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1. #TARGET CHIMNEY SWEEP HAT MARY POPPINS MOVIE#
2. #TARGET CHIMNEY SWEEP HAT MARY POPPINS UPDATE#
3. #TARGET CHIMNEY SWEEP HAT MARY POPPINS SKIN#

We all know Bert as the lovable chimney sweep who helps Mary Poppins bring a world of wonder and magic to the Banks family. The film is currently nominated for several Academy Awards including a Best Original Song nomination for "The Place Where Lost Things Go.Like somethin’ is brewin’ and ’bout to begin.Ĭan’t put me finger on what lies in store,īut I feel what’s to happen all happened before. Whatever your take on the situation (and you can check out some of the social media debate below) Mary Poppins Returns has been quite successful and not just at the box office. The piece has sparked quite a debate online about the subject with many people homing in on the chimney sweep scene, arguing that it's not racist at all. However, not everyone quite sees it that way. Instead, the context simply sheds a light on the troubling elements of the source material as well as what he notes is a larger issue of Disney reaching into racist tropes as a source of entertainment. Pollack-Pelzner's piece brings up quite a few interesting points and he also makes it clear that these issues aren't an indictment of the films. That same macaw ultimately appears in Mary Poppins Returns as a wealthy widow named "Hyacinth Macaw" who is naked save for "two feathers and a leaf" - a description strangely similar to how the woman in the original book was described.

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The scene was so problematic that the San Francisco Public Library banned the book, an act that in turn prompted Travers to update the scene, changing the dialogue and turning the offensive characters into an animal, specifically a hyacinth macaw. The book uses an offensive term - "pickaninny" - to describe the child as well has the black woman speak in minstrel dialect. In it, the children encounter a scantily clad black woman with a naked child. He specifically refers to a scene from the first "Mary Poppins" novel published in 1934. Pollack-Pelzner goes on to note that the Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda starring film itself flirts with the troubling issues of race from the source material. Mary Poppins Returns isn't immune from the criticism, either.

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In the 1943 novel "Mary Poppins Opens the Door", a maid screams "Don't touch me, you black heathen," while later, when the chimney sweep approaches the cook, the maid threatens to quit, exclaiming "If that Hottentot goes into the chimney, I shall go out the door." For context as to why that is so problematic, the term "Hottentot" is an archaic slur used to describe black South Africans - and it's a term used in the Disney movie as well.

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According to Pollack-Pelzner, Travers' books make some troubling associations between the blackened skin of chimney sweeps and racist stereotypes. The scene by itself may not be problematic, but its roots are. Then she leads the children on a dancing exploration of London rooftops with Dick Van Dyke's sooty chimney sweep, Bert." "When the magical nanny accompanies her young charges, Michael and Jane Banks, up their chimney, her face gets covered in soot, but instead of wiping it off, she gamely powders her nose and cheeks even blacker. "One of the more indelible images from the 1964 film is of Mary Poppins blacking up," Pollack-Pelzner writes.

Pollack-Pelzner specifically cites one of the 1964 film's more memorably scenes - the one in which Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews) is seen "blacking up" her face with soot while dancing with chimney sweeps. In an op-ed from The New York Times, Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, an English professor at Linfield College, argues that the story has some troubling, racist tones that, while originate in the original books written by Travers, permeate into the films.