It is a typical piece of work that sees the big from the small, the entry point is very unpopular, but it is ingenious. Perhaps, even if the stuttering is not corrected, George VI will still be a good king, but he is willing to make every effort to overcome his own shortcomings and perform his duties better. This incident itself can move and conquer people's hearts more than any speech or slogan.
The performance is really admiring, and the masters on the screen are like a cloud, and the eyes are dizzying. Just count, there is Grandpa Michael Gambon, the second principal of Deng at Hogwarts, playing George V; Timothy Spall, Wormtail, playing Churchill; Guy Pearce, who played "Memories", playing Edward VIII; Black Pearl The speech therapist played by Captain Geoffrey Rush is a mess; Helena regained her original color of the English rose when she debuted, accurately showing Queen Elizabeth's clever humor and mutual affection; Colin Firth's role of George VI is really heartbreaking. Childhood misfortune, living in the shadow of father and brother, was abused by the nanny, originally left-handed, forced to turn into the right. Stuttering throughout his life was ridiculed by his family, dignity and low self-esteem are mixed, but he is essentially a good person with stamina and conscientiousness. Watching Firth's interpretation, I strongly sympathize with this noble soul imprisoned by a stuttering defect.
When the film ended, there was a round of applause in the cinema. The film itself was shot calmly and low-key, and it was the public performance that captured the hearts of the audience.
However, there are no Chinese subtitles.
Although I understood the spirit, I didn't understand many details, so I came back and did a lot of homework. First go to the wiki to read the background of George VI, Queen Elizabeth, Edward VIII, George V, Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret, World War II, and Lionel Logue. Interesting, very interesting. It turns out that although King George VI is not as famous as Edward VIII or Queen Elizabeth II or Princess Diana, he is really an important person who inherits the past.
Edward VIII originally only knew that he "loves beauty and does not love the country". When he was young, he had a good impression of such a person, but after reading the background, he found that this person can only be described in three words: unreliable. Because it doesn’t matter if you love beautiful people, nor does it matter if you love beauties with husbands, but when the king has to do the king’s business, when I read that he left state secret documents in his mistress’s house, I disapproved of him; when I read After he abdicated, when he was still asking the royal family and the government for money to do this and that, he was put in the ranks of the impeccable wealthy generation; when I read that he actually kissed Hitler, then. . . . . . Completely speechless.
Fortunately, this man abdicated. Regardless of the real inside story behind the abdication, this one retreated as it should.
Fortunately, he has a good brother. George VI is actually very handsome, handsomer than Firth himself. He is very good at choosing women. Queen Elizabeth is a wise and humorous woman, and she was also a commoner. So Princess Diana is not the first commoner princess. Figured it out. King George VI is a good father and cares about the people. When he was still a prince, he believed that he would not become a king, and his general duty was to visit factories and care about the lower classes. He also likes sports. Everything is good, just stuttering. Stuttering is caused by growing up in the royal family and being psychologically distorted by the environment. So he knows how to forbear. Churchill, who also has speech phobia, is particularly in harmony with him, which is not surprising.
During World War II, King George VI has always been the spiritual leader of the United Kingdom. When London was attacked by air, he insisted on staying in London with his wife and children, and followed the rationing system like the people. This is really awe-inspiring. Unfortunately, he died of lung cancer at the age of 57. The eldest daughter Elizabeth II succeeded to the throne until now. Queen Elizabeth was honored as Queen Mother, lived to be 101 years old and died in 2002. Before Princess Diana, she was the favorite royal family member of the British.
Reading history is always interesting.
After reading the history, I downloaded the script. I understand a lot again. Then I found that Edward VIII's carelessness in political affairs, Germany's enthusiasm for him, and George VI's participation and shrewdness in state affairs are all manifested in his lines. I also learned a lot of British vocabulary. For example, the nickname of the shilling is Bob.
It must be mentioned that the film's final performance of George VI's first wartime speech is really a model of rendering. The king's tension and overcoming the tension, the reactions of the audience from all walks of life, music, close-ups, close-ups, and long-distance scenes, are combined in a slow but calm rhythm. Although the king's voice sounds calm and steady, the turbulent waves below are ready to emerge.
Read the script and read it again, it should be more rewarding. Hope to be free next week.
ps. The men’s trench coat in the 1930s is so handsome~~~
pps. The tidbit on IMDB said that when the screenwriter David wrote the book, the candidate for George VI in his mind was Paul Bettany, but Paul said " "I want to reunite with my family" as a reason to reject this role. Ah~~~ Paul! You have such a great acting skill, but your eyesight is extremely bad. See what you missed? Your reason is basically: I look down on your script. You go to play The Tourist. There are already two shining evil vases in that scene. You can't even make vases. And how good this scene is! Moreover, you do look more like George VI himself, and you have enough skills. However, you really have no vision. I have nothing to say, although I like you very much.
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Notes-Reading the script of "The King's Speech" (spoiler of course)
What I learned from reading this script :
1. Logue and his son appeared in the audience for the first public speech of the Duke of York (the title before George VI ascended the throne). This echoes in the back. I didn't pay attention at all when I saw it the first time.
2. The doctor who asked Bertie (the nickname of King George VI) to speak with a glass ball and told Queen Elizabeth that this treatment had cured Demosthenes. What is this guy called Di Mosini in Chinese, a famous orator in ancient Greece . Legend has it that he stuttered congenitally (there is a congenital bleat for stuttering?), and later recite poems with stones in his hands, and then went to the seaside where the waves were calling to practice his speech. The queen ridiculed the doctor, saying that this was something in ancient Greece.
