Posted on 07/17/2010 7:55:21 AM PDT by originalbuckeye
Although the prospect of Meryl Streep playing Margaret Thatcher may have pleased some admirers of the Conservative former prime minister, her children have been horrified to discover more about the film. Mandrake hears that the screenplay of The Iron Lady depicts Baroness Thatcher as an elderly dementia-sufferer looking back on her career with sadness. She is shown talking to herself and unaware that her husband, Sir Denis Thatcher, has died. Fiennes family home for sale“Sir Mark and Carol are appalled at what they have learnt about the film,” says a friend of the family. “They think it sounds like some Left-wing fantasy. They feel strongly about it, but will not speak publicly for fear of giving it more publicity." Cameron McCracken, the managing director of the film-maker Pathé, confirms: "It is true that the film is set in the recent past and that Baroness Thatcher does look back on both the triumphs and the lows of her extraordinary career. "It is a film about power and the price that is paid for power. In that sense, it is the story of every person who has ever had to balance their private life with their public career." He says Lady Thatcher's health will be featured, but insists that it will be “treated with appropriate sensitivity”. He adds of the film: “Although fictional, it will be fair and accurate.”
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Your point is a correct one but I will twist it to make another.
They are FOR total control so they won't have to fool with tearing down the opposition, as feeble as it might be. They will just do as they please.
Yeah, accurate is not fictional! yikes!
Good for you. Glad to hear there’s some smart ones out there.
Film idea. How about an 80-year-old obama, sitting in a chair in a cheap room in Chicago with his gay partner, looking back on his term as prez?
He could one by one lament all the choices he made because they all turned out terribly for the people. But then he would smile and say, “But that’s what I wanted!”
The film would end when muzzlems come in the room and behead him since they think he is a Christian.
Eh, I had good reading material. My views have changed quite a bit since I was 18, what pissed me off is how much I had been lied to which I discovered in my first year of university.
Optimist!
it’s follow where they think the money will go. It is strange how such good movies are DONE & just can’t get distributors.. (and I am sure there are losers also)
I think this years cinema has been fun. I didn’t see your last work. I will try to find it. Thanks for headsup
‘Cept Julia Child and hubby were leftists. Hence the “sensitive” portrayal. The character of Julie is a moonbat lib blogger, btw.
They have sunk an awful lot of money into anti-US Iraq War films that no one has gone to see. It’s not just money; it is also ideology.
My last movie was a knockabout comedy with Larry the Cable Guy called Witless Protection. The Fixer is my film about the underbelly of Chicago politics. Jon Voight is in that one.
would you FR Mail me your name so I can follow you on IMDb?
I LOVE the title Witless Protection (sounds like our gov’t doesn’t it?)
Very cool. I see that you cast Yaphet Kotto as Alonzo Moseley! Brilliant. Midnight Run is one of my favorite movies! (Plus he accepted my FB friend request.)
Gary Graham, Andy Garcia and Luke Wilson are all “out” conservatives.
I have seen it (actually have a copy). No true basis for comparing the two, in my opinion. Was it as "good" as "The Passion"? Depends, as they were two different movies, with two disparate main thrusts.
One has to recognize that fact, before one views "Apocalypto", or get drawn into a false dichotomy. The two movies aren't really related to one another, except in one aspect, that they were done in obscure languages, tackling subjects that Hollywood lacks the courage to to tackle, although the subjects themselves were completely different...
the infowarrior
Phyllida Lloyd....noted Brit lesbican makes anti-Thatcher crap film
and financed by French subsidized film company Pathe?
fcuk them....bastards
two very different movies
Apocalypto was magnificent
man, those boards are definitely the place to go slay dragons...I think I have maybe one pal there
incredibly foolish youngsters there who are drunk on PC koolaid about every topic
hipsters
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John Adams on HBO was highly acclaimed by just about everyone. What didn’t you like?
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