2. Tom Hanks and Walt Disney, who he plays, actually have a distant cousin relationship.
3. The actual recording of the working meeting between PL Travers and Walt Disney team lasted 39 hours. Screenwriter Kelly Marcel and starring Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson have all listened to the recording carefully. Emma Thompson described the experience of listening to the recording as "like poking the ear with a hot fork."
4. The screenwriter Kelly Marcel said that one of the biggest fictions of the film is Walt Disney's visit to PL Travers' home in London. In fact, they just talked on the phone. But she also insists that all Disney tells Travers about his father are real.
5. Walt Disney has always hidden his smoking habit from the public, especially in front of children. Because he thinks it will damage the home-friendly image of him and his studio. In order to accurately interpret the role, Tom Hanks asked for a real show of Disney smoking, but was still rejected by Disney on the basis that there should be no smoking scenes in the family carnival movie. Therefore, we can only see Disney's action of squeezing out cigarette butts in the film, but no specific smoking action. Tom Hanks said that Robert B. Sherman told him, “Walt smokes two packs of cigarettes a day. You always know when he comes, because you always hear his cough first.” Walt Disney died of lung cancer in 1966.
5. The film's writing on the song "Feed the Birds" is based on facts. This is one of Walt Disney's favorite songs. According to the Sherman brothers, Walt Disney always asked them to sing this song to him when he was down. And he just called them to the office and said, "Play it," and the Sherman brothers knew he was going to listen to this song. Richard M. Sherman said that Walt Disney liked this song because it perfectly sums up the reasons why he put the creation of Disney in the most important place in his life.
6. In an interview in 1977, PL Travers talked about the film. She said, "I have watched it once or twice, and I am also learning to accept it. For them, it is a fascinating and good film. , But I don’t think it is very similar to my book.”
7. Robert M. Sherman was shot in the leg. He was injured on the European battlefield during World War II. His troops helped liberate the infamous Dachau concentration camp of the Nazis.
8. PL Travers did not want Dick Van Dyke to play the role of Bert during the production of "Happy Man". And Dick Van Dyke himself also said that although "Happy in the World" is the best movie he has ever starred in, he also feels that he is not suitable for the role of Bert, and it is more appropriate to play Jim Dale or Ron Moody. Travers has suggested actors in this role include Richard Burton, Alec Guinness, Richard Harris, Rex Harrison, Ron Moody, Laurence Olivier, Peter O' Toole and Peter Sellers, she thinks they can keep the British attributes in the book. In addition, the actor Stanley Holloway, who both Travers and Walt Disney recognized as Bert, rejected the role, and starred in Audrey Hepburn's "Fair Lady", and the film also became "Happy in the World" and was released in 1964. The main competitor at the time.
9. PL Travers believes that Walt Disney's changes to her "Mary Poppins" series of novels are vulgar and rude, and he has not let go of it all his life. In 1994, 30 years after the release of "Happy in the World". Stage producer Cameron Mackintosh found PL Travers who wanted to adapt her work into a musical. She refused to adapt all works because the previous film made her extremely unpleasant. After several meetings, she finally let go, but when Mackintosh wanted to use the episode in the previous movie, she was extremely disgusted again. Finally, after many persuasion, I finally agreed, but set an extremely strict rule. That is, no Americans are allowed to participate in the production of any part of the film, especially the original authors of the song Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman. Mackintosh complied with every regulation of Travers and proceeded to adapt it without any help from Disney for several years. It was not until Travers died of illness in 1996 that Disney was allowed to intervene in the project and co-produce it with Mackintosh.
10. In the Walt Disney office, you can see a marked map of Florida. The marked location is the local Disneyland. The park opened in 1971, 5 years after Walt Disney died of illness.
11. To prepare for his role, Tom Hanks visited the Disney Museum in San Francisco's Presidio several times and met some relatives of Walt Disney, including his daughter Diane Disney Miller.
12. Although PL Travers doesn't like the Sherman brothers' work very much, she was still shocked and disappointed when the heroine Julie Andrews wrote to tell her that the producer wanted to delete the song "Stay Awake". ("Stay Awake" is one of the songs in this film that Julie Andrews likes very much, and it is also one of the very few favorite songs of PL Travers.) She immediately asked the producer to keep this song.
13. According to the description in the "Happy 40th Anniversary DVD" produced in 2004, Disney first wanted to purchase the copyright of Mary Poppins in 1938. At that time, PL Travers had an extremely cold attitude and she hated Hollywood's adaptation of books into movies. And don’t believe that images can correctly express the meaning of the book. Another reason for her resistance was that at that time, Disney had not produced a movie with real people. In the 20 years since then, Disney has been contacting her periodically, hoping to agree to sell the copyright. In 1961, she finally agreed, but requested that the script must be approved by her. It took 2 years to prepare the film, write the script and the song. PL Travers denies a large number of necessary elements necessary for film adaptation. He even said that instead of using the original music of the Sherman brothers, it is better to use the music of the Edwardian era more in line with the settings in the book, and refused to use animation to represent the world in the blackboard. Disney did not fully follow her opinion and used the terms of the contract to suppress her. So Travers later rejected all Disney requests to adapt her other works, no matter how hard Walt Disney tried to win.
14. Disney CEO Robert A. Iger personally called to ask Tom Hanks to star in Walt Disney.
15. In the film, Disney tells Sherman that he knows how it feels not to let others control the character he creates, and mentions that a New York producer wants to buy Mickey Mouse. In fact, Walt Disney and his creative partner Ub Iwerks originally created a rabbit character called "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit", which was later bought by Universal and handed over to other writers to recreate. Since then, Disney vowed not to lose control of his own creation of characters, and then he and Iwerks created a mouse character, named Mortimer, but his wife Mrs. Lillian Disney persuaded him, at the last moment of the final release, will The name was changed to Mickey.
16. The production team is very dedicated to the image design of Tom Hanks playing Walt Disney, paying close attention to every detail, even measuring the length of his beard with precision.
17. Tom Hanks was 55 years old when the film was shot, 5 years younger than Walt Disney in 1961.
18. Meryl Streep was considered to star in the film.
19. Emma Thompson has written and starred in a series of movies similar to the role of Mary Poppins, the "Magic Nanny McPhee" series.
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