Daily Dialogue — April 10, 2012

King George VI: [Sees Logue is sitting on the coronation throne] What are you doing? Get up! You can’t sit there! GET UP!
Lionel Logue: Why not? It’s a chair.
King George VI: No, that. It is not a chair. T-that… that is Saint Edward’s chair.
Lionel Logue: People have carved their names on it.
King George VI: [Simultaneously] That… chair… is the seat on which every king and queen has… That is the Stone of Scone you ah-are trivializing everything. You trivialize…
Lionel Logue: [Simultaneously] It’s held in place by a large rock. I don’t care about how many royal arseholes have sat in this chair.
King George VI: Listen to me. *Listen to me!*
Lionel Logue: Listen to you? By what right?
King George VI: By divine right if you must, I am your king.
Lionel Logue: No you’re not, you told me so yourself. You didn’t want it. Why should I waste my time listening?
King George VI: Because I have a right to be heard. I have a voice!
Lionel Logue: [pauses] Yes, you do.
[Longer pause]
Lionel Logue: You have such perseverance Bertie, you’re the bravest man I know.

— King George VI (Colin Firth), Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush), The King’s Speech (2010), written by David Seidler

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The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is inspiration, suggested by Summer Johnson. Today’s suggestion by Amy Butler.

Trivia: While preparing the film, the production knew that having some key cast would help the movie get made so the team took the highly unusual step of getting someone who lived near actor Geoffrey Rush to post the script through his letterbox. Although against industry practice, it did have a covering note apologizing for the unsolicited delivery and explained that they were desperate for him to know the script existed. Rush read the script and agreed to do the film.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Almost always, a Protagonist’s metamorphosis derives from a latent power they already have within, what I call their ‘core essence.’ And the task is to get down to that core essence and have it reveal itself. In this case, Lionel is helping Bertie to tap into his voice, and here does so by forcing Bertie to ‘claim’ it in action.

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