.
B Cran hows it the same thing? Time lords dont use magic, they use advanced Gallifreyan technology
Mary poppins is an angel who hasn’t earned her wings yet.
She seems to have an “Extender” charm on that carpet bag, just like Hermione in the “Harry Potter” world! 😂Looks like she’s a Witch to me!
Astral Cosmos Celestial the Third
Arthur C Clarke ""Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
The Doctor has a magic wand (sonic screwdriver) and a magic box (TARDIS).
1:00 in the Disney version, "Bert" played the roles of different persons.
I'm n adult of 49 yrs old n this is still my absolute favourite film in fact my partner just bought it 4 me . Whoever did this clearly needs abit of magic n happiness in there lives???!!!! Don't analyse it??....just sit back n enjoy the most amazing magical n Beautiful film EVER MADE ???!!! WITH THE 2 VERY BEST ACTORS ON THE PLANET???!!! Dick Van Dyke's accent is GORGEOUS I don't care that it's not perfect that's why I like it n NO-ONE ELSE COULD EVER play lovely Bert the way he does ???!! It's a beautiful film just enjoy it X
6:11 She's gone, because the parents decided to spend more time with the kids.
As an adult, I always noticed that no matter what she wore, she couldn't hide that body, The Sound of Music Too!
She isn't gaslighting the kids, she just wants them to be quiet and go to sleep.
In the books she's clearly gaslighting them. Constantly. Bedtime or no. Even when they are alone.
A lot of this is over analytical. Accept it at face value and be don with it
To you, kane wible, and all 36 and counting who liked your comment - Yet you're here, having watched the video and taken the time to comment on it. You must have enjoyed it on some level or you wouldn't be here.
Can’t believe I wasted time watching this
Well in defense of Mrs. Banks they had to make her absentee to a degree in order to justify the presence of Mary Poppins in the first place.
Also you missed a big one. That the movie is set in 1910 that's only 4 years before world war which means they're in for some hard times anyway before they're out of their teens
I lol-ed at the one about how dark and dreary London is in the movie when (correct me if I'm wrong) that was just how it was with all the soot and smoke from the industries of the times.
Mrs. Banks didn't do much because back in those days, women of a certain social class were actively encouraged to not take much personal care of their children. If you went on a walk, a nanny would be expected to be seen pushing the stroller or you would be seen as hard up financially. It was a strange time.
Because of the high mortality rates. Emotional detachment to save your sanity. Children's deaths were as common as miscarriages.
Not so much by 1910.
@nene w Okay, two things. One, babysitting and childcare are not quite the same thing. It's a necessity to leave your children with someone if you work. But middle and upper class women in that day and age were mostly prohibited from working, and yet they still were expected to not care for their own children because it was not befitting someone of their standing. The British were extremely classist. Also, of what social standing was your great grandmother, because that can have a lot to do with child mortality in the early part of the 20th century. Medicine was booming, which was why families started to grow in size, because the old standard of having 6 to 10 children, only for 3 to survive to adulthood was the norm until about 1880. Then medicine hit hard, and we could keep the children alive, leading to the modern necessity of having only a few children. If your great grandmother was very poor, or if she had inherited health complications, such as a low immune system, that could very easily lead to child death.
At first, I thought people were just overreacting over Dick Van Dyke's accent till the video mentioned that he admitted it himself. Lol
Andrea Smeelie I love Dick Van Dyke, he’s a good sport and still amazing in MP.
it seems like you havent search a lot for Marry Poppins, because in the the movie ''Saving mr. Banks'' you can understand why everything happens. it is a story that P L Travers wrote to express her childhood it isnt dark there is no witch, no bad city, no killers, no mum that doesnt care, no bad things, it is just a sad story that Walt disney tried to make it happy. i agree that there are some parts that are very sad, but this is because of the century not because it is dark and every kid can understand them but doesnt care.
My theory on the terrible accent is that Bert was tourist that decided to stay on instead of going back to the US. With jobs difficult to come by and going from gig to gig, he would definitely make friends who do have the recognizable speech pattern and cockney accent-- which in turn influences his speech pattern and makes him sound like he is trying to talk like them.
