This week the trailer for the Disney film Saving Mr. Banks came out. I had heard that Tom Hanks would be playing Walt Disney in a movie, I just didn't know that it would be this one. Saving Mr. Banks tells the story of how Mary Poppins made the journey from book to the big screen. I am super psyched for this movie. I adore Tom Hanks. Emma Thompson playing P.L. Travers, the author of the Mary Poppins books, has me all kinds of giddy. Emma is one of my favorite actresses. I even have a bunny named Beatrice, after her character in Much Ado about Nothing. This movie also intrigues me as we get to see the conflict between an author not wanting to see her beloved book made into a movie. As a librarian I always worry when a favorite book of mine is made into a movie. Because the books are 9 times out of 10 always better than the movie (and this comes from an avid movie goer).
The trailer does make me think that this will be a tear jerker. While I normally boycott films that make me cry (a believe me, the older I get, the easier I cry), I will pack my box of Kleenex and go.
So I shall be saving up my pennies because come Christmas time, I will be seeing Saving Mr. Banks
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