Il discorso del re

Titolo originale: The King's Speech
Regia: Tom Hooper |
Anno: 2010
Origine: United Kingdom | United States of America |
Generi: Dramma Storia
Tag: great britain | marriage | stutter | monarchy | palace | radio | radio transmission | royal family | biography | based on true story | death of father | speech | royalty | historical fiction | period drama | 1930s | british royal family | british monarchy | winston churchill | speech therapy | corgi | dignified |
Cast: Colin Firth | Geoffrey Rush | Helena Bonham Carter | Guy Pearce | Timothy Spall | Michael Gambon | Jennifer Ehle | Derek Jacobi | Freya Wilson | Ramona Marquez | Richard Dixon | Robert Portal | Eve Best | Paul Trussell | Adrian Scarborough | Andrew Havill | Charles Armstrong | Roger Hammond | Calum Gittins | Dominic Applewhite | Ben Wimsett | David Bamber | Jake Hathaway | Patrick Ryecart | Teresa Gallagher | Simon Chandler | Claire Bloom | Orlando Wells | Tim Downie | Dick Ward | John Albasiny | Danny Emes | Anthony Andrews | John Warnaby | Roger Parrott | Dean Ambridge | Julianne Buescher | James Currie | Graham Curry | Tony Earnshaw | Sean Talo |

Duca di York e secondogenito di re Giorgio V, Bertie è afflitto dall'infanzia da una grave forma di balbuzie che gli aliena la considerazione del padre, il favore della corte e l'affetto del popolo inglese. Figlio di un padre anaffettivo e padre affettuoso di Elisabetta (futura Elisabetta II) e Margaret, Bertie è costretto suo malgrado a parlare in pubblico e dentro i microfoni della radio. Sostituito il corpo con la viva voce, il Duca di York deve rieducare la balbuzie, buttare fuori le parole e trovare una voce. Lo soccorrono la devozione di Lady Lyon, sua premurosa consorte, e le tecniche poco convenzionali di Lionel Logue, logopedista di origine australiana. Tra spasmi, rilassamenti muscolari, tempi di uscita e articolazioni più o meno perfette, Bertie scalzerà il fratello “regneggiante”, salirà al trono col nome di Giorgio VI e troverà la corretta fonazione dentro il suo discorso più bello. Quello che ispirerà la sua nazione guidandola contro la Germania nazista.

