<p>Loved it, loved it, loved it. What a great movie!</p>
<p>Dang, I must live in an area like Olderwisermom. I love Colin Firth and all these good reviews and the movie isn’t showing anywhere near us. AAAAgh!</p>
<p>My husband and I and college-age son and daughter saw this on Sunday. We all liked it and we have fairly divergent movie tastes.</p>
<p>So - here’s another highly recommend.</p>
<p>So jealous! I’m trying to talk the DH into a road trip (we need his special food…or almost!) just so we can go see this movie!</p>
<p>I join in the applause. The acting is superb. I saw it with married kid and spouse. We all liked it.</p>
<p>Great movie, makes me want to learn more of the history of the family and time period.</p>
<p>Whenever I see a historical movie, I am always moved afterward to do some research into the accuracy of various points – usually, of course, I am disappointed with the liberties that the scriptwriters have taken.</p>
<p>But when I decided to check out The King’s Speech – I was amazed – apparently the movie is very accurate historically-- or at least hews very close to information in the published biographical accounts that also are cited as sources for various online articles. I was amazed that the speech given at the end appears to be verbatim, the actual speech that King George VI gave at the start of WW II (you can listen to the real one online). </p>
<p>The time frame is compressed somewhat --you’ll see in the movie that there is little change from beginning to end in the daughters, whereas in real life there was a span of more than a decade between the time the George VI started seeing the therapist and the speech at the end. That’s understandable to me – there would have been little point in casting a range of toddlers to teens to play the princesses, given that it is only a collateral part of the story. </p>
<p>It’s also not all that clear historically how often or frequently the King had sessions with Lionel Logue. Apparently Logue never wrote down the methods he used, so that is also somewhat a matter of conjecture – but everything depicted in the movie is plausible (the kind of stuff a creative speech therapist might do). So I think that it is about as historically accurate as you can reasonably expect any movie to be.</p>
<p>Calmom, I googled the story after seeing the movie too, and was also pleasantly surprised to see how accurate the movie was. Not so for another movie I saw (for the --th time) recently - while watching the Sound of Music on Christmas night, I starting googling. I laughed out loud when I found this on one site:</p>
<p>Maria and Georg were married on 26 November 1927 and their first child was born in February 1928. </p>
<p>Well that’s an interesting twist! What did the Mother Superior think of that? Much of the movie did not match real life - the family didn’t escape over the mountains (they got on a train to Italy), and the dates/time periods were all off. One of the von Trapp family children was quoted as saying that the movie was a “very nice story, but it’s not our story”.</p>
<p>calmom, I watched the Katie Couric interview with Colin Firth. He said that a few weeks before filming started, they got in contact with some of Logue’s descendents, who asked if the filmmakers would like access to Logue’s papers and diaries. Well, Yes!!! 
Firth said that it was clear from the diaries that the screenwriter had guessed correctly about the tenor of the friendship between the King and Logue, at least as far as humor went. The bit of dialogue after the speech (where Logue says that Bertie stammered on some W’s and the King replies that he had to throw in a few of those so people would know it was him) was taken almost verbatim from Logue’s diaries.</p>
<p>Newsweek had an article about David Seidler, who wrote the script for The King’s Speech. Two points of interest, Seidler himself stuttered, and he had an uncle treated by Logue for four years.</p>
<p>From Newsweek </p>
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<p>[Will</a> ‘The King’s Speech’ Sweep the Oscars? - Newsweek](<a href=“http://www.newsweek.com/2010/11/11/the-stuttering-king.html]Will”>Will 'The King's Speech' Sweep the Oscars?)</p>
<p>Good news for those of us who haven’t seen this movie because it isn’t showing near us…looks like it will go into more theaters on 1/14. Check Fandango or local listings. Yay!</p>
<p>I saw it a couple of days ago and loved it - stellar acting and I was in tears at the end. I was predisposed to like it because I enjoy costume dramas and Colin Firth. There was a lot of sly humor, which I didn’t expect. I did have to mentally block previous roles - it’s I Claudius! It’s Peter Pettigrew! (And half the cast of the new Harry Potter.)</p>
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<p>Definitely quite a contrast in the respective roles for Helena Bonham Carter. :)</p>