The King’s Speech
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The King’s Speech is an upcoming movie about King George VI’s stutter (or as the Brits say, stammer). For the longest time, I’ve always thought how cool it would be to have a book about the king’s stuttering. In fact, a few days before I found out about this movie, I was thinking about maybe creating a comic about it! King George VI is Queen Elizabeth’s father. As I understand, this movie centers on him and his Australian speech therapist.
I’m very interested in seeing how speech therapy and the stuttering experience were like in the 20s – 40s (well, as far as the director is concerned). Particularly with an important figure such as royalty. I can only imagine how much more difficult it must have been to be a stutterer in that era. In fact, there’s a story about BBC employees having to edit out his stuttering using SIX turntables (see Exclusive: The Men Behind The King’s Speech in the Colin Firth fan site link below).
The King’s Speech is scheduled to come out later this year. My uneducated guess is after the summer. Read all about it over at this Colin Firth fan site. By the way, guess who’s playing King George VI?
I think this the speech in the YouTube clip below is what the movie is also centered on. As a stutterer, I can totally feel his struggle and challenge in saying his speech. Great job, your majesty!
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