Thursday, August 4, 2011

The King's Speech

The King's Speech is a United Kingdom historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper who and written by David Seidler. The film was nominated at the BAFTA's grace in 14 categories by winning seven awards; also nominated for Academy Awards as much as 12 categories and won four awards namely Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Original Screenplay.; And the Golden Globes nominations with Colin Firth as the winner of Best Actor.

The film is lifted by a true story told of a character known as King George VI.....



The King's Speech was started in 1925 and introduced the audience to the man who later would be known as King George VI (Colin Firth). At that time, he was known as Albert Frederick Arthur George or Prince Albert or the Duke of York or Bertie and will deliver his first speech in public. Looks are not confident in speaking kegagapannya then makes the delivery of the speech turned into an embarrassing thing for him. Aware that it would not be the last time for Albert to give a speech in front of crowds, his wife, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (Helena Bonham Carter), then went to Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush), a speech therapist from Australia who has a technique very unusual.

With the techniques that are sometimes very strange thing to do, and Lionel Albert relations are not run smoothly at first. However, when his father, King George V (Michael Gambon), died, and his brother, Prince Edward VII (Guy Pearce), who should have succeeded his father stumbled on a controversy, Albert must be prepared to ascend the throne. Albert eventually run all the techniques required to Lionel, at the same time, slowly, to establish friendly relations with him. After officially ascended the throne and become King George VI, his first major test in giving a speech in front of crowds that will come in the form of British society will be remembered as a speech capable of uniting the country in declaring war on Germany.

In making this film cost about 8 million British pounds, or about U.S. $ 13,140,604.4678 and earned gross revenue of about 149,554,953.946 British pounds or U.S. $ 245,655,312.