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Old 19-04-2003, 09:29 PM
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I'm writing an essay on The Long Good Friday as an allegory of Thatcherism. Does anyone have any ideas?

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"As Michael Caine says: 'There's been three gangster films come out of this country: good'uns. I made one, Hoskins made the other and we both made the third.' What was extraordinary about it at that time, was that we were just on the verge of Thatcherism. It was bang up to date. It hail the nail so firmly on the head, of where the Eighties were gonna go."

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I don't know if The Long Good Friday was making any kind of statement about Thatcher's government or the values of the 80's - if even there was such a thing.

Hoskins was on top form as a vicious thug in the movie but for me, it was spoiled by the plot with the IRA bad guys shown as being omnipotent .

I found the potrayal of Irish terrorism in such a way depressing.

Caine was wrong, there was another great British gangster movie - Richard Burton's "Villian".
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Apart from perhaps Harold's early entrepreneurial attempts to sell Docklands property for regeneration I can't see many connections with Thatcher-era Britain.

Mona Lisa is the real London gangster film of an economically depressed underclass.
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