Billy+Elliot

Billy Elliot is originally a British film (2000) directed by Stephen Daldry. The screenplay was written by Lee Hall and then adapted as a novel by Melvin Burgess, who is a popular and prolific writer of young adult fiction. Some of his works are //Junk, Bloodtide //and //Doing It. //
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**<span style="font-family: 'Frutiger-BlackCn','serif'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Summary ** <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'AGaramond-Regular','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Billy Elliot is the son of a poor coal miner in Northern <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'AGaramond-Regular','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">England who is very different from all the other boys: he <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'AGaramond-Regular','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">prefers dancing to boxing and he wants to become a ballet <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'AGaramond-Regular','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">dancer.

<span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">**<span style="font-family: 'Frutiger-BlackCn','serif'; font-size: 13.5pt;">Background ** <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'AGaramond-Regular','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Billy Elliot is set against the background of the 1984/5 <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'AGaramond-Regular','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Coal Miners’ Strike in Northern England during Margaret <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'AGaramond-Regular','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Thatcher’s administration, a defining moment in the <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'AGaramond-Regular','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">economic and social history of the United Kingdom. The <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'AGaramond-Regular','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">story shows how the son of one of these miners overcomes <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'AGaramond-Regular','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">social prejudice to make his dream of being a ballet dancer <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span style="font-family: 'AGaramond-Regular','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">come true. ||= = Some of the main themes of the film  =
 * <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">**<span style="font-family: 'AGaramond-Bold','serif';">Coming of age and self-discovery: **
 * <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">**<span style="font-family: 'AGaramond-Bold','serif';">Fulfilling one **** ’ ****<span style="font-family: 'AGaramond-Bold','serif';">s dreams: **
 * <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">**<span style="font-family: 'AGaramond-Bold','serif';">The father-son relationship: **
 * <span style="direction: ltr; display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed;">**<span style="font-family: 'AGaramond-Bold','serif';">Gender and class issues: ** ||

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