Watching Mary Poppins as an adult
I aint going to lie I used to love watching this as a child. The songs the dancing etc but I didn't really understand the story. As an adult and re watching it yesterday I really do understand what the storys about and I think theres a huge messege to it.
The dad really does care for his children but he wants them to grow up to quick and be like him. He don't understand his children want to be children and act like them.
Also another messege it don't take a lot to be kind it takes something so simple. When the farther is about to loose his job his son gives him something so simple it just shows he really cares. This film is so underated but I hope one day a lot more people will aprechate it and understand the proper messege,
The dad really does care for his children but he wants them to grow up to quick and be like him. He don't understand his children want to be children and act like them.
Also another messege it don't take a lot to be kind it takes something so simple. When the farther is about to loose his job his son gives him something so simple it just shows he really cares. This film is so underated but I hope one day a lot more people will aprechate it and understand the proper messege,
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but it is a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious soundtrack.
It's not just the fact that a father can't express his love for his children, but he put his job over his family, and was also quite snobbish about his children's activities.
The mother was a feminist and woman's right's campaigner. As a little girl, I never realised the struggle women had to be allowed to vote, but as an adult, It made me realise the struggle's women had at that time.
Also, it's about perception's. Mary is seemingly 'perfect', but can she really be happy?. Burt was happy but poor. Jane and Michael were from a good family, but got more love from Burt and Mary than from their parents, at least at first. It gives the message 'money can't buy happiness'.
It's sad that it's mainly remembered for Dick Van Dyke's bad cockney accent.
Non-animated? Probably.
Trippy? Definetly!
Yes, but the film came out in 1964, so she was 'only' 85.
Regards
Mark
I used to feel sorry for the bird lady as a child but actually thinking about it, 2p a bag for what was probably only a slice of bread she probably made a fortune with the price of bread back then /dailymail
To be honest I think most who have ever watched the film are too caught up in how great it is and how brilliant Dick Van Dykes performance is that they never really notice or care how bad the accent is until Stuart Maconie, Vernon Kaye, Fearne Cotton and some random comic who once appeared on Mock the Week start to smugly go on about it on some talking head nostalgia show.
I watched Saving Mr Banks a couple of weeks ago and I was in floods at the end ( I never cry..about anything. I'm a hard bitch )
It was a double whammy sad ending; the ending of the actual film and the ending of Mary Poppins
Great film. Well worth watching if you haven't seen it.
'Saving Mr Banks' is an equally wonderful film, and is well worth watching to gain a greater understanding of the inspiration for the characters. I was in floods of tears by the end of that one too!
Yep, for 2d (not 2p, wash your mouth out!) back then you could have a slap-up meal, a night at the theatre, a three-piece suit, a three-piece suite, a night with half-a-dozen hookers and a bottle of whisky. Although at that price it must have been pretty poor whisky.
Isn't that how Michael spends his tuppence in the alternate version of the movie? Supercalifragilistocexpialidocious takes on a whoooooole new meaning in that cut of the film...
George was the family man, bread earner. His purpose was going to work and providing for his family, in his very serious bank role, leaving not much time for family life. I feel it is a lesson that we are so busy working to provide that we miss watching our children grow.
Ellen is a bored housewife (well the family are not exactly short of money). George does a good job of providing his wife and children a lovely home, well dressed and Ellen is pretty much a lady of leisure with hiring of cooks and nanny's. Ellen's role is quite redundant, so she plunges her time into campaigns for 'Votes For Women'.
A wonderful film still;-)
It is always interesting to watch films like this with a historical context behind it. I think the father is a figure in which capitalism and Edwardian society has swallowed him up. He has become obsessed with social status and has forgotten the principles of family and the home. The film also has sense of dramatic irony attached to it as the father is primarily concerned with his individual needs in relation to his career. Thus, choosing to neglect the needs of his family. But we know as an audience that The Great War, only a few years away in which the film was based, was an event in which families were torn apart and there was no choice. When you consider these elements of films it makes them all the more intriguing to discuss.