Saving Mr Banks

[azriona]

Bill and I went on our date tonight, and through a comedy of errors, ended up seeing Saving Mr Banks, which was totally all right by me because I'd wanted to see it anyway. Bill wanted to see American Hustle.

My Parents: What are you going to see tonight?
Bill: Saving Mr Banks.
Me: That's not true! We're going to flip a coin.
Bill: And then we'

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[azriona]

Oh, I'm sure of it. (Though as I read more about it online, it appears that Disney wasn't so much producer as they are distributor. Meh. I'm pretty sure the Disney shop was well aware of the movie and had a hand in its production, because no prop or set designer worth their salt would have tried to do this without contacting Disney for access to their historical records. And Disney keeps pretty good historical records.)

And in the end, you have to remember this isn't a documentary, it's a movie based on actual events, and therefore, there's been licenses made to tell the story in a way that works for movie-making. It's...oh, god, here we go...it's basically Real Person Fanfic.

And that's the problem with RPF, and one of the reasons I don't like it much. It's much to easy to forget that you're watching RPF, and then you start assuming that things in the story may have occurred in real life. (As I admittedly do above.) The movie implies that Travers Goff died of tuberculosis; but there are reports online that he died of influenza. And if you watch the movie, it looks like it all happened within a very short amount of time (as the youngest daughter, a baby of a few months old, doesn't age very much at all), but really it all occurred over two years. (That baby should have been walking and talking at the end, and wasn't even close.)

So yeah - if you do see it (and you should, it is well-told, no matter what you think of the message), then I'd keep the cynical side questioning the accuracy, while at the same time you enjoy the story. It's possible to appreciate one while remembering the other. I think, anyway.