Margaret Thatcher's children think the upcoming movie in which Meryl Streep portrays the Iron Lady as a dementia-addled depressive sounds like
a Left-wing fantasy.
Sounds about right to me.
For, as we all know, leftists are delusional™.
I'm looking forward to the scene where Jed Bartlett chews her out over her faith.
Actually given the description "dementia-addled depressive" (more accurately: "an elderly dementia-sufferer looking back on her career with sadness") only exists as explicit hearsay in the right-wing Daily Telegraph, it is more accurately a right-wing fantasy (or maybe nightmare).
ReplyDeleteBlaming the "left" for what the right says about them is "delusional".
The film may turn out to be a hatchet-job, it may not, it may never even make it to production (many films don't). Regardless, claiming it is "delusional" on the basis of an opponent's second-hand description of its script is hardly credible.
But then, I've never been a big Meryl Streep fan, so who cares. Its not as though the non-hard-right (the majority of the political spectrum you conflate as "left") has any particular stake in a single actress's career.
Incidentally, although I don't accept the "leftists are delusional" storyline to this, I would have to say that (i) Meryl Streep is not the actress I'd pick to play Maggie Thatcher (too much angular & angst, not enough bulldog) and (ii) that I cannot see her "looking back on her career with sadness" (however divisive her career may have been, I cannot see her ever doubting her own rectitude).
ReplyDeleteReally she needs to be portrayed (i) by an English actress in the Judi Dench/Helen Mirren mold & (ii) in a present-tense full-speed-ahead-and-damn-the-torpedoes format (as opposed to a past-tense retrospective one).