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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I do not patronize Hollywood now - but would definitely boycott this left wing
travesty of history re-written
Joey,
Spoken like a true liberal dope.
The point is Government is to big and invasive - I would love it if NO laws were passed - every one of them is an infringement on my personal liberties.
But you being a sheeple want the government to take care of you. Tell you what to do , when to do it and how to do it.
I am an intelligent adult and don/t need any help thank you
Dope!
All this hype and this movie certainly take boring to a new level.
Since this is coming out of Hollywood and is about a conservative politician, it's bound to be a hit job.
What a shame. Margaret Thatcher deserves better than the hatchet job liberal Hollywood will offer...
Too bad this slob is playing the part of this great woman. What an insult to Margaret Thatcher's reputation.
I would love to have seen it, but not giving my hard-earned money to a disgusting, USA-hater.
He's more likely just a typical uninformed troll, content to pass time in his parent's basement with tossing bombs and being entertained by the ensuing firestorm
Tell me, exactly how civilized would you say your selected name was?????
Ha, ha! Don't worry! Remember that ultra-intellectual über-smash-hit (job) "W"? The one that got 4 red stars from Mr. Compassionate Socialism Hip Arty Reviewer, Roger Egghead? You know, the one that cost $25.1 mil and grossed... $28.9 mil? You don't remember? Funny, I don't remember it, either
Hey, doofus, don't knock the Drudge Report! It's the only reason anyone is paying attention to your heroes' lame movie attempt at all!
This is a false dilemma, Tony. The real issue is that the mindset of conservatism is a full 180 degrees from that of liberal-progressivism. Instead of measuring success by what policy or law was passed, conservatism measures success by what individual freedom or liberty has been preserved or regained--in short, what policies or laws have been averted or repealed so that personal liberty can be “conserved.” That does not mean we champion anarchy--there IS a role for government to play in our lives. But conservatives believe two fundamental things. First, that no government, regardless of how large or powerful it is, can ever protect each individual form the realities of the “winds of fortune.” And second, that history has always taught that the more government attempts to intrude into every facet of the lives of its citizens, even in the name of “good,” the worse those lives become--religiously, socially, politically, and economically. In that respect, any number of conservatives could easily point to numerous issues, from the boiler plate (the defunding of Planned Parenthood which #1 reestablishes a respect for each individual life thereby #2 reducing the size and scope of government fiscally thereby #3 allowing individuals more economic freedom from higher taxes) to the bipartisan (the welfare reform passed in the 90's under President Clinton which #1 returned more of the responsibility for an individual's actions to the individual thereby, as above, #2 reducing the government fiscally and thereby #3 increasing individual freedom economically) to the seemingly contradictory (the 2007 largely CONSERVATIVE opposition to conservative Texas Governor Rick Perry’s executive order mandating the HPV vaccine and the eventual reversal of that mandate by the Texas legislature which #1 retains essential personal decisions for parents and #2 reduces the size and scope of government in our lives), that a conservative considers successful. Thus, rather than pointing to laws & policies established, conservatives find more satisfaction in laws or policies modified or abolished to the benefit of personal, individual liberty.
"Interested in tribe right or wrong"... No that's the way democrats behave. Republicans are far to willing to appease the liberal mentality while democrats hang tight no matter what. It's time for republicans to stop being weak or timid and stick together. We as conservitives have the best principles (for the whole country's benefit). Think about it... In your own home, is it better to be loose and liberal with your money and personal habits or is it better to be careful and conservative? If you say "liberal", that's fine but I can guarantee that you and your children will live much happier if you choose "or lean in a "conservative" direction.
Civil Rights Law (1964)....next....
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.
Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher? No Way. Streep is one of the biggest liberals in Hollywood.
She and the producers want to show Thatcher in caricature as a female Ronald Reagan in the
worst light possible.
When a look at Streep is involved it's not a "teaser," it's a warning.
Might as well go straight to dvd, no one's going to watch this crap!
Cracks me up. Liberals are always so shocked and offended when someone dares to disagree with them. NP just cannot understand why the brown shirts haven't spirited all the conservatives away to re-education camp to put an end to all this double-plus ungood truthspeak. Just pity the poor little useful idiot - she's beyond the reach of common sense - she's got her an ideology based on impractical childish platitudes. Who needs freedom when you believe that if you completely surrender your mind, body and spirit to the federal government, they will make rich people pay all your bills and buy things for you that you could not afford on your own?
I totally agree. Everyone knows you can only get real news from a George Soros funded propaganda agency (i.e. anyone BUT Newscorp).
Now let's get all civilized on these twits up in here, Sugar Tits.
Will sync nicely with Oliver Stone's new project, "The Reagan Revolution", starring Tim Robbins in the role of the gipper.
Reagan raised the estate tax exemption from $200,000 to $600,000, saving hundreds of thousands of family businesses and farms.
It's a shame that a scumbag leftist was selected to portray a great lady, conservative, and leader who was devoted to liberty. I wouldn't waste money on a Hollywood movie, so I don't know if this movie is what I expect it to be or not---a trashing of a great woman's life.
Churchill, Reagan, and Thatcher in no particular order but dont forget the o'booger fellow for waterboy!
Thatcher, Reagan and Churchill in any order, they all are the best there every was. But to be absolutly fair, you have to include obooger, and peanut for water boy, as either is able to do that job by himself. (two worst presidents USA has ever had)
Another smoke and mirrors show for the masses to think that everything is normal. The uk and ALL countries are controlled by elite bankers out of the bank of england. The rothschild owns them. All leaders are puppets selected for their unwavering ability to be good little useful tools to further the demise of all sovereignty in any shape or from. The only men with balls to speak against "them" were killed or were attempted to be killed. Lincoln, kennedy, jackson. Eisenhower also mentioned a warning but was still a lap dog. People wake up the nw0 is real and has already taken your freedom. This is one of many quotes by them.
"We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."David Rockefeller Baden-Baden(rothschild front man puppet), Germany 1991
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