领先金球奖的提名 英国电影《国王的演讲》

    “The King’s Speech” is a movie about a friendship between Prince Albert, Duke of York (Colin Firth) and Lionel Logue (Geoffrey   Rush), a troubled Austalian actor-turned-speech therapist*.

    Albert, who has a stammer*, has failed all medical treatment before and vows* never to try another.

    Only the help of his wife, Elizabeth, (Helena Bonham Carter) brings him to Logue.

    The movie is directed by Tom Hooper (HBO’s “John Adams”) and written by David Seidler.

    Albert, son of King George V (Michael Gambon), believed he was protected from the humiliations* of speaking in public because his brother Edward (Guy Pearce) was in succession*. But when Edward, as king, abdicates* to marry American woman Wallis Simpson (Eve Best), Albert has to be king.

    It is Logue’s belief that Albert, whom he regards as “the bravest man,” could be a wonderful king. He’s not King George VI, he’s a man. This is one of the very few films that deal with the psychology* of royalty. Firth is touching in the role. He gives us a portrait* of a troubled man suddenly pushed onto the world stage. His aloneness is obvious.

    When asked by Logue if he was ever close to anyone growing up, Albert speaks of his nannies*. With his own daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret, Albert, in his own guarded way, is the parent he probably wished he had. Albert also has a humorous side. Albert sees through the pretensions* of kingship even as he is forced to enact them. “We’re not a family, we’re a firm,” he says of his family. “We’ve become actors.”

    Logue is also a kind of actor, who, in the end, sees Albert as a performer who is capable not only of becoming the role he has inherited*, but doing well in it. As Albert’s speech therapist, Logue is the great artist he never was as an actor. The film ends with the 1939 radio broadcast in which the terrified King George VI, with Logue alone by his side, addresses Britain as it enters into war with Germany. (SD-Agencies)