(not pictured, almost 5yo who suddenly hates pictures)
as a little girl, i watched mary poppins over and over. we didn't have a great deal of movies to watch, back in the day when dvds still weren't a thing and hard drives hadn't even been thought of. but someone in our family had recorded mary poppins one night when it had been on television (ads and all) and i wore that video out!
i loved the music, the characters, the nursery, the admiral, the make believe and magic lands... but most of all mary poppins herself. (i've even dressed as her for two seperate halloween parties over the years i love her that much!) as far as i am concerned, julie andrews is the flipping queen of disney! it's a well known fact that she was hand picked by walt disney for the part and when she said she wasn't able to because she was pregnant, he said, "that's okay, we'll wait!" if that doesn't make you the queen of disney, then i don't know what does.
imagine my excitement when they released the teaser trailer and then trailer for mary poppins returns! i was hanging out to see it, and exactly a week after it was released, my mum took the kids and i to go and see it. so. flipping. happy! i loved every minute. emily blunt was perfection. her mannerisms, her singing, her accent (of course)... she was just ideal for the part. i'm just so glad she got to do it, because history repeated and she was pregnant when they chose her too!
*When Mary Poppins (1964) was being written, the lead role was offered to Julie Andrews by Walt Disney himself. Andrews told Disney that she was pregnant and couldn't do the movie. Disney wanted Andrews so much that he postponed the production in order to accommodate Andrews' pregnancy. When this movie was announced, the history repeated as Emily Blunt was also pregnant and the movie was postponed to accommodate her pregnancy.
i love to read the movie trivia for pretty much everything i watch, so i read on... only to have my idea of julie andrews being the queen of disney, cemented in place. she is so gracious!
*Julie Andrews turned down a proposed cameo appearance as the balloon lady, fearing that it would be too distracting. Julie said, "this is Emily's show, and I really want it to be Emily's show." Quite poetically, the balloon lady part went to Angela Lansbury, who had been considered for the role of 'Mary Poppins' in the original film before Julie Andrews was cast.
i also loooove this trivia. i loved bert so much in the original and it makes me insanely happy to know that dick van dyke has still got it at 93 years old!
*Dick Van Dyke was offered four options for his dance scene, each with a varying degree of difficulty. He insisted on performing the hardest dance routine and refused any help from fellow cast members while filming the scene.
i can't tell you just how much i loved the movie. i had read mixed reviews about the movie before going with the two major points being 1) that it's too long for children (not true, i have a 7 and almost 5yo and they were fine, other than fighting over who got to hold their baby brother for half of the movie) and 2) that it's a terrible remake. um, what? it's not a remake... i think it's important you remember it's a new chapter and in no way a remake of the original. it's so worth seeing and i enjoyed every minute.
disney, you've done it again, walt would have loved it! ♥
(trivia points from imdb.com)
*Julie Andrews turned down a proposed cameo appearance as the balloon lady, fearing that it would be too distracting. Julie said, "this is Emily's show, and I really want it to be Emily's show." Quite poetically, the balloon lady part went to Angela Lansbury, who had been considered for the role of 'Mary Poppins' in the original film before Julie Andrews was cast.
i also loooove this trivia. i loved bert so much in the original and it makes me insanely happy to know that dick van dyke has still got it at 93 years old!
*Dick Van Dyke was offered four options for his dance scene, each with a varying degree of difficulty. He insisted on performing the hardest dance routine and refused any help from fellow cast members while filming the scene.
i can't tell you just how much i loved the movie. i had read mixed reviews about the movie before going with the two major points being 1) that it's too long for children (not true, i have a 7 and almost 5yo and they were fine, other than fighting over who got to hold their baby brother for half of the movie) and 2) that it's a terrible remake. um, what? it's not a remake... i think it's important you remember it's a new chapter and in no way a remake of the original. it's so worth seeing and i enjoyed every minute.
disney, you've done it again, walt would have loved it! ♥
(trivia points from imdb.com)
