{"id":6376,"date":"2011-07-18T22:25:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T02:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=6376"},"modified":"2013-05-26T16:46:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T20:46:58","slug":"the-kings-speech-2010-tom-hooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/6376","title":{"rendered":"The King’s Speech (2010, Tom Hooper)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nominated for an ungodly number of oscars, winning picture, actor and director (over four of my longtime favorites: Fincher, Russell, Aronofsky and Coen). I smelled another inconsequential Shakespeare In Love<\/em> and was prepared to be offended, but was crestfallen to discover that I really like the movie. It’s superbly acted, as we’ve heard over and over, but also very well written and even interestingly shot. Damn. At least Social Network<\/a><\/em> got (adapted) writing and editing, both of which it richly deserved (sorry, Inception<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n

Simple story, really, with a built-in, historically accurate underdog triumph ending. The duke (who becomes king a couple years later) stutters horribly during any attempt at public speaking, so his wife turns to an uncredited speech therapist with unusual methods in a last-ditch attempt to help her husband, culminating in the new king’s first major radio address, declaring war on Germany in 1939. My favorite scene is when Geoffrey Rush’s wife discovers the king and queen in her husband’s grimy study, revealing to the king (and the audience) that Rush’s speech therapist has faithfully kept his famous student’s secret even from his own family for years.<\/p>\n

Colin Firth, a longtime Katy favorite, did not disappoint (I thought he was better in A Single Man<\/a><\/em>). Guy Pearce played a very convincing Brit. Good to see Helena B. Carter and Michael Gambon, too. I don’t know what the movie had against Winston Churchill, casting him as a toady Timothy Spall. Hooper previously made soccer movie The Damned United<\/em> and the John Adams<\/em> miniseries. Writer David Seidler worked on a couple of not-well-liked 90’s cartoon films and something called Kung Fu Killer<\/em>. Shot by Danny Cohen (This Is England<\/em>, Dead Man’s Shoes<\/em>) with production design by Eve Stewart (Topsy Turvy<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nominated for an ungodly number of oscars, winning picture, actor and director (over four of my longtime favorites: Fincher, Russell, Aronofsky and Coen). I smelled another inconsequential Shakespeare In Love and was prepared to be offended, but was crestfallen to discover that I really like the movie. It’s superbly acted, as we’ve heard over and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[343,1049,102,1111,1286,1287,1288,1285],"class_list":["post-6376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1930s","tag-2010s","tag-britain","tag-colin-firth","tag-geoffrey-rush","tag-helena-bonham-carter","tag-michael-gambon","tag-tom-hooper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6376"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8665,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376\/revisions\/8665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}