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FINDING
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HOWTHEY RECREATED A MAJESTIC THIRTIES’ BACKDROP FOR
THE KING’S SPEECH
rom The Young Victoria and Mrs Brown to FThe Queen, British cinema has proved fertile and audience-pleasing ground for recreating the more recent trials and tribulations of our
centuries-old Monarchy. The King’s Speech, winner of the Cadillac People’s Choice Award at Toronto, is likely to be no less irresistible to filmgoers.
Starting in 1925 when Bertie (Colin Firth), the then Duke of York and second son of George V, was almost paralysed by his stammer while required to speechify at the closing of the Empire Exhibition at Wembley,
it follows his eventual accession to the throne in 1936 and through to a triumphant address to the nation on the outbreak of war three years later.
Photo: Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter in The King’s Speech
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But those are just the bare bones of an extraordinary saga involving, of course the Abdication crisis, a touching domestic love story and of the unorthodox alliance between Bertie, later George VI, and a single-minded Australian speech therapist, Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush), secretly hired to cure the Royal impediment.
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