God Save The King’s Speech Academy award winning film, The King’s Speech, is a motivational movie where voice and courage become a matter of life and death. Prince Albert, later known as King George VI (Colin Firth), stammers excessively and uncontrollably through his inaugural speech closing the 1925 British Empire Exhibition due to a speech impediment. After finishing such a disappointing speech, Prince Albert decides to give up on himself and accept his fate as a stammering heir to the throne. However, his wife, Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter), enlists him to see an Aussie speech therapist that goes by the name of Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush) whose “Antipodean methods are known to be ‘unorthodox’ and ‘controversial,’” (“The King’s …show more content…
Bertie, is seen as a soon-to-be agonizing heir to the throne because he lacks communication skills. The only thing stopping Prince Albert is himself. In the movie he states: “If I'm King, where's my power? Can I form a government? Can I levy a tax, declare a war? No! And yet I am the seat of all authority. Why? Because the nation believes that when I speak, I speak for them. But I can't speak”(“The King’s Speech (2010)”). Prince Albert was a troubled child who was repressed of using his left hand, possessed knock-knees, had an abusive nanny and a death of a brother at an early age. As time passed, Prince Albert never grew out of his comfort zone and continued to speak poorly. Because Prince Albert speaks of himself that way, we can assume that communication is essential in leading a nation and is a foundation for personal life, relationships, professional success and civic life. By saying that a nation believes when he speaks, one can generally expect a leader for any reason or cause to possess great speaking skills in order to be prosperous. The old phrase, “actions speak louder than words” had never been so true such as in the case of Prince Albert. The Duke of York lacks nonverbal behavior greatly in the sense that he has no self esteem therefore, making him a statue when he speaks. “I have received from his Majesty the K-K-K-King”(“The King’s Speech (2010)”) were the
King’s tone appears outwardly polite and deferential. However, the first hint of irony is when he uses ‘secretary’ in the plural, suggesting that he considers himself above them in material means. however, at the end of the first paragraph, he writes that he would try and answer their criticism in ‘patient’ terms. Since we are normally the most patient with people below our mental level, this changes his tone to tolerant and somewhat condescending, suggesting that he is doing them a great favor by taking the time to ‘answer their statement.’
Elizabeth I’s speech highlights multiple emotions, primarily confidence and courage. This is immediately known in the middle of her speech, where she uses pathos to gain her audiences
King follows this up by using emotion to imply
The control King has over the flow of the passage only further proves King’s credibility as a skillful writer and speaker. This is seen in the first paragraph of the letter, where the juxtaposition of overly polite diction and backhanded compliments creates doubt in the
Queen Elizabeth wrote an inspiring speech to the Troops who fought for the Armada about their honor and power over this astonishing war. Alongside, Winston Churchill delivered a majestical yet powerful speech about the issue dealing with battle of Britain and the unifications needing to be healed. Queen Elizabeth and Winston Churchill both delivered exhilarating speeches to their troops and counties with the battle of Britain. The Queen delivers her speech to the courageous group of men and women who fought this rigid, enduring war. While Winston delivers his speech to the House of Commons. While analyzing and juxtaposing these two speeches and their contrastive audiences; it is very mere to see the compelling diction, dynamic emotion used in their speeches.
Immediately as the speech begins, Henry’s tone manifests itself and remains unwavering. Henry begins, “It is natural for a man to indulge in the illustration of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth” (1). This sheds insight on his message and portrays him as a well versed individual. He then strengthens his tone when he says
The majority of the sentences in King’s letter can be connected to logos, pathos or ethos and his incorporation of appeals is masterful.
n Shakespeare's King Henry V, King Henry prepares his troops for battle with a passionate speech about fighting, honor, and kinship. Henry uses strong ethos and pathos to persuade his men to fight the French, though they are outnumbered in the battle. Henry notes that his troops feel unprepared and overwhelmed for battle. This speech marks the moment where the boy Hal transforms into King Henry. For the first time, Henry takes on the role of a valiant king and takes control of the situation. He seizes the moment to prepare them and inspire them. Henry hopes by making an effective speech his men will understand why they need to fight.
