Insulting: Sir Davis and Lady Thatcher as played by Jim Boradbent and Meryl Streep
Iron lady: Meryl Streep plays the former Prime Minister in the new movie
Dignified: Lady Thatcher at No 10 in June last year with Prime Minister David Cameron
Posted on 08/20/2011 9:42:37 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Friends of Margaret Thatcher last night expressed their revulsion at a new film that shows her having nightmares about the miners’ strike and the Falklands War, while her late husband Denis appears as a ghost in a pink turban raging at her -‘insufferable’ selfishness.
Viewers invited to an early screening of the film, The Iron Lady, starring Meryl Streep as the former Prime Minister and Jim Broadbent as Sir Denis, were aghast at the way that it mocks her frail condition in recent years.
One called it ‘insulting’. Another said: ‘I didn’t come here to see a film about granny going mad.’
One person who attended the event, organised by Anglo-French film-makers Pathe to test audience reaction, has given a detailed account to The Mail on Sunday.
In the film, Lady Thatcher constantly hallucinates, under the impression that her husband, who died in 2003, is still alive.
Pathe says the story is about ‘power and the price that is paid for power’ and claims her health is ‘treated with sensitivity’. It concedes the film is fiction but says it is ‘fair and accurate’.
Made by Mamma Mia! director Phyllida Lloyd, The Iron Lady is based on a script by UK screenwriter Abi Morgan, whose television drama credits include The Hour and Sex Traffic.
Friends of Lady Thatcher are also furious at the timing of the film, which is due to be released in January. The former Prime Minister has been forced to give up ¬public appearances following a series of strokes and is so poorly she was unable to attend the unveiling of a statue of her political ally Ronald Reagan in London last month.
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Meryl Streep jumped the shark when she wailed before Congress about Alar on apples or some such.
And she’s getting old (exactly my age) and tiresome. Probably will wind up like Joan Crawford, playing ingenues in her seventies.
Anyway, Lady Thatcher is just that, a great lady. Didn’t know she was widowed in 2003. I know what that’s like. But I’ll just bet that her mind is still sharp which is a tragedy in itself, watching your physical self in decline. And whoever said that Mrs. Thatcher still makes the lefties foam with rage is spot on. She made monkeys out of them when she was British PM.
When I heard it was being made, I was interested in perhaps seeing it (I rarely go to or even watch movies). Not now.
Fake, but accurate? Sounds familiar.
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