3. When Queen Yi went to see Logue for the first time, the latter said Shakespeare: Poor and content is rich and rich enough. From "Othello". It means that if a person can live in poverty, he is rich. This sentence shows that Logue is a fan of Shakespeare's dramas and is in poverty.
4. Queen Yi told Logue that her husband's job required him to give a public speech, and Logue suggested that he change his job. The queen said he couldn't change it. Logue joked that he is an Indentured servitude? This stuff specifically refers to the young contract slave laborers who worked in the American colonies that year. They worked for the farm or the employer's family for several years according to the contract. They had no salary, and the remuneration was used to repay the cost of crossing the sea.
5. In the "penguin" that Bertie told his two daughters, he mentioned a kind of animal, herring, which turned out to be a herring. Another animal, Albatross, is the albatross. She would know this if she asked Peanut, but she was even more impressed when she found out.
6. Logue went to interview actors, he said: Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this sun of York... from Shakespeare's "Richard III".
7. The duke and his wife went to see Logue together for the first time. After closing the old-tooth elevator door, Queen Yi told the duke that she learned about Logue through introduction. He charged them a high fee and then went to help the poor. Queen Yi suddenly realized this deliberately, and said: Perhaps he's a Bolshevik?! Facing the capitalized word, I slowly spelled out the pronunciation in my head, and suddenly realized: Bolshevik!
8. Repeat the dialogue that made me laugh crookedly:
Logue: Smoking will kill you.
Bertie: My doctor said that smoking relaxes my throat.
Logue: They are idiots.
Bertie: They are all made knights.
Logue: That is to be officially confirmed (as an idiot).
9. shilling nickname: bob
10. English tongue twister: the I have have the I'm A sifter situated, Thistle A SIFT unsifted of sifted thistles and thistles Because the I'm A sifter situated, Thistle...
11. Logue played for entertainment sons for some Shakespeare Play:
Be not afeard: the isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices,
That, if I then had wak' d after long sleep.
Will make me sleep again... After
only one sentence, the eldest son told me the source and character. This scene shows that Logue loves the children very much and is very close to his sons (in contrast to Bertie's later relationship with his father). His son is very smart and knows Shakespeare well under his influence. Source: "The Tempest" The Tempest, the character is Caliban (Caliban), is a freak.
12. Logue and Bertie mentioned that Bertie's brother Johnnie died at the age of 13, suffering from epilesy and epilepsy. This is a review, I learned it when I was studying psychology and special education, but I have forgotten it after a long time.
13. The duke and his wife went to the tea party for Edward VIII. Bertie and David (nicknames for Edward VIII) had an argument. Bertie asked David, to be a king is to lay off 80 servants and buy more jewelry for Wallis (David's mistress)? Did you know that the European continent is full of people singing "red flags"? David replied: Don't worry, Hitler will clean them up. Bertie said: Who will clean up Hitler?
After the fight, David was forced to be unable to, so he had to fight back: It turned out to be so, that's why you went to give a speech class, right? Do you want to gain more audience? The younger brother tried to push his elder brother off the throne, a typical medieval bridge!
These few words made Bertie's stuttering full-blown, gaping and frustrated. Quarreling with his brother was never his strong suit.
This wonderful confrontation did not fully comprehend when watching the film.
14. Logue encourages Bertie to speak foul language, because people seldom stutter when speaking foul language. Bertie couldn't let go at the beginning, and Logue asked him to practice S word and F word one by one. He asked Bertie to say F word, and Bertie slyly said: Fornication? This word, come back to check, it is incest. Laugh down. This foul language is very cute. It's a pity that the movie has suffered a bit in terms of grading because of this.
15. After Bertie became king, facing the table full of official documents, she collapsed with anxiety. Queen Yi comforted him and said something very touching:
Dear, dear man... I refused your first two marriage proposals, not because I didn't love you, but because I couldn't bear the royal cage. Couldn't bear the idea of a life of tours and public duties, a life that no longer was really to be my own. Then I thought...he stammers so beautifully...they'll leave us alone. But if I must be Queen, I intend to be a very good Queen. Queen to a Very great King indeed.
Throw a humorous sentence in the words of encouragement: he stammers so beautifully...they'll leave us alone. It makes people cry and laugh.
16. When they were practicing in Westminster Abbey, a conflict occurred. Wang found out that Louge did not have a degree and a certificate. Louge defended himself, and finally forced Wang to say "I HAVE A VOICE". Important turning lines. Then the archbishop appeared to drive Louge away, and the king tried his best to protect him. Bishop said:. My concern is for the head upon which I must place the crown the king said: I appreciate that Archbishop, but it 's my head!
Laugh stitch.
17. Before the closing speech, Wang said to Logue: No matter what I say today, (I am very grateful), I don't know how to thank you for everything. Logue said: Make me a knight?
Echoing the previous knight idiot section.
18. Wang Chenggong delivered a speech and felt very good about himself. Logue said: You still stutter when you talk about W. Wang said: You have to throw a few (stammers) in before they know it's me.
19. Finally, the king shook hands with Logue and said, "Thank you, my friend." Logue said, "Thank you... Your Majesty." These two sentences were very meaningful. In the process of treating the king, Logue insisted on calling him Bertie, to be on an equal footing with him, and insisted that his friend encourage him to beat him. Now that he was done, he immediately withdrew from the situation, not daring to call himself Wang's friend anymore. This man is very alert. I couldn't help thinking of the relationship between Wei Xiaobao and Kangxi. Later, Wei Xiaobao was able to protect himself in the same way.
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