Speaking of which, a couple of weeks ago I re-watched Mary Poppins for the first time in years, and I had these crazy flashbacks of watching it with my dad. He was crazy about that movie, loved it to pieces, but every single time Mrs Banks ends her song about suffragettes by telling the maid to hide her ribbons because her husband doesn't like her cause, my dad would always hit pause, turn to me and tell me "that's wrong, her husband should always support her, and women's rights are very important".
Obviously when I was a kid I had no idea why it was so important to him, I would just nod and wait for the songs and the cartoon fox and the dancers on the rooftops. But now that I'm an adult, I can see why that scene (and the whole relationship between Mr and Mrs Banks) would bother my dad so much.
As the movie progresses I think it becomes clear that Mrs Banks is just humoring her husband, who's a weak person who needs to know he's in power, while he actually isn't. And by the end of the movie he grows up, and I think a good representation of that is the kite: the parts made by the kids, the newspaper that represents the dad, and the Votes for Women ribbon, for the mom. And the husband doesn't comment on the ribbon at all. So yep, there is a good message at the end, but holey moley I can see how difficult Disney made it for our parents. O_O
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Date: 2013-09-12 07:10 pm (UTC)Obviously when I was a kid I had no idea why it was so important to him, I would just nod and wait for the songs and the cartoon fox and the dancers on the rooftops. But now that I'm an adult, I can see why that scene (and the whole relationship between Mr and Mrs Banks) would bother my dad so much.
As the movie progresses I think it becomes clear that Mrs Banks is just humoring her husband, who's a weak person who needs to know he's in power, while he actually isn't. And by the end of the movie he grows up, and I think a good representation of that is the kite: the parts made by the kids, the newspaper that represents the dad, and the Votes for Women ribbon, for the mom. And the husband doesn't comment on the ribbon at all. So yep, there is a good message at the end, but holey moley I can see how difficult Disney made it for our parents. O_O