Wow. Just, wow. This completely blew my mind. I've never seen Mary Poppins and yet you can see how obviously it not only apparently influenced Todd, but was almost like a founding document to his film making sensibilities.
There's a well known phenomenon known as "imprinting", where a baby duck will "imprint" on whatever it first sees once it hatches. If it's something other than its mother, it will follow that being around, as if it was its mother, even if it's not. I think baby ducks have imprinted on family pet dogs, for example. This almost sounds like what Todd went thru with MP. It left a deep imprint on him at a very early age, and he maybe doesn't even necessarily realize he's paying tributes to it in his own film.
(Okay, given the many obvious similarities here, he must be consciously doing it, but still. It's a cool thought.)
Anyway, thank you for putting this together. It is like the crowning jewel to this whole incredible journal.
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There's a well known phenomenon known as "imprinting", where a baby duck will "imprint" on whatever it first sees once it hatches. If it's something other than its mother, it will follow that being around, as if it was its mother, even if it's not. I think baby ducks have imprinted on family pet dogs, for example. This almost sounds like what Todd went thru with MP. It left a deep imprint on him at a very early age, and he maybe doesn't even necessarily realize he's paying tributes to it in his own film.
(Okay, given the many obvious similarities here, he must be consciously doing it, but still. It's a cool thought.)
Anyway, thank you for putting this together. It is like the crowning jewel to this whole incredible journal.