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Review Time! Saving Mr. Banks

Sooo I saw Saving Mr. Banks today with my mom and my Nana, and I thought I would share it with everyone. From what I got from the trailers of this movie was that it was about how the movie Mary Poppins got made and that the author of the books, Emma Thompson's character Pamela Travers, was not the easiest person to work with. That was true, but it was more than that story all together... To me, it was like 3 different stories telling what Mary Poppins meant to them I guess. We get to see the story of a young girl who loved her father very much, Pamela's struggle to keep this movie the way that she wants, and Walt Disney's struggle to Disney-fy the film and Pamela herself. Pamela Travers was a very distant woman who was sort of grumpy and incredibly hard to work with. She changed every plan that the writers and the lyricists made up, she thought that Dick Van Dyke was completely wrong for Burt, she didn't want the movie to be a musical and didn't want to go to ...