# The king's speech **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 19, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kings-speech/564752 "2010-12-19T21:36:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Hedda\_Rosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hedda_rosa/32/1204_2.png) [@Hedda\_Rosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hedda_Rosa)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kings-speech/564752/141 "2011-02-26T07:44:57Z")
Saw it tonight and it was wonderful. Quiet, cold, and ultimately very moving. > [@Fried\_Dough\_Ho](#): > > BTW, did anyone else laugh at the scene with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle meet for the first time and Geoffrey Rush stammers the introduction, “Uh, I think you too know each other…” > > Of course an inside joke to the fact that Jennifer and Colin were a couple while filming what is arguably the best version of [_Pride and Prejudice_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112130/)? Did anyone else notice that the Theater Director who rejects Geoffrey Rush was [Mr Colins](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0051394/)? ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kings-speech/564752/142 "2011-02-26T08:25:22Z")
> [@Hedda\_Rosa](#): > > Saw it tonight and it was wonderful. Quiet, cold, and ultimately very moving. > > Did anyone else notice that the Theater Director who rejects Geoffrey Rush was [Mr Colins](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0051394/)? Yep;) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kings-speech/564752/143 "2011-02-26T21:29:17Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > Yep;) Yep for me too. He also played Hitler in _Valkyrie_ (in which, ironically enough, Tom Hollander, who played Mr. Collins in the 2005 _Pride & Prejudice_ played one of his aides - so there were _two_ former Mr. Collinses, both playing Nazis!). [http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsB/895-27572.gif](http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsB/895-27572.gif) [![](https://www.indielondon.co.uk/images/15266.jpg) ](https://www.indielondon.co.uk/images/15266.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kings-speech/564752/144 "2011-02-28T05:18:47Z")
Best Actor and Best Picture. Seems pretty reasonable. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kings-speech/564752/145 "2011-02-28T06:09:38Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > I saw him on Broadway in **Breaking the Code** where he played Alan Turing - with a stammer. Typecast, I suppose. He played a character with a stammer in the movie _Dead Again_ as well. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kings-speech/564752/146 "2011-02-28T06:10:02Z")
And Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, too - huzzah! ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kings-speech/564752/147 "2011-02-28T06:36:14Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Yep for me too. He also played Hitler in _Valkyrie_ (in which, ironically enough, Tom Hollander, who played Mr. Collins in the 2005 _Pride & Prejudice_ played one of his aides - so there were _two_ former Mr. Collinses, both playing Nazis!). > > [http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsB/895-27572.gif](http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsB/895-27572.gif) > [http://www.indielondon.co.uk/images/15266.jpg](http://www.indielondon.co.uk/images/15266.jpg) I’d totally forgotten he was Mr Collins - I recognized him as Cicero from the series Rome. I enjoyed King’s Speech, but I dunno if it was definitively better than any of the other nominees. But it was very “British,” I suppose, and Hollywood seems to like that sort of thing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kings-speech/564752.md?page=7)