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Comparing King's Speech And A Beautiful Mind

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Contrast was a very important tie between ‘The King’s Speech’ and ‘A Beautiful Mind’ as they both have various contrasting characters within both biopics. A biopic is essentially the dramatization of a historical figure’s life. Both film’s contrasting characters help enhance the message of the biopic and help to additionally dramatize the life of the character they are depicting, that is Bertie and John Nash. The contrast of characters within ‘The King’s Speech’ and ‘A Beautiful Mind’ came down to two pairings for me: Lionel and Bertie in ‘The King’s Speech’ and John Nash and Parcher in ‘A Beautiful Mind’.
When contrasting Lionel and Bertie we see that they have similarities between them, for example in the stills we see that they both are …show more content…

Lionel does not have as many duties or responsibilities as Bertie has and Bertie tends to take his frustrations out on Lionel in the form of argumentation which comes across in filmic technique through the zooming in and out on Bertie as well as the 30 degree rule. Bertie has to care about his job, how he acts, who sees him etc. and for that reason he comes across as more formal in his dialogue and his actions. Lionel chooses to be less formal which brings out his background and past as well as his hatred for the monarchy. Looking at the filmic techniques of showing the walls the set really picked up the differences in class where Bertie’s home has more high-key and natural lighting bringing out the luxury of the décor and lifestyle he has whereas Lionel’s home is filmed with less natural lighting and more artificial as well as low-key lighting bringing out the modest décor and difference in class to …show more content…

Parcher and John when seen together are filmed using low-key lighting and shadow to show the immense harshness that is the character Parcher. Especially in the last two stills I have included. Parcher is essentially John’s fears as a person which his mind has created and he is such an intense fear-instilling character that a lot of the scenes that contain him and John, for example the car-chase scene and the scene where he threatens John in the woods leading him to the shed, are filmed using jump cuts to add

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