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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.

Errori

When Bertie starts to apply glue to the model plane, the plane is resting on the table, however in t [...] D
In the climactic scene where the king delivers his live radio address, the costume is correctly that [...] D
When Bertie meets with Baldwin to discuss Edward's abdication, a close-up shows a speck of dandruff [...] D
In the movie, an air raid alarm occurs in London in September 1939. There was a false air raid alarm [...] D
In the 1930s, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin would have been called "Prime Minister Mr. Baldwin", no [...] D
Queen Elizabeth II has blue eyes. Freya Wilson, who plays Princess Elizabeth, has brown eyes. D
The story takes place over several years, but the two princesses (Bertie's daughters) do not age. D
When Bertie is practicing for his broadcast with Lionel, Lionel is visible in the mirror, walking to [...] D
After King George V delivers his 1934 Christmas speech, he has a conversation with Bertie. In that c [...] D
Lionel Logue never swore in front of the king, and never called him "Bertie". D
When the Duke of York tells his daughters the penguin story, the view from behind shows each girl wi [...] D
Churchill advises Bertie to not come to the throne as King Albert because "Albert" is "too German". [...] D
At the end of the Westminster Abbey speech rehearsal scene when Bertie and Lionel are arguing and Be [...] D
The king's war speech did not end where it does in the movie. There was one additional sentence: "Ma [...] D
The Duchess of York's hat at Balmoral, based on the Royal Air force themes, was not her fashion unti [...] D
When Lionel is dining with his family, the face shot of him shows a moderate amount of food on his p [...] D
Logue's boys make plastic models in the mid/late 1930s. Scale modeling then was usually done in bals [...] D
After the abdication of Edward VIII, Bertie says to Logue "every Monarch in history has always succe [...] D
In a brief scene at the end of the film, a small group of factory workers are listening to the speec [...] D
The scenes at Balmoral take place in winter. In real life King Edward VIII was there in August and S [...] D
When Logue is playing Shakespeare with his sons, they are sitting in the studio. Logue apologizes th [...] D
The Wembley Stadium scene includes the famous twin towers on the far side of the field. In real life [...] D
When the newsreel about the 1937 Coronation ends, it is immediately followed by a report of a big ou [...] D
At home, in the company of their parents, princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were called Lilibet and [...] D
Just before the king gives his first wartime speech, in the first week of September 1939, the trees [...] D
After he learns of his father's death and realizes he is now king, Edward VIII is shown breaking dow [...] D
In the film Winston Churchill is presented as a critic of Edward VIII (Duke of Windsor). In reality [...] D
In the conversation with Bertie after delivering the Christmas proclamation, the King refers to "Mar [...] D
In a brief scene at the end of the film, a group of soldiers listens to the speech as broadcast. The [...] D
The altar frontal at Westminster Abbey is purple. King George VI's coronation occurred May 12th, 193 [...] D
At the end of the movie, while the King delivers his wartime speech to the nation, a group of men in [...] D
The Duke and Duchess of York had blue eyes, but Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter have brown eyes [...] D
When the BBC transmitters are shown, all of the meters read zero. D
Towards the end of the credits, it is written: "Piano Concerto No.5 'Emperor' 2nd Movement Composed [...] D
When King George VI gives his speech at 6pm, one clock says 7:20pm. D
Contemporary accounts reported that when Their Majesties went to visit Logue, the soon-to-be queen w [...] D
In the final speech, King George VI has one blue eye and one brown eye. Colin Firth had lost a conta [...] D
At Wallis Simpson's party, the music is supposed to be coming out of the gramophone. The turntable i [...] D
When Queen Elizabeth first engages Logue in his office, her veil is down in every shot but one, when [...] D
After King George VI gives his war speech in the studio with Logue present, he puts his military jac [...] D
The Tiger Moth aircraft, although of the period, bears a registration (G-ANFM) allocated in 1953. D
While watching a newsreel of Adolf Hitler, Princess Elizabeth asks Bertie what Hitler is saying; he [...] D
Stanley Baldwin is depicted as resigning as Prime Minister on a point of principle, because he has m [...] D
Bertie's kilt is a modern Irish County Kerry plaid designed in 1997, not the Balmoral Tartan his gre [...] D
When the Archbishop administers last rites to King George V, he wears a simple wooden cross. In the [...] D