Screenplay Review: Meryl Streep’s Trashing of Margaret Thatcher
by HollywoodlandMiles Goslett of the Mail Online has read the script of the upcoming smear job of Lady Thatcher. Here’s the unsurprisingly ugly report:
Besmirching of a giant: How Meryl Streep’s ‘Maggie’ plumbs new depths by portraying her as destroyed by dementia and guilt about her record
The cameras have not even started rolling on a new film being made about Margaret Thatcher’s life in which she is expected to be played by Meryl Streep, but already the project has been tainted by controversy over the negative way it intends to portray the former Prime Minister.
On first hearing about the production last month, a member of Lady Thatcher’s family, who wishes to remain anonymous, said they were ‘appalled’ to learn that she will be depicted as a dementia sufferer looking back on her career with regret.
Describing the film as a ‘Left-wing fantasy’ designed to cast doubt on her political legacy, her relatives and supporters are once again having to accept that, where the world’s best-known female politician of the 20th century is concerned, art rarely reflects life.
But just how distasteful this film, provisionally titled The Iron Lady, is became clear after I secured access to the closely-guarded script, written by playwright Abi Morgan and seen by only a handful of people in the film industry.
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I have no fear the "Iron Lady" will let it be known that she is not one to regret what she as done. Reagan, Lady Thatcher, And Pope John Paul II were and are the real leaders who took down the Soviet Unions, not because of the enlightened leadership of Ghorbachev. That is how the Progressive/Socialist spin the end of the Cold War, but the truth is the truth and always wins out in the end (unless of course you attend a Progressive/Socialist indoctrination center….errrr….sorry… I mean an institute of higher learning)
"REALITY, WHAT A CONCEPT", Mork. In this world where the smartest man in the world refuses to make public his grades while calling a Harvard grad an idiot by ridiculing his grades. The movie makes sense only to one whom blames America for 9/11, while refusing to call Hamas terrorists because that would be political.
Can't wait until sheeple in forums start quoting the movie as fact.
Hollywood liberals truly live in a fantasy world. Instead of approaching the subject matter in an honest and respectful manner the leftwing degenerates prefer to rewrite history to validate their delusional beliefs.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
I would love to see an honest bio pic of the Iron Lady. The movie described here? Meh. Not on a bet.
If Sean Penn played Ronald Reagan we know how that would turn out too. Boycott.
I would pay to see a conservative actor like Gary Senise trash marxism scum Saul Alinsky in film though. It could be the conservative Rocky Horror with a midnight showing — dress up as your favorite obnoxious 60's radical.
Typical revisionist history. Take a conservative hero and either remake them as a leftist, insinuate mental illness, or simply portray them as evil incarnate. By the way, this phenomenon exists not only in Hollywood but in the halls of numerous public universities, as I can attest from personal observation.
On a side note, am I the only one less than impressed with Meryl Streep's acting? It's not a reaction to this article, I just never have really cared for her that much.
No, you had it right the first time.
No surprises here! The left continually loses battles of intellect with conservatives…………They can never win an argument against a Conservative in good health so they go after the weak and infermed.
Think I'm kidding…………….Look at what they did to Ronald Reagan after it was disclosed he had Alzheimer's…………Look what they did to Nancy when her health started to decline………. Charlton Heston was treated worse than liberals treat terrorists,……….even Gerald Ford took it on the chin as his health left him………………Now it's the Iron Lady's turn to suffer the opinions of the ignorant and self absorbed of society.
I suspect the Brit's will have a little to say about there beloved Maggie though……………………..
Re-Education camp works in a pinch too………………..
Cameron McCracken, managing director of Pathé, who with FilmFour is making the film, has acknowledged that… 'Although fictional, the film will be fair and accurate.'
To the left, their contorted fiction is the truth. I'm getting so tired of their boundless stupidity, their endemic weakness, and the scourge they are becoming to humanity. A plague and a pox upon Meryl Streep and all her ilk.
When it was first suggested that lady Thatcher was suffering from dementia, a Canadian blogger said that he hoped she'd "die in agony".
When challenged over the remarks, he tried to defend them on the basis that she'd done a lot of things that the offending blogger didn't like.
There's just something deeply, deeply wrong with a lot of these people.
Let's just hope that when it's time to make the "True" story of Barry "B'ballin'" Obama that Hollywood, or at least the director, is a Conservative………….
Revalations from the "Messiah" movie…………….Barry is actually "Beatrice"……………
I'm currently reading The Downing Street Years by Lady Thatcher herself — not a hint of regret.
