Please be more forgiving

Desiree 2022-04-19 09:01:50

At the beginning of the film I saw Mrs. Traverse, a very difficult writer. People gave him the luggage rack, but she laughed at people flying with a baby. She was dissatisfied with the driver that Disney provided her. She stuffed all the dolls Disney put in her hotel room into the cupboard, and even put fruit. The pears in the basket were thrown into the pool downstairs.

When she went to the office and met Mr. Disney, she said: Mary Poppins and Mr. Banks are like family. Working with people at Disney to start co-editing her story, her character remains inaccessible. In the secretary's words, "she has a lot of ideas", and the discussion part needs to be recorded. The screenwriter just said "so what?" and she was kicked out of the office. No animated characters can be used in the film, and even red can't be used.

The three screenwriters of the film worked very hard to compose a tune that satisfied her, and finally they finally did it, but when she finally danced to the tune and said something she was satisfied with, because the penguin animation might be used in the movie. The incident left in anger and flew directly back to the UK.

It was only then that Mr. Disney discovered that the contract she had been carrying in her bag had never been signed.

At this point, the interlude part is almost completed.

Viewers can also learn that Mrs. Traverse had an alcoholic father who loved her very much but could not quit drinking when he was a child. Mr. Traverse was also the president of a bank, but because of alcoholism, he quarreled with his colleagues in the office, made ugly speeches, and forgot his daughter's age.

Later, he finally fell ill, and we also guessed that Mrs.Traverse hated red maybe because his father often vomited blood after his illness. She couldn't bear pears because, when she finally saved enough money to buy pears for her father, she came back to find that her father was dead, not that he would always be there as he promised.

Mr. Disney followed Mrs.Traverse's home in the UK, and he finally understood that Mr.Banks was actually her father. At the end of the film, when "Mary Poppins" was released, Mrs.Traverse finally couldn't hold back the tears, which was a story she used to commemorate her father, a terrible, but beloved father.

Everyone's character is not achieved overnight, some are defined as inexplicable characters by us, maybe with a little more tolerance and more understanding, we will find the story behind this character, maybe helpless, maybe sad.

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Saving Mr. Banks quotes

  • Walt Disney: I have my own Mr. Banks. Mine had a mustache.

    P.L. Travers: [sarcastically] So it's not true that Disney created man in his own image?

    Walt Disney: No, but it is true that you created yourself in someone else, yes?

  • Walt Disney: Have you ever been to Kansas City, Mrs. Travers? Do you know Missouri at all?

    P.L. Travers: I can't say I do.

    Walt Disney: Well, it's mighty cold there in the winters. Bitter cold. And my dad, Elias Disney, he owned a newspaper delivery route there. A thousand papers, twice daily; a morning and an evening edition. And dad was a tough businessman. He was a "save a penny any way you can" type of fella, so he wouldn't employ delivery boys. No, no, no... he used me and my big brother Roy. I was eight back then, just eight years old. And, like I said, winters are harsh, and Old Elias, he didn't believe in new shoes until the old ones were worn through. And honestly, Mrs. Travers, the snowdrifts, sometimes they were up over my head and we'd push through that snow like it was molasses. The cold and wet seeping through our clothes and our shoes. Skin peeling from our faces. Sometimes I'd find myself sunk down in the snow, just waking up because I must have passed out or something, I don't know. And then it was time for school and I was too cold and wet to figure out equations and things. And then it was back out in the snow again to get home just before dark. Mother would feed us dinner and then it was time to go right back out and do it again for the evening edition. "You'd best be quick there, Walt. You'd better get those newspapers up on that porch and under that storm door. Poppa's gonna lose his temper again and show you the buckle end of his belt, boy."

    [Travers looks noticeably unsettled by his story]

    Walt Disney: I don't tell you this to make you sad, Mrs. Travers. I don't. I love my life, I think it's a miracle. And I loved my dad. He was a wonderful man. But rare is the day when I don't think about that eight-year-old boy delivering newspapers in the snow and old Elias Disney with that strap in his fist. And I am just so tired, Mrs. Travers. I'm tired of remembering it *that* way. Aren't you tired, too, Mrs. Travers? Now we all have our sad tales, buy don't you want to finish the story? Let it all go and have a life that isn't dictated by the past? It's not the children she comes to save. It's their father. It's *your* father... Travers Goff.

    P.L. Travers: I don't know what you think you know about me, Walter...

    Walt Disney: You must have loved and admired him a lot to take his name. It's him this is all about, isn't it? All of it, everything. Forgiveness, Mrs. Travers, it's what I learned from your books.

    P.L. Travers: I don't have to forgive my father. He was a wonderful man.

    Walt Disney: No... you need to forgive Helen Goff. Life is a harsh sentence to lay down for yourself.