History YMMV / SavingMrBanks

* BrokenBase: Between those who think it's a great story and those upset with the changes to history, especially [[spoiler:the implication, intentional or not, of Travers approving of the film after seeing it, when she really went to her grave despising it.]] Given that the film was produced by Disney, one can get the impression that they're giving themselves a HistoricalHeroUpgrade. Though the creative team has also said they were quite surprised at how much leeway they were given to depict Walt's flaws. However they did leave out his more darker aspects. As his grand neice pointed out Disney was racist, anti-semitic and misogynistic.

* BrokenBase: Between those who think it's a great story and those upset with the changes to history, especially [[spoiler:the implication, intentional or not, of Travers approving of the film after seeing it, when she really went to her grave despising it.]] Given that the film was produced by Disney, one can get the impression that they're giving themselves a HistoricalHeroUpgrade. Though the creative team has also said they were quite surprised at how much leeway they were given to depict Walt's flaws.

** Though not enough leeway for Meryl Streep, who blasted the film for glorifying a racist, sexist, anti-Semite. And then Disney's own grandniece supported the accusation!
** Except Walt was ''not'' a racist, sexist, or anti-Semite, as African-American animator Floyd Norman, and many female artists, as well as Jewish animators who knew Walt in real life, have claimed.

* AwardSnub: Emma Thompson was widely expected to get an AcademyAward nomination for Best Actress for role, but she didn't.

* AwardSnub: Emma Thompson didn't get an AcademyAward nomination for Best Actress in this role.

** Actually acknowledged in interviews [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbA_5KRiLAk&feature=youtube_gdata by the man himself]]. Tom is not trying to do an imitation of Walt, recognizing that such an attempt would be DOA, rather capturing the ''essence'' of who he he was, how he interacted with his friends and co workers, portraying the wholly realistic human who was Creator/WaltDisney instead of trying to copy it.

* BrokenBase: Between those who think it's a great story and those upset with the changes to history, especially [[spoiler:Travers approving of the film after seeing it, when she really went to her grave despising it.]] Given that the film was produced by Disney, one get get the impression that they're giving themselves a HistoricalHeroUpgrade. Though the creative team has also said they were quite surprised at how much leeway they were given to depict Walt's flaws.

* UnfortunateImplications: Averted. When Walt asks his wife her opinion on Mrs. Travers as they are both female, she answers that she wouldn't know as women don't share a psychic bond. It's later Walt himself that steps into Mrs. Travers' mind to understand her motivations.

* {{Narm}}: Travers Gof's dead serious shouting of "SHE'S LAYING!" was this for some.
* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: Travers' mother's attempted suicide by calmly walking into a river and trying to drown herself.]]
* UnfortunateImplications: Averted. When Walt asks his wife her opinion on Mrs. Travers as they are both female, she answers that she wouldn't know as women don't share a psychic bond. It's later Walt himself that steps into Mrs. Travers mind to understand her motivations.
** Did Travers hold out on selling the story rights for so long out of artistic integrity...or "[[http://www.avclub.com/review/disney-celebrates-selling-outand-its-own-victories-200630 daddy issues]]", as TheAVClub puts it?

** Did Travers hold out on selling the story rights for so long out of artistic integrity...or "[[http://www.avclub.com/review/disney-celebrates-selling-outand-its-own-victories-200630 daddy issues]]", as the AVClub puts it?

* UnfortunateImplications: Averted. When Walt asks his wife her opinion on Mrs. Travers as they are both female, she answers that she wouldn't know as women don't share a psychic bond. It's later Walt himself that steps into Mrs. Travers mind to understand her motivations.

** "Mrs. Travers" herself gets a much greater HistoricalHeroUpgrade than Walt does -- it would've been impossible for DisneyCo to make a sympathetic character from the (demonstrably) AbusiveParent that she was in real life.

** "Mrs. Travers" herself gets a much greater HistoricalHeroUpgrade than Walt does -- it would've been impossible for DisneyCo to make a sympathetic character from the (apparently) AnythingThatMoves (demonstrably) AbusiveParent that she was in real life.

* BrokenBase: Between those who think it's a great story and those upset with the changes to history, especially [[spoiler:Travers approving of the film after seeing it, when she really went to her grave despising it.]] Given that the film was produced by Disney, one get get the impression that they're giving themselves a HistoricalHeroUpgrade.

* BrokenBase: Between those who think it's a great story and those upset with the changes to history, especially [[spoiler:Travers approving of the film after seeing it, when she really went to her grave despising it.]]

* NighmareFuel: [[spoiler: Travers' mother's attempted suicide by calmly walking into a river and trying to drown herself.]]

* WTHCastingAgency: TomHanks is a great actor. He seems to be a good fit for WaltDisney. But, then Hanks starts saying his lines, and his voice is seriously at odds with the real Disney who had a much deeper voice than that.
** Actually acknowledged in interviews [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbA_5KRiLAk&feature=youtube_gdata by the man himself]]. Tom is not trying to do an imitation of Walt, recognizing that such an attempt would be DOA, rather capturing the ''essence'' of who he he was, how he interacted with his friends and co workers, portraying the wholly realistic human who was WaltDisney instead of trying to copy it.

* WTHCastingAgency: TomHanks is a great actor. He seems to be a good fit for WaltDisney. But, then Hanks starts saying his lines, and his voice is seriously at odds with the real Disney who had a much deeper voice than that.