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Movie Exercise “The Kings Speech” very unorthodox treatment

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

A very funny account of some movie exercise performed in “ the King speech” about the true story about King George VI (played by Colin Firth) speech impediment or stammer reach paralyzed any public speaking engagements.

After exhausting all possibilities with conventional speech therapist King George VI wife (played by Helena Bonham Carter) finds and unorthodox therapist called Bob [played by Lionel Logue (played by Geoffrey Rush ).

Strangely before the commencement of shooting the film, some actual historical documents from Bob were found giving actual insights into the practices used by Bob in achieving successful outcomes.

Unconventional speech therapy techniques

A big part of his treatment involves having a patient undergo physical exercise and some fairly strange activities as documented in the movie.

Such as a person sitting on the patient’s chest while the patient inhales and exhales.

The reason behind these is to improve the strength of the patient’s diaphragm which in turn helps with the exhaling through the throat and larynx.

Naomi Watts sent to Boot Camp for Fair Games movie

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Even Naomi Watts Sent is experiencing Boot Camp for her upcoming movie Fair Games with Sean Penn.

Even the movie starts are getting into Boot camp

The film centers on Naomi’s character Valerie Plame, a CIA agent who is outed during the Bush Administration’s handling of the weapons of mass destruction.

The role involved Naomi having to undergo strenuous physical training with a CIA Boot camp over 2 days.

Like our Boot camp parody, Doug Liman the director of Fair game commented “OK, get your ass into boot camp and toughen up, lady’.”
It was particularly interesting that Naomi was also breastfeeding while having to learn how to repack a weapon.

Movie Exercise – Zombieland Cardio Workout

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Who would have thought that even when fighting Zombies, you need to be fit.
A new movie released this summer called Zombieland starring Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg has a narration by the hero Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) about some hints to cope with getting through life with the Zombies.

Cardio, or physical fitness, is of paramount importantance. Because…. as we all know,. movie Zombies theses days are bloody fast.

So even when trying to out run Zombies, being fit does have it’s advantages, well in this case you survive another day:)))

 
 
 

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