Mary Poppins Movie Response

This post will be a progression of my thoughts and observations as I watch the movie.

• Mrs. Banks seems to be a strong activist for women's suffrage 
• Mrs. Banks is a lot more cheery and even goes on to call men “stupid
• Mrs. Banks seems like she is a more understanding and caring mother in the movie.She seems to want to do what  makes the children happy and thus listens to what they have to say more than Mr. Banks. 
• As Mr. Banks walks in, you can immediately tell by the way he acts that the thinks he knows whats best and doesn’t seem to listen to what anyone has to say.
• In the movie they actually show Katie Nana and her leaving.
• Instead of Mrs. Banks writing a flyer about wanting a nanny, Mr. Banks insists on doing it.
• Mr. Banks wants a proper “British” and militant nanny
• In the book, Mary Poppins shows up in front of their door before any other Nannies have the opportunity to come, but in the movie nannies line up outside the door before you see Mary Poppins. However they are blown away by the East Wind.
• Mary Poppins is very up front from the start, just like from in the book.
• she also speaks to Mr. Banks about having the job and not Mrs. Banks
• Mr. Banks seems to having a bigger role in the movie than in the book
• Mary Poppins asks for every Tuesday off instead of Every Third Thursday. I wonder why Disney changed the days.
• Mrs. Banks expects a nanny to be firm, strict, and mold them into good human beings
• This movie is definitely more comedic than the book
• Mary Poppins is clearly not as firm and strict with them as in the book or as strict as Mrs. Banks wants her to be
• She replaces the small mirror in the room with a bigger mirror so that she could see her face better (will still see some vanity in Mary Poppins)
• She has a thing for “beauty”
• In this movie she immediately measures the children’s behavior but in the first book she does not do this and gives them delicious tasting medicine instead. It is not until “Mary Poppins Comes Back” that she decides to measure how they behaved while she was gone.
• Mary Poppins is “Practically perfect in every way”
• Mary Poppins has a sweet disposition and wants to make the children’s work into a game thereby fulfilling their desire to have a nanny that provides them with games
• She is singing the song! "A spoon full of sugar makes the medicine go down!" However, I always thought that in the song she actually gave them some sugar to take some medicine. I guess that was just a metaphor.
• Mary Poppins seems to use her magic to clean and tidy up. What surprised me, however, was that the children seemed to somehow obtain that same magic of being able to clean up with a snap of their fingers. 
• She has tricked them into enjoying their chores and cleaning up their room. 
• There is a narrator type man and he seems to also be the artist that Mary Poppins is friends with. 
• The artist, Bert tries to tell them that weird magical things happen when you are with Mary Poppins but she tries to deny it
• Its as though Mary Poppins needs to hear someone compliment her
• There are animated animals with real life people. The animals are really cute. Again, we see the typical woodland creatures.
• There is a whole song about how special Mary is. Also the kids have seemed to disappeared while everyone in this fantasy world is singing about Mary Poppins and they don’t even realize it or care. 
• There are subtle comments about men. They mention how men oppress women and how they have advantage over women. Mary Poppins even says, “you never think of pressing your advantage.”
• Mary starts to get jealous when Bert names other girls.
• Bert does a silly dance with the penguins. It is very comedic. You can clearly see how Disney adjusted the story to make it more of a movie that children would enjoy.
• Mary Poppins is still big on showing proper etiquette and manners
• I love the random animated characters mixed in with the real life people!
• HAHA. I love the talking animals, especially the horse and fox. 
• Disney is definitely trying to show off their animation skills. 
• Mary Poppins wins the horse race without even really trying and by just asking some men if she could pass them. Here again, we see how perfect Mary Poppins.
• Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
• The medicine is just like in the book! Mary Poppins hiccups from drinking the rum punch! Disney probably wouldn’t have had her drink rum in a children’s movie today
• Mary Poppins starts to deny the magical things that happened just like she did in the book.
• Julie Andrews has a very nice voice.
• I am also tired while watching this so her lullaby is making me sleepy. 
• Admiral Bloom seems crazy.
• The shoe shiner guy that always naps doesn’t seem to be in this movie. Only the women workers are in this movie.
• Everyone seems to be extremely happy in the household since Mary Poppins arrived except Mr. Banks.
• We see Mary Poppins talk to Andrew just as she does in the story.
• Laughing Uncle Albert reminds me a lot of the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland
• Why is Bert there at Uncle Albert’s house as well?
• The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party! This reminds me so much of Alice in Wonderland. 
• In the book, Mr. Bank was pleased with everything that was happening and how everyone was acting while Mary Poppins was there. However, I guess it was because he was never present enough to really understand what was going on. In the movie he seems to be upset with Mary Poppins and how everyone is acting.
• Mrs. Banks is a suffragette and wants to go to a rally
• Mary Poppins sort of tricks Mr. Banks in to spending time with his children.
• Mr. Banks says, he must get rid of all of their “sugary-female thinking” and Mrs. Banks is annoys by this statement 
• Mary Poppins tells the kids about the Bird Woman in the movie. However, in the book the children are the ones that knew about her and Mary Poppins did not like her. in the movie, Mary Poppins makes the Bird Woman seem nice and magical. 
• They only talk to Michael, and not Jane, about investing money and getting rich.
• I don’t think that the children ever hang out with their father outside of the home in the book.
• Everyone is going crazy for money in the bank.
• Bert makes the children feel as though everyone is always looking after them  but no one looks after Mr. Banks (the father). The father is always caught “fending for himself.” Bert makes the children feel sorry for their father.
• Mary Poppins gives in to doing what the kids really want to do, but in the book, Mary Poppins always seems to say, “no.”
• Mary Poppins seems to fit the “militant” aspect that Mr. Banks wanted
• Mary Poppins makes it clear to Mr. Banks that she “never explains anything.” This is something we see in her throughout the movie and especially the book. She constantly denies the magical adventures and will never explain what happened.
• Bert reminds Mr.Banks how fast childhood goes away and soon his children will be all grown up and it will be too late for him to connect with them.
• In the movie, they make Mr. Banks more of a dynamic character and put more focus onto him and the lessons he learns.
• There is mention of the Boston Tea Party and how some colonists dressed as “red indians” and behaved “rudely” by throwing the tea overboard.
• The old man seems to be laughing at the wooden leg joke and starts floating in the air, but to me he kind of looked possessed. 
• Ellen, the maid, makes a comment about suicide, which definitely isn’t appropriate for children's movies. 
• Mary Poppins seems to have a profound effect on the parents, especially Mr. Banks, to the point where she is not needed because they are more willing to care for them. In contrast, in the book, when Mary Poppins leaves, everything turns to chaos again, and the children continue to be neglected.