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'Gentlemen, shall we join the ladies?'


Did this ever appear in the film? It is probably one of the most memorable lines in the trailers, but having watched, and then scanned, the DVD, I never found it in the film.

Apparently she had supposedly said it at the end of the meeting with the other western leaders celebrating the first anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union, but all I remember of that was the telephone and message traffic, warning that she should come back to London to defend her party's majority and her position as PM.

Actually, while I wouldn't suggest that she was a Feminist, having her say such a chauvinist remark anywhere in the film would somehow have made her a much less sympathetic character, whether it was accurate or not...

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No, it's not in the finished film. Its inclusion was clearly planned early-on, as it would have formed an obvious "bookend" along with the early scene where the young Thatcher is forced to leave a political after-dinner debate to "join the ladies".

Seeing as it played such a key role in the trailers, why was it removed?
It may have been, as you suggest, to do with concern over audience sympathy for the character. Alternatively, it might have been just a matter of pacing...

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Shame there is not a Deleted Scenes section on the DVD either.

I hate it when they omit scenes they show in trailers. But leaving it off the DVD althogether is adding insult to injury.


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