In some of last video recordings of “Mountaintop”, King looked directly at his audience and scouted the room. A recording provides a zoom-in of King’s face; his eyes occasionally darted to one side to the next as if he was trying to unravel what he rehearsed moments, hours, or a day ago. Another example that “Mountaintop” was delivered extemporaneously was King’s habit of going into conversational anecdotes to support his arguments and toasts to his colleagues. Such detailed anecdotes include his march on Birmingham and his family trip to
he cuts on your hand, the dirt on your shirt, the sweat on your face, boy it makes me think of when I was a slave. This was a long time ago, before I was given the precious golden crown and became the one and only king Arch I was a toiler. The feeling of my pinnacle feels like people are constantly praising me in my royalty. When I was slaving in 1962 king Louis was, well, king. So Louis Jr. was my “master” so to speak, at the time and he has the silver spoon in his mouth since he was born. When the prince started making armour for him to become king, he was the worst of it. He couldn’t take one breath without messing up. After so many countless weeks of moving sheet metal to the scrap room, he finally took a break to look at what i’m pretty
Lionel then enters Buckingham palace, where the audience see gasmasks hanging on the entrance wall. This just emphasises that, everyone is aware that the Nazis are declaring war on the world. Then Lionel and Bertie rehearse the speech together. Throughout the rehearsal, Bertie uses the techniques that Lionel has taught him. For example when Bertie gets stuck at some points, he starts to sing the speech in familiar tunes such as “Camptown Races.” Bertie is about to pause while saying “This message is spoken with the same depth of feeling” and instead he says “This message is…” then he sings the following in the tune of ‘Camptown Races’ “Spoken with the same depth of feeling Doo-dah day.” To the audience, the way that Bertie practises his speech is quite strange and humorous because as an audience, one wouldn’t expect someone like a king to sing while practising a speech of such importance. Then he speaks a bit more and fills his pauses with swear words such as S**t, f*** and bug**r. This again changes the audience’s opinion of the king as no one would expect a king to swear while practising such a grave
While The Kings Speech draws upon a number of historical facts and events, this is not its primary concern. The film is about the effect of a person’s family on how the person develops. For example, in The Kings Speech, King George VI’s brother abdicating and his father’s cruelty played a part in his stammer and lack of confidence. The film is also about the importance of a secure support system, for example Queen Elizabeth and Lionel Logue were Bertie's support system and they helped him overcome his stammer and lack of confidence. A third important issue in the film is about the different approach to class distinction by British and Australian people, as shown by the expectations of Bertie and Queen Elizabeth that Lionel Logue will do
1. Mr. Logue taught King George VI how to speak in public. He did this by addressing the kings feelings and digging into his thoughts. In doing so he was able to get down to the root of his issues. A few ways that Mr. Logue was able to assist the king in regard to his private speaking issues were by : listening to music, singing, strengthening his diaphram and repeating words. Listening to music was a very effective technique because it posed as a distraction and helped him get a steady rhythem. The music also made it so he was unable to focus in on his own voice and hear his stammer. Singing also helped give the King a nice rhythem but if you dig a little deeper it also makes sure that he has plenty of air. That is all thanks to him strengthening
King George VI struggles to speak due to his stammer, therefore, when he does speak, the audience is drawn in and devotes attention toward him. The director then uses the attention and focuses it on the dialogue, allowing powerful statements and profound ideas to be delivered to the audience, through King George VI. In Erin Brockovich, the protagonist voices her views and opinions strongly and confidently. This portrays her as a strong and bold character, however, the director is unable to place sufficient emphasis on important statements, as the way in which Brockovich communicates remains constant throughout the film. The audience quickly adapts to Brockovich’s powerful character and bold attitude, therefore her powerful statements aren’t given enough attention and do not make as big of an impact on the audience as King George’s (VI)
The movie «The Kings Speech» is a movie about a man that in the start of the movie is represented as the duke of York. He is the son of the current king, king George the 5th. Early in the movie we are presented with the main problem for the duke, which is his inability to speak publically. They tell us that the duke has something called “Demosthenes” which is a fear of public speaking. We see this problem very early when the duke is about to hold a speech on behalf of the king, but it is made very clear that he is incapable of doing so. The speech is cancelled early and we are introduced to one of his many speech therapists.