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Lovely work by Newman. Been listening to a lot of action/adventure/sc-fi/fantasy lately, and this is a breath of fresh air.
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When did you stop with the star ratings?
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I usually look at the rating first, then read the review, that's all. Oh well!
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Forgive the digression, but this IS about "Saving Mr. Banks," and Emma Thompson plays an important role in that film. Anybody see her this week on "KATIE"? Delightful, and Emma looked younger than she did in films like "Howard's End" and "The Remains of the Day" -- she must have this very old-looking portrait of herself in one of her closets! I recommend (sorry for the redundancy, since I've mentioned this before) the audio commentary for "Remains," where she giggles her way through much of it and has trouble controlling herself when she comments on the way that Anthony Hopkins jutted out his jaw for his character! Just love her.
And I also love Thomas Newman and want to sample once again his music for this, since I plan to buy it -- if I can find just the single disc with the Newman music and NOT the others, most of which I already have.
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Forgive the digression, but this IS about "Saving Mr. Banks," and Emma Thompson plays an important role in that film. Anybody see her this week on "KATIE"? Delightful, and Emma looked younger than she did in films like "Howard's End" and "The Remains of the Day" -- she must have this very old-looking portrait of herself in one of her closets!
The performer best suited to play Travers as she really looked is sadly no longer with us:
Hugh Griffith (1912-1980)
But Thompson IS believable as a Mary Poppins type (she even explored this territory onscreen a little bit as "Nanny McPhee.") The dramatic/literary device of having Travers physically and temperamentally resemble her most famous character is actually very clever, IMHO. It's a jolly holiday with Emma.
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Sigerson Holmes:
Funny that you used that picture of Hugh Griffith (very funny!). I was recently watching him in the Charlton Heston version of "Ben-Hur," plus I have him as Caliban in an audio recording of Shakespeare's "The Tempest," which I had long had in an LP boxed set, until I found it on CD. Loved him.
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Griffith steals every scene he's in, in BH. The line that got the biggest laugh, when I was lucky enough to see it on the BIG screen at the Ziegfeld in NY a few years ago was his "Bravely spoken," near the beginning of the second act.
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