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Saving Mr. Banks

2013-12-16 17:27:01.171618+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Saving Mr. Banks Is a Corporate, Borderline-Sexist Spoonful of Lies.

Why does it matter that Saving Mr. Banks sabotages its supposed heroine? Because in a Hollywood where men still pen 85 percent of all films, there's something sour in a movie that roots against a woman who asserted her artistic control by asking to be a co-screenwriter. (Another battle she lost — Mary Poppins' opening credits list Travers as merely a "consultant.") Just as slimy is the sense that this film, made by a studio conglomerate in a Hollywood dominated by studio conglomerates, is tricking us into cheering for the corporation over the creator. ...

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