Love this quote

They were right though. Smoking does relax, that's why people do that. It has, unfortunately, some... side effects.

that's why there are so many idiots all over the world then.... I suppose

Best joke in the whole movie

But more importantly, the worst side effect is the amount of money being spent annually.

Literally thaught the exact same when I saw that and then I saw this comment at exactly that point

@@vaughanmclea6907 same here 🤣

Aye jack

“What arrr ye doin?”

Sorry, could someone explain what the joke is? English is not my first language

​@@mariak809 The timing and pace of the punchline of a joke is its most important part. Stuttering the punch line would ruin the joke.

Ironic

In itself he made a joke right there. Brilliant.

@@mariak809 Whether it's a joke depends on how you see the situation. Since he has barely any control over his stuttering, he'd ruin all jokes that depend on timing. Can be seen as funny. I just see a totally desperate, tortured soul in that scene. Someone who's absolutely helpless, deeply suffering, alienated from almost everybody else, so I don't see it as a funny scene, actually. I feel for him because I can relate. Stuttering isn't the only thing that shuts you up.

Absolutely.

I read that the production company trying to get it made breached etiquette and sent the script directly to Geoffrey Rush's house rather than through his agent. The agent apparently bollocked them for it then said Geoffrey Rush was interested and were invited to meet with him to discuss it!

@@wickedwitchoftheeast88 and a classic was produced months later.

@@MasterfulKane Geoffrey Rush should have won an Oscar for this he was fantastic in this film! He and Colin are a great match its like watching them build a friendship because they were working so closely together

Didnt he?

Put it toward the effort to pull the pommies out of the shit in WW2 and save their butts. Just like the king's.

@@johnstenton6023 m8 thats retarded

@@johnstenton6023is pommies the nickname Aussies give to Brits from the home islands in general or is it just aimed at the upper class?

​@@lufsolitaire5351its Aussie slang for brits yeah, I think it comes from one of the French nicknames for the British; Pomme de Terre (potato) from all the potatoes we eat

"Royal princes" not other.

Absolutely! He didn’t seem like he was mimicking. It was almost as if the role DIDNT call for a stammer and he was naturally having difficulties. Christ he’s a great actor!

@@CronoXpono on

I read somewhere that Colin ended up getting migraines due the fact that preforming the stammer was tensing his body up. Not to mention the numbness he contacted in his left arm. Talk about suffering for the sake of art.

Rumor has it that the stammer stayed with him for a quite while after filming to the point he had to go to a speech therapist to cure it. Fortunately the stammering was pretty mild and easy to cure.

I have had a stutter since i was a child and i felt oddly represented by this english actor playing a dead king, so i would day it works.

He received the Academy Award for best actor for this movie in 2010. Look at how difficult his lines and facial expressions and body language were, to imitate a stutter, and to vacilate between inner turmoil and insecurity and lack of confidence, and putting a strong outward face on his royal and regal status. Even his angry outbursts were great to watch. And the personal touches such as toying with a model airplane. First-rate performance. (At the time of this writing KZfaq is streaming this film "free with ads"; you can watch it all you like.)

🍷You should mean his cinematic history probably! LOL..

@@evm6177 No. In ALL cinematic history. As the poster above you pointed out it is very difficult to recreate that stutter and body language so realistically. in Very rarely have I come across such a performance in my life.

Not just kings but the current president-elect of the USA (Joe Biden) stammers/stutters. You’re in good company Mr. Thunberg 😉

Daniel u and many other people stutter or stammer but u are very very normal you just. Have a slight issue with your brain and mouth or words don't match up or somewords don't form as they should

We all have our touches, ADD and Dyslexia didn’t make it easy for me either, but these aren’t what define us. It is our steel will to overcome WHATEVER stands in our path that makes us unique; singles us out.

My own sister and s friend stammer. Yet both learnt how to control it. U can surely master it too. However, stammering does not make anybody abnormal. It is cruel people who need to Mock others to feel better about their own shortage of human decency.

*stammerer *were *stammerers

Tourette’s is another example of a disorder where the state of mind affects the speech. You’ll notice if they talk about something they are absolutely passionate or focused on, then they won’t tic. It is as if the tics are coming from the spare capacity in the brain. Makes you realise how much of our ease of thinking is an illusion.

