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** Bert is [[Santa Claus]]?

* Inspired by the play: Bert is a guardian angel tasked with watching over the section/streets of London the Banks live in. The other chimney sweepers are guardian angels from other areas of London. It explains his status as [[The Narrator]] - it's because he's omniscient.

* I've always thought this to be the case. Thanks for providing many interesting and equally plausible variants!

 

 

== The woman who feeds the pigeons is Mary's mentally ill mother. ==

 

She knows of her because they are related.

** Or she has no powers, she became disillusioned when Mary left her after somehow becoming magical to help kids all over the world.

** Or she traded whatever powers she may have had, as well as reducing her life to that of a poor birdseed-seller, in order to secure incredible magical power for her daughter. Mary is indebted to her, but cannot help her because of the contract.

It's implied that she can communicate with the pigeons, or at least believes she can. Mary can communicate with them as well.

 

 

* This seems very logical to me. The fact she vanished from the cathedral steps would be because her lesson had been taught to the children (and, if she did set off the run on the bank, had made her point to Mr. Banks) so she was no longer needed and went back to the future. The fact this made it ''seem'' she had died so as to emotionally affect Mr. Banks was just the icing on the cake.

* First, the absence of the Bird Woman is enough to give him pause, then enough to divert his attention entirely. He's taken this route many times before, so he's familiar with every step of the route. Now, in the dead of night, there's nothing to distract him from the imminent meeting he's about to have with the board of the directors. It takes this particular absence to distract him.

* As the camera switches to the empty steps, the background music swells to the same level as it was in Mary's song earlier, giving this particular moment more poignancy.

* Banks stops and looks up into the air - is he looking at the cathedral itself? Or is he looking for the absent birds?

* What seals this for me is Banks's expressions. Up until now, his emotions almost project a sense of annoyance at this absence in his walk; as he brings his head down from looking skyward, however, he very visibly pauses, and this is the point where he starts to become forlorn. He looks again at the former seat of the Bird Woman, and has to hesitate before turning away. Tomlinson acts this scene superbly well, and it seems clear to me that Banks has realized that the Bird Woman has died. This plays well into the film's moral of "Always cherish your time with your children, because you never know when they - or you - will be gone."

== Mary Poppins is a God trapped in a human body. ==

No amount of witchcraft could produce an entire universe made from a chalk drawing. Clearly, Mary is a deity.

 

== Mary Poppins did not exist before the events of the movie, and was created ''Hogfather''-style, by the children. ==

 

== Mary Poppins is the mother of Maria Von Trapp. ==

 

== In the books, Mary Poppins is [[H.P. Lovecraft|Nyarlathotep]] ==

 

== Mary Poppins is on the same wavelength as Willy Wonka, and possibly his mother. ==

 

== Mary Poppins worked for Hogwarts ==

** It's Michael, and not only would he harness it to create antigravity, but he would also be employed by Sony, where he would eventually combine the upward force of laughter with the downward force of sadness to create the [[PlayStation 2|Emotion Engine]].

 

 

Through the movie, a lot of screen time is devoted to Mary Poppin's feet. Fetish Feul or not, her feet are always pointed in opposite directions...just like the Wicked Witch of the East.

Rum punch anyone? Mary never takes the children on any adventures unless you count the ones down to the local gin shop or liquour palace. The trips into the street drawing and tea on the ceiling with Uncle Albert are booze induced fantasies. The time she spends surrounded by dancing chimney-sweeps is symbolic for what is really going on (something that can't be shown in a children's film).

 

 

His condition is similar to [[wikipedia:Foreign accent syndrome|foreign accent syndrome]], but is milder, and was caused by moderate [[Abusive Parents|parental abuse]] rather than head trauma. He tells us all about this in "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious":

 

== Bert and Mary Poppins are siblings ==

* Relating to the above WMG, siblings would explain Bert being as magical as Mary, and they could easily be the children of Mr Dawes, Jr as well as the bird woman, who might've been left by her husband when she began showing signs of mental illness. Additionally, Mr Dawes was probably a father very much in the style of George Banks, who disinherited his free-spirited son, Bert, but continued to raise his younger daughter Mary into a proper Edwardian lady. Bert, however, remained in the area to remain a good brother to the sister he loved very much.

* Finally, when during 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' Bert mentions he learned the word that saved his nose from his nose-tweaking father--he learned it from Mary! (She may have even invented it just to help Bert when he struggled with speech.)

 

== Mary, Bert, Nanny McPhee, and others are a part of a race whose purpose is to help children (and others while they're at it) learn something. ==

 

== Mary, Bert, and possibly other characters are Anthropomorphic Personifications. ==

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