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In one scene, the Duchess of York talks to Mr. Churchill. Helena Bonham Carter's grandmother, Violet [...] D
Screenwriter David Seidler has said of King George VI: "Here was a stutterer who was a King and had [...] D
The role of King George VI was written with Paul Bettany in mind. Bettany declined in order to spend [...] D
While arguing about the coronation chair, the King mentions the Stone of Scone (pronounced "skoon"), [...] D
After the film had been completed Colin Firth struggled to lose the stutter he had developed for the [...] D
The historical subject matter, including the major theme of King George VI's stammering, has been de [...] D
Australian Guy Pearce plays a Brit. Briton Eve Best plays an American. American Jennifer Ehle plays [...] D
Ironically, despite playing the role of King George VI, Colin Firth is actually a British republican [...] D
When told to waltz in preparation for his final speech, the King sings part of his speech to the mel [...] D
Robert Hardy, who had previously played Winston Churchill several times on-screen to considerable ac [...] D
Michael Gambon plays King George V, grandson of Queen Victoria. In Vittoria e Abdul (2017), he playe [...] D
Helena Bonham Carter portrays King George's wife Elizabeth in this film; she is the mother of the yo [...] D
Guy Pearce has the distinction of appearing in consecutive Academy Award Best Picture winners: this [...] D
This movie marks the second time that an actor and an actress have received Academy Awards for playi [...] D
Lionel refuses to let Bertie smoke during their speech sessions, saying "sucking smoke into your lun [...] D
Keen eyes will notice the Blackshirt advertisement posters in the movie; "Fascism is Practical Patri [...] D
Helena Bonham Carter and Derek Jacobi appeared in Disney's Cenerentola (2015). D
Nine weeks before filming began, Lionel Logue's grandson, Mark Logue, discovered a large box in his [...] D
When Queen Elizabeth meets Lionel Logue the first time, she says that the President for the Royal So [...] D
This movie was an Australian co-production, and the first Australian movie to win the Academy Award [...] D
Jennifer Ehle played Elizabeth Bennet to Colin Firth's Mr. Darcy in Orgoglio e pregiudizio (1995). A [...] D
The bit of Shakespeare that Lionel performs for his sons is from Act 3, Scene 2 of "The Tempest," ot [...] D
The King's speech, as delivered in the movie, is only two-thirds of the original. The original speec [...] D
Screenwriter David Seidler stammered as a child, and heard King George VI's wartime speech as a chil [...] D
In this movie, Colin Firth plays King George VI. Earlier, his brother Jonathan Firth played George V [...] D
According to EMI recording engineer Peter Cobbin, the original royal microphones had been in the EMI [...] D
Colin Firth won the best actor Oscar for his performance as King George VI in this movie. The next y [...] D
The real Winston Churchill was seen with a large cigar so frequently that a specific cigar size was [...] D
The Kings of the United Kingdom are successively portrayed by an Irishman, an Australian, and an Eng [...] D
This movie featured Harry Potter actress and actors Helena Bonham Carter, Timothy Spall, and Michael [...] D
With Colin Firth winning the Academy Award Best Actor Oscar for playing King George VI in this movie [...] D
The casting of Colin Firth was criticized by some because he did not look or sound like the real Kin [...] D
Anthony Andrews, who portrayed Stanley Baldwin in this movie, played Edward VIII in another movie ab [...] D
The piece of music heard during the broadcast of King George VI's 1939 radio speech is the second mo [...] D
King George's first successful attempt at speaking is reciting Hamlet's "To be or not to be" speech. [...] D
Lionel Logue was an actor turned speech therapist. To help develop his character's stammer, and the [...] D
This movie includes four consecutive British monarchs: King George V (reigned 1910-1936), King Edwar [...] D
During the Abdication Crisis Winston Churchill said of King Edward VIII, "No Sovereign has ever conf [...] D
Production had to be scheduled around Helena Bonham Carter's schedule; she was also filming Harry Po [...] D
King George VI was seen as being supportive of the "appeasement" of Germany and Italy, and would hav [...] D
Final theatrical movie of Roger Hammond (Dr. Blandine Bentham). D
Early in the movie, a conversation by some administrators mentions that the Prince of Wales had brok [...] D
This film features two Death-eaters, Helena Bonham Carter and Timothy Spall, and a Hogwarts headmast [...] D
Claire Bloom plays Helena Bonham Carter's mother-in-law in this movie. She previously played her mot [...] D
At 73, David Seidler became the oldest person to win the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award (Osc [...] D
After delivering his wartime address, King George VI is greeted outside the radio room by Sir Winsto [...] D
During their first meeting, Lionel shows Bertie a home phonograph recorder that he calls a "Silverto [...] D
The screenplay for this movie was featured in the 2009 Blacklist; a list of the "most liked" unmade [...] D
The 2nd film in which Geoffrey Rush plays an advisor to the monarch and helps to prevent a crisis by [...] D
Geoffrey Rush and Colin Firth appeared in Shakespeare in Love (1998), in which Mark Williams played [...] D
Geoffrey Rush's and Colin Firth's characters discuss William Shakespeare. Rush and Firth played some [...] D
King George VI broke with protocol by publicly endorsing the Munich Agreement in 1938, and by inviti [...] D
Alexandre Desplat composed the music for this movie and The Queen - La regina (2006), which is about [...] D
At one point, King Edward VIII makes fun of Prince Albert's stammer by saying, "Younger brother tryi [...] D
Guy Pearce plays the older brother of Colin Firth's character. Pearce is seven years younger than Fi [...] D
An exchange between Winston Churchill and Bertie suggests that Churchill supported Edward's abdicati [...] D
Helena Bonham Carter appeared in two 2011 Academy Award winning movies: this movie, which won four O [...] D
The BBFC originally gave this movie a 15 certificate, for seventeen occurrences of the word "fuck". [...] D
After the King concludes his climactic speech and talks to Lionel Logue at his desk, if you listen v [...] D
Though having had a large body of television work, Tom Hooper won the Best Director Academy Award fo [...] D
The film was criticized for underplaying Edward VIII's flirtation with Nazism both before and after [...] D
Lionel acted out a scene from William Shakespeare's play Richard III. Claire Bloom who plays Queen M [...] D
Michael Gambon had previously portrayed King Edward VII (father of King George V) in The Lost Prince [...] D
While talking about William Shakespeare, one of Logue's sons mentions "the Scottish play". That play [...] D
Colin Firth won the Best Actor Academy Award (Oscar) for this movie on his second nomination. Firth [...] D
Timothy Spall also played Winston Churchill in Jackboots on Whitehall (2010). D
Geoffrey Rush says the line, "It makes it official." There is a similarly line in the source novel f [...] D
Derek Jacobi portrayed a monarch who struggled with speech problems in Claudius (1976). Jacobi playe [...] D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die," edited by Steven Schneider. D
King George VI fully supported the appeasement of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, and was strongly o [...] D
Timothy Spall also played Winston Churchill at the opening of the 2012 London Olympics. D
The second Best Picture winner in less than a decade to feature "King" in the title. Il Signore degl [...] D
When Archbishop Cosmo Lang attempts to dismiss Lionel Logue as the King's speech therapist, he says [...] D
Geoffrey Rush appeared in I miserabili (1998) and Elizabeth (1998). Tom Hooper directed Les Misér [...] D