The King's Speech

Having grown up with a classmate who stuttered with a really great school SLP gave me a different perspective. In school we learned that our just needed a little more time to say what he wanted to say and if he was having a really hard time he would sing it, there was a lot of singing going on in our classroom. The school SLP pushed in to our classroom all the time to teach us to be patient when playing with our friend. This gave me a different perspective on people who stutter because to me a stutterer was just a normal part of my day as a child. However, this is not the case for all environments for people who stutter, and movies such as the King’s Speech and The Stutterer point out how hard it can be to be a person who stutters in a way that I had not thought about before coming to school to be a SLP. In the movie the King’s Speech, the king grew up with a father who thought it was alright to bully his son out of his stutter, speak for him and tell him to relax and just get the words out. This treatment from his father and siblings led to the King being embarrassed by his stutter even in his own home, this got worse when we had to publically speak and was glared at and judged by bystanders. While this movie took place in the 1930s and 40s and times have changed and some of the therapy practices used have been since discredited, the way the people view people who stutter is the same. Because of the media and the way society treats people who stutter, they learn to be…

writing is a film review on Tom Hooper’s ‘The king’s speech’. It shares my thoughts about the film. Creative writing The drops from a leaking container fall on my face and awaken me. I wake up laying on the ground and I’m unable to recognise my surroundings. In my first glimpse of the surrounding all I see are unhealthy, dehydrated strangers. To me these people seemed to be standing one after another in some possible line. I slip my hand into my pocket only to realise my possessions have run…

His use of rhetoric is enough to persuade his followers, incorporating both figures of speech and compositional techniques. By repeating “I Have a Dream” and other thematic phrases, he increases the rhetorical effect and emphasizes patterns. Figurative language highlights two important, yet distinct concepts. For example, he uses “lonely island of poverty” to describe racism and “vast ocean of material prosperity” to describe racial justice. Martin Luther King Jr.’s use of proper language…

The freedom of slaves King’s speech has been known as a masterpiece of rhetoric. One rhetorical device that King used is repetition. There are many examples that show repetition but the most common example in the speech is “I have a dream” that shows different aspects of King’s vision of rhetorical harmony. As learnt in class, Kairos shows opportunity, time and place. The speech was so powerful because of its kairos. In one of the sections, King repeated the phrase “one hundred years later”…

CLASS The three texts I have studied are ‘The Road’ by Cormac McCarthy, ‘Foster’ by Claire Keegan, and ‘The King’s speech by Tom Cooper. Through my study of the cultural content of these three texts, it is clear that there are clearly embedded values and attitudes that can be difficult to change. These attitudes are clearly seen looking at class, family value, religion, the role of women, and war in these texts. In ‘The King’s Speech’, it is evident that there are deeply embedded beliefs and…

The emotional mayhem of the protagonist in The King’s Speech is shown through the creative and symbolic usage of several elements of mise-en-scène such as framing, space, camera angles and the use of lenses, as well as depth of field. Majority of the film is of Bertie’s perspective, who eventually becomes King George VI. The journey of Bertie overcoming his stammering is shown through the way he is framed throughout the film, emphasizing on his inner struggles as well as the relationships that…

arguably one of the most noble qualities one can possess. The King’s Speech presents a social issue of how withdrawing from one’s responsibility can affect not only themselves but also other individuals around them. In the film, King Edward VIII decided to renounce his crown, leaving the British Empire with no head of state. Being second-in-line, it now up to Prince Albert to stand up and take his nation’s vacant throne and be King. However, what would happen if Prince Albert refused on taking…

The King’s Speech: Foul or Fair Representation in Film? Film possesses the power to transport us to different places and times: some real, some imagined. When filmmakers choose real stories, they face difficult artistic decisions that may or may not be supported by reality. In the award-winning film, The King’s Speech, director Tom Hooper mirrors many events from the actual speech therapy engagement between King George VI and Leonard Logue. King George VI needs to find his voice to encourage…

Rationale I have chosen to write a transcribed interview with Martin Luther King Jr. discussing his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. King has been interviewed, in this piece, by Petey Greene. An influential African American radio show host who often talked about the poverty and racism which African Americans had to face in America at that time. I have placed this interview in November 1964, about a month after King had received his Nobel Prize. Moreover, this interview is taking place in…

In The King’s Speech, Bertie, who ends up becoming King George VI of England, suffers from a severe speech impediment that impacts his ability to complete his responsibility as a Duke of York. Together, Lionel, a speech therapist, and Bertie work to overcome Bertie’s speech impediment, which in the end allows him to successfully capture the country’s approval of his ability to effectively fulfill his position as King George VI of England. The King’s Speech includes a variety of realistic…