Meryl Streep film The Iron Lady is criticised by Margaret Thatcher’s biographer
Meryl Streep is being trumpeted as a likely Oscar winner for her performance as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, but the film worries John Campbell, on whose biography it is based.
“Like any film of that sort, it simplifies and it dramatises her as a great individual, fighting against all these things as if it was just her on her own,” states the author, who acted as a consultant and was even given a cameo role as the manager of an ice-cream company visited by Thatcher.
“It does not credit her colleagues like Geoffrey Howe, or anybody else. The other politicians are made to look wet – she bashes them.
“There aren’t many males in the film, so you don’t get a real sense of the truth. Instead, it suggests that it was just her that brought the Soviet Union down. It’s over-simplified history and there is too much concentration on her. There is a lot of poetic licence going on, including Meryl’s way of speaking to colleagues.
“The men aren’t given important roles, particularly Howe. He isn’t viewed as important and is presented as a bit of a caricature, like a weak teddy bear. He is given no credit for his work as chancellor of the exchequer and he really deserves a great deal of the credit. It does over-egg Thatcher’s role, it’s not that accurate a historical representation.”
Despite his criticisms, Campbell, whose second volume of biography was also called The Iron Lady, adds: “It’s still a remarkable piece of work and a remarkable portrayal by Meryl Streep.”
source : telegraph.feedsportal.com
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