Saving Mr. Banks Page #8

for generations to come,

George Banks will be honored.

George Banks will be redeemed.

George Banks and all he stands for

will be saved.

Now, maybe not in life,

but in imagination.

Because that's what we storytellers do.

We restore order with imagination.

We instill hope

again and again and again.

So, trust me, Mrs. Travers.

Let me prove it to you.

I give you my word.

Enough.

Just make those two changes

and I'm sure everything

will be just fine. Just fine.

Walt, could I get

your approval on that, please?

What is it?

Invitation list to the premiere.

Yeah? Is this everyone?

It's not everyone.

Now, there will be a premiere in London.

That will be more convenient for her.

Tommie, this wasn't

an easy decision for me,

but you know what she's like.

We got press, interviews, cameras.

I need to protect the picture.

OKEY-

Ah.

I should say so' too.

Mrs. Travers!

Mrs. Travers!

Will you stop screeching

like an alley cat!

And answer the door!

I'm very pleased to hear that, Pamela.

I should think you will

have a draft fairly soon.

Polly, where's that tea?

It's coming along marvelously.

Ah, ah, ah.

No peeking.

Aren't you going to pour it for us?

You're perfectly capable

of pouring it yourself.

She's quite the worst maid I've ever had.

- So why do you keep her'?

- I don't know.

She reminds me of me.

Do you have a title?

Mary Poppins in the Kitchen.

Wonderful.

So, should we start talking

about the film rights?

Never again.

OKEY-

Now, tell me, have "you got

your tiara for the premiere?

Oh, I'm not going to that.

Why not?

Hollywood premieres aren't

for an old trout like me.

Anyway, it's not convenient.

He hasn't invited you, has he?

Mary Poppins wouldn't stand for that.

Can I help you?

I'm perfectly capable, thank you.

As I recall.

Sweet of you.

- Walt... Um...

- Hello, Dolly!

Walt...

Tommie' we're gonna have

to move that meeting with GE.

What?

Mrs. Travers.

Me again!

How wonderful to see you.

I'm here for my premiere.

Great!

I didn't receive my invitation,

but I just assumed

the American postal service

had fallen down upon the job,

as per usual.

I will have a replacement

sent to your hotel right away.

You're very kind, Mr. Disney.

I knew you wouldn't have forgotten me.

Pamela.

How could I forget you?

- Good evening.

- Oh, hello.

Could you please order me a cab?

Absolutely.

Ralph?

I had a feeling a certain friend of mine

might be needing me tonight.

Oh.

Hey! Wow.

You look like a million bucks.

Thank you.

Let's get you to that ball. Huh? Come on.

Thank you, Ralph. Thank you.

Oh, no, no, no. I got that, brother.

This is your night.

None of this would be

possible without you.

And snap!

The job is a game.

And every task

you undertake

Becomes a piece of cake

A lark, a spree

It's very clear to see

Step in time, step in time

Step in time, step in time

Never need a reason

Never need a rhyme

Step in time

You step in time

Sometimes, a person we love,

through no fault of his own,

can't see past the end of his nose.

Past the end of his nose?

Well, now,

there must be some mistake.

Your dad is a fine gentleman,

and he loves you.

I don't think so.

You should have seen

the look on his face.

He doesn't like us at all.

Well, now,

that don't seem likely, does it?

Let's sit down.

You know, begging your pardon,

but the one my heart

goes out to is your father.

There he is in that cold,

heartless bank, day after day.

Hemmed in by mounds

of cold, heartless money.

I don't like to see

any living thing caged up.

Father in a cage?

They makes cages in

all sizes and shapes, you know.

Bank-shaped some of them,

carpets and all.

Mary Poppins,

you won't ever leave us, will you?

Whatever would we do without you?

I shall stay

until the wind changes.

It's all right. It's all

right, Mrs. Travers.

Mr. Banks is going

to be all right, I promise.

No, no. It's just...

I can't abide cartoons.

Mmm.

Oh, Oh, oh!

Let's go fly a kite

Up to the highest height

Let's go fly a kite

And send it soaring

Up through the atmosphere

Up where the air is clear

Oh, let's go...

Don't leave me.

Never.

I promise.

I will never leave you.

Wind's in the east,

mist coming in,

like something is brewing,

about to begin.

Can't put my finger

on what lies in store,

but I fee! what's to happen

all happened before.

Now, who's reading?

And go slowly.

DON" You start and I'll take over...

"Autumn. In the early part

"of the 20th century, 1910. London.

"At Number 17 Cherry Tree Lane,

"the Banks household is in an uproar. "

MRS TRAVERS' Hold if.

Now, I see that Cherry Tree Lane

as not too townified

on one side of the park.

And we'll get you a photograph

of 50 Smith Street,

in order to see that the house

is really quite like that.

But it has more of a garden

than my house had.

But it might be useful and amusing

to put it in as my house. You see?

Upstairs in the nursery,

where Mary is measuring up

the children

with a long row of tape measure,

Mary reads off the tape that Jane is... "

First she says,

"What kind of material

have we got to work with?"

No, no.

That, we cannot have.

That would be quite un-English.

Mrs. Travers, basically,

what we want to do here

is use pretty much

what you have in the book.

Yes, yes.

Now, I want this tape measure

to be used,

because it was a tape measure

that my mother had

- when she was a little girl.

Mmm-hmm.

And I think

it would be very nice.

DON" "At the end of the chorus... "

Read me ah' that, now.

We were going to.

Read it.

No, no. You read it.

Do you want to bear us?

No. Go on.

This is torture!

Now, go on.

"At the end of the chorus... "

There ought perhaps lo have

been people in this countryside.

Do you see? Are you making note of it?

And they would be the Pearly people.

They'd be arriving

and they'd come nearer

and they'd see, 'Ah. Hmm. "

They know they are

not grand enough to eat at this table.

- Have you got this on tape?

Yes. Oh, yes.

Because

I think it's important,

I'm not going to do this film

unless I'm available for it.

There are these tapes also,

you know.

No, it's not enough.

We, uh... We have

to feel the impact of it.

Yes, yes.

Well, anyway, it brings

about whatever it is,

Mr. Banks, um, is able.

He has a tender, good heart.

Not a change of heart.

Because he's always been sweet,

but worried with the cares of life.

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