No, not for lads, Billy. Lads do football... or boxing... or wrestling. Not friggin' ballet.” The audience first sees Jackie’s reaction to the idea of Billy doing when he discovers that Billy has been attending ballet lesson rather than boxing lessons. In this scene the lighting is half lit and half dark on Jackie’s face. The effect of this is that it implies that Jackie feels conflicted, in this case about his confused feelings concerning Billy doing ballet.
He has the same situation like James, his parents divorced, he like to fight with other people to get their respect, never one to be left alone and he about drop out of high school, but I told him to continue study in high school so he can get a better life. Finally, he made it and his father is very proud of him. Sometimes, in life there will be a person that make you have more motivates. For example, the motorcycle boy is James’s brother and he also is a hero in James’s heart. Motorcycle boy is the one who got James’s back when James in trouble, he helps him out and he is the only one beside with James.
The gloves felt like old friends. Big, yes and very clumsy, but not strangers” (68). When Hoppie lets Peekay try on his gloves he gives Peekay a goal in life, to become the welterweight champion of the world. Hoppie does not realize how much he influences Peekay, but after he finds boxing, he never wants to do anything else. When Hoppie teaches Peekay about boxing he gives a boy who has nothing left to live for a goal that he will do everything to
He demands admiration from those around him in particular his adopted ‘son’ Quasimodo who has been forced to call Frollo “Master”. He also has a grandiose sense of his own self-importance in raising Quasimodo painting himself as a savior for rescuing him and caring for him when in fact before he was coerced into keeping the child after he had murdered the child’s mother, he was going to drown him in a well and even then left him to grow up in a cold bell tower to avoid being saddled with him. Antisocial personality disorder: After the death of his parents Judge Claude Frollo developed a Disregard for the rights and feelings and rights of others. Due to his high IQ score he became manipulative and deceitful which helped him climb form his peasant upbringing to the head of the ministry of justice in Paris. Since his arrival he has been blatantly disregarded the rights and wellbeing of others.
IDEAS (important themes in the film) | Textual examples(may have more than one example, quote, film technique for each idea) | * Family tradition/expectations/working class * Billy’s true identity * Family relationships/bonds/conflicts * Sexism | * Jacky: “Listen, have you noticed anything weird about our Billy lately?” Tony: “What are you after like, a list?” * Jacky to Billy: “You better take better take of those gloves”. * [Billy falls to an opponent at boxing] George: “Jesus Christ, Billy Elliot! You're a disgrace to them gloves, your father, and the traditions of this boxing hall!” * Billy to Michael: “I don’t want a childhood. I want to be a ballet dancer.” * Billy: “I feel a change in my body. And I’ve got this fire in my body.
The aim of the race to see who get deliver eggs unbroken to the finishing line first. Squizzy and Dasher placed their bets on some of daboyz. Page 46-47: The significance of this is when Dolly gives Charlie the shoes in order to be a part of the criminal underworld now, and is a symbol of how he is progressing on towards a minimal contract that it is. Page 51: He wears the new boots in and around the criminal underworld during the day, but then he uses his father’s old boots to wear around the house to make sure that his Ma doesn’t question him and so he doesn’t want his Ma to know about these
Additionally, there is a pan of the students’ lower body of Mrs. Wilkinson’s class. Here we see Billy in his boxing boots practicing ballet amongst the students wearing ballet shoes. These scenes clearly display Billy’s movement into a new world. However, Billy’s transition into the world isn’t always ‘smooth running’ as he faces many barriers set out by society- especially in relations to gender roles. When Jackie says ‘lads do boxing and wrestling… not bloody ballet’
Wesley lives under the shadow of his brother Frank and as the story progresses he is slowly escaping it. However, despite Wesley’s wilted physique and lack of superiority in the Hayden family hierarchy, he possesses a great deal of moral virtue and mental strengths. First of all, Wesley’s leg injury leads to other factors to develop Wesley as a better and stronger man. In his life he goes through many obstacles, such as his failure to go to war, and thus becoming the underdog of the Hayden family. This is discovered when the patriarch, Julian Hayden, says to his son Wesley “Ever since the war…Ever since Frank came home in a uniform and you stayed home, you’ve been jealous” (118).
His father bought into the role of mochoman. Growing in Brooklyn , he was forced to assert himself as a tough guy . His father was football coach when Anthony was in elementary school. So Anthony father wants his all three children to become star athletes. However Anthony’s father disapproval didn’t stop him from his dream.
BILLY ELLIOT SYMBOLISM ESSAY: Analyse how symbolism was used to deepen your understanding of the themes in the visual or oral text. In Stephen Daldry’s film, ‘Billy Elliot’, symbolism is used to deepen our understanding of the themes in the film. It is set in Durham, England in 1984 during a mining strike. Billy Elliot is a young boy who discovers his passion for ballet, however he lives in a family who struggles financially, and where he lives there are a lot of gender stereotypes, so he struggles to pursue his passion. Symbols used throughout the film are, swans, cages and mirrors.