Moreover, I previously read the more-recently-penned Statecraft by the same Lady Tatcher. Again, not a hint of regret.
Merryl Streep ought to be positively ashamed of herself.
I read THE DOWNING STREET YEARS recently and she most definitely did not in any way, shape or form act as if she regretted anything. It seems like they've waited until the Iron Lady is in a state where she can't defend herself to trot out their trash. But as my grandpa used to say, "You don't have to prop up the truth."
Perhaps someone should suggest that Declaration Entertainment work together with some British conservative groups on a historically-accurate "Reagan & Thatcher" movie.
Unfortunately there are plenty of left wingers in the UK who like to pretend that when she came to power (without the need for the women only shortlists so favoured by the left for promoting their own women when they proove not good enough to become parliamentry candidates on their merits) she inherited a prosperous nation that was an industrial giant, rather than a nation brought to the bring of ruin by socialist government incompetance and trade union militancy the Labour government of the late 70s actually left her to sort out.
The way in which UK left wingers lie and insult her reminds me of the way US leftists today attack Sarah Palin.
Sure, just ask Cambodia.
I thought Canadians were supposed to be nice. Why don't you all get after this guy for breaking character?
I'm currently reading The Downing Street Years by Lady Thatcher herself — not a hint of regret.
Spielberg's movie Munich was another leftwing disgrace riddled with revisionist history. Speielberg made the Israeli commandos appear as if some had regrets. These commandos came out and lambasted Spielberg making it absolutely clear that they not only were extremely proud of what they did, as they should be, but they would do it again without hesitation.
Reality is just too much for liberals to grasp so they play in their childlike world of Hollywood make believe.
Odd how that work's isn't it……………….I have no problem with the Brits (couple of friends are Brit Ex-Pat's). I find it odd though that a country who applauded our "Coming Of Age" in electing a black man to the White House, seems to have a definite fear of woman in power…………………look at there version of our Senate and House…………the House of Commons and The House of Lords……….last time I checked you could count the female members on one hand………….and I'm not altogether sure that there are any black people at all in Parliamant………
Shows just how enlightened our left wing buddies across the pond really are………….
Some of us did. Others rather approved of it because they despise conservatives for disagreeing with them.
The blogger was an individual by the name of Dana. The blog was the Galloping Beaver.
If you're really curious about it, I suggest you ask this gentleman: http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/08/07/jean-chretien-...
He runs a "Progressive Bloggers" blogging aggregator that carries the offending blogger.
Would Meryl Streep have even a hint of an answer to a question about what makes an economy work? or what to do to resuscitate a faltering economy? or what the unintended effects of high taxation and high regulation are? Need I go on?
What would libs do if the shoe was on the other foot.
I think Streep is showing a lack of respect for aging individuals. Going along with a project that uses dementia to make a political point? Is there something wrong with Streep? Is she unstable? If so, she should distance herself from this script now and seek therapy. If she doesn't, all aging women, anyone that knows an aging woman, anyone with dementia or anyone that knows someone with dementia should boycott her movies past, present and future.
Say it like a Democrat…………………Cambodia who? Never heard of the place……….
I guess there's a reason why, all these years later, a DVD copy of Munich runs you about $3.
Circular logic seems to only make sense to dumocrats. How did you put that together, BTW? Chance or Intelligent Design?
Like calling JFK a documentary.
"You don't have to prop up the truth." Fantastic! Score for your Grandpa!
'Although fictional, the film will be fair and accurate.'
– Cameron McCracken, managing director of Pathé who is co-producing Iron Lady
The fact is that the film-makers have not contacted to Lady Thatcher's official office in the House of Lords, nor talked to Thatcher's official biographer, Charles Moore, nor her children, Carol and Sir Mark, tells you all that you needed to know.
As someone who has been writing a screenplay based on a true story, I have been in close contact with the participants.
The fact that Julian Seymour is the former head of the Thatcher Foundation and he is leveraging his friendship with one of the film's producers to be the unofficial advisor suggests sour grapes.
The leftist orientation of actress Meryl Streep, film director Phyllida Lloyd, and screenwriter Abi Morgan is all too well known.
It sounds like another far-left hatchet job like that Reagan mini-series that created such unfavorable advance buzz that it got consigned to cable. Hopefully, the same fate will happen to this trash.
This is because of Hollywood…hmm wonder why? Hollywood has made movies about America's darkest sins and pulled no punches (probably exaggerated a few too, or a lot). People from other countries take these movies as fact. Also, many (most?) countries history classes don't teach or gloss over the dark histories of their own country. You think Germany wants to dwell on their dark past circa 1941?
