Elegant, proper, well spoken, and confident are some of the way you would describe a royal. That you how they are portrayed in every movie, every book and basically every way you see them. However, when you meet Prince Albert, the Duke of York, you quickly learn that well spoken and confident do not seem to be his strong suites. Prince Albert has spoken with a stutter since he was a child. He has gotten a lot of help from several speech therapists but none to any avail. That is until he meets that man by the name of Lionel Logue. The non-medically trained therapist learns a little bit about Prince Albert and starts working with him that day. The Prince is very much over being humiliated and believes he will never be cured. After a surprising result Prince Albert decides to start working with him. He soon learns that it's a good thing because shortly after Prince Albert, King George V, dies and his older brother takes the throne. However, through a crazy scandal of the time, Albert's older brother is forced off the throne and the crown will now goes to Prince Albert.
Filmed in a total of 39 days, The King's Speech is one of the most beautiful pieces of works to ever come on the big screen. The Weinstein Company did a phenomenal job and took home a total of four Academy Awards. This film had a stiff competition of the Best Picture Award that year. They other films nominated were: Fox Searchlight's 127 Hours and Black Swan; Paramount's The Fighter and True Grit; Warner Brother's Inception; Focus Features' The Kids Are All Right; Columbia's The Social Network; Disney's Toy Story 3; and Roadside Attractions' Winter's Bone.
This was the first Academy Awards that I really was starting to pay attention to what was going one. I remember this being a really hard choice just from what I know of the movies. Now that it's been a few years I haven most of these films it's still a hard choice! I will say that this is one of the best films that I have ever seen. You can't ever go wrong with Colin Firth because he knows how to really understand and do justice to a character and he totally deserved the Academy Award for Best Actor that he won.
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