I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.
If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.
American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.
If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it's just a mush.
I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
What's fascinating about the Australians is they have this quality that they are impervious to majesty. They're not awed.
