"The King's speech" was the big winner at this year's Oscars, taking the most important awards. Following the model of other posts, I'll do a short analysis of your script.
From here, everything is full of spoilers .
If you read, you play it.
Brief Summary:
George, Duke of York, who is suffering from a severe stutter, is overcome with the help of a speech, as events lead him to the throne of the United Kingdom and coming World War II.
Starring
George, Duke of York.
Antagonist:
Stuttering
Allies
Lionel Logue, speech
Isabel, Duchess of York
employees, prime ministers, politicians ( Churchill, Chamberlain, Baldwin ...)
Obstacles:
Edward, brother of Jorge,
George V, father of George,
Abbot of Westminster
Objective protagonist overcome their stuttering, confidently able to exercise leadership in their country.
Small structure analysis:
triggers: George, Duke of York, is giving a speech to close the Universal Exhibition. Absolute failure. (Min 1)
First act:
dealing with bad speech therapists. His wife located Lionel Logue, a more eccentric type. Jorge comes to him but ... his methods scare you. Logue delivers an album that was recorded using a trick.
turning point: Jorge Logue hear the recorded disc and ... discover that the methods of the speech therapist can work. Finally, it opens some hope for him. (Minute 35)
Second act:
Jorge is treated by Logue, with unconventional methods. Gradually, you encounter some psychological reasons his stuttering: block figures to criticism, education ...
his father's death leads to Edward, brother of Jorge, to the throne. He plans to marry a divorcee. George tries to convince him otherwise.
Humiliated by his brother, who makes fun of his stuttering, Jorge attributed the blame for its failure to Logue and dismissed him.
Edward abdicated rather than leave the woman he loves. Jorge sits on the throne.
Now that occupies the throne, the pressure on him is even greater. Unable to give a speech, undergoes a major crisis is not believed to live up to his post.
Jorge decides to go back to Logue. This helps you get away with it their coronation ceremony.
second turning point: However, shortly after being crowned, comes his biggest challenge: Prime Minister Baldwin tells the King George VI of the imminence of war against Germany (Minute 92).
Act III:
England officially enters war. It is essential that the King lead a spirited and patriotic speech to his subjects. It is your challenge.
Climax: Jorge faces his great antagonist, stuttering, in a crucial speech.
With the help of Logue, pronounced stutter-free speech. Is congratulated by all, has managed to become the leader the country needed. (Minute 112).
Note; as always, this is my proposal for framing within the conventional scheme. The first act lasted about 35 minutes, the second, about 60, the third, 20.
There are other structural possibilities and I'm sure you can come up with some interesting in the comments section.
Now for my opinion on the script for this film. More subjective than the above if possible.
My analysis
" King's speech" historic tells a little story that occurred in a particularly relevant recent history. The voice of a king, as any political figure, is your best weapon to communicate, convince and lead his people. A king who stutters may seem like a weak leader, a frail figure.
In my opinion, the great discovery of the film is to show that the speech defect in another person and / or at another time would have been irrelevant, was of great importance to the King of England, on the eve of the Second World War.
know this story, investigate it and decide to write a movie with a plot apparently so trivial, in my opinion, the best of working script of "The King's speech. " From what I read in the the Wikipedia entry on the film, was David Seidler, who has won the Oscar for original screenplay for this film, who had the initial idea of \u200b\u200bthe film, because, having suffered from stuttering , was especially identified with the problem of the monarch. This confirms what we said Jean Claude Carrière on the writer: " happens quite often that a screenwriter is a cultured person. And rightly so, even if their culture, often acquired as the chance of your job, scattered and incomplete. "
Another of the strengths of the film is, in my view, how interesting it is the conflict with Edward, heir to the throne. His love affair with a divorcee, love it takes even abdicate, could be invited to make a gentle and romantic portrait of the elder brother of the protagonist. It is not the case: it shows Edward as an arrogant, superficial, who despises his younger brother. Yes, he is madly in love but ... a woman's frivolous and rude. To make matters worse, both partners have a disturbing sympathy for the Nazis. The film takes on a clear stance more mainstream establishment, applauding that Edward should abdicate love the person "wrong." It is this "subplot" in which the film reaches, in my opinion, the most interesting and complex. Ignoble characters act very romantic. Noble characters behave in a way, so conservative and conventional.
The problem is that this "subplot" is presented for the first time on 30 minutes when he explains the relationship of Edward and Wallis, and ends with the abdication of Edward, on 70 minutes of film.
What will the rest of the movie? Obviously, how George tries to overcome stuttering to give speeches. His relationship with the speech therapist trying to help.
It is about a story of overcoming. Even a child could sum up what the basic scheme these stories: One guy has a problem, it seems impossible to solve. Go to a teacher who, through a very severe, it makes you learn something about himself, something essential to overcome their problem, something that limits or constrains. In the process, the learner is rebelling against the teacher several times, he feels he is not advancing, resisting change ... but finally, using the lessons learned, the protagonist achieves his purpose. Remains the same, but changed. Defeat the dragon wins ... wins ill or stuttering.
arises here, in my opinion, one of the biggest problems of the film. "Speech King's is located halfway between the historical narrative more or less realistic and inspiring story of overcoming. Try to be both, and always in my opinion, not be fully achieved by any of them. As a historical narrative focuses on an anecdote that, compared with all the events that surround it, is extremely trivial. Who cares about that stuttering when a king is abdicating for love and is about the worst war in history? This problem is particularly evident to me when, after the final speech, everyone rushes to congratulate him and congratulate him, as if the most important to them was also his fight against stuttering: nobody seems to importance to the speech you just read the monarch announced the country's entry into war.
All this would be unimportant if we were facing one of these amazing success stories that the movies we usually see. Stories in which someone suffers a descent into hell from which emerges stronger. From his hand comes also the viewer, caught up in the hope that he too, with hard work and perseverance, will overcome their problems and limitations. In my opinion, this also happens in "The King's speech." Perhaps true to the facts, the path followed by Jorge after the film just seems to me unsatisfactory. A hard sentence concludes a speech in my opinion very exciting. Logue instruction, while having fun iconoclastic moments (scenes of abuse, the songs ...) do not stop ringing for a thousand times seen (the whole relationship of George with his speech therapist seems taken from a film like "The Club Dead Poets Society "or any other fable about a maverick teacher who brings out the best students).
addition, this statement does not seem to take a particular direction. Logue is not in Jorge (who insists on calling Bertie) the key to overcome his stuttering. It seems to indicate that the speech defect is due to the strict upbringing but ... not delve into it, George does not rebel against their environment, does not learn anything new about yourself, or becomes, from any time a new person. The main plot is revealed as something trivial and realistic but also mild, somewhat conventional stretched, with discussions as incomprehensible as the scene of the park.
is very possible that this film is faithful to reality: it is likely that stuttering King George did not have a psychological cause or, if any, the speech therapist Logue not find it. Quite possibly the King would not never completely overcome his stammer and that his speeches were only moderately exciting.
This is more or less, the impression one draws from the film: that, thanks to an endearing kind, a king without excessive charisma almost overcame a speech impediment. The reality is, many times, so mediocre. At the movies I usually ask a little more. Although it is a lie.
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