Well times are similar to the late thirties: we have a newly crowned and well loved king, a royal duke who's married an unsuitable American and a mad man threatened Europe with war.

what is the music score in the background?

@@tnsampson2Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, 2nd movement

I doubt I could think of a better response if I spent my entire lifetime trying...

Yeah

That was actually a line written between the King and Lionel in letters they sent to one another.

Ikr

Mr.wood

TheShadowedOne1 Indeed.

and so the king did. this makes me cry

Yes, that's Tomar Re for you 😊

Logue was 💯

Yes

Alexito Rico you are right

WTF, thats him?!

@@bbenjoe Aye!

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DAMN I ONLY NOTICED THAT NOW

I totally agree wit U This movie is magic

It is quite a daunting task to give a speech to a full auditorium, let alone an entire realm..

1939-1945 was the gravest hour in human civilization. Kiddos to the people helped our spices survive through that time. What an epic speech

Acting is merely one aspect of filmmaking. The suspense and thrill you talk about can be attributed equally to directing, editing, pacing, cinematography, shot selection, and set design as it can to acting.

Of course, I know that (I was a theater major in college). :)

@BCJ to be fair l think they meant queens English

Actually this movie had so much literal medical references from the source himself that's what makes Colin so brilliant. He did his homework and so did the whole production that's rare for a feature that's technically supposed to be historical fiction which there's very little.

He did come out and say he had a hard time losing the stammer after this.

Colin Fith is British

​@@IndependentConversations what?

It was perfectly imperfect. If that even makes sense

I was JUST thinking what a brilliant choice of music this was

Makes me cry every time, honour, courage and bravery are my weak spots. Beethovens seven allegretto is my favourite classic tune, so i cried a lot. :)

If not for the fact that Beethoven wrote that piece some 200 years before the speech was given, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was written specifically for this scene.

Beethoven virtuoso pianist and amazing composer, struggling with losing his hearing composed 7th symphony, arguably one of his best works ever, Beethoven might have been just the most amazing human being that ever lived on this planet

Really??

@@megcrimson8589 Yep!!! Watch the behind the scenes documentary. Its really awesome :)

@@megcrimson8589 in the letters he wrote to Lionel, yes.

Just started a pronunciation class featuring this movie. And they loveeeeeee it. They were too familiar with the "repeat-after-me" type

Sorry for your loss. I have no doubt the eulogy you delivered in honor of your Mother was warm and heartfelt.

Tears and admiration for you.

so proud of you ❤️ sending my condolences

Now this is some king behaviour here 👑 My Condolences man 🙏🏼

It's been said before but is worth repeating--the one that everyone underestimated turned out to be the better man by far.

Every single indian has great hatred for british kings and Queens.

He has occasionally been called George the Good.

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@@snowleopard3470 What about the Indians who served in World War 2?

Utter relief.

Definitely a confidence booster for him.

All is seen in his Face! Magnificent actor!

You can tell the confidence in his walk, He walks into the room and a nervous novis king and leaves as a the leader of the world biggest empire.

8fox261 couldn't agree more

Adagio

8fox261 I couldn’t agree more

Agreed!

It is perfect for every scene.

No one could have perfected a way to tell the whole nation of the turmoil we were about to face. To say anything at all is damn impressive given the pressure.

Firth's delivery of the speech is almost identical to the real king's. (That speech is on KZfaq.) A very dedicated performance.

Colin Firth certainly deserved the Oscar for Best Actor for this film. One of my favourite actors

Yep.

It's amazing how close Colin Firth was able to recreate King George VI's actual war speech

"The War to End all Wars" turned out to be nearly the opposite...the Allies won the war but fouled up the peace.

isnt that always the pitfall?

Agreed ! The American General George Patton made reference to that. More than once before his death he said that politicians had a habit of leaving their countries with another war to fight. Knowing of his personal library and knowledge of history, as well as the realities of post war Europe and Asia as I do, who could ever argue with him ?

King Théoden Many would say WW1 and WW2 were two wars. However the world had been in a state of War since July 1914. This was merely the third chapter of this saga. The First, the turmoil and attrition that was the Great War. Second ,the ensuing suposed peace that saw the Russian Revolution, The fall of the German, Austria-Hungarian, Russian, and Ottoman Empires.The mortality wounded French and British Empires trying to rebuild, America's prohibition era followed by the great depression. Then Japan's expansion in Asia after being ignored by the west. The of rise of Fascism in Italy, the Spanish civil war, and most haunting the rise of Hitler in Germany. It all leads to the Third and most bloody chapter of this saga. When the world was engulfed in by a conflict that saw the creation of jet engines, rockets, Blitzkrieg, Atom Bombs, and the genocide of the Jews, The Holocaust. More than 70 million lives in total from this war were lost, most them were civilians. In the end to understand this war you must understand the first, and the nearly 30 year armistice that followed which lead up to this moment. So you must see these conflicts and the armistice as one. In conclusion we should call them the World Wars. So from July 1914 to September 1945 nearly 90 million lives were lost. May this world never see such horror ever again.

