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The King's Speech... Amazing film

I saw Inception over the summer. It was my favorite film to date. It held that stop until I saw Black Swan in December. I was over the moon about that movie and Natalie Portman's portrayal.

The King's Speech just blows all the other movies out of the water. Colin Firth might be the actor of the millennium. Just outstanding work from him and every member of the cast. Just like Conversations With Other Women, Bonham Carter proves she can play something that doesn't require her hair to be in strange directions and evil in her heart. :lol:

The cinematography is excellent, the directing is excellent, the screenplay must have been outstanding because there isn't a dull moment in the film. Even the sound design is top notch.
 
^ "The King's Speech" came very close to bumping off "Inception" and "Black Swan" from the top two slots in my favorite films of last year. It is third. It's an exceptional movie.
 
Every now and then i'm reminded that the movie business is more about big budget, blockbuster movies with the hottest actors at the moment. The Kings Speech is such a movie that's not about budget and insane special effects.. it's the actors that lift it above and they did an awesome job.

While Inception takes the crown this year for best story this movie takes best spot concerning best acting. I have seen Firth and Rush before in movies and they always did a good job but in this one they knocked it out of the park.
 
FPAlpha said:
Every now and then i'm reminded that the movie business is more about big budget, blockbuster movies with the hottest actors at the moment. The Kings Speech is such a movie that's not about budget and insane special effects.. it's the actors that lift it above and they did an awesome job.

While Inception takes the crown this year for best story this movie takes best spot concerning best acting. I have seen Firth and Rush before in movies and they always did a good job but in this one they knocked it out of the park.
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I don't know if I agree that Inception has the best story, I think it had the best HOOK, but, for me, it's a caper, getting the team together sort of story, the hook being it's all in the mind.

I actually think the best story is The King's Speech. A man who seems to have every advantage, but can't speak his mind? Can't open his mouth? And has the immense weight of duty, and can't even talk...

It's not a story with a twist or a hook, like Inception, but the story has stayed with me longer than Inception's.
 
Saw it again, because mom and dad wanted to see it, and was reminded of one of my favourite exchanges:

"Would I lie to a prince of the realm to win twelve pennies?"
"I have no idea what an Australian would do to win that kind of money."
 
CaptainCanada said:
Saw it again, because mom and dad wanted to see it, and was reminded of one of my favourite exchanges:

"Would I lie to a prince of the realm to win twelve pennies?"
"I have no idea what an Australian would do to win that kind of money."
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lol.

I need to see it again.

My wife is a member of SAG, so, we have a screener copy of it...bwah hah hah!
 
^^ Lucky!

There were a lot of very funny, understated lines in the movie. Firth's delivery was spot on, despite the king's comments that timing wasn't a strong suit of someone with a speech impediment.
 
The Wife and I finally saw "The King's Speech" this weekend... and I am still fascinated by it even this evening. It's that rare film which makes you want to dig deeper into the real lives of the characters and events portrayed.... which is no small feat. Right now, I don't know which film I'd vote for Best Picture...... but Colin Firth definitely has my vote for Best Actor. It would be fascinating to hear how he prepared for these speech patterns he had to perform.

One thing that I think bugged me a bit is how Churchill was portrayed, albeit excellently by Timothy Spall. According to some research my wife did, Churchill was vehemently against the abdication... and I can honestly see that given what we know of his personality.


JRS said:
The Queen has appeared to have given her blessing to the Oscar-nominated film The King's Speech, which portrays her father King George VI.
The BBC's Rajesh Mirchandani said Her Majesty is understood to have had a private screening of the film and is said to have found it moving.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12372617
:):techman:
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Now this is the "critic" whose opinion matters to me the most. This film was after all about her own father. To have her say it was "moving" and give her own approval means a great deal to me as a movie-goer.
 
BAFTA agrees with you, Neroon. :D

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12432378

The King's Speech ruled at the Baftas, winning seven awards included best film and best actor for Colin Firth.

It also won outstanding British film, best original screenplay, supporting acting honours for Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush, and best score.

Firth, 50, who also won the best actor Bafta last year for A Single Man, joked: "I like coming here."

David Fincher was named best director for The Social Network. Black Swan's Natalie Portman was best actress.

Firth is the first star to win the best actor Bafta two years' running since the late Rod Steiger won back-to-back Baftas for The Pawnbroker in 1967 and In the Heat of the Night in 1968.
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I took my parents to see the film on Friday evening (it also being my first viewing of the film) and we were all completely blown away by everyone involved - Firth and Rush completely dominated the film, and with great support from Helena Bonham-Carter (who was an absolute dead ringer for Queen Elizabeth the future Queen Mother) and a whole list of actors whom I didn't expect to turn up, including the little girl from Outnumbered as Princess Margaret. :)

As someone who loved Inception and Toy Story 3 from 2010, I'd say that this was by far the best film I had seen in the last 6 months.

