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Saving Mr. Banks
2013 · Film · 126 min
Directed by John Lee Hancock
Author P.L. Travers looks back on her childhood while reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.
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She basically ignored the wisdom of her own advice. A corollary of "don't blame the original author" is "it's not your story once the film company has the contract signed"
"Saving Mr Banks" is this for PL Travers and Mary Poppins.
Tolkien estate, Philip K Dick estate, CS Lewis estate....
I like "overcome your past," which is the life lesson I got from the 2013 movie "Saving Mr. Banks": “Don’t you want to finish the story? Let it all go and have a life that is not dictated by the past?”
From: https://moviewise.substack.com/p/are-you-making-the-best-of-it
A helpful way to deal with childhood trauma, I've found, is to take a wide perspective. The speech that Tom Hanks as Walt Disney, who was abused by his father, gives in the 2013 movie "Saving Mr. Banks" beautifully encapsulates this idea and eloquently delivers this advice: overcome your past. Here is the full speech: https://moviewise.wordpress.com/2015/05/27/saving-mr-banks/
Hollywood writers are glamorous? Hilarious. I've lived most of my life in SoCal and that's not really the general perception. Even movies about writers like Saving Mr. Banks don't depict it as a glamorous life, though Their Finest does a little bit.
Ultimately what drives screenwriters is their need to create. For those of us who do creative writing, be it for screen, dead tree, or compiler, there's this internal need for the work to make itself manifest. We're just the conduit for the story. That's why people put up with the conditions in the writers room, it's all for the story.