Positive Relationship In Tom Hooper's Film The King

In Tom Hooper’s film The King’s speech, there was a supportive relationship between the characters Bertie and Lionel. This supportive relationship occurred throughout the film. The director, Tom Hooper uses Bertie and Lionel’s relationship to teach the audience about particular purposes in today’s society.

In the film The King’s Speech, directed by Tom Hooper the character Lionel is very supportive of Bertie. Bertie has a stammer problem in which Lionel assists Bertie with overcoming. This shows how Lionel supports Bertie throughout his his journey of overcoming his stammer. We see this supportive relationship through the use of dialogue. When Bertie and Lionel were at Westminster Abbey Lionel said to Bertie “You have such perseverance Bertie,

you are the bravest man I know”.Hooper showed the audience through the dialogue that Lionel is prepared to support Bertie therefore showing the supportive relationship.The use of music also is used to show the supportive relationship between Bertie and Lionel. At the beginning of the film the music whenever Bertie and Lionel were together was a repeated 1 piano note, however by the end of the film the music is Beethoven's 7th symphony. Hooper used the music to convey to the audience how Lionel has supported Bertie through his stammering problems. The audience reacts emotionally, through this the audience feel joyful and proud of Bertie’s progress. The director, Tom Hooper teaches us teaches the audience that with constant effort we are able to achieve our goals. Hopper is teaching us that in our world by persevering through our struggles we are able to achieve what we want to achieve. By using constant effort it will benefit us because by persevering we believe that we will have the ability to avhieve our goals. In today’s society we need to learn to persevere otherwise we will never move forward. If we don’t persevere through our struggles we will never be able to accomplish anything in life.