The hidden letters behind "The King's Speech"

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"Get me re-write!" It was a chance discovery that caused panic on the set of "The King's Speech." The movie, about a stuttering King George VI and his Australian born speech therapist Lionel Logue, was about to begin filming when Logue's grandson Mark happened upon a treasure trove of actual letters between the two men.

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In the end, a small part of the letters made it into the movie but there was so much more between the king and Logue. "60 Minutes Overtime" takes you inside the improbable brotherhood and the heartfelt correspondence between a commoner and a king.

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by kkrugerud June 13, 2011 2:29 PM EDT: The fact that this movie received several Oscars is wonderful, yet the Oscars are an understatement to the profound art this movie beholds. Quoting from T.S. Eliots' essay "Hamlet and His Problems", "the suspicion of Othello, the infatuation of Antony, or the pride of Coriolanus" are all well expressed emotions in the form of art what Eliot calls the 'objective correlative' - "a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion", such as seeing that horrific circular microphone that the king approaches, only expresses that terrible anxiety one feels within their belly as they approach that moment of performance. Likewise, the actual use of the words, speeches, including the pauses, as well the clothing of 1936 mimics to perfection via the tropes, making the drama appear 'so real'. A masterpiece!!!; Reply to this comment


by bill650 June 13, 2011 12:30 AM EDT: Was the vulgarity in THE KING'S SPEECH artistic liscence or documented theripeutic procedure?; Reply to this comment

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