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Rating: 9/10 (7 March 2011)

The strange thing about awards being given to movies, especially Oscars is that either they seem to be absolutely marvellous and deserving or they are no better than 1000s of other films.
In the case pf The King's Speech I can say that in my opinion it is one of the best movies to win an Oscar for a very long time.
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The movie is about Queen Elizabeth II's father, George VI (he was given the first name Albert at birth) and the speech impediment he had from age 5 and which he could not cure.
After his father George V died it was Albert's elder brother Edward who ascended to the throne. However he was in love with the twice divorced American Wallis Simpson.
Because he was not permitted to marry Simpson because she was a divorcée and he was King he decided to abdicate without even being officially crowned. This allowed him to marry Wallis Simpson.
Poor Albert, being the next in line, was very reluctantly forced to become King and took the name George VI.
During his reign the Second World War took place and George had to give a stirring speech to his subjects in order to get them prepared for the coming war. This speech had to be delivered over the wireless.
The movie is about this speech and what he did to try to overcome his terrible impediment.
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The film stars Colin Firth as George VI, Helena Bonham Carter as his wife Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and Geoffrey Rush as Lionel Logue who became the King's speech therapist.
Although Firth thoroughly deserved the awards, especially the Oscar for Best Actor, I believe that Geoffrey Rush put in as excellent a performance as Loque and am amazed that he did not add to his existing Oscar in Shine the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in The King's Speech.
Helena Bonham Carter was her normal immaculate self and was deservedly rewarded with an Oscar also.
I would like to know what the budget was for this movie, but am sure it was a fraction of the cost many other Oscar winning movies were. This goes to prove that 100s of millions of dollars do not have to be spent in order to create a thoroughly enjoyable, touching and worthwhile movie.
My advice is that everyone should either go to the cinema or rent the DVD when it is released and watch it as I am sure no one will be disappointed.
Not only was it a great movie it was also very enlightening on a historical level.
Plutus1947
ADDENDUM
Before Prince Charles married Princess Diana he was having an affair with his now wife Camilla Parker Bowles.and because of this her then husband Peter Parker Bowles initiated divorce proceedings against her.
However as Charles was eventually going to become the head of the Church of England when/if he became King the Church refused him permission to marry Camilla.
This is much the same as Edward being refused permission to marry Wallis Simpson and also become King.
The strange thing is that once Charles and Diana were divorced and indeed she tragically died the Church of England sanctioned and gave their blessing to Charles and Camilla marrying.
I personally find this very hypocritical of the Church and would like to know why they firstly denied him permission and then did a complete about turn and blessed their union.
My thoughts about this are that it is extremely unlikely Charles will ever become King and that William will eventually take over from Elizabeth II.