What's really interesting is when you rewatch it you can tell Lionel is purposefully trying to get certain reactions or say certain things so he can see what's easy and what's hard for Albert to say.

I used to work with a guy with a terrible stammer, that would vanish when he got really mad.

Noticed that when Lionel asked to call him Bertie. He was so caught off guard that he got through "Only my family uses that" with no problem.

Armchair speech-pathologists are cringe.

I read that his stammer was caused by being forced to use his right-hand even thought he was naturally a leftie

God bless England

@@Jack_The_Ladd back then that wouldn’t have been considered abuse. My late mum born in 1950 who was naturally left handed was instructed at school to write with her right hand so as a result became ambidextrous

I didnt know he served in the military. Now I have even more respect for him

@@Jack_The_Ladd hence the music

Even before modern science, it seemed like common sense, but doctors and medicine at the time were more “old school” and “dark” to put it mildly. It used to be acceptable to give lobotomies to shell shocked soldiers or fry their brains with electrodes. We didn’t start calling it ptsd until around the Vietnam war era, and even today, people still struggle to talk about it. And I’m a neurologist. You can suffer the horrors of war back then, be called a hero, and then for your troubles get your brain fried instead of being allowed to talk about it in safe manner.

Having the Crown thrust upon him in the midst of England once again entering war with Germany certainly didn't help much, but there's no question the 30-40 cigarettes a day he smoked killed him. People try to say that unexpectedly being King as good as killed him, but that's a load of bull if you ask me.

@@perfectajo in a way it did, because the only reason he smoked was to ease his mind to get through the speeches he had to give as part of being king

I believe that we all are destined to die! Thank you...

@@Shadowdoc26 Many things which seem like they ought to be common sense are intellectualized all out of true until up is down, left is right, and toxic & carcinogenic is relaxing to the throat & beneficial to the spleen or whatever doctors used to say cigarettes helped with. It always fascinates me how certain mistakes originate with the educated and intelligent as they are the ones best capable of rationalizing the obvious into its opposite...and of course the rest of us follow their lead because of the faith we put in their capabilities and credentials.

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He also found the Fountain of Youth before his career switch.

the things our mothers do for us

I almost was sent to a speech therapist. I don't know what happened that made me improve enough to not go

Good job mate, you've obviously improved a lot since then, only a little stutter at the end of your comment, well done!

Mom knows best .

*stutter

And also to say the world is not how you see it.

Yeah, that quick comeback was perfect.

Considering that Bertie died in 1952 at the ripe old age of 56 from too much smoking (which his doctors encouraged because, as shown in the film, they thought it would help his speech), Logue had a point.

I think of this scene every time I watch the episode where Lord Grantham choses Sir Phillip over Dr. Clarkson as Sybill's doctor and then she dies. Such a sad episode.

3:17

If only George listened

Bertie. Sorry I'm a grammer Nazi.

@@DangerousDavies2008 it’s all good.

@@DangerousDavies2008 Grammar

@@Chris-cc6wj ooohhhhhhh

@@DangerousDavies2008 you got done did.

Indeed. Very strong atmosphere old gothich and artistic reminds me Poe or Conan Doyle

@@hortlockthelivingdead4676 👌

It looks moldy

@@pteppig I've always wondered why British rooms look like that, well in films at least. In the film, Darkest Hour, the room where the King and Churchill met also looked moldy. I wonder if that's a British thing.

@@ArchTazer I think it's just realistic. American films show the past as very clean and glamourous but the past was dirty has hell.

They just didn't know any better.

Just like how Henry Cotton pulled out his patients' and children's teeth believing it was the cause of mental disorders.

A lot of them were also bought out by cigarette companies.

Crazy all the way to the bank.

Physicians have always been crazy! Now, like then, they were all about what makes money. Only thing more certain to pay well other than human suffering is burying them afterwards.

That wallpaper! What a mess.

@@timjohnson1199 i think it adds character to the room. Subtle hues balanced nicely with the right amount of patina.

Totally agree

"I haven't agreed to take you on."

