Hey guys, welcome to a column here on YDKS Movies entitled Speech of the Week! For now on, every Monday I will post a new scene from a movie that features a speech of some sort being given. After all, there are a lot of famous scenes in film where characters give an influential speech of some sort. Then again, there are also a lot of scenes where characters give a speech and it just comes off cheesy and lame. In this section, you will see both kinds. That's right, people, I'm giving you the good and bad of film speeches all wrapped up in one great big package. I hope you all enjoy.
This week's speech is definitely one of the best ones you will see on this column. It's from Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of William Shakespeare's Henry V. This the famous "St. Crispin's Day" speech that King Henry gives to his English troops to rile them up before doing battle with the vast and overwhelming French army. It is an example of some of Shakespeare's greatest writing and Branagh's delivery (accompanied with a great musical score) is pitch perfect. This also is the same speech that the saying "band of brothers" came from if you didn't know (I just did a research paper on Shakespeare so I figured why not throw out some facts). Lastly, if you look carefully, you can see a young Christian Bale in the crowd listening to the speech. Overall, it's a great scene.
Enjoy.
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