Most dreadful scenario
How is it in anyway close to original book? I'd say it's another brick in bloody Disney empire - no connection with original Mary Poppins as character or its moral issues. Better read the book and don't watch this Crap.
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TROLL ALERT!!
Dorothy stop that, Mr. Ha Ha`s lookin at you!!
Hey, you, mr. Troll. Have u even read original book?
shareActually,the plot of the movie is very faithful to the novels. All of the children's magical adventures come out of one or another of the books in P.L. Travers's series. The one plot point that differs from them is the most typically Disney part, the moral lesson about the relationship of the Banks parents with their children. In the era when Travers first began writing these books, it wouldn't have occurred to anyone that a father should go flying kites with his children. That was what nannies were for. As for Mr. Banks's job, all we hear about it in the books is that the children knew he made money, which presumably meant sitting in his office all day drawing pound notes and cutting out pennies and shillings.
The way in which the movie most drastically departs from the book is in softening and warming up Mary Poppins's character. In the novel, she was a rather terrifying authority figure, and when she scolded the children they trembled. That, again, was as people thought it should be post-Victorian England: children had to learn to obey adults, and one of the things that made Mary Poppins such an ideal nanny was that she could keep the children under control. From the point of view of the children, Mary Poppins was both the wicked witch and the magical fairy godmother, and they understood that although she could do wonderful things, they didn't dare cross her. That wouldn't have gone over well with mid-20th century American families, and so Disney grafted a more American concept of happy family life onto a story about upper-middle-class Britain of the early 20th century. I loved the movie and the books, but can also understand why Travers wasn't happy with the way her novels had been interpreted.