Brilliantly formulated! My dad made his living by the following dictum: There's an innocent explanation for any set of facts! I guess Van Dyke never had a legal professional think about the matter. As for the English actors not commenting, they're not directors, so it's not their job, and who wants to imply that the director doesn't know what he's doing? And so there you are with plenty of work just trying to do your part, but nooooo, you had to open up your lousy trap and now you're stuck tutoring Bert and being asked to second guess every syllable that comes out of him. They wisely stfu.
That what I thought! I thought he just moved there from the US.
He didn't need to be a tourist! Quite a few British families emigrated to the USA around the late Victorian/Edwardian period. Not all of them found it to their liking and they returned with a few children in tow. On census records you find things like birthplace 'Michigan, USA' turning up for young children. So no problem with Bert's mixed-up accent. As a child I thought he was somehow Mary's cousin and Uncle Albert was an uncle they had in common.
As a child I didn’t realise Mary poppins was a beaut
*I'M MARRY POPPINS Y'ALL*
meifung liew was looking for this
Are you a Timelord?
Is he Cool?
Awesome
It's a shame you can't even spell your name correctly.
I always thought Uncle Albert floating around the room was an allusion to getting high...
I always said Bert was the true hero of the movie! Even though this video brought up some dark truths, it was still somehow very funny!
Fun Fact: PL Travers hated the movie so much so she banned Disney for making another one.
They waited until she died to make the sequel
Mary poppins went to hogwarts in 1904
When I was a kid I thought the movie was just about a nanny helping some unhappy kids but now I think it's about a nanny helping a cold, unhappy father who has lost touch with his family
when you hear the bull shit from your dad's boss 5:07
If the producer of this video wants questions answered, just read the books. Uncle Albert is Mary Poppins uncle, Albert Wig. Mrs Banks was only a suffragette in the movie not in the books. Whilst Mary is always enchanting, she isn't a sweet goody-goody but is demanding, quick-tempered & egotistical. The film isn't faithful to the books in many ways. I love the movie but the books are far more fabulous!
Worse accent Evuur !! LOL. Get a life. It is Fiction. It's fun, it's magical. The film is set in the Edwardian era which was less strict than the Victorian era. I would suggest that people do their research before they start criticising.
In the german version the old man didn´t die laughing. He was flying up laughing and so he was with the kites in the sky and very happy there. "Daddy won´t come down. He wants you to become the chairman of the bank, Mr. Banks!"
I feel like Mary Poppins "gaslit" the children as a tactic as to not excite them when it was bedtime. That's always been my interpretation. As cruel as it may seem, but things were different back then -shrug-
Skyler Herren exactly, are parents would have been thrown in jail for crap they’d say and do back then. They cannot compare things back to things now.
I always considered the film to be a cautionary tale of sorts that when the world appears to be doing everything to keep you down or to crush your spirits, your imagination and sense of humor can always lift you up (laughing literally lifts people up in the film) and make the world seem less harsh
Another mistake that always bugged me was the Robin in the Spoonfull of Sugar song is a North American Robin. It would be a European Robin if it is suppose to be London.
It loved Mary so much, it crossed the Atlantic.
What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen robin?
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MellieBellie722 lol. Nice. Seriously though, it's approximately 22-32 mph. Lol.
Actually the reason that the clients demand to withdraw their money isn't due to any moral conundrum. The clients misunderstood and simply thought the Banks was trying to get him to invest money in the bank due to financial trouble. They all thought that this was a sign of the bank failing, and nobody in their right mind would leave their assets in a bank that might vanish any second.
The gaslighting of the horse race bothered me so much as a kid! Was I the only one?
I took it as one of Mary's eccentricities, or as a lesson to Jane and Michael that they shouldn't get carried away with re-imagining the awesomeness of a chalk drawing fantasy world at the expense of reality. As a kid watching that scene, the beautiful lullaby she sings to the children afterwards restored my faith in her 'goodness' almost instantly.
