Here’s the trailer for Toronto Film Festival People’s Choice Award winner and alleged Oscar bait, The King’s Speech, starring Colin Firfff and Helena Bonham Carter, from director Tom Hooper. Now, I’m not one of those people who immediately sneers when they hear the words “Oscar contender”, because for every couple of Atonements, there’s usually a Hurt Locker or a The Wrestler. But this movie… Jeez. It’s like if you boiled a bunch of other Oscar movies down until they became a thick gravy, and then spoonfed only that to a baby for the first 10 years of its life, and that baby grew up to be Colin Firth.
George VI, also known as Bertie, reluctantly takes the throne of England when his brother, Edward, abdicates in 1936. The unprepared king turns to a radical speech therapist, Lionel Logue, to help overcome his nervous stutter and the two forge a friendship.
Awwww sheeeeeeeit, rich white people be havin’ problems, son! S-s-s-s-s-s-spit it out, flinchy! BUT WHERE ARE THE DYSLEXIC NAZIS? Oi, bugga me norks, guv, da king ‘as got a stutter ‘e ‘as! Ev’re toime ‘e talks, ‘e gits ‘is tongue aw tied up loike me undacrackaz. What wiw we tew da proime ministah? …And that’s when he cured his stutter, made a friend, finally told the woman he loved how he felt, and saved England from Hitler.
“Why should I waste my time listening to you?”
“BECAUSE I HAVE A VOICE!”
In conclusion, in Africa it’s bling-bang, yer changin’ that boy’s life, (*dismissive wank*), forever and ever amen.
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Another great idea from the outtakes of the Naked Gun 33 1/3 Academy Awards scene.
Never go full retread.
Radical speech therapist, Lionel Richie, makes you Say You, Say Me.
So the guy named after people with a lisp plays a guy with a stutter?
“Why should I waste my time listening to you?”
“BECAUSE I HAVE A VOICE!”
“Cool story bro”
The Mighty Feklahr ROFLKOTAL’d when Otto came in and ate all the king’s fishies!
I’m pretty sure every British king had a beard. Is that what Helena Bonham Carter’s for?
The unprepared king turns to a radical speech therapist
Ok, say it with me now “Cow. A. Bung. A.”
The unprepared king turns to a radical speech therapist
Ok, how about instead of saying “Here I am, Plymouth Rock you like a hurricane”, you say “We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us!”
Also, remember to emote the fuck out of this. Part of what makes it radical is how much you yell about it.
The unprepared king turns to a radical speech therapist, Lionel Logue, to help overcome his nervous stutter and the two forge a friendship.
Something tells me Lionel Logue had less success as a speech therapist in the Orient.
Lionel Logue: No. Try it again. LLLLi-O-Nel. LLLL-ogue
Student: RRRRi-o-ner RRRRogue
Lionel Logue: GODDAMMIT (*slams down copy of “Radical Speech Therapy for Dummies”*)
SPOILER ALERT: His full name is Lionel Logue Cool J and his mama said to knock you out.
“Your first wartime speech… forget eerything else and jsut say it to me.”
*** feedback squeak ***
“Hi-Hi-Hitler, you ain’t seen nuh-nuh-nuthin’ yet!”
When I get excited I type like George VI speaks.
It’s actually a musical. There’s a full one-hour rendition of G-g-g-g-g-g-get-t-t-t-t-tin-n-n-ng to kn-n-n-n-n-n-n-no-w-w-w-w-w-w-ww y-y-y-y-y-y-ou.
Oscar’bate is what happens when Roman Polanski watches Anna Paquin’s performance in The Piano.
Bubb, two words. The Professional.
Yeah, that’s more like Golden Globe’bating.
When George VI gets nervous he abdicates all over his throne
In the sequel, his son has full-blown tourettes and has to follow in his father’s f-f-f-f-footFUCK! SHIT! ASS! CRAP!
Rush: I might need to know the cause of your stammer, is there a history of inbreeding in your family?
Firth: Off with his huh, huh, heaaaugggh…