Leopard International, a division of the U.K.-based Leopard Films, is making its first appearance at DISCOP this week with a lineup of key documentary and drama titles.
Topping the list of dramas is the 90-minute Mysterious Creatures. Starring Brenda Blethyn (Pride & Prejudice) and Timothy Spall (The Last Hangman), the film is a true-life tale of a family coping with Aspergers Syndrome. It was produced by Leopard Films’ drama arm Leopardrama for broadcast on ITV1 in October.
From worldscreen.com
That sounds interesting - good actors, but do we know who the writer is?
He/she will make the crucial difference :smile:
It's sound kind of curbieish to me. It's that world coping paticularly combined with the word faimily.
After reading the article on the movie, this seems to have pro-cure written all over it.
Let's see, the only moral of this story seems to be "Asperger's Syndrome will drive you shoulder-length into debt and inspire suicide in the people around the person". Yep, it's curespeak.
Wasn't somebody in New Zealand or somewhere going to make us a movie?
After reading the article on the movie, this seems to have pro-cure written all over it.
Let's see, the only moral of this story seems to be "Asperger's Syndrome will drive you shoulder-length into debt and inspire suicide in the people around the person". Yep, it's curespeak.
Oh god, its not the story about the girl who wanted fashionable clothes and the parents tried to commit suicide is it? :shock:
Wow...taking something rather positive and trying to portray it as a nightmare.
What's next? The story of an abolitionist who tortured poor, innocent plantation owners to free their slaves? :razz:
Really, the parents should have just given the girl proper punishment techniques when she was 3 and she never would have turned into a Veruca Salt who just *happens* to have AS as well.
After reading the article on the movie, this seems to have pro-cure written all over it.
Let's see, the only moral of this story seems to be "Asperger's Syndrome will drive you shoulder-length into debt and inspire suicide in the people around the person". Yep, it's curespeak.
Oh god, its not the story about the girl who wanted fashionable clothes and the parents tried to commit suicide is it? :shock:
Sadly, it is. Just click on the link that Drifter put up.
The girl herself has said that she does not have Asperger's. From the description in the link it sounds much more like Narcissistic personality disorder.
Lisa Ainscow denies having Asperger's Syndrome or being mentally ill.
Through her solicitor, Richard Nicholas, she said: "I was very worried about my mother and I'm absolutely relieved that she has been found."
Mr Nicholas said Mrs Ainscow was harming her daughter by creating a "media circus".
He said: "Lisa is not mentally ill, but she is a vulnerable adult. She is the unfortunate victim of a campaign of media manipulation by her mother.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merse...464245.stm
The mother has also made money from this latest film. It will certainly continue the media circus for her daughter.
Boy howdy. This is like a car-crash in slow motion. Not only is the mother using her daughter, she's also dragging the rest of the Autistic/Aspie community into the mud with her.
Who votes that a update on Mommy Dearest should be made about the mother?
It certainly looks like a 'media circus', with Asperger Syndrome added for a bit of 'spice'.
Note how the article linked by Drifter was peppered with such choice turns of phrase as 'long-suffering Wendy', 'tragic', 'heart-broken', etc.
As it is an ITV1 Drama, I suppose that we should not expect it to be too cerebral but even so, such a cheap trick should not go unchallenged.
It is also interesting that the Daughter would choose to express her commiserations through a Solicitor.
Sounds like they're trying to make a Lifetime movie out of it. I mean, for those of you who may like Lifetime, it's not that I have a problem with them. Alot of the movies they show just happen to be rreaalllyy overdramatic.
Lisa Ainscow denies having Asperger's Syndrome or being mentally ill.
Through her solicitor, Richard Nicholas, she said: "I was very worried about my mother and I'm absolutely relieved that she has been found."
Mr Nicholas said Mrs Ainscow was harming her daughter by creating a "media circus".
He said: "Lisa is not mentally ill, but she is a vulnerable adult. She is the unfortunate victim of a campaign of media manipulation by her mother.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merse...464245.stm
The mother has also made money from this latest film. It will certainly continue the media circus for her daughter.
Yep, as I thought - another attempt by certain graph paper-brained bean counters in the "entertainment" industry to put down not only the genuine people with autism/AS, but anyone who is "likely" (in the official view of these unaccountable TV propagandists) to have it.
I notice it's been made for the ITV network, which I understand is being gradually stripped of its original integrity and public accountability "from ceiling to floor"; I understand it's starting to become like the old "TV-am on steroids 24/7" - massive job cuts, region-mergers, even doing away with "unappealing" regional company brands and even going so far (and heartless) as to suddenly close down their new children's channel - and all with the feeble excuse being "in order to compete". Duh!
And yet this same network can waste all that excess money they save on a very degrading negative piece of anti-autistics propaganda like this!
Please don't be fooled - the commercial/government-owned TV industries - whether cable, satellite or land-based - are no real friends of the autistic/AS community, and they will do anything they can to make sure that OUR right to reply with the real truth that we have to offer about autism/AS (i.e. from an autistic/AS person's own unbiased perspective) is unavailable to us while they continue to use propagandistic forms of "entertainment" to discredit us.
Peace Out,
Steven Wood.