Trust me, people in South America are much more racist than us here in the US.
only obtuse trolls can take a point and show their dullness, BTW? GED or Devry?
Or, "Just more Fox News spin," if you want to change it up once in a while.
It would probably get my blood pressure up, so I'll pass. I will say, though, that I wasn't aware beavers could gallop. Or is Dana as clueless about nature as he is about the rest of reality?
Streep can't come close to Thatcher. The old gal was far more skilled in her delivery, in her timing, and had a dignity far beyond Streep's ability to mimic.
uh, i was agreeing and wondered how you came up with circular logic the dems usually come up with. oh well. MS in Stats btw…
That's about 301 cents to much.
The only reason you don't hear more of "England" and the "Thrones" horrible actions through the ages is for the exact reason you just stated………….What would we hear and see if Hollywood was actually a British creation?
ah who am I kidding, they'd still bash America…..we're the worlds whipping boy………………..
Well I can't top that one…………you win!
No a true Democrat would say, "Cambodia was all Bush's fault". ;0)
Reality is something of an unwelcome guest in those parts, so I tend to steer clear of it.
sorry I'm too used to being attacked, mea culpa. but since I understand now, when a young kid my red headed mother had me deliver handbills of Dem. endorsed candidates door to door, and an old school Republican grandfather in Pgh. politics. And that explains my pessimism, anti-authoritarianism and persecution complex.(my God, maybe I am a Demican)
Hey Meryl, won't be going to anymore of your movies… Used to like ya, but, no more.
I owe it all to my good looks and personal hygiene. And God.
Duh. What did anybody expect?
Damn…………… that's a good one………..
I already gave the win to T_Rav……..will ya take a "Nobel Peace" prize instead?
Maybe Streep can work in a reference or two about Alar. How 'bout them apples!
Let it bomb, let it bomb, let it bomb.
What about a biopic of "great" Woodrow Wilson, a blatant failure with a blatant contempt for black people.
Or a feature about a "great" and long serving president whose statist policies helped make a bad depression a Great Depression?
Nope. Those guys get "Wilson" and "Sunrise at Campobello".
I've said it before and I will say it again.
These movies are not being made for entertainment value. They are not being made for box office. They are not being made for artistic merit.
These movies are being made for the sole purpose of rewriting history to fit the far left revision of history.
Meryl Streep is over-rated anyway. There I said it.
I've always thought Streep was a fine actress but as with so many in the arts, she is devoid of common sense, common decency and suffers from Ivory tower syndrome. People like Streep live in an ENTIRELY different world than us "unwashed masses". Believe me, it makes a HUGE difference when you are insulated from everything having to do with the day to day life of millions of ordinary people.
Your every want and need are catered to. Your exposure to reality is minimal. It's like Celine Dion, (great singer), crying on TV because the police were arresting looters who were stealing from local shop owners. Her position was "let them take those things"! She was DEFENDING them for looting. This is an extreme example but seriously, most actors / actresses / singers / musicians who are truly super successful live in a bubble, inside of an ivory tower, in the land of theory which all of us, who have ever learned about something in school and then saw what it took in real practice, know isn't reality.
You're so funny. I love the "there I said it". The last 2 movies I saw with her in it were The Manchurian Candidate and Doubt. I thought she was fabulous in both. But, she's made many others, including all of the anti-American films that I didn't want to see and now, I don't want to see her at all. I don't watch the Oscars anymore, either. It became political and then just pathetic.
Her acting in my opinion was ok in "Defend Your Life".
What courage, what bravery – making fun of an old woman too sick to defend herself. My God, next thing you know, Hollywood will be making fun of the "Religion of Peace". (Why not? It's sick too.)
But I'm not making fun of Meryl. I'm simply adding her name to the list of actresses I will never watch even if Hell freezes over.
If Sean Penn played Ronald Reagan
Thank you for the nightmares, gwar. :<
I can honestly say that Maggie would never get a positive retelling of her fantastic life and career through the lens of a lefty. She was the Reagan of the UK. She's still vilified by the British Left (and yes, I am aware of some of the bad decisions she's made) with calls of "Maggie Thatcher, Milk Snatcher" after 30 years, invoking her name whenever they bring up conservatism's/capitalism's downsides. Hell I'd expect the American Left to treat Bush the same way, invoke the vilified person to make an ideology look bad. One-trick ponies, the lot of them.
Anybody involved in this movie can have their phony-baloney revisionism. Thinking people on the other hand, won't buy into it.
I was pretty stunned by Wilson's awful civil rights record when I read some books about him. His history was always glazed over in classes, usually I was told that he was around during WWI, but that's about it. He essentially brought Jim Crow to Washington. Now I know why he's so high on Glenn Beck's history shit-list.
