[ SECRET POST #3004 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3004 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Mary Poppins]


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[Hoozuki no reitetsu]


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[Atonement]


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[Terry Pratchett and his daughter]


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Comments

[iceyred]

Did he say anything political in the movie? All I remember is him being kinda cranky and encouraging his kids to save their money.

[(Anonymous)]

Colonialism, empire, patriarchal family structure, etc.

[(Anonymous)]

It's been so long since I've seen it... I remember Mrs. Banks implying he was hostile to her involvement in women's suffrage.

[(Anonymous)]

He was anti-suffragettism IIRC. At very least by implication.

[(Anonymous)]

He's kind of ... very much a turn-of-the-century Englishman, with all the mild colonialism, sexism, disiplinarianism, etc, that that implies:

Mr Banks: "I'm the lord of my castle, the sovereign, the liege.
I treat my subjects, servants, children, wife
With a firm but gentle hand. Noblesse oblige."

Mr Banks: "A British bank is run with precision. A British home requires nothing less! Tradition, discipline, and rules must be the tools! Without them: disorder, catastrophe! Anarchy! In short, you have a ghastly mess!"

Mr Banks: "You see Michael, you'll be part of railways through Africa, dams across the Nile, fleets of ocean greyhounds, majestic, self-amoritising canals, plantations of ripening tea ..."

Mr Banks: "Yes, sir. Yes, I think I do. As the ship lay anchored in Boston Harbor, a party of the colonists dressed as red Indians boarded the vessel, behaved very rudely, and threw all the tea overboard. This made the tea unsuitable for drinking. Even for Americans. "

To be fair to him, a lot of it is very visibly what he's been taught to think, and when he's pushed to think for himself he often comes to different conclusions. He's also usually quite kind, tolerates things like one of his servants so regularly breaking things that mornings where she doesn't are quite remarkable, and clearly had a lot of his own dreams and passions ground out of him over the years.

He's very much a man of his time, politically, but on a personal level he also seems to be a pretty nice man who loves his family and is willing to do a lot of work for them.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, all of this exactly... Thank you, kind anon!

The movie is really the story of his transformation... could say redemption but that's hyperbole. But Mary Poppins is a kind of trickster figure, who disrupts his life but brings magic into it, and opens up his eyes to things he was missing (his children, flying kites, fun etc).

Re: OP

[intrigueing]

This and the anon you're replying to are EXACTLY right and that's totally why I love him and this movie so much <3

[loracarol]

To be fair to him, a lot of it is very visibly what he's been taught to think, and when he's pushed to think for himself he often comes to different conclusions [...] and clearly had a lot of his own dreams and passions ground out of him over the years.

He's very much a man of his time, politically, but on a personal level he also seems to be a pretty nice man who loves his family and is willing to do a lot of work for them.

This is part of why I love the musical so much, it really goes further into his character, and fleshes out his personality. Don't get me wrong- I love the movie version as well! But I really do like what the musical does, especially in the song Good For Nothing

[(Anonymous)]

As the ship lay anchored in Boston Harbor, a party of the colonists dressed as red Indians boarded the vessel, behaved very rudely, and threw all the tea overboard. This made the tea unsuitable for drinking. Even for Americans.

Oh come on, that part's gold.