Was she cantankerous? Hard to please? It sure seems like it! But the movie distorts or just plain leaves out some interesting facets of Travers’s life - omissions that would have created a deeper, more interesting depiction of Travers and would have made the Disney intellectual-property-gobbling machine a bit less sympathetic.īanks doesn’t acknowledge this at all, but at age 40, Travers adopted a son, Camillus.
Banks’ end credits, we hear some of the actual tape recordings of Travers’s contentious writing sessions with Disney and two of his most successful songwriters, Richard and Robert Sherman (played in the movie by Jason Schwartzman and B.J. Travers (Emma Thompson) and her collaboration with Walt Disney (Tom Hanks), et al, on the movie adaptation of her beloved children’s book, an adaptation she was loath to agree to in the first place.
Well, it’s based on a true story the way the movie Mary Poppins is based on the book Mary Poppins - which is to say loosely, and without some of the really unusual and intense juicy parts.
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