国王的演讲 The King's Speech Movie Script

杰瑞发布于2023-12-03

England's Prince Albert (Colin Firth) must ascend the throne as King George VI, but he has a speech impediment. Knowing that the country needs her husband to be able to communicate effectively, Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter) hires Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush), an Australian actor and speech therapist, to help him overcome his stammer. An extraordinary friendship develops between the two men, as Logue uses unconventional means to teach the monarch how to speak with confidence.

BERTIE'S POV - Speaker's Corner with its assortment of orators, prophets, protestors, and onlookers gathered around soapboxs, agreeing, disagreeing, shouting comments. Others carry placards, sing protest songs. A miners' strike is the focus of the day.
A large, rather untidy workingman with a florid rosacea nose spots the passing Austin and stares at the occupants.
REVERSE ANGLE - Bertie's face stares back.
The first drops splatter against the glass. Elizabeth sighs.
ELIZABETH (CONT'D) Never trust the wireless.
Bertie's face is obliterated by the increasingly heavy downpour, which segues into a GARGLING sound.
TKS/Seidler/09/17/08 4.
5 INT. BBC BROADCASTING STUDIO - DAY 5 A gentleman in a tuxedo, carnation in boutonniere, is gargling while a TECHNICIAN holds a porcelain bowl and a towel at the ready. The man in the tuxedo is a BBC NEWS READER. He expectorates discreetly into the bowl, wipes his mouth fastidiously, and signals to ANOTHER TECHNICIAN who produces an atomizer. The Reader opens his mouth, squeezes the rubber bulb, and sprays his inner throat. Now, he's ready. He looks to the control room.
The FLOOR MANAGER begins a count-down: five... four... three... two... BBC NEWS READER: Ladies and Gentlemen: good afternoon. This is the BBC National and World Programmes taking you to Wembley Stadium.
He speaks in flawless pear-shaped tones. There's no higher creature in the vocal world.
6 EXT. WEMBLEY STADIUM - DAY 6 ELEVATED SHOT looking down on a sea of dripping black umbrellas hiding the spectators from view.
Bertie and Elizabeth takes their places in a row of gilded chairs with the other dignitaries. They are: KING GEORGE V - a barrel-chested man with Naval beard and uniform, accompanied by his wife.
QUEEN MARY - an elegant but icy grande dame.
DR COSMO LANG - a tall, unctuous, churchman with a high, domed, balding head, and a perpetual expression of moral superiority.
WINSTON CHURCHILL - a politician of sixty, as portly as Lang is lean. They are bantering rivals in ambition.
STANLEY BALDWIN - the Prime Minister of the day. Heavy-browed.
His hair, as always, parted down the middle.
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN - Chancellor of the Exchequer. Tall, thin, lugubrious, with the expression of a quizzical chicken hawk.
A BBC technician places a huge imposing microphone suspended on springs next to the stadium equipment. It looks frightening, even to us. Bertie's shoulders brace as though expecting a blow. Elizabeth sees his terror.
TKS/Seidler/09/17/08 5.
ELIZABETH: Why wasn't he told?
COSMO LANG: Ten million people listening around the world, Mam. Possibly more.
(as though Bertie didn't exist) His brother, and father, have been broadcasting since last year.
The King, growing impatient, hisses: KING GEORGE V: Get on with it. Show what you're made of!
Bertie moves forward diffidently, without an ounce of confidence, knowing deep within he's doomed. His stomach knots, chest muscles contract, constricting his breath.