Billy Elliot A film review Billy Elliot ‚ written by Lee Hall and directed by Stephen Daldry ‚ is a British film which captures the essence of a ‘ feel good’ movie . It is set in the 80’s era of struggle in North England were the contrast plot of an 11 year old protagonist Billy Elliot ( Jaime Bell)‚ explores his own personal challenges of wanting to become a ballet dancer but is opposed by his father and older brother . Billy’s household represent the common financially disadvantaged
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Representations of Gender – Billy Elliot In the movie “Billy Elliot” there is many representations of gender. The characters challenge and reinforce certain stereotypes shown and the audience is positioned to respond in a particular way. PLOT This story is set in a mining town just outside of London. A young boy‚ Billy‚ has a passion and talent for dance that drives him to defy all the social and cultural rules in his world. By following his dream Billy challenges the stereotype for boys in
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Billy Elliot‚ The Movie Review The story takes place in a coal mining town located in Northern England ‚ during the 12-months long strike in British coal industry‚ which later considered a major political victory for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the conservative party. The main character‚ Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell) is a 12 years old motherless boy. Youngest member of Elliot’s family‚ a patriarchal miner family where the father (Gary Lewis) and older brother (Jamie Draven) are both
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Love and friendship plays a major role in everyday life. This is shown particularly well in the film Billy Elliot‚ directed by Stephan Daldry. It is set in Everington in 1984‚ during the miners’ strike. Throughout the film love and friendship is portrayed in a range of different ways as Billy‚ the main character‚ has a different relationship with each of the other characters. The effective use of symbolic and technical film codes and the narrative elements; point of view‚ plot and characterization
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Film analysis of Billy Elliot Billy Elliot is a film about a young boy who discovers and starts dancing ballet. His father and brother work in the mines and are working class people. But still Billy’s father manages to let Billy go to boxing lessons. Billy doesn’t love boxing and isn’t very good either. When the local ballet dancers start practicing in the same venue as he does‚ he develops an interest in the dancing and soon joins the ballet group. Billy has to hide the ballet dancing from his
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happen for the better. Change is shown in the film “Billy Elliot”‚ directed by Stephan Daldry and the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. Throughout the film of Billy Elliot‚ Billy‚ the main character‚ experiences transitions through his life‚ taking on challenges and obstacles as he is determined to pursue a career in ballet. This is shown through the quote “I don’t want a childhood. I want to be a ballet dancer” and the relationship between Billy and his father‚ Jackie. Early
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outweigh cost to have a compatible relationship. In the movie of Billy Elliot‚ this is extremely obvious in the relationship of Billy and Mrs. Wilkinson. These two put in time and effort so that they can reap the benefits later in the movie‚ Mrs. Wilkinson teaches Billy how to dance for free during her free time. She wishes nothing more then for him to succeed and in turn he lives out the dream she never could. In the opposite‚ Billy works hard because he see’s that Mrs. Wilkinson’s dream was never
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Billy Elliot is an eleven year old boy who stumbles out of the boxing ring and into ballet lessons. He learns to deal with many trials and triumphs as he hopes to change his family’s set ways and the inner conflict between them. Billy lives in a small cramped house with his bad-tempered brother‚ out of control father and his forget-ful grand-mother. All Billy wants to do is dance but Billy is told by his father that “boys wrestle; boys don’t dance”. But Billy loves to dance. This disappoints
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Billy Elliot – Film Review Recently I watched a film entitled Billy Elliot. I personally thought that the film was great in several ways‚ scripts‚ film techniques .etc. Every aspects of the film were thought out with detail. The film was set in 1984 when the miners’ strike took place. The unique setting adds to why I like this film so much. Billy Elliot was directed by Stephen Daldry‚ and 1st published in the year 2000. Today this film still remains popular as a family movie. The story was told
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FILM STUDY GUIDE: BILLY ELLIOT : As we go back over the film‚ scene by scene. Summary. The Miners Strike Lee Hall‚ the writer of Billy Elliot‚ set his screenplay in a mining village in the north east of England‚ during the Miners Strike of 1984. He sees the strike as ’…a class war where the state was mobilised against a small group of people. It left me with a sense of indignation which has fuelled much of my work.’ Billy’s father and his brother Tony are both miners so the family are under tremendous
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