I can’t be the first person to notice this, though I did Google the basic premise and I came up blank. So apologies to anyone who got there first, but: isn’t the plot of “The King’s Speech” basically the same as the plot of “Star Wars”?
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The King’s Speech |
Star Wars |
The story takes place against the background of |
impending World War. |
ongoing revolutionary war. |
Our hero, whose mum was |
the Queen, |
the Queen, |
is named |
Bertie |
Luke |
and yearns for |
a different life. |
a different life. |
His posh love interest, |
Elizabeth, |
Leia, |
leads him to encounter a strange guru called |
Lionel |
Ben |
who inhabits |
a skanky basement. |
a skanky hut. |
The guru teaches him about |
bizarre mind tricks |
bizarre mind tricks |
which nobody else believes in, and at one point makes him wear |
headphones to suppress his hearing. |
a backwards helmet to suppress his vision. |
The guru talks to our hero about |
his father, |
his father, |
and they make good progress until they are separated by |
an argument. |
Ben’s death. |
There is much shouting, and |
Bertie storms off. |
Luke runs away. |
However, this cannot keep them apart, and when |
Bertie marches along a narrow corridor |
Luke flies along a narrow trench |
towards |
a tiny studio |
a tiny exhaust port |
we observe that |
Lionel |
Ben |
is there to offer guidance and support. |
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A corgi appears. |
A Wookiee appears. |
Thanks to his training, |
Bertie |
Luke |
successfully completes his objective and returns triumphant to an embrace from |
Elizabeth. |
Leia. |
Our hero, proudly displaying |
an enormous number of medals |
a medal |
wordlessly receives the adulation of an delirious crowd. |
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There is no medal for the corgi. |
There is no medal for the Wookiee. |
Yes, yes, some of the above is flippant. But the headphones/helmet scenes, the tracking shots towards the studio/Death Star, the scenes inside the studio/cockpit and the cheering crowd scenes are uncannily similar to each other.
You could also, I think, make a case for Lionel being an amalgam of the Ben and Han roles.
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