The Kings Speech

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The strength of a film relies correspondingly on the stregnth of the characters presented. Before starting one must define what a strong character consists of. Characters are created from the minds of the writers or from the pages of history such as in The Kings Speech. In making a stong character, the character usually has a problem that needs to be resolved along with having qualities that are identifiable and relatable to the audience. Furthermore, having a strong character (or characters) withtin the movie becomes the threat that binds the audience to the subject matters (plot, themes, issues ect.) and in turn controls how engageing the movie becomes.Strength of character need not be reliant upon the characters morality or virtue, it must however be powerful in order to gain control of the audiences attention and encourage them to invest emotionally in the plight of our hero.The success of a film hinges upon such an investment. It will be the task of this essay to discuss how strong characters are essential to a films success in terms of engaging an audience with specific reference to the film the Kings Speech. The Kings Speech is a movie that recreates the time period in which strong and influential people rose to important positions leading up to WW2. A time when there was great affection and admiration by the people towards the royal family. Bertie (King George VI) suffers from a stammer that causes him to dread any public speaking and after reluctantly taking the throne from his brother, he must clearly overcome he speech impediment if he is to lead his country into war and become the strong King his country would now need. Upon his wife finding him a speech therapist, Lionel Louge, Bertie is told to try a variety of unorthodox methods to overcome his speech defect and in time delivers an almost flawless speech to the world as England declared war on

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