Streep plays Iron Lady with titanium core

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The Times
From Dalya Alberge in Venice
Actress admits that Thatcher was her model for new role
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MARGARET THATCHER is the inspiration behind Meryl Streep’s latest role as a ruthless politician, the actress confirmed yesterday.
Streep is tipped for another Oscar nomination — to add to her record-breaking 13 — for her role in The Manchurian Candidate, a remake of the 1962 political thriller. She plays Eleanor Shaw, a powerful politician and over-protective mother who has one Achilles’ heel — her devotion to her son. In positioning him as a candidate for the vice-presidency, she will go to any lengths to hide the truth about him.

Asked whether she was inspired in some way by the former British Prime Minister, she said: “Yes.” Getting into character involved her wearing “good jewellery” — earrings and a necklace — “the uniform for many women in politics”, she said. “I just love the way Ellie Shaw is described in the screenplay — ‘ageless with soft curves that conceal razor claws and a titanium backbone’. How could I possibly not relish portraying a juicy character like that?”

The actress, whose films include The Deer Hunter and Sophie’s Choice, was speaking at the Venice Film Festival, where The Manchurian Candidate was premiered last night. The story of mind control and the abuse of political power is a remake of John Frankenheimer’s 1962 classic starring Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey. This time, its cast includes the Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington and has been directed by Jonathan Demme, who has been nominated for 20 Oscars with films such as The Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia. He set out to make a classic film as relevant to our era as the original was to its own.

The Manchurian Candidate — which recalls paranoid thrillers of the 1970s, when Americans feared assassinations and the nuclear arms race — is the story of a soldier (played by Washington) racing to uncover a brainwashing conspiracy aimed at capturing the White House. Richard Condon’s 1959 bestselling novel has been updated so that 1952 Korea becomes 1991 Kuwait. The title relates not to China, where the platoon is brainwashed in the first film, but to Manchurian Global, a powerful conglomerate, which is planning to control the free world through its puppet president.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1244168,00.html

Wonder if anyone will now make a movie about Sit Mark Thatcher - idiot son arrested for plotting/financing a coup in Africa....

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1. you can get this movie on kazaa right now

It is a very interesting movie. A little bit short on character development, through. But it really nails the political environment currently in vogue in America.