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To: Cheburashka

At the end, the credits imply that Lionel Logue helped him with every speech.


43 posted on 01/17/2011 8:02:48 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Dr. Scarpetta
At the end, the credits imply that Lionel Logue helped him with every speech.

He may well have. The King never lost his stammer completely. And it's not like he couldn't afford Mr. Logue’s help whenever he was scheduled to make a speech.

The implication that the King was in a race to learn to speak well enough to guide his country through WWII is a dramatization, a taking of license with the facts.

My comments are not an attack on the movie as a movie (I have heard nothing but praise of it as a movie), it is just to point out that the movie is not completely true to the historical record. Sometimes movie makers move facts around a bit, like they were furniture, to improve the story they are telling.

57 posted on 01/17/2011 8:26:11 AM PST by Cheburashka (Democratic Underground - the Hogwarts of Stupid.)
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