- published: 06 Nov 2015
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The King's Speech is a 2010 British historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. Colin Firth plays King George VI who, to cope with a stammer, sees Lionel Logue, an Australian speech therapist played by Geoffrey Rush. The men become friends as they work together, and after his brother abdicates the throne, the new King relies on Logue to help him make his first wartime radio broadcast on Britain's declaration of war on Germany in 1939.
Seidler read about George VI's life after overcoming a stuttering condition he endured during his youth. He started writing about the relationship between the monarch and his therapist as early as the 1980s, but at the request of the King's widow, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, postponed work until her death in 2002. He later rewrote his screenplay for the stage to focus on the essential relationship between the two protagonists. Nine weeks before filming began, Logue's notebooks were discovered and quotations from them were incorporated into the script.
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George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death. He was the last Emperor of India, and the first Head of the Commonwealth.
As the second son of King George V, he was not expected to inherit the throne and spent his early life in the shadow of his elder brother, Edward. He served in the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force during World War I, and after the war took on the usual round of public engagements. He married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1923, and they had two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret.
George's elder brother ascended the throne as Edward VIII on the death of their father in 1936. However, later that year Edward revealed his desire to marry the divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson. British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin advised Edward that for political and religious reasons he could not marry Mrs Simpson and remain king. Edward abdicated in order to marry, and George ascended the throne as the third monarch of the House of Windsor.
Have you ever heard speech like this?
My heart beats as I hear speech like this
Certain man a try a ting
I ain't tryna diss but I never heard speech like this
Have you ever seen speech like this?
Witness a scene that speeched like this
Articulated with spiritual fitness
Left teachers speechless at speech like this
From birth His deeds formed words that were clearly heard
By all the called witnesses, shepherds and angels saw the king born on road
Wrapped in swaddling clothed in meekness
Actions speak louder than words
And when I see the words they make my heart burn with bliss
Like when God speeched with moses His face glowed
That's how my soul feels son kissed
Check the extent of what it all meant
I'm the mongrel & instead of me died the pedigree
In order to whip the enemy who thought the remedy would end up in gethsemene
This child He ain't a minor, He's major
He made ya, He made the wood for the manger
His love will amaze ya, on your wretched behaviour
He'll pour out grace & still save ya
The king came with some to say but today we ain't nutten to say
Most rappers chat foolishness, nuff preachers labrish
Abuse the truth, confuse with their looseness
Ahhhh what more can I say
The king's message has to resonate the airwaves
We don't take this for joke, we don't ramp and don't play
We reverberate the statement He made
Breddrin, the man can't fumble the man's so humble
I never ever seen the man grumble
This world is rotten & fungal
Yet He, left His heavenly home for this jungle
And lowered Himself to that of a refuse collector
The plan was become a garbage man
Going through the junk heaps, salvaging peeps, spiritually sweeping the
Shhhh - listen to the king's speech
Hush listen to the king's speech
From the cradle to the grave to the day He was raised
Everything about His life was the message that he blazed
Shhhh - listen to the king's speech
Hush listen to the king's speech
All day every day we'll fast & we'll pray
Bring the sound around your way & won't let the speech fade
Yo, I got a mind full of peace & a heart full of bliss
That's why we spit like this
Walking in new life the old one I don't miss
That's why we spit like this
He healed the blind the deaf & the mute, now with mended lips we spit like this