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the King's Speech
Jul. 31st, 2013 04:09 pmI finally got around to watching The King's Speech and enjoyed it a lot. Colin Firth is very good, good enough that I forgave him for being too old for the role and noticeably older than Guy Pearce, who is supposed to be Firth's elder brother. I'm not a Geoffrey Rush fan, but he was less annoying here than usual.
It's a good story, although as I quickly found out on Wikipedia, the real history of Bertie's work with Lionel Logue is less dramatic. I particularly enjoyed the skewering of the vapid, Nazi-sympathizing Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, whose relationship is nauseatingly over-romanticized in most other stories about this period.
Does anybody have fanfic recommendations? I've looked on AO3 but there's nothing there that works for me. I'm interested in Bertie-centric gen, Bertie/Lionel slash or friendship fic so long as the author can make it emotionally convincing and not just go straight for the porn, or anything that follows up on what I thought were some pretty obvious hints of incestuous something between Bertie and David.
It's a good story, although as I quickly found out on Wikipedia, the real history of Bertie's work with Lionel Logue is less dramatic. I particularly enjoyed the skewering of the vapid, Nazi-sympathizing Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, whose relationship is nauseatingly over-romanticized in most other stories about this period.
Does anybody have fanfic recommendations? I've looked on AO3 but there's nothing there that works for me. I'm interested in Bertie-centric gen, Bertie/Lionel slash or friendship fic so long as the author can make it emotionally convincing and not just go straight for the porn, or anything that follows up on what I thought were some pretty obvious hints of incestuous something between Bertie and David.
