missing a line


i work in a movie theater so i saw the trailers for this film quite a bit leading up to its release. i was anxious to see it when it (finally) came to the area. anyway i really love the film but there was a line i very distinctly hearing in the trailer that wasnt in the movie, either the theater or later on DVD.

it should have been in the scene right after bertie meets with whoever and before the actual coronation. elizabeth is telling him why she turned down his first two proposals and then cuts off. i feel like this scene should have had a bit more. there was a line she spoke that was i guess cut:

"you know i intend to be a very good queen...to a very great king"

does anyone else remember hearing this line in the trailers? i really liked it and thought it would have worked well in that scene since bertie was feeling the weight of the responsibility he had thrust on him. also without it, the lines about turning him down for marriage because she didnt want a royal life but how much she loved his stutter and they'd be left alone seems a little out of place.

i dont know, each time i see that scene i always expect her to say it right after the last line and then it cuts away. i know things get cut from movies, even full scenes from trailers dont always make it, i just think that really could have worked, and i hate that the dvd doesnt have extended or deleted scenes!!

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That's the scene the lines suppose to be in. Right after she says about being left alone, she is suppose to say that line but they cut it. I thought it would work because despite what she had just said about not wanting the royal life, her intentions are to be a good queen to a great king, thus saying to bertie that despite it being not what they both originally wanted, they are king and queen and will do a good job for England in their positions. also that she fully supports him and knows what a great king he can be despite any speech impediment he may have.

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A reigning queens husband is a prince, but a reigning king's wife is a queen. The discrepancy is a traction to the situation when Mary I we'd Phillip pf Spain who was made King of England as well and dragged England into a war. Since then reigning Queens husbands have had lesser titles, as it was feared tgey would dominate their spouses if they were equals William and Mary dont count,
both were essentially reigning monarchs.

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Yeah. I've always believed cutting that line costed HBC her Oscar

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