Joe K I think it’s because Lionel had nothing to lose and he could see past that. He’s still a human being like the rest of us, and still can suffer problems like the rest of us, such as stammering. Best case, Lionel does his job and helps another person overcome their impediment and makes a friend for life which he did. Worst case, he just loses a patient. Plenty more where that came from. It’s not like the king would have his head cut off in the 20th century for something that small.

He is not a doctor, and Lionel insists not to be called doctor by saying "I prefer Lionel".

As someone who is studying to become a therapist, Logue is who I want to be like with my patients. Kind, warm, encouraging, and firm in my belief in their potential.

* Its mouth. ("It's" is a contraction of "it is," and "what it is mouth is doing" makes no sense.) * Princes. ("Prince's" means something belonging to one prince, as in "That is the prince's car.")

​@@seikibrian8641 In regard to your first correction, it should be: "* its mouth's."

@@MeansofIntrigue Thank you. Corrected.

Facts

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Healthcare was free in the UK less than 10 years after this was set

Thank you. I kept missing what he was saying. So it's a fortune!

One of the benefits of the modern peerage system, often overlooked by self-righteous egalitarians, is that it ejects from public life many who have outlived their usefulness or never been useful, without expressly disgracing them. The English use the expression "getting kicked upstairs." Honors remain just that, honors, to those who have never held power - but to those who have held power, honors are a frilly pink slip. Like so much else in the British system, it's absurdly idiosyncratic yet oddly effective.

If you read up on The Kings Speech about why they did the wall that way, you know it was on purpose. Its in one of the KZfaq videos about it. I just cant remember why it was like that. I think to show how poor Logue was and he couldnt afford to repair the walls from old Wallpaper and paint etc. Sorry I just cant remember why they did it.

found this on wikipedia The crew investigated Logue's former consultation rooms, but they were too small to film in. Instead, they found a high, vaulted room not far away in 33 Portland Place. Eve Stewart, the production designer, liked the mottled, peeling wallpaper there so much that she recreated the effect throughout the entire room. In his DVD commentary, Hooper said he liked Portland Place as a set because it felt "lived-in", unlike other period houses in London. The scenes of the Duke of York at home with his family were also filmed here; showing the Prince living in a townhouse "subverted" expectations of a royal drama.[13]

I wondered that myself lol.

A valiant attempt to camouflage a whole wall.

Me too.

Y'all won't be sorry!!!

they found the room that way and decided not to change it

Is that a fact? Such exquisite randomness can only be deliberate. I'd like to know how it was done.

@@modelleg are you really saying a dirty wall is too complicated to exist naturally

I know right! There are definite patterns there. That wall is absolutely exquisite. It is like a shifting landscape. Something from a forgotten dream.

Absolutely!!! That wall is exquisite. So much so, in fact, that in one shot they show Bertie sitting on the sofa to the left, and the right-hand side of the frame is devoted to the wall. It's supposed to look like ten layers of cracked and chipped off paint, but it's a beautifully striking montage of colors.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oJ-GadR4mtfcdXU.html You're welcome...

* Lionel's.

Johnjames Bloom Not odd at all. It’s a beautiful example of classic navy double breasted chalkstripe suit.

@@scottlewis775 Many thanks! Now I know what to look for!

Not odd at all. One thing I liked about this scene was the room itself, very spartan yet beautiful, especially the wonderful medley of colors in the wall behind the sofa.

All of 'em...

@@bradleybrown8399 She had some diffciulty with Prince Charles, but in the end she nailed it.

This wasn’t a set.

@@kevinprice4213 Umm, by definition it was. What do you mean?

@@odysseusrex5908 It wasn't a 'set' in a studio .... it was 'on location'. Quote from Wikipedia. 'The crew investigated Logue's former consultation rooms, but they were too small to film in. Instead, they found a high, vaulted room not far away in 33 Portland Place. Eve Stewart, the production designer, liked the mottled, peeling wallpaper there so much that she recreated the effect throughout the entire room'.

StoneCold Sweden imitation game is a pseudo sequel to this.

This is slightly more historically accurate, though. Imitation Game is a great film, but about 75% of it was total nonsense that they just made up.