[AGL] The Queen Team "Deal"

[Clementine Hall]

YES MINISTER AND YES PRIME MINISTER IS TERRIBLY FUNNY!  THE ODDEST THING
IS THAT BOTH CONSERVATIVES AND LIBERALS LOVE IT {MARGARET THATCHER'S
FAVORITE PROGRAM ON TV, DONCHA KNOW).  IT IS NO RESPECTOR OF
PHILOSOPHIES.  CH

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I will look for it.
 Do you think this is the beginning of a new genere of 'behind' the
political 
face films?  My husband and I were given a present of the complete "Yes 
Minister" and "Yes Prime Minister" series, that old series from the
80's.  We 
somehow missed it when it showed here but it is fantastic, very funny.
They 
really hit the mark.  All the scences in the resturants and the private
clubs 
are perfect.  Highly recommended if you are attuned use of language in
films.  
the british are very good with that.

Carolyn


Quoting Jon Ford <jonmfordster at hotmail.com>:


> 

> They should be releasing or making available in some format a made for

> TV 

> film by the excellent  team that made the Queen.  It's called "The

Deal"

> and 

>   features the fine  actor who played Blair in the Queen, this time   

> playing a younger Blair on the rise in Labor party politics,  and 

> presents 

> the back-story on a 'deal" he made with his colleague Gordon Brown, a

> new 

> Scottish MP at the time, now  a major figure in Blair's government and

a

> 

> possible next Prime Minister. The "deal" in question was that  Tony

> Blair 

> was to go first as labor PM, followed by Gordon if all went well.

Blair

> was 

> only supposed to run for one term, but once he got into office, he

liked

> it 

> so much he soon broke the deal, which has irritated Brown. The film is

> set 

> in tight, claustrophobic spaces such as the typical offices of new MPs



> without much of a reputation. The offices get bigger as Blair and

Brown

> gain 

> power, and their egos also  swell. You tend to both like and dislike

> these 

> guys intensely, and cringe as their once "progressive" values get

> trumped by 

> realpolitik.  I saw this at the San Francisco Film Festival, and it

has

> also 

> I've heard been in limited release in New York.

> 

> Jon

> 

> >From: globe at zipcon.net

> >Reply-To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 

> >60s<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

> >To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 

> >60s"<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>, Michael Eisenstadt 

> ><mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com>

> >CC: austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net

> >Subject: Re: [AGL] The Queen

> >Date: 2 May 2007 09:09:58 -0700

> >

> >Michael ,\

> >  It is such a good movie, so well acted. I had a slightly different

> take 

> >on

> >the stag, as a symbol for the monarchy-the way of life etc.  (it does

> make

> >better sense as a symbol for Princess Di)  We enjoyed it however when

> it 

> >was

> >over John said and I agree ...'he didn't know quite what the point of

> the

> >movie was?

> >   The staging was interesting I liked the contrast of the Blair 

> >household,-

> >very tiny compared to the spacious of the royals.(Is the residency

> really 

> >that

> >small?)

> >   It was very sympathetic to the royals.

> >  Carolyn

> >

> >uoting Michael Eisenstadt <mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com>:

> >

> > > This movie from the same team of writer and director who made

> > > The Last King of Scotland is even better. We saw it a few days

> > > ago (at home, rented) and I can't get some of the incidents out

> > > of my head.

> > >

> > > Especially telling is the scene towards the end when the queen

> > > drives herself (in a Land Rover) to a nearby estate to see the

> > > slain stag in a stone outbuilding where game is hanged and bled

> > > (14 point stag = Princess Diana).

> > >

> > > Besides Helen Mirren as the queen, the actors playing the Duke

> > > of Wales and Tony Blair are eerily accurate.

> > >

> > >

> > >