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精品文档Uncompromising Iron LadyIts not easy to define Margaret Thatcher. She was Britains first female leader and served three consecutive terms, a term of up to 11 years of recording female prime minister. She is one of the dominant political figures of 20th century Britain, and Thatcherism continues to have a huge influence.In addition, early before she became prime minister, because of her high profile against communism, and by Soviet media dubbed “the Iron Lady”, the nickname has ever become her main mark.A mixed “Iron Lady”, a mixed ThatcherHowever, the female director Phyllida Lloyd did not have any experience of shooting political film. Before that, she had only filmed the movie that based on the Broadway adaptation of the classical musical “Mamma Mia”.When she phoned Meryl Streep, inviting the Oscar-winning actress to play the leading character, Streep wavered between accepting and refusing. Because she was sure, as an American, playing a classic image in English history will cause the criticism of British.But my advantage lies in the fact that I was an outsider. Just as Thatcher, in her world, she is always an outsider, both in her personal life or political work. She always appear in the place where she doesnt belong to. said Streep.In order to interpret the Iron Lady, Meryl Streep worked very hard. She was completely locked up in London and let the staff put food on the room door. 24 hours a day, except for a short nights sleep, I did a lot of reading and analysis, I intend to experience how she works, the same intensity, the same enthusiasm. I even imitate her way taking a bag, including the attitude of reprimanding cabinet members.Streep won the British Academy Film Awards for Best Actress and the 69th Golden Globe Award for Best Actress movie for the film “The Iron lady”.In the British mind, Margaret Thatcher was a divisive figure. In the view of right-wing, she was a hero who led the British out of the economic difficulties and improved the international status of the United Kingdom. But in the eyes of leftists, she was a ruthless dictatorial demon during her tenure. Suppressing the workers protest almost destroyed the British welfare system, until today the British complained that this woman ended primary school free milk supply.The British have a love-hate relationship with Thatcher. The BBC named 100 Greatest Britons, Margaret Thatcher ranked 16. But in another report on your most hated 100 bad Englishman, she was ranked at No. 3.Thatcher without ThatcherismThe film is a story about Thatcher without Thatcherism. The director brushed over the frustrating events during the female prime minister in office-mass protests, poll tax riots, the miners strike, the IRA exploded - all casually ignore, even for the Sino-British negotiations on the sovereignty of Hong Kong.With thick ink, the film sketched the pain of a woman who struggle alone in mans world. The film restored Thatchers work situation: full of men in gray and black suits in the Parliament room, only she wearing a bright blue skirt sat alone.To be able to adapt to the all-male politics, Thatcher received special training to change the hairstyle, plastic teeth and practice speaking accent. Her daughter Carol had mentioned that there were no casual clothes in her mothers wardrobe, she stored various suit worn on formal occasions.Though living in mens world, Thatcher still retains a lot of femininity. Like many women, she can not leave handbag. But in addition to combs, lipstick and handkerchiefs, there is flashlight to reply power off and antidote to prevent opponents throwing acid on her face and disfigured.Margaret Thatcher: only time can bring her downFamiliar with the image of Margaret Thatchers iron-fisted man, I am afraid you will not recognize the hobbled old woman in the title of the movie Iron Lady. Her action was slow, her words are incoherent and her eyes are full of cowardice. That is todays Margaret Thatcher. There are only two things that Thatcher loved for her lifetime: first is 10 Downing Street, the second is her husband Dennis. Now her favorites have been denied.In 2003, her husband Dennis died, but Thatcher can not accept the fact. According to the memoirs written by her daughter Carol, suffered from Alzheimers disease, she would hang her husbands portrait in the restaurant. While she was eating, she talked with the husband, and sometimes explained to her daughter: Look, Dad did not leave us!The picture of Margaret Thatcher which was played by Streep waving arms to turn the tide looks like to become the most remarkable picture in Oscar, but the heroine reality is not as glamorous as the poster. In Thatcher later years, she neither watched TV nor read the newspaper, living in London alone. Every morning she waked up, she would sit next to the window, staring at Hyde Park where people go sightseeing in a daze. When she was young, she dedicated to work and shared few time with family, so she was not closely related to her children, and the kids went back to visit her, on average, about six months.Although she had a wide set of friends during her tenure, she received only four cards when she had her 77th birthday instead of the thought that at least receive dozens of cards. The four cards were carefully placed on the mantelpiece, retired and sit, Thatcher would stare at them at her blankly.EpilogueWe have reasons to believe that, in any case, for all the British people, Margaret Thatcher is a great leader in their mind which can not be avoided forever. Her radical reform transformed the British economy form downturn to upturn. She