? The King’s Speech is a 2010 British film directed by Tom Hooper and starring Colin Firth. Firth received the Oscar for Best Actor for his role as George VI; Geoffrey Rush has been nominated as a supporting actor and Helena Bonham Carter as a supporting actress.
The film received applause from audiences and critics, who praised the acting quality of its actors. In addition to the brilliant acting work, it is worth noting the importance of the sets and costumes that have designed scenes that remind us of the time of George VI.
- ? The King’s Speech brings us closer to the most intimate historical character: King George VI of the United Kingdom.
- And he does so brilliantly.
- His impeccable script and his high artistic and cinematic quality earned him.
- Among other things.
- The Oscar for Best Screenplay and best picture.
- In short.
- An excellent work that brings us closer to a forgotten problem of cinema: stuttering.
Through a historical character, one immerses oneseed in the insecurity and anxiety that accompanies people suffering from this disorder of communication, the fear of public speaking, the anguish it brings and the rudimentary techniques of the time will make George VI an insecure man, full of fears. They are ghosts that will make you feel unable to give a speech in your status as duke and, later, as king.
With the help of a particular phono-audiologist, Lionel Logue, George VI will initiate therapy that, in addition to helping you with your communication problem, will establish a strong friendship with Logue that will allow you to expose your deepest fears.
At the same time, viewers witnessed a more human side of royalty, addressing not only the problems of stuttering, but also the history of the twentieth century. Sweet, elegant and funny, here’s “The King’s Speech”: a film that will leave you speechless.
George VI, known as Bertie in the family, was an unlikely king as he was the second son of King George V and, therefore, who should have ascended to the throne was his older brother Edward VIII, who reigned for a very short time.
His education was rigorous and worthy of British royalty, but he always knew he would not rule and, therefore, most of the pressures and responsibilities still fell on his older brother.
His first communication problems appeared in childhood, as in most children, around age 4 or 5. As Duke of York, son of the king and a member of the British royal family, he was forced to give speeches at public events, which aggravated his situation: anxiety further aggravated his stuttering.
I was afraid to speak in public and a multitude of insecurities. He tried his luck with a lot of doctors and methods that promised to cure his stuttering, but never made it.
Lionel Logue had no medical training, but as a young man in Australia he earned a degree in public speaking and the performing arts. After the First World War, he devoted himself entirely to his work as a speech therapist. He opened his office in London, where the Duke of York would then go.
Logue diagnosed? Bertie? With poor coordination between the larynx and the diaphragm and helped him overcome his stuttering through relaxation exercises, twists and other unusual practices for the time. Later, and thanks to his recognition, he became one of the founding members of the Faculty of Oratory. Therapy in 1944.
In the film, we follow the therapy performed by Logue and the conquests of the future king. This therapy will become a great friendship that will last for the rest of your lives. “Bertie? In Logue, he finds an ally, someone to trust and to tell his greatest fears. Therapy is not only based on gargling or stones inserted into the mouth, as suggested by other doctors of the time, but also tries to discover the reason that led Bertie to “lose her voice”.
At first, the Duke is reluctant to Logue’s methods, does not want to be treated like anyone else and wants Logue to refer to him as “His Royal Highness”. However, bertie calls her, as well as her relatives, refusing to give her special treatment.
Finally Logue will earn her trust and we will discover in Bertie a sad past, a childhood in which she was ridiculed, in which she suffered the tragic death of one of her brothers and could not be himself. His strict upbringing and harsh demands of Royalty made George VI an insecure and complex man, unable to deliver a speech and, moreover, forced to use his right hand, although he was actually left-handed.
“The King’s Speech,” in addition to deepening this communicative disorder, shows the most difficult aspect of royalty and being a public figure from birth. At the same time, the friendship between the two characters brings George VI a little closer to reality. of his people, to the lives of the people he led. As he said in one of his early sessions, his ignorance of the world was total, he only knew life in the palace.
David Seidler, author of the script, suffered from stuttering as a child and found in George VI an inspiring figure in which he was reflected, so he decided to investigate how he had overcome his disorder and talk to Logue’s son, who would lend him some of his father’s notebooks.
In addition, one of his grandchildren, Mark Logue, wrote a book entitled “The King’s Speech: How a Man Saved the British Monarchy,” which inspired the film’s title. The project was postponed for several years until 2010, we were able to appreciate the brilliant final result.
Thanks to the high quality of the film and its actors, we had the opportunity to approach this real figure: a stuttering man who became the voice of an empire at a very delicate time, just as World War II was about to erupt. . .
At that time, when it was crucial that the leaders of various nations had the charism to convey tranquility to their citizens, George VI had to face his greatest fears and take control of an unexpected situation: becoming the king of the British Empire.
Can a stutter become a good speaker? Demostene, mentioned in the film, achieved it with great effort in ancient Greece. George VI, thanks to Logue’s tireless help and his wife’s support, was able to convey the calm that the English so desperately needed at the time.
At one point in the film, George VI is seen watching Hitler’s speech and, although he does not understand the language, his insecurity becomes palpable when he sees Hitler’s ease and charisma when speaking in public.
The scenes of the speeches are so real that we can feel in our skin the anguish and agony of the king in front of a microphone, in front of the critical eyes of his audience. The king’s speech is a magnificent work that takes us on a wonderful journey into the past.
“It’s easy when you know how. “-The king’s speech