Watching “The Iron Lady”, the film about Margaret Thatcher, had one, most curious effect on me. It really made me want to watch a film about, Margaret Thatcher, “The Iron Lady”. It whet my appetite, with tantelizingly short interesting clips of history. To hear Neil Kinnock (9 years leader of labour, in opposition to Margaret Thatcher) for at most 2 seconds and then not to see him, let alone hear his name even mentioned.
To see snippets of her resignation, but them to miss out the famous scene of Bernard Ingham trying to push John Sergeant out of the way (in between the first ballot and the resignation)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11812509 just made me feel this was (as it was) for an audience that never knew the real history.
. To see Douglas Hurd and John Major without their names even mentioned. Spitting Image would have done a more complete job!! They did the Brighton Bombings but nothing about Norman Tebbit!
I have heard people criticise “the Iron Lady” for either the acting or the script. I critcize it for neither. It was simply the content and also the misleading name of the film that bothered me.
It was more about Margaret Thatcher “The Dementia Years” and a lot of guesswork as to whether she imagined Denis Thatcher walking around the house, rather than some good political research about her life in power. It skirted over the edges of all the interesting bits, gave teasingly interesting, but too short clips about some major events and left me with a huge desire to see a film about Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady.
