Travers on the next flight to London and knocks on her door, he not only knows who she is but that her father’s name was Travers Goff and that she has taken his first name as her last name – and he has discerned that Travers Goff is Mr. Disney says what I found to be the crucial negotiator’s insight line: “Have I been talking to the wrong person?” By the time he follows Mrs. Disney is told that she is not English but Australian and that her family name is Goff. Travers storms off back to England, a key negotiating insight occurs. So, essentially, the entire film is about a negotiation.Īt the end of the trip, when Mrs. She said she did not want her beloved umbrella-toting character Disneyfied. Travers, as she insisted on being called, would have none of it. He launched a two-week charm offensive with the help of talented songwriters. When she found herself in need of money, she accepted a trip to Los Angeles to allow him to try to convince her. Disney’s chirpy importuning for twenty years. Travers (played by a dour Emma Thompson), resisted Mr. Disney, it seems, had promised his daughters he would make the movie, but the author, P.L. It is the 2013 behind-the-scene story of Walt Disney’s effort to get the rights to make a movie of the beloved children’s book, Mary Poppins. Enjoying a guilty pleasure over this July 4 th weekend, I watched a Netflix-delivered DVD of Saving Mr.
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