Comments | cleolinda: So I saw The King's Speech

cleolinda

So I saw The King's Speech

Jan 23, 2011 20:08

Not that I have particularly Deep Thoughts, but I know people have wanted to talk about it.

( Minor spoilers )

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redcoast January 24 2011, 02:21:07 UTC

THOSE ARE THE RULES WE HAVE TO FOLLOW THEM.

rose_griffes January 24 2011, 02:21:24 UTC

The MPAA rating for this movie is indeed RIDICULOUS.

I didn't recognize Jennifer Ehle until nearly the end.

...stammering in a different accent--that very particular royal accent--and making it sound natural.
Colin Firth was amaaaaaaaaaazing in this role. That accent is so unlike all the accents I've heard him use before, and he was utterly convincing as he used it.

cleolinda January 24 2011, 02:33:16 UTC

I realized how amazing it was once I picked up the way he was turning Rs into Ws or something--and that it wasn't part of the speech impediment.

litlover12 January 24 2011, 02:42:12 UTC

Yeah, I caught that "pwincesses" thing while he was telling the penguin story. But I thought it WAS part of the speech impediment!

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evewithanapple January 24 2011, 02:26:14 UTC

I spent all of Guy Pearce's scenes delighted by how thoroughly I wanted to punch him in the head.

My thoughts exactly! Well, I was okay with him- he was snivelly and irresponsible, but not actively hateable- up until the scene where Bertie confronted him about his lack of responsibility and he started mocking his stutter, and then I was like "HA HA, YOU'RE GOING TO BECOME A MISERABLE ALCOHILIC AND DIE." It was one of those times where I felt no shame in laughing at someone else's misfortune. Is Pearce's role big enough to get a Best Supporting Actor nomination?

It's weird- there are so many things about the whole monarchial system I disagre with, and some of the family's criticism of Wallis felt extremely class-based ("how dare she make decisions about the property! She's not one of us.") but the movie had me rooting wholeheartedly for the monarchy. Good on you, movie.

cleolinda January 24 2011, 02:30:31 UTC

Oh, people have WON for much less screen time.

alierakieron January 24 2011, 02:36:44 UTC

Judy Dench, "Shakespeare in Love" anyone?

alpheratz January 24 2011, 02:45:29 UTC

And Tilda Swinton in Michael Clayton. She was great, but it surprised me.

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alpheratz January 24 2011, 02:27:23 UTC

It did not occur to me until later why it would be particularly funny for Jennifer Ehle to go into shock upon discovering Colin Firth in her house.

Ahahaha it didn't even occur to me until you said that.

I loved that movie. Tits!

maxineofarc January 24 2011, 04:43:07 UTC

I think they were involved IRL for a while, too.

purple_smurf January 24 2011, 05:20:25 UTC

They were very much involved, and it always makes me grin when Andrew Davies comes out with things like, "And [Colin Firth] and Jennifer [Ehle] just went together so perfectly, I thought. And they got on very well." because they "got along very well" like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie on the set of Mr and Mrs Smith (even if they didn't last).

stellans January 24 2011, 02:28:12 UTC

I have got to see this movie!