Showing posts with label Cinema. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cinema. Show all posts
11 February 2016
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Marc Anthony: Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones. So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus hath told you Caesar was ambitious. If it were so, it was a grievous fault, and grievously hath Caesar answered it. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest (For Brutus is an honorable man. So are they all; all honorable men) Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: but Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honorable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honorable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal, I thrice presented him a kingly crown - which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition!? Yet, Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honorable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, but here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause: what cause withholds you then to mourn for him? Oh judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts. And men have lost their reason... Bear with me. My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, and I must pause till it come back to me....
28 May 2014
King George VI "In this grave hour" speech (3 September 1939)
This speech is important because it announces the entry into war against
the Axis Powers of the United Kingdom and its Empire. The King is listened to
by all his subjects. It is really important for the King personally because it
is proof of his success in being able to control his speech impediment. Indeed,
after weeks of work with Lionel Logue, an Australian speech therapist, he was
able to control his stammer.
King George VI
The speech reaches out to every home. It shows that the King has
confidence in his people and that the people can trust their king. He wants his
message to give them courage. He wants them to be prepared, to remain calm, determined
and united.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)