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Lines:
I thought there were enough moments to keep the pace going nicely. I honestly wasn't bored at all. It's really quite a good movie. I especially enjoyed the banter between Rush and Firth.

Re: former speech therapists
Rush: They're all idiots.
Firth: They've all been knighted.
Rush: Well that just makes it official then.

The relationships between the characters were really good and it's a good depiction of the progression of speech pathology. (My mom works in a speech/audiology graduate program, so I've heard all about this stuff since I was a kid, so that was interesting to me.)

Barmymoo:
I am hoping to see this soon but it doesn't come out in France until February 2nd which was disappointing (but perhaps I'll go for my birthday!). The trouble will be finding a cinema which is showing it in english. I'll be interested to see how they present the speech impediment in the french subtitles - will they translate literally, or translate paying regard to how a french speaker would stutter over the sentence?

KvP:
I think the performances were pretty fucking excellent all around, but in terms of plot it was pretty by-the-numbers Oscar bait and the conflicts felt forced at times.

Firth / Rush / Carter are great, though. It's a feel-good movie for feel-good people.

horsefish:

--- Quote from: Graphite on 11 Jan 2011, 02:28 ---I enjoyed seeing Michael Gambon in the sort of role he is suited to - he has this strange undercurrent of anger and frustration in everything I've seen him in, and for once that was really right for the character. Also loved seeing Colin Firth take his old, stereotypical role of repressed, verbally stumbling Brit to its natural conclusion.

--- End quote ---

I'm embarassed to say that the first time I saw him was in his first Harry Potter movie - after associating him with Dumbledore, it was a bit of a jolt to see him as such a thorough asshole in Gosford Park.  

I just finally saw The King's speech, and I liked it, mostly for the performances. Not much to add that hasn't been said here already, but something not related to the movie itself struck me funny.  Usually trailers are targeted to the same audience that the feature is, but one of the trailers before TKS was for Transformers: Dark of the Moon.  Most of the mostly older crowd in the theater was, like, "Wha?"  Maybe you had to be there  :psyduck:

*EDIT*  Not making age-based generalizations about movie tastes, just an observation of that particular audience on that particular night.

*EDIT* Repressed, verbally stumbling Brit?  I thought that was Hugh Grant  :evil:

pwhodges:
I've just enjoyed watching a Channel 4 documentary, broadcast a few days ago, about Lionel Logue, with commentary from a number of his other patients (including Nicholas Mosley), and film of George VI speaking on various occasions.  Of particular interest was one moderately well-known film clip of which they then showed the original before the stutter was largely edited out.  The whole program was interesting, though not revelatory.

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