Meryl Streep Takes on Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady”

Townhall.com ^ | January 13, 2012 | John Hanlon

[End Times Sentinel]

One day they will make a movie hating Reagan

You're forgetting "The Reagans" staring Mr. Barbara Streisdand, James Brolin as RWR. And as you said, it was a hit piece.

[Bigg Red]

Please choose your language with the consideration that there are ladies present.

[libstripper]

DUH!! Which is which??

[libstripper]

DUH!! Which is which??

[elcid1970]

Meryl Streep the Hollywood lefty must have done a very sympathetic of her fellow lib Julia Child, who said more than once that, cooking career aside, she could never sit and break bread with a Republican at the same table.

“Bon appetit! But only if you agree with me.”

[stillonaroll]

Just saw this film, but wish I hadn't. Horribly dull, leftist hit piece, focusing on the least interesting part of her life: her recent years of poor health.

Margaret Thatcher is portrayed as hallucinating, enfeebled, and senile. The fascinating story of her rise to the premiership is given short shrift.

We see none of her discussions with Presidents Reagan or Bush, with Gorbachev, nor with the Queen. We don't even hear one of her most famous quotes, to Bush 41, "This is no time to go wobbly." Incredibly, in the scenes showing Prime Minister's question time, the Labor opposition is given more lines than MT. Her rebuilding of the UK economy is barely mentioned, and then limited to headlines saying that the rich got richer.

If you are interested in her life, read her autobiographies, The Path to Power and The Downing Street Years. Do not see The Iron Lady.

[Yaelle]

Are. You. Serious?? I see only the ads of her grandeur and high political control. I wanted to see it. They really focused on her illness and didn’t show any of her life and strength?

Man, in that case, I hope Meryl doesn’t win the Oscar. That woman in the Help was excellent. I am mad that the ads tricked many conservatives into paying their $. My parents included. They wen, but they never told me if they liked it.

[stillonaroll]

Yup. Seems more than half the film was the elderly Margaret Thatcher, showing extended, imaginary conversations with her long deceased husband Dennis.

Very few scenes of her actually leading as a powerful politician. An intentional leftist oversight, IMHO, especially when there is an ample historical record that could have brought to life much of MT's accomplishments.

[stillonaroll]

They want people remembering Dame Thatcher as a confused old has been rather than the PM who put her boot up that Argentinian Junta’s ass in the Falklands and pulled Britian’s Own head out of its own ass.

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You are eminently correct about the movie. Wish I'd read the FR comments before seeing it.

What really ticks me off is that, as another poster noted, the TV ads make it look like The Iron Lady is a positive portrayal of Margaret Thatcher. It is, in fact, a decidedly anti-Thatcher slander.