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Who was Sir Walter Raleigh? The prominence give to Walter Raleigh in the Elizabeth: The Golden Years film has led many to ask: how much of that film was historical fact and how much Hollywood fiction? Soldier and Sailor Walter Raleigh was an extraordinary combination of soldier and sailor, adventurer and pirate, scholar and poet, navigator and explorer, historian and parliamentarian, entrepreneur and courtier. His charisma, courage and chivalry made him a favourite of Queen Elizabeth and he did, in fact, establish the first English colonies in the New World, in what he named Virginia. By all accounts, Raleigh was a brilliant scholar. He studied law. He also fought in The Netherlands with the Dutch Protestants against the Spanish. Film Review for Movieguide Hansie is a compelling true story of the famous cricket captain who led the South African team to beat the world champions and then was destroyed by an extra-ordinary media campaign. It is a powerful warning against the dangers of fame and fortune and a God honoring drama of Redemption.
Meryl Streep’s performance as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady is outstanding and brilliant. As is Alexandra Roach as the young Margaret Roberts. However, the screenwriter, Abby Morgan, and director, Phyllida Lloyd (best known for Mama Mia), present such a fractured and fragmentary presentation in The Iron Lady, that it fails to do justice to the dynamic life and momentous achievements of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
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