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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safe way of life in both the poor mining town of Everington‚ and the back streets of Surry Hills. Throughout this essay I will be comparing and contrasting the differences and similarities between the families in the film Billy Elliot and the novel The Harp in the South. The Elliots and the Darcy’s were poor. The Darcy’s lived in the oldest‚ ugliest house on Plymouth Street‚ where they were charged an exorbitant rent for a rundown‚ ratty‚ gas smelling‚ slum house (Park 1948). Mumma has learned
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‘Billy Elliot’ In the film ‘Billy Elliot’‚ 11 year old boy Billy is bought up into an economically repressed mining town without the care of his beloved mother. Billy lives in a small cramped English house with his bad-tempered brother‚ out of control father and his delirious 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 Billy and creates an obstacle for Billy’s dream of dancing. But
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English Essay - How does Billy Elliot represent relationships and identity? Manliness consists not in bluff‚ bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether in matters social‚ political or other. It consists in deeds‚ not words.” Mahatma Gandhi‚ 1869 – 1948 In the film “Billy Elliot‚” Lee Hall and Stephen Daldry use Billy’s relationships with friends and family to demonstrate themes of identity and masculinity. There are three main relationships
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belonging is a part of our life. “Immigrant Chronicle” of Peter Skzynecki‚ Billy Elliot of Stephen Daldry and the Lottery by Shirley Jackson are 3 properly evidence shows an idea of belong within an individual feeling to connect to community or place or culture. The acceptance and understanding of big father can make a strong relationship within no bad mood reason such as Billy Elliot. The full shot of Billy’s Father try to push Billy back to the Health Check Room in the Royal Ballet School while he had
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Visual techniques are used in the film Billy Elliot directed by Steven Daldry to help the viewer develop deeper ideas about how society accepts homosexuality and other things that are usually looked upon as “not right “. Steven uses a range of visual techniques such as camera angles/shots‚ acting‚ and symbols to show us how people react when someone is seen as different and doesn’t hesitate to show it. Steven Daldry uses camera angles and shots in the film to show facial expression and how people
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Jackie Elliot is seen as a traditional man with anti feminist views. he sees that boys should be tough whilst girls should be more placid. Throughout the film Billy Elliot‚ the directer has created the character Jackie Elliot‚ a widowed father feeling the grief of the recent lose of his wife. This essay suggests that the grief could be a factor of how Jackie goes about supporting his son. The time that this film is set‚ is in the mid 80s. It could be that people who do not keep to the social norm
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conveyed through Daldry’s film‚ Billy Elliot‚ which explores multiple perspectives and their response to life situations as they move into the new world. Both Billy and his brother Tony are confronted with a violent and underprivileged life‚ with the adverse effects of the mining strike among the working class that they belong to. Tony conforms to society’s expectations by taking part in the miners strike and has an overall defiant and violent attitude whereas Billy is seen as a sensitive and caring
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lives of the characters in the film‚ Billy Elliot‚ directed by Stephen Daldry. These can also be seen mirrored in the novel‚ The clan of the cave bear‚ written by Jean M. Auel as well as the short story Triple word score by Peter Goldsworthy. Collectively‚ these composers utilise many filmic and linguistic techniques in communicating these characters’ attitudes and actions to the responder. Gender stereotyping is explored through the protagonist‚ Billy Elliot‚ as he overcomes the sexual prejudices
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experience in their transition into a new phase of life. The film ‘Billy Elliot’ composed by Stephen Daldry‚ and ‘Big World’ written by Tim Winton both display these obstacles one must overcome. ‘Into the World’ is best described as transitioning and growing from past experiences into your next stage of life and this transition generally contains obstacles and barriers as well as endless opportunities. Into the world is conveyed in Billy Elliot and isn’t an easy transition as he constantly faces barriers
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