This is the first feature film in film history to feature Disney's life story, and Tom Hanks is the first choice to play Disney. Hanks, who also landed the role on a hit-and-run basis, sees Disney as "a figure who changed the world like Picasso and Chopin." For Disney's appearance, Hanks visited the Disney Family Museum several times and spoke with his former employees and relatives, including Disney's daughter Diane Disney Miller. The biggest highlight of the film, PL Travers, was not actually played by Emma Thompson at the beginning. The production company hoped to invite Meryl Streep to play PL Travers, but failed to do so. Emma, who took over the role in April 2012, described Travers as having "a tearful complexity and contradiction". She repeatedly studied Travers' recordings, imitating her accent, and trying to be as close to Travers in appearance. So under the wonderful interpretation of the two actors, this warm work with laughter and tears was born.
"Meticulous" fairy tale king
The 57-year-old Tom Hanks is similar to Mr. Disney at that time in terms of age and body shape. With the decoration of makeup artists and costumers, he presents the audience with a kindness, tolerance, understanding of people, and ability to communicate with people. The fairy tale king of communication. Hanks has Disney's signature pencil moustache, hair slicked back, a black tie, a white shirt, and a dark gray suit. The meticulous attire contrasts with his humble and gentle personality. It took him 20 years to fulfill his promise to his daughter to bring PLTravers' "Mary Poppins" to the screen. And historically, Travers has been hesitant to sell Disney the rights to a film adaptation of his novel Mary Poppins. This was not originally a "happy" story, but under Disney's transformation, the whole film was full of fairy tales, and the scenes where both live and animation appeared at the same time also opened the eyes of the audience at that time. Although the Chinese translation of the film is "The Big Dreamer", it seems that the protagonist's setting is more inclined to Tom Hanks, but due to the small number of scenes and the difficulty of the characters, Hanks is obviously not Emma Thompson's opponent. The arrogant and indifferent, rigid and old-fashioned Travers played by Emma Thompson, the
finely decorated "Queen of Toughness" , is the most exciting highlight of the whole film.
In order to interpret the original author of this eccentric character well, Emma can be said to have tried her best. Against the use of wigs, she styled herself with reddish curls exactly like Travers. In terms of clothing, Emma is either wearing a classic black and white plaid retro skirt with a yellow shirt, or wearing a sleeveless skirt with a dark blue dark gold plaid and a blue cashmere cardigan. But no matter what skirt she wears, Travers wears a cloak, or a windbreaker, or a cardigan, and must not wear it seriously, like a queen standing hard in this male-dominated world . Even when sleeping, Travers is still "not messy", and the exquisite clothing collocation highlights its outstanding taste and discerning personality. In the first half of the film, Travers, played by Emma, is always frowning, with delicate makeup extruding a forehead line on his face, accompanied by British accents with careful wording and a look of contempt for anything, making this "troublemaker". "It's very good.
In addition to the wonderful performances of Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson, the film's supporting cast is also strong: Colin Farrell and Ruth Wilson play Travers' parents . The Travers family, who originally belonged to a middle-class family, had a gorgeous house and lived a good life. However, the father "Mr. Banks" was fired again, and the middle-class family was forced to leave their hometown to the desolate grassland on the other side of Australia. But the childlike "Mr. Banks" allowed the three children and his wife to slowly begin to accept this near-primitive life. The mother, played by Ruth Wilson, has a high-waisted black dress, matching a black top hat, and white high-neck lace underwear, which outlines the gentle and kind but a little fragile hostess just right. Colin Farrell contributed the second man with the same style after Brad Pitt in "The Legend of Autumn". The white shirt with the stand-up collar, the coarse overalls, and the blue scarf tied at will. Although it is covered with dust, it is more attractive and masculine. It was such a father, who loved PL Travers the most, that taught her to chase her dreams bravely.
Maybe the reality is not happy, but the coat of the dream is beautiful. It is because of the dream that it supports the dream catcher to walk through the difficult road of reality and reach the other side of happiness.
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