The other day, I live-tweeted Mary Poppins While I prepare the next 50 Shades Freed recap, you should watch Mary Poppins with me.
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You’ll have to click the link to actually see the tweets. Apparently, embedding content from other sites is one of those WordPress privileges you have to pay for, then jump through plug-in hoops to use.
Fire! Ice wraiths are evil and cold – kill them with fire! Flaming hands, flaming sword, flaming arrows. All work a treat.
I passed that on to D-Rock, because she’s the one having Ice Wraith trouble, LOL.
Playing Mary Poppins is a dream of mine. During my many years as a nanny, I would have KILLED for her superpowers and ability to turn parents’ hearts back to their kids! Your tweets cracked me up XD
Did you also drug the children? LOL
I didn’t drug the kids in America…though I WILL say that Benadryl is FDA approved. jk
I haven’t seen that movie in ages. And I am deeply curious about what Julie Andrews said to Dick Van Dyke when he showed up on set with that accent. I remember when he was on Craig Ferguson’s show that he blamed it on his dialect coach being (IIRC) Irish and not being able to do a Cockney accent himself.
What he should have done was popped over to the set of My Fair Lady and borrowed Audrey Hepburn’s dialect coach. That movie came out the same year.
I feel like Julie Andrews would be too polite to mention it. She should have mentioned it.
I’ve always been amused that Julie was turned down for the role of Eliza because the filmmaker didn’t think she had screen-presence even though she nailed the roll on Broadway. So she was cast by R&H in Mary Poppins and filming was delayed for her since she’d just had a baby. No screen presence? BAH! She’s amazing.
The dialect coach for Audrey Hepburn was a young linguist from Hong Kong, Tony Hung (he’s still there). He agreed not to be credited: it should be more widely known that the dialect coach was Cantonese!
Oh man I’ve been so wanting to read that series!
What, Mary Poppins? I haven’t ever read the books. I hear she’s pretty sinister in those.
Lmfao I guess I haven’t gotten the hang of my WordPress mobile app, that comment was supposed to go on the post before yours in my reader. ^_^’ It was about Diana Gabaldon… I totally didn’t know there were Mary Poppins books! :O Might have to check that out! 🙂
That’s putting it mildly. She’s outright abusive! If filmed as she was in the book, the movie probably would have flopped. The author, PL Travers, was absolutely furious and was such a pain she almost didn’t get invited to the premier, but did get invited and spent the ENTIRE movie crying and whining about how Mary was too sweet. Uh, Mary’s awesome, but she’s not a sweet doting nanny in the movie. Anyway Travers was so livid that she refused to let any more books be made into movies, which was planned by Disney.
Incidentally there is a movie coming out about this with Tom Hanks as Disney. I’m interested in seeing this. Disney can’t vilify her without angering fans, nor can they make Disney look bad. I wonder what they’ll do.
http://video.disney.com/watch/trailer-saving-mr-banks-4e130be70eb618c738ea079f
I lost it at “LOL, GTFO KATIE NANNA.”
That stuck-up twat.
I recently showed this movie to my four year old. She couldn’t sit through the whole thing. I forgot how long it was. It’s one of my favourite movies from when I was a kid, as well as The Sound of Music. Julie Andrews is practically perfect in every way.
Does it work? Can I comment from my mobile phone on WordPress?!
Yes!!!! It works!!!! I’m doing a happy dance right now. Blogger wouldn’t let me comment on your website. I hated it! HATED IT! I typed a comment, hit submit and it disappeared. Every. Single. Time!
I’m way too excited about this.
Blogger doesn’t support all browsers. I had to use Chrome since it doesn’t work well with Safari and didn’t know why for a long time. WordPress is better. 🙂
You live Tweeting all this stuff seriously makes ME want to live Tweet something. And I’m not even that into Twitter. I need to check out this storify thing and figure out how it works. Then I’ll live Tweet something.
Oh, this also gave me a ridiculously strong urge to watch Mary Poppins.
Daaamn, I haven’t watched Mary Poppins in years. I’ll have to see if it’s on Netflix now.
When my daughter was little she was obsessed with Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, we used to joke that she wanted Julie Andrews to be her nanny.
The Feed the Birds lady and probably Bert both spend some time in London Below.
I made my husband watch Mary Poppins about a year ago – he’d seen the animation bit several times before but never the rest of it.
I always loved the “posts, everyone!” sequences. It’s amazing what we’re capable of treating as normal
Yeah there are a few books in the series although I think I only read a couple. My mom would read them to me at bedtime, great read and then turn out the lights, yeah, thanks mom. I remember some pretty weird stuff in it. I should pick it up and read it again, I know my mom still has them.
One part MP takes the kids out at night and they glue in the sky the paper stars from gingerbread cookies they purchased earlier in the day. They just put a ladder up in the air and it stays. And when they bought the cookies the woman who owned the store broke off her fingers and they eat them like sugar lollypops or something like that. No wonder I had bad dreams. Everyone including my mom always forgot that my brothers were quite a bit older than me and I grew up watching Outer Limits and Twilight Zone way earlier than I probably should have. I was always scared. :O
I’ve never seen Mary Poppins before and reading those tweets completely out of context is fucking hilarious.
Great Fun! Could you do Chitty Chitty Bang Bang too?
“Dick Van Dyke in old man drag! I LIVE MY LIFE FOR THIS!”
He was messing around with some of the crew and improved this scene, complete with stumbling off a step. The director liked it so much that he had Dick do the role exactly as he did it with the crew. I love director commentaries.
“I love how this movie isn’t like, “What a bad mother for not spending time with her kids,” but “what a bad FATHER.””
Because Winifred if out trying to improve the world. In the books she just plain ignored her handful of children in the contemporary time. The era was changed so the director could have a sympathetic reason for her not spending scads of time with them. Even though she doesn’t we like her because she’s working to make the world better for her daughter.
This was my dad’s favorite movie. I must watch it now.
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