Watch Meryl Streep Kick Off Oscar Season in First Teaser for The Iron Lady
"One simply has to maximize your appeal. Bring out all your qualities. Make you look and sound like the leader that you could be," says one political advisor to an off-screen Meryl Streep-as-Margaret Thatcher in the first teaser for The Iron Lady. "You've got it in you to go the whole distance," says another. The men are talking about Thatcher's political aspirations, of course, but they might as well be talking about Oscar season. Is this Streep's best chance to get off the Academy Award schneid?
Perhaps. Since the first image of Meryl-as-Maggie surfaced online, the chattering class has heralded her as an Oscar front-runner -- which would be nice, as Streep hasn't won the little gold man since 1983, despite 12 nominations. Judging Streep's performance or the film based on 63 seconds of footage is totally ridiculous, but there is something playful and terrifying about the way her eyes sparkle when dressing-down those conservative muckety-mucks. If that's the tone director Phyllida Lloyd wants to strike with Streep's portrayal, maybe the advanced hype will turn out right.
VERDICT: And the winner is...
[via The Guardian]
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This is one CONSERVATIVE that will NOT watch THE BIGGEST LEFTEST LIBERAL EVER attempt to protray one of the greatest CONSERVATIVES in our lifetime!!!!!
I wouldn't see anything by this Lefty,
produced by commie lefties,, in HollyCommieWood
if they paid me to.
Us Conservative Hillbilly toothless Bible thumpers
don't need to be paying these slugs to spit in our faces.
I boycott all Movies, TV.. ALL& ANY Lefty Media.
I'm sure one of Great Britain's finest leaders will get a fair shake from leftist Hollywood and one of it's most liberal actors despite the fact that Thatcher is a Conservative. But then, I'm also sure that Rosie O'Donnell isn't a lesbian.
Gad just awesome!
If Meryl Streep's in this, you know it's going to be a bomb. Box Office poison.
She is such a great actress, I only hope this movie treats Mrs. Thatcher as the great leader she was and the important role she, President Reagan and Pope John Paul played in the downfall of Soviet Communism.
I hope this is not a leftist hatchet job.
What interesting comments. I've watched the teaser four times now, and I haven't seen any evidence of Thatcher being portrayed in the negative.
The greatest living film actress plays the part of the architect of the 'greed' culture - the fractured UK is still paying the price for her abominable social experiment. Friend of Pinochet, called Mandela a terrorist, went to war to win an election... cue the ire of the right-wing who don't know their history.
Uhh, so I'm gonna take a stab in the dark and guess that Movieline was a guest presenter on The Drudge Report?
Or perhaps there was a huge number of lurkers who decided now was the time to make themselves known, in which case: Palin/Bachmann for 2012! Woo!
(In which case, we're all fucked)
Or Scottish, or a miner, or a schoolchild in the eighties (milk-snatcher is such a good rhyme). Basically if you came from a class or location that didn't vote for Thatcher, you got screwed.
Can I point out that while Nixon did end Vietnam, he also used Kissinger to extend it, messing up the peace talks that came towards the end of Johnson's administration intentionally to help his election campaign. He also started a secret and illegal war in Cambodia without notifying Congress or his secretary of defense.
So, y'know, good and bad.
Flawed argument. If in your house your child got sick, would you expect it to pay for whatever hospital bills it incurred? Or would you pay it yourself?
It's really easy to make simplistic arguments like that if you boil down complex scenarios to "If I have two oranges and give you one blah blah blah"
My only wish in my lifetime is to see this country divide in two.
Here is why:
"liberal scumbags
commie lefties
libtard
a true liberal dope
Meryl Streep is corrupt
a scumbag leftist (MS)
toxic leftist ideology
obooger
peanut for water boy
pathological hatred
frickken idiot
uninformed troll
parent's basement
a moron like yourself
merle (sic)"
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