Saving Mr Banks Review

Saving Mr Banks

Sound Design

When i was watching Saving Mr Banks, most of/all of it was sound cues or sound bits taken from the Mary Poppins Movie. it was elegant and it made you remember of a time gone by.

Story

As for me, i didn’t watch the trailer and i didn’t read anything about the film before actually watching it. so i didn’t see any promotional material before i watched the film. I was surprised by what i was greeted with. it was a thrilling experience to watch, to be honest, i started watching the film, just to kill some time and i was playing a game on my phone whilst i was watching it but i had to go out somewhere so i paused the film and when i came back, i left my phone alone but not on purpose because i was so excited and eager to see where the story could go that i didn’t even think of going on my phone. This makes me sound like a typical teenager but i’ve watched films in the past and i’ve looked round and there’s other people on their phones and i think it’s a disgrace. I was watching the revenant with my mum and my other half and they were both on their phones and i was completely engrossed by the atmosphere of that movie but that’s details for another review.

sorry for rambling on. Basically the story starts off with Mrs Travers in her house with a load of disney merchandise and that has been collected over the years by her but these are not things that she has bought, these are gifts sent personally by walt disney and the reason for this is, Mary Poppins, the beloved children’s book and fantastic cult classic was actually written by Mrs Travers and the reason why Walt Disney is sending all these gifts is to persuade in selling the rights of mary poppins to the Disney Corporation. she’s repeatedly said no so eventually she’s got sick of the gifts/offers so she decides to go to disney and confront Walt Disney himself to decline him in person.As Mrs Travers is leaving the disney, she hears a song coming from the building so she decides to go back in and it’s actually the songwriters of mary poppins and she says, if you’re going to do the movie, at least give it justice. so most of the film is her turning down and destroying the ideas of the creators. One moment is when she put off by the colour red so she decides that she doesn’t want the colour red to be in the movie. As the film is set in london, there’s Phone booths, Post boxes that are coloured red.

The performance is backed up tremendously by a great cast. Tom Hanks for starters plays Walt Disney and he plays him very well. Whilst being a businessman but you can also see that he is still a little child at heart and he’s never lost that touch. Mrs Travers was played by Emma Thompson and she was such a brilliant actor that i didn’t even realise that it was infact her. She played the role very well.

Conclusion

The film was heart warming and throughout the film, you were either loving and loathing all the characters. You wanted Walt Disney to win but then you wanted Mrs Travers to win and once they came to an equal ground, it was only then when you felt so proud and so gracious of the entire situation.

The only thing and it’s a minor thing about the film would be, it took you out of the action at some places to have a juxtaposition segment and as i said before this is review that i was on my phone. When i looked up on my computer screen, i thought NetFlix had changed the film but it turns out, that it was the scenario but presented through Mrs Travers Memory.

For a film i had no expectations for, i’d happily give it a 7/10. One of the reasons for it’s minor success was the actors and their pull alone persuaded me to play the movie.