[AGL] The Queen Team "Deal"

[Jon Ford]

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


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

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

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>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.

> >

> >

> >

>


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