Best Picture: "The King's Speech"
By CBSNews.com producer David Morgan
ELIZABETH: Naturally he wishes to be cured. My husband is required to speak publicly.
LIONEL: Perhaps he should change jobs.
ELIZABETH: He can't.
LIONEL: Indentured servitude?
ELIZABETH: Something of that nature.
BERTIE: How can I hear what I'm saying?!
LIONEL: Surely a Prince's brain knows what its mouth is doing?
BERTIE: You're not well acquainted with Royal Princes, are you?
Bertie becomes exasperated and leaves, believing he'd failed the test. But later, upon hearing the recording, he learns that it did have impressive results.
CHURCHILL: Have you thought what you will call yourself? Certainly not Albert, Sir. Too Germanic. What about George? After your father? George the Sixth. It has rather a nice continuity to it, don't you think.
All of Bertie's old symptoms reappear: the tightening of the neck muscles, the protruding Adam's apple, the jaw locking.
BERTIE: I meet you today in circumstances which are -
Bertie has come to a complete muscle-locked halt.
LIONEL: Turn the hesitations into pauses, and say to yourself, 'God save the King.'
BERTIE: I say that continually, but apparently no one's listening.
LIONEL: Long pauses are good: they add solemnity to great occasions.
BERTIE: Then I'm the solemnest king who ever lived.
"People knew this man was facing his demons just by speaking to them. I think there was a sense that it cost him something. They found it valiant."
Colin Firth
Geoffrey Rush
Helena Bonham Carter
Jennifer Ehle
Tom Hooper
When asked backstage if he was looking forward to now taking a break from Bertie, Firth replied, "Yeah, I am. Yeah, I've started having fantasies about what I'll do. ... I think I'm going to cook a lot. I don't think I'm particularly good at it, but I'm going to inflict my cooking on anybody within range, but I tend to find that's a very good way to decompress. I'll probably be the only one eating it!"
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"The King's Speech" (Official Movie Website)
"The King's Speech" - Original screenplay by David Seidler (Download pdf)