Posted on 11/15/2011 9:17:35 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The controversy surrounding the movie "The Iron Lady" starring Meryl Streep is continuing to build as details come out about how the filmmakers went about telling Margaret Thatcher's story.
In the opening scenes, a frail Lady Thatcher is seen shuffling into a corner shop to buy a pint of milk and expressing shock at 21st-century prices.
Back at her Belgravia home, her security team fret that she has left the house unsupervised.
Another scene shows her oblivious to the fact that her husband, Sir Denis, is dead. She imagines him to be in the room and conducts conversations with him, before revisiting her glory years in a series of flashbacks.
Former colleagues have distanced themselves from the film, which is scheduled for release on Jan 6 and is expected to garner a 17th Oscar nomination for Streep.
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The depiction of Lady Thatcher as a stooped old lady in a headscarf contrasts with her appearance during her most recent public outing.
Dressed in a trademark blue suit, she beamed for the cameras as she celebrated her 86th birthday last month with her son, Sir Mark.
However, the extent of Lady Thatcher's mental decline was laid bare by her daughter, Carol, in a 2008 memoir.
Miss Thatcher told how the combination of dementia and a series of minor strokes had reduced her mother to a shadow of her former self: struggling to finish sentences or to recognise family members.
Miss Thatcher also disclosed that her mother frequently forgot that Sir Denis died in 2003. "I had to keep giving her the bad news over and over again," she wrote.
This is a finely honed Hollywood trick to take an historical figure and shrink their greatness by portraying them at their most vulnerable.
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Vapid Hollyweirdian chick bump!
Margaret Thatcher was VERY PRESCIENT. For one, she was correct about the EURO and the failure of the socialistic model.
The left just can’t give her credit for being right on this and for her stalwart resolution against the Soviets during the cold war.
whadaya expect from the demonic?
n the opening scenes, a frail Lady Thatcher is seen shuffling into a corner shop to buy a pint of milk and expressing shock at 21st-century prices.
I feel that today looking a prices compared to a year ago. And I am only 42. Of course she is going to be shocked. I am everyday. My wife and I are going to this movie. Steep is a great actress. She could get an academy award reading the phone book. I don’t know how she became so good. I heard that it is natural.
Miss Thatcher also disclosed that her mother frequently forgot that Sir Denis died in 2003. “I had to keep giving her the bad news over and over again,” she wrote.
I don’t know why the daughter has to keep reminding her. Who cares if she doesn’t know. Tell her he went to the store. Instead she tell her he is dead and she falls apart. I think that is cruel.
Typical Lib travesty; and one Meryl should have never invited.
Wonderful gal. Oxford gal. Biochemist. Maybe better than Reagan.
Out of respect for Lady Thatcher,and because I won’t spend a damned dime to support the careers of these idiotic people in Hollywood, I certainly won’t.Just my opinion.
Hollywood and 20th Century:
1) Che was the 1st political rock star
2) GW Bush was an overgrown frat boy
3) Castro is a misunderstood genius
4) Reagan was a bumbling old man
5) JFK was the original messiah
6) Saint Harvey Milk, protector of the gay community
7) Nixon was a psychopath
8) J Edgar Hoover was a cross dressing, flaming pickle chugger
9) Whitey somehow killed Tupac and Biggie
10) FDR and the magical New Deal saved the US economy
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RE: ONLY the boys from SouthPark got it right....Kim Il Jong is So ronery..
No they didn’t, Mr. Ronery is still alive ( and so is Alec Baldwin ).
Dirka , dirka, Muhammad Jihad !!
That's very true. Unnecessary and as you say, cruel.
“This is a finely honed Hollywood trick to take an historical figure and shrink their greatness by portraying them at their most vulnerable.”
Gee, Hollywood liberals are trying to destroy the reputation of a popular, successful conservative woman.
Who thought they would ever see something like that?
Screw Hollywood - read her autobiography: “Margaret Thatcher - The Downing Street Years” - the real strory Hollywood would never tell.
This movie is nothing more than a left wing hatchet job of a conservative. Margaret Thatcher’s family and friends have said the movie is so much garbage. Stick it, Streep! You suck!
Mr. Ronery is burning in the Pit of Kryrok.
I have an autographed copy of her book "The Path to Power".
Around 1996, I went to her book signing in NYC. She was very polite. Signed a very careful and elegant signature, looked up at me as she slid the book and said, with that awesome accent, "Thank you very much!"
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