One litmus test of revisionist bias is the position of FDR, Wilson, or Teddy on a "Greatest Presidents in History" poll. If any of those three are surpassing Thomas Jefferson, Abe Lincoln, or George Washington, something's up.
Maybe. Honestly, I haven't seen a whole lot of her work, and most of it's been the more recent stuff, which is definitely, in my opinion, a falling off from her earlier days. Exhibit A: Mamma Mia.
I've said this before in another thread, but while I have great respect for Ms. Thatcher and all that she's accomplished, I'm of two minds when it comes to her politics. I strongly agree with some of her decisions, and heavily disagree with others (though you could probably say the same about most politicians).
However, in no way does that mean I think this movie should be made as is. It's clearly biased against her, and frankly, it's a bit cruel to malign a sick old lady because you disagreed with her politics 25 years ago. If you're going to make a "fair and balanced" biopic of somebody, then you should get all sides, and actually talk to people who know her and support her. Fair and balanced means fair and balanced, not just skipping over everything that disagrees with your own point of view.
It reminds me a little of Billy Crystal, when he was making 61*. He was good friends with Mickey Mantle, and so he really struggled with the scenes where Mantle was drinking and sleeping around. He knew it was the truth, but he didn't want to think about his friend that way, so it was very hard for him. But he knew it wouldn't be fair or accurate to skip over them, and in the end, those were the scenes that Mantle's children most identified with, because that's the way they remembered their father during that particular time period.
I agree. I have always thought Meryl "sniffle, sniffle" Streep was highly over-rated. I think she a good actress, not a great one. Helen Mirren would have been a far better choice and is a much better actress. But, since this movie is more of the same ol liberal trash, I hope Streep crashes and burns along with it.
You have to be kidding me? No one can be this evil right? To hate on an elderly woman with dementia to feed some sick void in your life over politics? If true shame on streep and Indeed it is but a wish, but I nonetheless wish nothing but blackness and ill fortune to befall her and all the sad pathetic ghouls involved in this bleak cinematic atrocity.
Sean Penn as Ronnie? Ugh!
Gary Sinise trashing Saul Alinsky! YEAH!!!
Streep is the queen of over-acting. Yuck!
Excellent point, Primer. I never realized that the libs' abuse of conservative leaders followed such a pattern.
Um, fictional = made up = NOT ACCURATE! DUH!
CAN WE START MAKING TRASH-OUT MOVIES OF THESE HOLLYWOOD PR I CKS?! I want a full blown documentary of the lives of Sean Penn, Meryl Streep, Whoopie Goldberg et al – and I WANT THEM TRASHED TO THE FULLEST with every nuance of sneer and snark at our disposal…and I want it passed around to every little town in the country. I want it so that every time one of those pukes puts their fat a s s mugs on television we can all just POINT AND LAUGH at how PATHETIC and not so glamorous they are.
Maggie and Ronald RULED!!
Wilson was a repellent individual elevated to the status of philosopher-prince because of his internationalism and egg-headedness: two favourite fetishes of the left. What a contrast with the noble Calvin Coolidge, a staunch supporter of civil rights against – you guessed it! – Democrats and their filibusters.
Here's an idea for you Yanks: Garry Sinise as Silent Cal!
I have only seen two of her movies "Out of Africa " which I fell asleep while in the theater and to this day I dont know or care how it ended, and "Defending Your Life" which was an enjoyable film.
Turnabout is fair. I say it's time for a biopic of Her Streepness, complete with casting couch scenes (with some ugly drunken pig, no Adonis, and an ugly climax) and some mumbling demented scenes like the ones she is doing on Maggie. Scr– her.
Oh, I wrote the item below before I read this. Obviously an idea whose time has come!
It's how revisionism works. Tell a lie often enough (or make enough revisionist movies) and the bleating masses will believe it to be the truth.
Hygiene and God are the two biggest things that separate we humans from liberals….
one more chromosone and "POOF" your a liberal………………
The Goebbels example taught the leftest well.
"The way in which UK left wingers lie and insult her reminds me of the way US leftists today attack Sarah Palin. "
Good point. I never thought of it that way.
I was pleasantly surprised by *61, although not a great movie, it wasn't as maudlin as some sports movies tend to be.
Shame would indicate a conscience.
Or history classes.
Where have all the John Waynes and Marrenn O'hara's gone? Never liked Streep anyway.
Streep: Actress , not too bright .
Thatcher: Graduate Research Chemist (Best schools) with hefty qualifications and interests.
