Comments on: Disney’s Mary Poppins: Practically Subversive to Modern Audiences http://www.anwyn.com/2008/04/28/disneys-mary-poppins-practically-subversive-to-modern-audiences/ Sometime editor, all-the-time mother, delivering facts, reviews, commentary, and rants. Occasionally in that order. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:46:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: nk http://www.anwyn.com/2008/04/28/disneys-mary-poppins-practically-subversive-to-modern-audiences/#comment-315041 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:25:39 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2008/04/28/disneys-mary-poppins-practically-subversive-to-modern-audiences/#comment-315041 I thought it was more anti-bourgeois. Which is neither anti-capitalist nor anti-middle class. Simply against a certain kind of thinking. Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang was even more so. But that's not what bugs me. Just exactly what were Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke? Minor gods? Siddhe? Sprites? Fairies? Leprechauns? Angels? Saints? I thought it was more anti-bourgeois. Which is neither anti-capitalist nor anti-middle class. Simply against a certain kind of thinking. Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang was even more so.

But that’s not what bugs me. Just exactly what were Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke? Minor gods? Siddhe? Sprites? Fairies? Leprechauns? Angels? Saints?

]]> by: Anwyn http://www.anwyn.com/2008/04/28/disneys-mary-poppins-practically-subversive-to-modern-audiences/#comment-314224 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:53:09 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2008/04/28/disneys-mary-poppins-practically-subversive-to-modern-audiences/#comment-314224 Oh! Gotcha, sorry, I am brain-dead lately. I thought I might have written gibberish. :) I see what you mean--on the surface it definitely seems anti-cap--Bank Bad, Bank Men Boogeymen, etc., but I kept being struck by how once the Bank Men had learned their lesson the bank still needed to run. Of course I could be making more out of it than there is, but I liked that it came full-circle and he went on earning his living at what he was obviously good at. Oh! Gotcha, sorry, I am brain-dead lately. I thought I might have written gibberish. :) I see what you mean–on the surface it definitely seems anti-cap–Bank Bad, Bank Men Boogeymen, etc., but I kept being struck by how once the Bank Men had learned their lesson the bank still needed to run. Of course I could be making more out of it than there is, but I liked that it came full-circle and he went on earning his living at what he was obviously good at.

]]> by: Petitedov http://www.anwyn.com/2008/04/28/disneys-mary-poppins-practically-subversive-to-modern-audiences/#comment-314220 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:50:22 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2008/04/28/disneys-mary-poppins-practically-subversive-to-modern-audiences/#comment-314220 I know you wrote in your post that it is pro-capitalist (I got that - score 1 for reading comprehension). What i meant was that in looking back, the way I remember the movie, it would seem anti-capitalist (hence the surface part) that's why I liked your analysis. It was my bad writing that lead to the misunderstanding, not your good writing. :) I know you wrote in your post that it is pro-capitalist (I got that - score 1 for reading comprehension). What i meant was that in looking back, the way I remember the movie, it would seem anti-capitalist (hence the surface part) that’s why I liked your analysis. It was my bad writing that lead to the misunderstanding, not your good writing. :)

]]> by: Anwyn http://www.anwyn.com/2008/04/28/disneys-mary-poppins-practically-subversive-to-modern-audiences/#comment-313667 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:16:22 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2008/04/28/disneys-mary-poppins-practically-subversive-to-modern-audiences/#comment-313667 No, I meant the movie was *pro*-capitalist and therefore would be upsetting to anti-capitalists. :) No, I meant the movie was *pro*-capitalist and therefore would be upsetting to anti-capitalists. :)

]]> by: Petitedov http://www.anwyn.com/2008/04/28/disneys-mary-poppins-practically-subversive-to-modern-audiences/#comment-313663 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:15:19 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2008/04/28/disneys-mary-poppins-practically-subversive-to-modern-audiences/#comment-313663 I like going back to old children movies (Mary Poppins is one of my favorites) and seeing things I never thought of as a kid about. I guess on the surface it can be looked at as anti-capitalist. I might have to go and re-watch and I don't even have child as an excuse to do so. I believe the Mary Poppins of today would look very different. :) I like going back to old children movies (Mary Poppins is one of my favorites) and seeing things I never thought of as a kid about. I guess on the surface it can be looked at as anti-capitalist. I might have to go and re-watch and I don’t even have child as an excuse to do so. I believe the Mary Poppins of today would look very different. :)

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