“Movie Fans”
Questions to ask yourself after watching “The King's Speech!”
1. What can you say about the main character, the most pleasant hero for you?
2. What phrase from the film has made the most impression on you?
3. What episode from the film has made the most impression on you?
4. Were there similar situations in your life?
5. What would you like to say after watching this film?
On November 27, 2020, the leader of the “Movie Fans” club, Tleugabylova Zeinegul Anapiyaevna, senior lecturer at the Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Philology and World Languages, conducted on-line viewing and discussion of “The King's Speech”. The film was shown and discussed according to the club's plan among 1st year students of Higher School of Economics and Business.
"The King's Speech" is a 2010 film, a biographical drama directed by Tom Hooper, which tells how the British king George VI managed to cure stuttering using the technique of the famous Australian self-taught speech therapist Lionel Log. The main roles in it were played by Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter and Jeffrey Rush.
It is noteworthy that the content of the film "The King's Speech!." in many ways similar to the real events that took place. At the first meeting, the speech therapist instructs Albert to read a classic monologue from Shakespeare's Hamlet tragedy "To Be or Not to Be." At the same time, he puts headphones on the prince so that he does not have the opportunity to hear his own voice. Albert is skeptical of the methods of the Australian speech therapist, but he hands him a recording of his own speech. At home, Albert listens to her. It turns out that he read the entire monologue without stuttering, after which he decides to study with Log. Speech therapist forces the prince to develop a diaphragm, facial muscles, to read speeches. The picture pays great attention to various intonations of the English language.