What makes a British Film?
To become a British film the film needs to meet 3 out of 4 set guidelines by the British film council. These are:
1. The maker test
2. The production cost test
3. The labour cost test
4. Previously filmed material
They have now made it broader from the 2003 rules; they now include the extra ones of
- Film set in the UK
- Lead characters British residents or citizens
- Film based on British subject matter
- Dialogue mainly consisting of English language
- Studio/location shooting/visual or special effects done in the UK
- Music recording/ audio post production/ picture post production done in the UK
- British director
- Majority of cast British
- Majority of crew British
This means that with more films being classed as a British film it brings over more people wanting to make films in the UK witch intern brings more money into the economy. Further more this will expand the UK film industry to a point that we can start making bigger and better films that do do good in the box office such as ‘The Kings Speech’
EXHIBITION ISSUES - Box Office in the UK
On its opening weekend the film grossed a £3.52 million with previews of £227,000 compared to a previous big hit of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ that only did £1.83 million. It even had problem being made as both BBC Films and Film4 passed up on the opportunity and the production was only saved by the funding of the UK Film Council. In turn the film did a great deal for the council as it had been giving the label of funding films ‘that would have been made anyway’ so seeing as the UKFC was a last chance for ‘The Kings Speech’ and did an overall gross of £150 million (taken on Retrieved 18 March 2011).
EXHIBITION ISSUES and reviews: the film's reception
BAFTAS – Nominated 14 / Won 7
OSCARS – Nominated 12 / Won 4
‘The King’s Speech’ isn’t just an enlightening period drama, but a very entertaining, heartfelt and surprisingly funny crowd-pleaser’ - http://www.timeout.com/film/reviews/89059/the-kings-speech.html
Firth is excellent because he humanizes George VI — making him rounder than some haughty profile - http://www.filmjunk.com/2011/01/06/the-kings-speech-review/
A crowning achievement that's sure to be the talk of this awards season – Roger Tennis cinemaclips.com ( http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_kings_speech/ )
Critical Reviews:
- "The portrayal of Winston Churchill and the royals in The King's Speech is a blatant rewriting of history" - quote from The Guardian:
- There are other critical review but focusing on the historical inaccuracies such as women wearing seemles tights before they were invented and ‘Bertie’ wearing a Kilt that was neither Scottish or designed before the time of the film taking place
You Tube Reviews (Web 2.0 and EXCHANGE:
- Mark Kermode says that this film is sure for awards and so is the main lead Colin Firth but this is because there is a relationship there in that there is a commoner and someone regal such as he said in The Queen and like The Queen the commoner is someone of power and that we can relate to them not because they are British is that they both are below someone more powerful or have something they can’t have control of like the speech impediment in The Kings Speech
The Film's PRODUCTION ISSUES
- The films producers knew that the film needed ‘the weight of attaching key cast’ and they knew that if they through the standardised protocol of agent that Geoffrey Rush wouldn’t probably see the script so they took matters into their own hands and posted it right through his letterbox. This did leave them with a 4 page angry email from his agent but it did end with him accepting the role
- The $15m project shot on a tight schedule of 39 days in and around London at the end of 2009. One tough obstacle, Canning says, was the “mind-bending” scheduling of the cast: Firth was doing awards promotions for A Single Man, while Helena Bonham Carter, playing his wife Elizabeth, could only shoot on weekends since she was making Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows. - http://www.screendaily.com/home/awards/the-kings-speech/5022661.article
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