You nailed the point :-) some historians call it "The 2nd Thirty Years' War" - 1914-1945 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Thirty_Years%27_War en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Civil_War

Thats awesome that you pointed that out, thank you. Thats so powerful.

Amazing Comment.

I'm speechless

Wow that is a nice touch, really powerful stuff.

this is genius

Why would there be explosions? It's about servicing the story and some stories don't require more than 20 million.

Thank you for your comment! Stay safe

There are so many deep and insightful comments on this video, this is another one of them.

I remember having the same experience when I saw this movie for the first time.

I have experienced the same, but in real life, on 24th of Februrary 2022. I'm Russian.

Yes, the inability to speak well should never stop a person. You just have to have the right people who will listen

Well said.

No parliament would’ve left if they had a illegitimate king, and Edward would’ve become a absolutionsist monarch

Bravo Puffin51! Splendid analysis!

@@keychain___8836 nice HoI4 reference

If Edward was the king, pretty sure the UK would have joined the Axis.

Same here.

Same

I watched it in the theater with my father, who was only a very young boy at the time King George VI was alive. Dad started crying and I asked him why, he said “I’m just so damn proud of him.”

I just can't get this scene out of my head. Watched the film and it haunts me, it's just so beautifully executed. Colin Firth was truly a fitting actor for this film.

Same here. A truly moving film.

I understand you perfectly, because I´m a stammer like you and like the King.

i have a slight stammer, but it got better as i got older, i mostly only stammer when i'm nervous now, say speaking in front of a room full of people. my younger son has a much more severe stammer. he watched this movie in school in his history class, and some jackass in the back of the room made some smart remark.

EdVanHale. I fully know what you are dealing with. As I have stated, I began stuttering in November 1960, when I was ten. I am now 67.

I have a stutter as well and love this movie. I practise this speech by myself and record it until it is perfect as well. Now I have to translate it to real life

EdVanHalen I have had an intense stutter for my entire life, I cannot hold a conversation without stammering. On top of that I have Aspergers, so that only makes it worse. It is infuriating to try and desperately say something before getting cut off. I barely if ever speak because of it. I get angry with people who tell me “if your tired of your stutter just go get it fixed with a therapist”, yeah like I haven’t tried to do that before. Every therapist I have been too was very ineffective, they were nice to me and legitimately tired to help me, however in the end nothing was gained from their sessions and none of the techniques taught Were able to be used in the real world. I cannot tell you how depressing it is to me when I audition for school or community plays only to be met with disappointment due to my stutter. I go in knowing what will happen every time, but I do it anyway. This is unfortunately something I can never grow out of, my own parents have trouble Understanding me sometimes. Surprisingly the only time I can speak coherently is when I am alone in a closet recording lines for voice over projects/ or doing a very exaggerated British accent. I can’t explain what it is (folks around like to tell me that it’s all due to nervousness, but that’s not true at all. I could speak to a crowd at the super bowl and not feel intimidated). I have never been bullied for my stutter, no one has ever mocked me or called me names, but the thing that hurts me the most is when people don’t want to talk to me, or finish my words for me. I don’t get why people sometimes link stuttering to autism, (maybe that’s just a thing where I live) people assume that I’m not mentally there (Wtf?) how is stuttering an indicator of mental health? Others think that I choose to stutter for attention. (Yeah like I actively wish to not be able to talk to be people). People truly don’t realize how lucky they are to have a normal speaking voice.

Nikhil Tom Best kind of wife

Behind every great man, is a great woman.

Proof that your wealth and social status does not make a marriage work. It's how you feel about the person your with. She loved him very much and it shows.

She was a source for the material this movie was based on. She wanted the story told but insisted it wasn't told until after her death.

It's a pity. If she had known how good the movie was, she would have agreed. She would have experienced great joy!