Prime minister of a country , (a real one. )
So, any chance that we'll see movies showing an elderly Mao or Castro, or a Lenin crippled by multiple strokes, reflecting with extreme regret upon the political choices and actions they made on their way to and while in power? Na-a-a-ah! Never gonna happen, not at least in today's "Hollowood".
…hopefully, straight to video, on the $5.00 discount end cap, coming to a Target near you.
I remember a line from some teen situation comedy on the FOX broadcast network in the '80's: "A lotta girls LOOOVE Meryl Streep. 'Oh, she's so pretty, so glamorous,' they say. PRETTY?! She looks like SNOOPY!"
Standing on the shoulders of giants, hacking away …
Touche!
Following the 2010 general election there are 143 women MPs, and 27 from minorites.
One of the candidates for teh Labour Party leadership is Diane Abott. She is practically a liberal stereotype. Female, black and in spite of being a staunch Socialist she sends her children to private school where they don't have to mix with 'ordinary' people.
Call-me-Dave Cameron forced female and ethnic minority candidates on numerous constituencies over local Consertvative Party's wishes as part of his Socialisation of the Tory Party, but many of these so called 'A-list' candidates failed to win election.
George Orwell said those who control the past, control the future. Liberal Hollywood has learned this lesson well in their depictions of historical characters like Che Guevara, Ronald Reagan, and now Margaret Thatcher. Historians on the Napoleonic era are well aware that Napoleon wasn’t the squat little fat guy of popular memory. That was just British propaganda. And yet, that’s how he will be remembered for all time. His popular image is sealed in amber. Similarly, the memory of our Thatchers, Reagans and Ws by future generations won’t be decided by their scholars and historians, but by our myth makers and propagandists. With their cinematic depictions of the past they can control the future.
Thanks for the info………………….. I'll have to pay closer attention when I read "The Telegraph" and "The Times"………the woman and minorities (lot's of Indians in British Goverment ) just never seem to make the news………..Maybe there just not as big a crooks as the headliners……
No wonder the public isn't going to the theatre.
"Don't worry, gentlemen, we'll weather this storm of approval and come out as hated as ever."
–Alinsky, a few months before his death.
a little story about the 'Iron Lady'…
the SAS routinely trains- with both the House of Commons, AND Royals- in hostage training exercises. Live fire, too, BTW. So Maggie and two of her assistants are in the 'killing house'. She is sitting at a table with her aide at her side. Three SAS operators burst through the door, throw a flash bang, take out the 'terrorists' with double taps from their P220's.
Her aide had jumped to the floor. Thatcher, still sitting erect in her chair, glared at him and said: "Get up, George. You're embarrassing me'…
The SAS guys we know were knocked out by her. There are other stories as well. Very cool lady…
Yet they have no problem making a movie about Che Guevera that makes him look like Mahatma Gandhi and Pope John Paul II rolled into one……………..
and let's not forget the "absolutely brilliant and completely truthful "W"…………..Liberals just love there "propoganda"………………can't beat them……lie about them……….
Everybody calm down. They'll spend $100,000,000 to make the movie, and about 11 people will see it. Baroness Thatcher's legacy cannot be deminished.
I really enjoyed 61* personally, but to each his own.
Meryl Streep? Is that bleach bottle blond screech owl still around?
This piece of celluloid screed sounds like another straight-to-DVD train wreck for hollyweird.
I liked it too, Sarah. Like I posted above, I was pleasantly surprised by it. Most sports movies are maudlin, NOT *61. Heck I not only was I born in 1961, in October no less, but I'm a diehard Yankees fan, who has a replica World Series Championship warm up jacket, from the….you guessed it, 1961 N.Y. Yankees. Billy Crystal, also a diehard Bronx Bomber, fan did a fantastic job with this film.
and "warm springs"…great performance by Branagh…but the "warm springs" was what the film wanted me to believe was rain, but I have learned that someone is peeing on my leg, trying to convince me it's rain…
I have a question for those who support Thatcher. Does it bother you that she was a lifelong friend and supporter of Pinochet? The man impoverished and bankrupted his country and then jailed and tourtued any who questioned him. The modern day equivalence would be if Obama were best friends with Osama bin Ladin. You should read The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein. You will never look at the iron lady e same way again.
Streep is a menopausal miscreant, the producer, director and writers of this film are simply useful fools who are forever doomed to stupidity. I wonder if they know how the thinking world despises them, as if in their demented minds they would care. It seems to be a pathological need to please their commie third grade teachers, since none of them ever emotionally aged past the third grade.
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