re: discussion of Saving Mr. Banks: EXACTLY. I didn't know a lot about her until after I had seen the movie, but I did some research later and it made me sad for the exact reasons you said. One article said this film was supposed to be "an apology" to her for misunderstandings in the creation of Mary Poppins, but this film really didn't apologize at all. It just made her seem like an overdramatic whackjob; the backstory with her father didn't humanize her enough to balance the character out imho
Yeah, it just portrayed her as this nuisance who was ~~~too emotional~~~ to give up her life's work to a corporation like that was the right thing to do. That was HER series, if she spent TWENTY YEARS saying no, she's clearly attached to it and DOES NOT WANT YOU MESSING WITH IT. But everyone's going to get touchy and pissed when she finally says yes but wants some control over her own work?? Idk man. Also irl Disney was shady as fuck with what they did give her control of (she only had script approval, but not editing approval, so even though they didn't overtly keep animation in the script, once she wrote off on it they could edit it however they liked, so they just put the animation in once she approved the script).
She was certainly no angel of a woman but just, ugh. Sick of narratives about whiny men who are supposed to deserve what they want because they ~fight for it~ and ~care about it.~ This was just as annoying as movies where the male doesn't leave the female alone because he's ~in love with her~ and that's supposed to be romantic instead of creepy, bothersome, and disrespectful. But if a woman does it, we get "He's Just Not That Into You" and shit like that. Only men are allowed to want things and that's supposed to make them noble. Idk man, I have my own affection for Walt, but I certainly don't think he was a saint.