Queen Mary was listening with a sense of relief that Bertie rather than David was king at the time

King George V apparently said that when he's dead that boy (Edward) would ruin himself within twelve months and he hoped Edward would never marry and have children and so nothing would come between Bertie and Lilibet for the throne. Bertie wasn't expected to be King since Edward was still young enough to have children when he ascended the throne. The only decent thing Edward did was to step aside and give it to his brother who was the better King even though the pressure of his probably contributed to his death at 56. I feel sorry for Bertie struggling with a stammer and he had to take on a job that puts the eyes of the world on him can you imagine the massive pressure he must've felt doing a job he never expected or wanted to do and probably had little confidence in himself to do it well.

That’s awesome

Get a scanner and upload the pics to ur computer that way u can send it to ur phone or post it on facebook

Please show us your pictures, it would be amazing

Ernest Heimberg ceased to be captain of the USS Salamonie on 24 June 43. Llewelyn Johns was captain on d day

That's so cool! I would love to see those pictures ❤

Actually they weren't going to use it. The original idea was to write some music for the background. So when they were cutting the film together the director put in Beethoven's 7th as a place holder but it worked so well that they kept it. The symphony has just the right tone - sad but hopeful - just like the speech and its theme.

@@eleriloki6275 No way... that's the best Easter egg I've heard about this, and they timed his cadences to the song perfectly as well

Thank you

Well said.

But they live a life of luxury while the people starve, suffer and die 😢

My mother, a small child when war broke out, still talks of him with great affection. She remembers how devastated she felt when he died.

@@lilaznkid4ever King George VI was known for leading by example, which included rationing. While I don't necessarily like the royal family either, I will say he was known to be much more down to earth than anyone would expect a king to be.

I agree. I love this movie too. But this part right here ia definitely my favorite part of the movie. Always gives me the chills in a great way! Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Please dont forget to subacribe to my channel for more videos. Thank you.

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I'd add the Battle of Britain from 1969 to the list.

lmao the britsh triad of ww2 films

Sorry - very late reply. But I have heard it said that WWII was merely the conclusion to WWI - or "The Great War". Had a history teacher long ago who agreed and insisted on rolling the two into one long lesson plan. Because certain things that happened during WWII could only be explained if you knew what had happened during WWI and the "inter-war" years. It was fascinating - and terrible and horrifying and ghastly funny in a "how the hell did THAT happen" kind of way. So in a way - especially for the British, and those in Continental Europe (less so for the Americans - of which I am one and freely acknowledge that our part in both wars was crucial, but smaller than we make it out to be in terms of time spent fighting) it was really - "what happened between 1914 and 1945."

Every now and then I need my firth, rush, Beethoven fix

Hello :)

good to see you still alive 12 years later

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My brother has had a speech problem all his life. Therapy when we were in grade school helped him resolve most of the problem, but not all. The nicest thing he's ever said to me was about 6-8 years ago--"Thank you for always bearing with me, always waiting for me to finish."

Agree. It was delivered out of sincerity and dedicated service

For me, the tension comes from whether he can say the words, but the words themselves are moving. The man at 3:43 listening with the cigarette in his hand - he's young enough to fight, and he knows it. Mrs Logue smiles and reaches out to her sons, but although they look a little young, she must know they're not far off enlistment age. (In fact at least two of Logue's three sons were adults at this time - his middle son was a surgeon who treated Blitz patients, and became a top neurosurgeon.) The old men who won't be fighting themselves, but have seen war and know what their sons and grandsons are facing, the women who know what this will mean for husbands, and brothers, and sons - pretty much every one of them is facing potential loss, and their faces show they know it.

+okey proctor Not at all, Sir

Oh man that makes both of us, she just looked so motherly and kind.

no not wrong at all. I feel the same.

okay but same 😔 im so gay 😔

A reasonable fantasy...

Take a listen to Pres. Bush in the days after 9/11. I never liked his politics, but those nights we needed someone to tell us we were still strong, we would endure, and our new enemies would be found and dealt with. When we really needed him, Bush was magnificent.

Same here. This is one of the best scenes. The music, the acting, the emotions. Ah perfect! Thank you!

Because he acted so well that we could feel the tension through the video

I couldnt agree more. Thank you

I agree!

"England is safe. I can stop worrying now."

I agree! Everything about this movie is perfection. Thanks for sharing what you think. And please subscribe to my channel for more videos

Agree. Happens to the best of us 😁 Thanks for watching and I hope you will consider subscribing to my channel. Thank you!

We never surrender we fight until the end. My great grandparents lived through both wars they would've been late 30s and early 40s during WWII and their flat took a hit during the blitz and they lost everything they moved in with relatives until after the war was over. It took over 20 years after WWII that the goverment finally started rebuilding the east end it was like victorian London back then