The Kings Speech film essay

Narrative Analysis The Kings Speech In Tom Hoopers Academy award winning film The Kings Speech, the narrative follows Bertie, the stammering, struggling Duke of York, who is second in line to the throne. His story intertwines with the more upbeat, friendly character of Lionel Logue, an Australian specialist in speech defects. Throughout the film, the unconventional friendship and interaction between Bertie, an aristocratic duke, and Lionel, a working class foreigner, is shown through multiple ways with various film techniques. Firstly, the set designs of the film give a clear indication of the differences between Lionel and Berties worlds. Lionels office, where the work on Berties stammer takes place, is brighter and clearer than previous locations we see in the film. The walls of the room have been designed to appear old and stripped but patches of different colours show. This is done to represent Lionels personality his office is shown as a portrayal of his own mind. During the first meeting between Lionel and Bertie, we see Bertie reluctantly standing in Lionels waiting room. This room and set design is an extensive contrast compared to Lionels office, despite it only being next door, its gloomy, dark and lifeless. The director, Tom Hooper, done this to show Berties world, and it is a clear visual contrast for the viewer when Bertie steps into Lionels colourful, cheerful office and out of his gloomy aristocratic bubble. After the failure of the first meeting between the two protagonists, Bertie swiftly leaves Lionels office and steps back into the bleak waiting room, which is a clear indication of his hurry to get back into his world where he feels comfortable, and out of Lionels unfamiliar working class world, done so to suggesting Berties lack of willingness to commit to anything that he is not familiar with. The social divide between the two characters is clearly shown throughout the film. Colin Firths performance as Bertie during his first conversation with

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