How Fathers Were DESTROYED By The Most Popular Family Movie Of All TimeLots of movies, tv shows, and commercials are anti-fathers. This is an interesting take on an old movie.People often think of the 1960s as the Walt Disney Company’s family-friendly golden age. Anyone who thinks that couldn’t be more wrong.
This is the story of how Mary Poppins screenwashed American children into joining an ideology their parents had already rejected, and in the process created the disasters of the modern world.
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Mary Poppins Propaganda
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
Roger,
Having recently watched both Mary Poppins, and Saving Mr. Banks (which was about the process in which Mary Poppins became a film) you should be made of a few things:
1.) The author of the story P.L.Travers very much missed her own father who died quite young due to consumption (and his attempts at treating his deterioration and pain with alcohol). Mrs. Travers was terribly upset about how the original movie script depicted Mr. Banks as uncaring and aloof, and demanded the character be changed, and provided a way to redemption with his children...that says a lot right there.
2.) The mother of the children in the film was obsessed with her own personal politics of women's suffrage instead of taking care of her own children, and was for all intents and purposes absent. Mrs. Banks made it very clear SHE would not be the one to raise her children, thus the various Nannies that had been hired then quickly quit when confronted with the very troubled children. There is no HELL like a child who knows it has been abandoned by their own parents.
3.)Mary Poppins defends the father Mr. Banks to the children repetively, explaining he is WORKING very hard to keep a roof over the heads and keep them safe and comfortable, and notes that their father shoulders his burden stoically without complaint, shielding his family from his woes while having no one he in turn can rely on. Mr. Banks is depicted as quite alone in his struggles while the wife flits about with her social life and activism. Towards the end of the film, Mr. Banks has a near mental breakdown, and only when laughter is his only relief from misery, does the magic of being able to laugh in the face of overwhelming absurdity turn things around with his employer.
4.) In the end, it is Mr. Banks who takes his children out to fly a kite, and reconnect with his children, not Mrs. Banks. The wife actually seems to think her husband quite mad at first, and merely goes along with things as the husband explains his reordered priorities. The movie makes it quite clear the children were actually more fond of and more concerned about their father than their mother...which is quite telling considering the era the film was made and the fact the author was a woman.
Post a Comment