Neroon said:
One thing that I think bugged me a bit is how Churchill was portrayed, albeit excellently by Timothy Spall. According to some research my wife did, Churchill was vehemently against the abdication... and I can honestly see that given what we know of his personality.
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That was apparently the more notable of the dramatic liberties the story took, but I'm not complaining when the always excellent Timothy Spall is involved. :)
JRS said:
The Queen has appeared to have given her blessing to the Oscar-nominated film The King's Speech, which portrays her father King George VI.
The BBC's Rajesh Mirchandani said Her Majesty is understood to have had a private screening of the film and is said to have found it moving.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12372617
:):techman:
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Now this is the "critic" whose opinion matters to me the most. This film was after all about her own father. To have her say it was "moving" and give her own approval means a great deal to me as a movie-goer.
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Hmmm... could we be seeing a Sir Colin Firth before the end of the year?
 
Neroon said:
Right now, I don't know which film I'd vote for Best Picture...... but Colin Firth definitely has my vote for Best Actor. It would be fascinating to hear how he prepared for these speech patterns he had to perform.
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My wife and I went to a taping of Inside The Actor's Studio when they were interviewing Colin Firth and he talks about it... I'm going to paraphrase, but he said it was more about TRYING to get the words out, rather than trying to copy a stutter. Like an actor in an emotional scene trying not to cry, ending up crying.

It's a great interview. Though, the taping is THREE hours, which they edit down, obviously, and THEN there's another bit after where the audience can ask questions, and that was another 40 minutes. My wife asked a question, I hope it's in the final edit.
 
Neroon said:
One thing that I think bugged me a bit is how Churchill was portrayed, albeit excellently by Timothy Spall. According to some research my wife did, Churchill was vehemently against the abdication... and I can honestly see that given what we know of his personality.
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That bugged me, too, but it didn't bug me nearly as much as its portrayal of King George VI as having been in favor of war with the German Reich when in fact he was a Chamberlainian appeasement supporter.
 
Wow some people are really determined to hate this film and bring it down aren't they?

So George VI actually supporting the elected PM of the day, scandelous! And most people wanted appeasement to work, precious few people wanted war. It's a fictionalised account of real events, its not claiming to be a documentary FFS!

Wonder where all this ire was when truly inaccurate films like Braveheart or U-531 were being trotted out?
 
Starkers said:
Wow some people are really determined to hate this film and bring it down aren't they?

So George VI actually supporting the elected PM of the day, scandelous! And most people wanted appeasement to work, precious few people wanted war. It's a fictionalised account of real events, its not claiming to be a documentary FFS!

Wonder where all this ire was when truly inaccurate films like Braveheart or U-531 were being trotted out?
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They're OK, cos they were American.
 
Starkers said:
Wow some people are really determined to hate this film and bring it down aren't they?
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I liked The King's Speech. I just didn't like that it distorted what kinds of people King George VI and Winston Churchill were like to fit modern sensibilities.

So George VI actually supporting the elected PM of the day, scandelous!
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He endorsed the Prime Minister's policy of appeasement, and he did it before Parliament got to weigh in on it. That's a basic violation of the British Constitution's prohibition against the Monarch taking political sides.

And most people wanted appeasement to work, precious few people wanted war.
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And I don't think The King's Speech would have been a bad film had it incorporated that information -- if anything, it would have improved the film. And I don't hold it against the film for changing the length of time King George had been working with Geoffrey Rush's character. But I think the essential challenge of a historical film is to accurately portray what kind of person their subjects were, and by changing King George's political opinions to fit modern sensibilities, the film didn't fully meet its dramatic obligations.

Wonder where all this ire was when truly inaccurate films like Braveheart or U-531 were being trotted out?
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I for one have very little use for Braveheart and have never even seen or been interested in U-531.
 
Starkers said:
Wow some people are really determined to hate this film and bring it down aren't they?

So George VI actually supporting the elected PM of the day, scandelous! And most people wanted appeasement to work, precious few people wanted war. It's a fictionalised account of real events, its not claiming to be a documentary FFS!

Wonder where all this ire was when truly inaccurate films like Braveheart or U-531 were being trotted out?
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Where in the world is this coming from? There hasn't been any kind of criticism to match what you're claiming. Certainly no hate at all. All that's been expressed was some disagreement with certain aspects of character portrayal, and that's all.
 
Okay, there are some inaccuracies in the film. Fine. Wasn't a documentary. Good story, good acting, good movie.
 
I loved it. Colin Firth deserves an Oscar for this one.

And I loved the fact that they made Churchill fugly as heck :lol:
 
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