@Jessica Zeller Nope! You are not alone on that! It STILL bugs me to this day.
@@Capydapy Love your families and teachers. That seemed perfectly normal to me.
The theory that Mary and Bert are such proficient storytellers, that the kids god caught up in the stories and could see themselves there makes a lot of sense to me now, as an adult.
Jessica Zeller see on RUclips at Mary poppins sings Pink Floyd
1:37 "She doesn't even take an active role in raising her children", as too many women since the 1960's haven't.
I'M MARY POPPINS Y'ALL!!!!!
(Hope you all get this reference)
See on RUclips at Mary poppins sings Pink Floyd
I am Groot
Give kids more credit. We knew all these things as kids.
Mary gaslighting the horse race bothered me so much as a kid! Was I the only one?
It bothered me too - you can feel so powerless as a child!
i had that from non magical people and it's plain lying 😣
The Mary Poppins in the books does the same thing repeatedly. As a child reading the books I think I just accepted it as part of the common get-out clause:'the adults mustn't be told because they wouldn't believe it anyway' that appears in a number of fantasies. (The alternative is the child waking up and finding it all a dream, as in 'Alice' and Masefield's otherwise wonderful 'Box of Delights'). Allows the child to accept or semi-accept magic while also recognising that the adult world has no place for it.
+Katy I'm so glad you mentioned "Box of Delights"! I haven't read it since I was a child and had forgotten the author's name. I must track it down again. Thankyou!
Hello Jeffrey, 'The Box of Delights' is certainly still in print and is an enchanting (no pun intended) read. I didn't come across it until I was in my forties, and now re-read it every year as Christmas approaches. Have you also read 'The Midnight Folk', which actually comes before 'Box of Delights' and introduces Kay, Sylvia Daisy Pouncer and Seekings?
First off while I am glad that you pointed out that there were underlying heavies in the movie, they are more noticeable for adults because they see the problems that are faced with the adults in the film. But no Mary Poppins is not a witch, and Uncle Albert is Mary’s Uncle. Mary and Albert come from a family that have magical abilities and I wouldn’t be surprised if Mary Poppins and another Walt Disney movie character, Englantine Price, the apprentice witch from Bedknobs and Broomsticks, were in fact cousins. I mean they’re both English ladies and they have magical abilities. From the way Bert interacts with Mary, I am going to say that they knew each other in their youth. The reddish pink dress that Mary wears when they march on the roof tops with the black stockings is like a peak into her past, like she was a little racey when she was young before she became a nanny. In the movie Saving Mr. Banks, it is shown that Mary Poppins cane not to destroy Mr. Banks, but to save him. The reason that she keeps shutting the children down after their jolly holiday is because I think she wants to keep that memory private, in the end you can see that she’s struggling letting the Banks’s go, she even remarks after Jane asks,”Don’t you love us?” She responds, “And what would happen to me may I ask if I loved all the children I have said ‘Goodbye’ to?” She is trying to stay detached but when her parrot-headed umbrella confronts her, it’s revealed that she has a hard time saying goodbye, but she silenced him and says, “That will be quite enough of that, thank you.” As far as Winifred Banks is concerned, the writers at Disney needed something for Mrs Banks to be doing so that way she wasn’t taking an active part in the children’s lives as well. The writers realized that this time period that the film was set in was right around the time of the suffragette movement in England. So that’s why she wasn’t there for children. The books by P. L. Travers portray Bert as a jack-of-all-trades which is why he is seen doing all sorts of odd jobs through out the film. The Bird woman is Mary’s example to Jane and Michael of being kind to someone even if it means something small like giving a little piece of yourself. Tuppence a bag is that little piece of yourself. And when Mr. Doors Sr. Took Michael’s tuppence, Michael had expressed that it was his money and he and Jane wanted to feed the birds instead of investing it and that’s what lead him to fight the extremely old man to get it back and they ultimately cause an unintentional run on the bank and that leads to a massive panic and the bank is forced to close its doors until the fuss dies down. When Mr Doors Sr. dies in the end he as well as Mr. Banks are transformed into a better human beings. Saving not only Mr Banks but Mr Doors and his son who followed in his footsteps and their associates, in the end you can see Mr Doors Jr and his associates flying kites as well. The caption for the other nannies responding to Mr Banks’ add in the paper are called the imperfect nannies and Mary Poppins has the one that the children made that Mr Banks tore up and threw into the fireplace to which she responds to and gets rid of the other nannies, so she can answer the children’s add instead because they know what they need in their life more than Mr Banks does at that point.
