“And I still ask myself: did I actually have the opportunity to work with Meryl Streep? The chance to collaborate with her is any director’s dream come true.”Īs with most remakes, “The Manchurian Candidate” reminds you that there is a film in the past so good it should be revised. “Meryl’s take on Ellie filled me with ideas and excitement,” the director recalls. So while Ellie grooms her son for leadership, she is also fulfilling her own destiny.” Demme enthusiastically concurs. “She’s also a mother who is achieving through her son the political position she feels has been denied her. “Ellie Shaw is a woman who adores her son and believes in him,” says Streep. A calculating wife to the vice-presidential candidate in the book, the contemporary version of the character is an influential politician in her own right, as well as a manipulative mother pushing her son toward the vice presidency, and ultimately, the highest office in the land. (Jonathan Demme, The Hollywood Reporter, June 2004)ĭemme also notes that Senator Eleanor Shaw has been significantly updated into a more complex character. I think in various other parts, it’s possible Meryl has needed to put a little governor on the extent to which she can allow her massive intelligence and confidence to show through it’s a value Jodie Foster was able to capitalize on in ‘The Silence of the Lambs’. She’s a very brilliant human being, and her character’s a very brilliant human being.
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We may be seeing a lot more of “the real Meryl Streep” in certain subtle ways in this movie than we’ve ever seen before. The humanity of it is timeless, and updating the film’s battle to the Gulf War makes a lot of sense as well, especially considering how politically pertinent that part of the world is today.”
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“What’s most important to me is retaining the human stories that are so crucial to a film like this.
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“In 1991, I asked my father what he thought of the idea to contemporize ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ and he said he thought it was smart and would have greater audience appeal today,” remembers Sinatra, who later obtained full rights to the story. “With the nation’s eye focused on a presidential election in 2004,” Demme says, “I couldn’t think of a better time to address darker themes about the political process and the forces that try to undermine it.” Producer Tina Sinatra couldn’t agree more, as did her legendary father, the late Frank Sinatra, who owned the rights to the original film. Based upon Richard Condon’s best-selling classic novel and an updated version of the 1962 classic by the same name, starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey & Angela Lansbury, this mesmerizing story of mind control and abuse of political power is directed by Academy Award -winning director Jonathan Demme, who draws a star-studded cast, including two-time Academy Award winners Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep andLiev Schreiber.