Let’s break down Cousin Avi’s stereotypes, the first being the bad food. There is only one reference to anything edible in the movie, and funny enough, it plays a very important role. Milk. One scene in the movie is Turkish drinking a pint of milk and choking on it when Tommy accelerates. Tommy mistakenly interprets his choking to be caused by the drink and not his driving; and proceeds to explain to Turkish that he shouldn’t be drinking milk since cows have only been domesticated the past few hundreds of years, “the human digestive system hasn’t got used to processing dairy.” So he does Turkish a “favor” by throwing his bad milk out the window, causing an accident that involves all the other characters in the story to interact with each other.
Let’s move on to the weather. When Cousin Avi lands in London, he expresses his extreme distaste for being there. He only likes traveling to places with “warm sandy beaches and little umbrellas”, and when Cousin Doug meekly informs him that London has “sandy beaches”; Avi is explicit in not being interested in settling for the cold shores. London’s notorious gloomy weather is portrayed as most outdoor scenes in the film show gray cloudy skies, and lots of puddles. Turkish and Tommy even have to fashion themselves “special shoes” of trash bag covers when traveling out to a field to meet with Mickey. The lack of sunshine only enhances the bleak outcomes of the characters existence. Since most of them will end up dead, or arrested, the dark gray scenes are good for setting an unhappy tone.
And Mary Poppins, well- let’s just leave it at her being a fictional cinematic character that portrays London’s proprieties and epitomizes it’s old fashioned mannerisms of the British that is expected around the world. She does however; provide a splayed contrast to most every character since nobody has any manners, propriety, or morals! Showing a truer side of London’s culture.
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