I cried. Did you? - Saving Mr. Banks (2013) Discussion

[–] Moses-18 11 years ago

Yes.

When P.L. is allowed to go and view her father by Aunt Ellie, I got up and left the theatre. I didn't make it out. I had to sob in the aisle.

Losing a parent is a pain that defies description.

Your parents love you unconditionally and constantly route for you. They believe in you, sometimes more than you believe in yourself.

If your parents are still alive, tell them how much you love and appreciate them.

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[–] mmlovers90 11 years ago

Your parents love you unconditionally and constantly route for you. They believe in you, sometimes more than you believe in yourself.

Unfortunately, I cried in this movie for the exact opposite reason as you gave. My mother was a horrible narcissist and spent the last ten years of her life destroy my life. She told terrible lies about me and ruined friend and family relationships, she was an evil monster. Not all parents have their children's best interests at heart.

So the scene where Walt goes to Mrs. Travers home and shares his heart about the horrid way his father treated him and you see her need to rewrite the story of her father to have a happy ending. That really got to me...I understand how she feels, I wish there could have been a happy ending between my mother and I...sadly that was not to be she was too selfish for that.

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[–] Quartz44 11 years ago

Wept actually. It was such a personal experience for me. It moved me on many levels and for many reasons, one of them being how deeply ingrained Mary Poppins is in my childhood.

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[–] Cristianos 11 years ago

I normally don't get too heavily emotional when watching a movie, but I shed a tear of sympathy at the end of the movie.

What we do in life, echoes in eternity.

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[–] mmlovers90 11 years ago

Also for those who cried during the premiere scene where Mrs. Travers cried watching the film. She was not crying happy tears, I read an interview with one if the Sherman brothers who said she cried because she hated the movie that much. The movie even alluded to this when Walt tried to comfort her during the movie and she said something like I hate the penguins (can't remember exactly what she hated).

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[–] mom2joshua 11 years ago

I cried when the father died

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[–] gcarras 11 years ago

Penguins! That was what she said..mmlovers90.

Like most, I cried during the songs, the premiere, the flashbacks and YES, the Disney-Travers lifestory chat (Being in the snow, such as in Missouri and Illinois, the states Walt was from, and having it pile on five feet high and walking to school is no laughing matter--my own aunt in Missouri on a farm reported the same thing, though I don't have that problem on the Pacific shore where I live. We do have the mountains, but that's another story.

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[–] theonlyidnameleft 11 years ago

I can't explain why, but I teared-up several times. I think part of it had to with the contrast between the perfect, optimistic "world of Disney" against the characters' sad lives (Travers' father, Ralph's daughter).

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[–] Degree7 11 years ago

I definitely got misty eyed.

Especially when Travers tells her to never stop dreaming.

And when her mother sleepwalks into the river.

Limit of the Willing Suspension of Disbelief: directly proportional to its awesomeness.

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[–] WoodsboroFountain 11 years ago

When she is watching the movie almost killed me, I was trying to stop crying which only made it worse lol. Struck such a nerve in me that I won't even start to talk about, haha. Splendid film!

"The battle for the soul is fought in the forum of art."

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[–] My_Name_Is_Lydia 11 years ago

Emma Thompson is a great crier. She breaks my heart every time I watch the bedroom scene in Love Actually - and the one after the play when she confronts her husband. It was a much different cry than in this one. She's brilliant!

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[–] gcarras 11 years ago

uh, sleepwalks? I think her mother ws trying to commit suicide.;) I loved the film...and of course Mary Poppins,too.

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[–] Degree7 11 years ago

Well she was trying to kill herself, but she was sleepwalking while she was doing it. I thought that was pretty obvious.

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[–] gcarras 11 years ago

Hmmm....I think you're right.

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[–] delmoki 11 years ago

Not obvious at all, because she wasn't sleepwalking. She made a very pointed remark to Ginty, then told her to take care of her sisters. Then went out to kill herself. No sleep involved.

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[–] gcarras 11 years ago

Thanks. As far as I knew, she was wide awake.

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[–] Degree7 11 years ago

You'll notice when she made the remark to Ginty, she appeared to be in a trance and not even looking at here. And then she walked right out the door, ignoring Ginty's cries, as though she didn't hear her. Which she didn't, because she was sleepwalking.

And Ginty wakes her up in the water, and she goes into shock and starts crying because she didn't know what she was doing because she was sleepwalking.

So... she was sleepwalking.

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[–] My_Name_Is_Lydia 11 years ago

She wasn't sleepwalking but she was definitely out of it. She absolutely was suicidal. Seeing Ginty in the water made her snap out of it and realize that she didn't want to die that way - in front of her daughter.

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[–] fg400a 11 years ago

Agree, she wasn't sleeping, she was experiencing temporal dementia.

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[–] Eve_of_Destruction 11 years ago

Yes, a few times.

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[–] lilread 11 years ago

I really should have brought more tissues...

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[–] aangelo1 11 years ago

Heck. Yes. I saw this movie twice in two days, and I definitely cried as much, if not more, the second time around. The two scenes that got me the most during the second time were Walt's monologue about his childhood, and then the premiere. And for the premiere scene, the part that caused the most tears was when she paused on the red carpet to gaze up at the poster of Mr. Banks, with the melody from "Feed the Birds" in the background, and then Mickey Mouse comes up and offers his arm to escort her. And the view from behind of her being escorted by Mickey into the theatre....gah.

For me, adding "Feed the Birds" to any scene increases my chances of tearing up by 95%.

Accio Double Stuf!

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[–] phillindholm 11 years ago

And if Julie Andrews happens to be singing it-well, you know the answer to that.

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[–] aangelo1 11 years ago

Truth.

Accio Double Stuf!

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