Walt and Travers fought for several more years over the movie. Finally, Disney was frustrated and made the movie the way he wanted to. Walt hired the timeless Sherman Brothers to write songs for the movie and to everyones delight, they suggested the same places in the book for songs. Songs that are still ready available to whistle in most peoples minds.
The film was made and Travers never stopped complaining about what a horrible movie Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins turned out to be. Her lack of vision would have tied the movie up until the end of time, but Walt knew exactly what he wanted and, to his credit, the film received 13 Academy Award nominations and 5 wins.
Mary Poppins is an enduring classic that is probably in most of your homes. I think we can all agree that Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins was enchanting, where as a the Travers Mary Poppins, who breaks off her fingers and turns them to gingerbread to feed the children, would probably have been a little too… what’s the word…supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
The point is, that it is important to know what you want to accomplish and how you want to go about doing it. There is no use in buying a road map, if you don’t know where you want to end up.