And the look of London is just the way it was in the early 1900.
it was a nightmare pollution poverty and a million whores!
Why do you have to take a perfectly happy movie and turn it into a movie full of poverty and deceit and butchery? Poo on you!! Mary Poppins will always be practically perfect in every way!!
If you DIDN'T watch this movie as a child, DON'T back seat review the movie as an adult now! Although released in '64 it was not set in '64 so your comments of movie to real life in 1964 are out of line. Why don't we talk about crappy remakes. Possibly Mary Poppins Returns to name just one.
mary poppins is a guardian angel. That's why she only shows up when they're in bad times, to cheer things up
I genuinely believe Mary Poppins pretends she hasn't done the magical adventures she does with the children because she doesn't want the children growing up in a fantasy. She does the adventures too keep them happy and have fun but then denies it happens to keep them mature-ish.
What a waste of time. Over thinking a STORY BOOK?
Move to the next video, this has NOTHING to offer.
Bert (Dick Van Dyke) has to play all those “different jobs” because in the book there was a person for each job, but it wouldn’t make for good story telling in a movie like this.
Mary Poppins vs. Phoebe Figalilly. ...hmm, younger crowd....ok.. Phoebe was in TV show in 70's.. *Nanny and the Professor* alright Mary Poppins vs Mrs.Claus in Rap battle.
YESSSSSSS!!!! Love Phoebe Figalilly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! X
Eden Maddox ah! Yes! 🎹 Hearing that piano sound...😆
Love the tinkling piano keys and the knowing smile on Phoebe's beautiful face each time the magic happens! X
Nobody every praises Dick Van Dyke’s performance as the elderly bank manager.
Yes, he plays two roles
Which Hogwarts house would Mary Poppins be sorted into?
As a kid, I remember thinking that Mary Poppins was bit scary, a bit frightening. You knew she was a very powerful 'something,' but you never knew quite what, or what direction that power might take. As an adult, I recognize her as a sort of elemental, whose power is neither good nor bad, it is simply part of her nature.
Well, Bert is struggling to make ends meet because of the gross economic inequality and massive social disruptions of late Victorian/early Edwardian capitalist economies, made even worse by the sparse-to-nonexistent social safety net. The old woman selling pigeon feed is another face of this. Calling it a "gig economy" is a cutesy and grotesque understatement. Labor movements, revolutions, and thriving socialist and communist parties didn’t happen throughout the Western world for no reason. London looks like a grim place in the movie because London WAS a grim place, as was every other major city. But, leave it to Disney to glaze over all of this with gobs and gobs of treacle.
bert's accent is actually pretty accurate to certain parts of the south haha
and he sounds like he has a little speech impedament with it, which i think makes it a little more unique, but that's just me
The part about mrs banks is a bit to much forcing todays ideals into the past. Only a fool would criticize something like that for not following through with todays version of what you think they should have been.
Mary’s denial about the magical adventures and scolding the children for talking about it is lifted straight from the books
I always felt there was a dark thread going through this movie.
I think Mary Poppins has magical effects because the effects is how the characters perceive the situations from an emotional perspective.
Is this part 3:18 on the movie???? I don´t remember it. Dick Van Dick was sooooo handsome! that is what I see as an adult!
honestly mr dawes wasn't that out of line he was just trying to help mr banks teach his kids the value of investing. the kids wishes really don't matter as the parent has the say
Can't you just enjoy a movie and not analyse it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! jeez!!!!!!!!!
Quite clearly this is the perception of an American. Why would you want to deeply analyse such a lovable movie which is over 50 years old. Chill out, it's only entertainment!