"I'm sure anyone who wants to heal ..."
Lionel Logue in "The King's speech"
The real speech of the King ...
Although experience has shown that this theory is no longer valid, my mother continues to believe that stuttering I suffered for a brief period of my childhood was due to some sort of trauma psychological harm caused by an old friend of his, when he insisted on getting into a pool even without knowing how to swim. I still have that recollection in my mind, but I do not recall ever stammered ...
31 October 1925, the Duke of York and future King George VI the UK , Bertie in the family, faced a major challenges of his life, delivering the closing speech of the exhibition the British Empire at Wembley Stadium , opened by her father King George V (played by Michael Gambon chameleon) on April 23, 1924. This speech was broadcast by the BBC .
Affected of stuttering since childhood, suffered from it a huge complex. "The speech of the King" ( Tom Hooper, 2010) is the acclaimed and award-winning British film shows his commendable desire to excel. The protagonist is Colin Faith, winner of last Oscar as best actor.
George VI (1895 - 1952) on the day of his coronation
The most renowned specialists in the time speech disorders were unable to help, until in 1934, his wife Isabel , the future Queen Mother (Helena Bonham Carter ) discovers Lionel Logue query (Flawless nominee Geoffrey Rush ) an Australian audiologist self, holder of a methodology considered unorthodox at the time.
Amid the thick fog in London, Duchess of York in Harley Street the dark consultation Logue, who undertakes to cure the stuttering of his royal consort.
A brief paragraph, in the film, described the Duke of York as a heavy smoker, who consented to their own doctors as unhealthy habit in order to relax your throat. Logue exhaustively forbade him because he believed that snuff would seriously undermine the health of the patient. Unfortunately, time would give the reason, since George VI died in 1952 as a result of lung cancer . She was just 56 years.
Anecdotally, in a scene in which traffic passes through London, we can read a large sign on the facade of a building - "Bovril nourished you to resist Flu" - , a reference to the popular beef extract traditionally recommended to limit Flu ravages addition to its many other applications.
Lionel Logue was a descendant of a family of industrial brewers Dublin originating and based in Adelaide (Australia ). Possessing a clear and powerful voice, he would have received extensive training in diction and speech, which later imparted in Perth his disciples.
True Lionel Logue with actor Geoffrey Rush
At the end of World War worked with soldiers affected by PTSD and also suffered due to language disorders. In 1924, Logue and his wife Myrtle ( Jennifer Ehle) and their three children traveled to London where he began working as a speech therapist in various schools in the metropolis . opened their practice in the 146, Harley Street, now an exclusive area where medical practitioners over 1000 professionals, in their humble rooms as a patient would be more to himself Duke of York. After a successful life and career, died in London in 1953. For personal services to the British crown was decorated for his monarch with Order of Queen Victoria .
What is stuttering?
is a communication disorder characterized by involuntary interruptions of speech accompanied by excessive muscle tension in the face and neck, fear and stress.
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In this film, we see that stuttering is Bertie suffered by mixed of tonic-clonic type , although the latter elements predominate in the form of repetitions of syllables that start with consonants and the beginning of words. We can see this view in a scene where the Duke of York tells a story to his young daughters Elizabeth (now Elizabeth II ) and Margarita .
From the first consultation, the therapist tries to cultivate empathy with his stiff and stern patient. Discover the stuttering began when Bertie was 4 or 5 years, a period in which this disorder begins in most cases. Remember that only 1 in every 20 children is still stuttering in adulthood. also realizes that the only words Bertie blunderbuss when communicating with others, never mind when it does or for yourself.
devotee of Shakespeare , Logue is the prince read aloud an excerpt from the famous monologue in Hamlet . As you do, try to record your voice with a modern phonograph American brand "Silvertone" , able to play back the recording on vinyl support.
only get Bertie read correctly when masking the sound of his words through headphones where sound thunderous chords of the Overture of "The Marriage of Figaro" the brilliant Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . Indeed, the reference to this part has been neglected in the soundtrack of the film, made by Alexandre Desplat .
As the film progresses, Bertie be honest with your therapist. He recounts his unhappy childhood under the care of nannies, lefty bound to be right and bowlegged tortured day and night with a terrible metallic templates. The laterality disorders were also involved in the genesis of stuttering by some authors, although this theory has now been discarded.
Thanks to the instruction Logue, King George VI finally managed to overcome stuttering and to inflame his people through a first speech on the eve of World War II. In these scenes, as background music, listen to the sobriety of 2 º movement the 7 th Symphony Beethoven of .
... EDWARD AND WALLIS
parallel with the story of Bertie and his therapy, the film makes us partakers of the relationship between David older brother and ephemeral King Edward VIII ( Guy Pearce), who eventually give up the honors the British Crown in exchange for the love of controversial twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson ( Eve Best), but keeping to his death the title of Duke of Windsor . This abdication as unusually romantic allowed to pass Bertie became king in the King George VI.
Wallis Simpson and Edward (David), Duke of Windsor
In this film are historical figures like the Prime Ministers Stanley Baldwin ( Anthony Andrews), Neville Chamberlain ( Roger Parrot ) or Winston Churchill himself ( Tymothy Spall), some of whom stressed the desirability of King Edward VIII to focus more on governance issues in those prewar days, recommending the abandonment of the then scandalous affair with Mrs Simpson ...
OTHER DATA ON MEDICINE AND HISTORY :
This film relates tangentially to the last days of King George V, apparently affected by severe pneumonia, and whose death may was caused by an injection of morphine and cocaine applied as an analgesic for his personal physician, Dr. Bertrand Dawson .
also found a brief reference to the late John Prince (1905 - 1919), the younger brother of Bertie, as he tells of his childhood memories Logue. At 4 years, the Little John suffered severe seizures refractory to treatment, probably suffered autism. At the age of 13, inevitably worsen after his illness, was held at a farm near the palace Sandringham in Norfolk , where he received frequent visits from his mother and lived apart from all liability in court with her nanny Charlotte Bill "Lala" and his faithful friend Winifred Thomas . Its unfortunate there was brought to the screen the careful television series titled "The Lost Prince" ( Stephen Poliakoff, 2003).
cinephilia :
In "The king's speech" Derek Jacobi involved in role of Archbishop Cosmo Lang . This award-winning British actor hit the popular television series starring "I, Claudius" , novel based on the letter or Robert Graves, in which she portrayed the tormented stuttering Roman emperor, lame and full of tics.
As historical note, we emphasize that George VI was the last emperor British India (independent nation since 1947) as well as the last king of Ireland ( declared a republic in 1949).
Some cinefagia: the opening scene showing the closure of the initial exposure, which supposedly takes place at Wembley Stadium, was actually filmed in Leeds in the Elland Road stadium , whose opening dates from 1897. The old Wembley was demolished in 2002 and the current macroestadio 2007.
The old Wembley (1923 - 2002)
More cinefagia. The Great Private Lord Edward Davenport , the elegant and luxurious mansion that occupies 33 of Portland Place in the exclusive neighborhood of Marylebond (London ) was used to film the exterior of the alleged home of the Duke of York, while some of their interiors were used to recreate most of the scenes set in the office of Lionel Logue.
