The King's Speech Themes

When you get down to it, The King's Speech is about someone who stutters. A lot. And that means that it's a movie about one man's confidence in his ability to communicate. On some level, every one...

The King's Speech isn't just a movie about a guy overcoming adversity. It's also a story about a deep friendship between the King of England and a regular dude from Australia. It's important to rem...

As the new King of England, Bertie has a lot of pressure on him to speak publicly. But he also has the added pressure of England going to war with Germany in World War II. Throughout most of The Ki...

Bertie is the King of England and Lionel Logue is a failed actor from Australia… who also happens to give speech therapy. It's hard to imagine two people more different in terms of social status....

We realize early in The King's Speech that Bertie is badly intimidated by his father and older brother. We also know that no one in his family really believes in him except his wife. In some ways,...

The King's Speech would be a very different movie if Bertie could just get up and walk away from his duties as the new King of England. (For one thing, it would be called The Duke of York's Speech....