Line #43 Funny/TheKingsSpeech


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2	* Generally, if Logue is talking and it's not heartwarming, it's usually one of these.
3	* Both scenes in the elevator.
4	* The whole bedtime story, especially:
5	-->'''Albert:''' And do you know what he turned into?\
6	'''Daughters:''' A handsome prince!\
7	'''Albert:''' A short-tailed albatross.
8	* Logue and Bertie's first meeting:
9	-->'''Lionel:''' When speaking with a prince, one waits for the prince to choose the topic.
10	-->'''Bertie:''' Waiting for me to... commence a conversation, one can wait a rather long wait.
11	**
12	--->'''Lionel:''' Do you know any jokes?\
13	'''Bertie:''' [''stammers for a good 3 seconds''] …timing isn't my strong suit.
14	* Knighthood:
15	** After Lionel calls Albert's past physicians idiots:
16	--->'''Albert''': They've all been [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever knighted]].
17	--->'''Lionel''': Makes it official then.
18	** Later in the film
19	---> '''Albert''': How can I thank you?\
20	'''Lionel''': Knighthood?
21	*** Triply funny given the end credits, which indicates that Lionel was made a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, which, though a high honor, does NOT entitle its holder to be called "Sir," i.e. Lionel was explicitly NOT knighted.
22	* Or this:
23	-->'''Lionel:''' Surely a Prince's brain knows what his mouth is doing.
24	-->'''Bertie:''' You're not acquainted with any royal princes, are you.
25	* Bertie doing breathing exercises... lying on the floor, with his wife sitting on top of him.
26	-->'''Lionel:''' And up goes Her Royal Highness... And down goes Her Royal Highness...
27	** Elizabeth's reaction to the various exercises - [[TheComicallySerious she is entirely unruffled by the whole affair.]]
28	** Another version of the breathing exercises.
29	--->'''Lionel:''' Breathe in, get that air into your lungs... how do you feel?
30	--->'''Bertie:''' Full of hot air.
31	--->'''Lionel:''' Well, isn't that what public speaking is all about?
32	* When Lionel tells Bertie to try singing, since he doesn't stutter when he sings the tune of "The Camptown Races:"
33	-->'''Bertie:''' ''You're bark-ing up the wrong tree now, Doc-tor, Doc-tor!''
34	* Lionel learns that Bertie doesn't stutter when he swears. Cue ClusterFBomb.
35	** The scene comes off the heels of a particularly tense moment where David taunts Bertie.
36	--->'''Lionel:''' Why do you stammer so much more with David than you do with me?
37	--->'''Bertie:''' Because you're bloody well paid to listen!
38	--->'''Lionel:''' Bertie, I'm not a geisha girl.
39	--->'''Bertie:''' [exasperated] Stop trying to be so bloody clever!
40	** The exchange right before Bertie launches into his rant:
41	--->'''Bertie:''' ''(having been asked to demonstrate some of the swears he knows)'' Well... bugger to you, you... beastly bastard.
42	--->'''Lionel:''' Oh, a public school prig could do better than that.
43	--->'''Bertie:''' ''(completely deadpan)'' Shit.
44	** Lionel asking Bertie to swear more crudely.
45	--->'''Lionel:''' Do you know the F-word?\
46	'''Bertie:''' F... f... fornication?\
47	'''Lionel:''' Oh, ''Bertie.''
48	** "And ...[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking tits]]."
49	*** The swearing rampage elicited roaring applause from the L.A. Film School screening (which screenwriter David Seidler attended). And anyway, [[Film/TheAviator who doesn't like tits]]?
50	*** [[Creator/GeorgeCarlin But tits doesn't even belong on the list!]]
51	*** Especially since, having ROARED out all the filthy vulgar language he can think of, he says "tits" in a completely normal, even polite voice.
52	** From the same scene: "Defecation flows ''trippingly'' from the tongue." Extra points for the pun because Bertie had just been growling "SHIT" a bunch of times in a row.
53	** Lionel's son, who's just heard his father's patient cursing up a blue streak from all the way upstairs, calling down to him in a concerned voice if everything's okay down there.
54	* "Honey, I don't believe you've met... King George VI?"
55	** Elizabeth's casual attitude through the whole scene, exemplified by her saying to Mrs. Logue that it's "ma'am, as in ham, not ma'am, as in palm."
56	** While their wives are making introductions, Bertie and Lionel are in the neighboring room, hiding like a couple of schoolboys.
57	--->'''Bertie:''' "Logue, we can't stay here all day."
58	--->'''Lionel:''' "Yes, we can!"
59	*** Also, the meta-humour: Bertie is played by Colin Firth, and Mrs Logue by Jennifer Erle -- who, of course, famously played Darcy and Elizabeth in ''Series/PrideAndPrejudice1995''.
60	* "''That is St. Edward's chair!''"
61	** "People have carved their names in it."
62	** "It's held in place with a large rock!"
63	** [[{{Pun}} "I don't care how many royal arseholes have sat in this chair."]]
64	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPmdCmQMDxk The final rehearsal]], in which Bertie brings out almost every technique he's learned to get his speech across.
65	-->In this... grave hour, fuck fuck fuck, perhaps the fateful in our history, bugger shit shit, (singing) ''I send to every household of my...'' (normal) a peoples, both at home and overseas... this message, (to the tune of Camptown races) ''dooh-dah, spoken with the same depth of feeling, dooh-dah-day'' (normal) to each one of you, as if I were able to shit ''FUCK'' BUGGER cross your threshold and speak to you... bloody well heard, bloody well heard, bloody well heard, ''myself!'' (Moving around the room, singing to the tune of the Sleeping Beauty Waltz) '' Foooor theeeee second time in the lives of'' most of us, we are...
66	** If one pays attention to the final speech, you can see ''both'' Logue and Bertie mouth multiple F-bombs; Logue as a reminder of the trick, Bertie to try and keep his pacing.
67	* Just before the final speech, King George mutters one of his tongue-twisters into the microphone. [[IsThisThingOn Elizabeth hastily reminds him to make sure that it's switched off]] (it is).
68	* At the very end of the movie:
69	-->'''Lionel:''' You still stammered a little on the 'W's.
70	-->'''Bertie:''' I threw a couple in there, so they'd know it was me.
71	* King George V laments the demeaning new role that has been imposed upon them by the new media:

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