6.1 The King’s Speech Flashcards
(15 cards)
Genre / mode?
Written script / screenplay; intended for performance
Audience?
Actors / directors / viewers of film + cinema / those with an interest in the Royal family / fans of the actors / those with speech impediments
Purpose?
Entertain / inform
Ambitious vocab for Lionel?
Sardonic; confident; proficient; self-assured; knowledgeable
Ambitious vocab for Bertie?
Irritable; shy; frustrated; insecure
King George had speech therapy so he could…
Give a WW1 speech without stuttering
2010
Film premiered
George was not…
Prepared for the throne as he was the younger son
Lionel is
Australian
B, ‘If we were equal, I wouldn’t be here’
Conditional, not true; repeats Lionel, mockery; personal pronoun; frustration + shame; ironic due to implications of social class
B, ‘(Flushes) Only my family uses that.’
Stage direction, GC, provides embarrassment and shock, sense of character; conjunction, superiority; creates distance and threat
B, ‘I prefer Doctor.’
Personal pronoun, used to giving orders; short + frustrated; formal + distant, patient / doctor relationship; impolite; echoes Lionel
L, ‘Sucking smoke into your lungs will kill you.’
Sibilance, angry tone, childish; hyperbolic; modal verb; blunt + direct; subverts expectations of interaction
L, ‘Makes it official then. My ‘castle’, my rules.’
Grammatically incorrect, informal; passive aggressive + sardonic tone; quotes, sarcastic, power metaphors, references to royalty; subverts power norms; parallel phrasing, familiar colloquation
L, ‘I prefer Lionel. What’ll I call you?’
Stichmytiha, mocking, ironic power imbalance; parallelism; elision, informal, subverts expectations; interactional question, doesn’t allow protest
