Talk:Mary Poppins

Maybe discuss all the times Chris has referenced it? He's done this a few times before, actually. --Champthom 20:08, 15 November 2009 (CET)

Some edits

I saw this movie yesterday. I get the feeling the writers of this article were going off memory (I certainly wouldn't rewatch a Disney children's musical from one of the most vapid, schmaltzy eras of Hollywood just for Chris), but some corrections:

• Mrs. Banks is not the first proper character. The film opens on Bert (Dick Van Dyke, second-credited actor with almost as much screentime as Mary herself) singing a song in a one-man-band outfit. He also might be the template for Chris's random access humor because he tells terrible, unfunny jokes to everybody's uproar both here and in a later sequence. It even becomes a plot point. After the children cause a mob to descend on the bank demanding all their money back because of a squabble over tuppence, Mr. Banks salvages his job by telling one of these jokes to the senior partner (by the way, this movie is fucking weird). Mrs. Banks is the second song and preceded by several characters of equal or greater importance (she gets maybe 30 minutes screentime tops and that's only because musicals, by design, have severe padding).
• While real-world events would suggest 1909, there's a lyric that specifically states 1910. You didn't really expect Disney to care about historical accuracy, did you?
• The movie does absolute jackshit in explaining Women's Suffrage. It's just used as an excuse for why she's neglecting her children. Also, I really wouldn't be that surprised of Chris growing up to be a raging misogynist if this is his sole entry into feminism. The movie portrays it as a stupid, frivolous endeavor of which Mrs. Banks has little real conviction. At the beginning of the movie, she hides the sashes before her husband arrives because he "doesn't like the cause" and otherwise acts like a doormat housewife when not mentioning cartoonish displays of protest (which are things such as women chaining themselves to carriages and throwing rotten eggs at the prime minister; not that hard to see Chris going straight for stripping if his idea of protesting is shock value alone).
• I think Chris might have been channeling this film when he did I Got A Fish. Unless he's a fan of other musicals in the Rodgers and Hammerstein style, he probably picked up the lingering vibrato note from Mr. Banks.

Picklemonster 06:52, 5 March 2013 (PST)