Billy Elliot - Director: Steven Dalry

Billy Elliot

Director: Steven Dalry

Cast: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Gary Lewis, Jamie De Raven

Production: 2000 / UK

Length: 110 minutes

Age rating: 15 

summary

11 year old boy Billy living in Northern England. Billy, who was practicing boxing with his father 's solicitation, used the gym as a ballet team for the gymnasium, then took off his gloves and puts his toes on the hidden instinct. Recognizing that his foot responds much faster than hands, Billy begins to concentrate on the ballet, quitting boxing at the encouragement of Mrs. Wilkinson, who leads a ballet lesson. At home, pretending to go to boxing practice, he tries to practice ballet, but is caught by his father and faces severe objections. For him, a miner who lived a hard life of hard labor and strikes, Ballet was just a shameful, uncomfortable choreographer, and Billy's brother was the union leader who led the strike against the mining closure of the government. Then on Christmas evening, when his son saw the ballet performance, Billy's father changed his mind and became a dedicated sponsor of Billy after that day. Ballet only realizes that Billy is the only way out of the coal mine. In order to raise funds for sending his son to the Royal Ballet School, he leaves his dead wife's remains on the pawn shop, and goes back to the mine, even to the point that he is a traitor to his colleagues.

subject

A drama of laughter and emotion that depicts a boy living in a coal mine town in northern England in the 1980s, until his admission to the Royal Ballet School in London, against the miner's father's opposition. It is a work that has received a praise from both left and right critics by drawing calmly the strikes of British miners who looked at them with concentric eyes. The intense conflict continues as much as dealing with the heterogeneous material of beautiful ballet and miners' strike. The father, who became a traitor for Billy and returns to the mine, spoken to Billy 's older brother, who was the cadre of the union and led the strike. 'He might be a genius ...'

Stephen Daldry, a theater director, and Lee Hall, a screenplay writer based on his own experience in the northern United Kingdom in the seventies and eighties. In fact, Philip was from the North of England and said there was a family struggle for mine strikes.

Points of interest:

The film was produced in Durham, England, for £ 2.9 million (about $ 5 million), and the film was released before the film 'Dancer'. However, in order to avoid confusion with films such as "The Dancer" and "The Dancer in the Dark," the title was replaced by the main character's name. Billy Elliot 's Jamie Bell started dancing at the age of six when he was 13 years old. Even when it was released in the United States, the critics praised it as an attractive movie that brought both laughter and tears at the same time, but it was screened for a long time and earned $ 22 million in box office revenue. Stephen Daredley, who directed the show, has already performed in the mining town of the play "Never be the Same" from the mid-1980s and has been with the miners' last London protest against the abandoned mine. "It's amazing that there are not more movies out there," he said. I think the mid-1980s is one of the most important moments in postwar British political history. It also reflects the British era, which was the background of "Billy Elliot," which meant that the era was a time of surprise in the field of poetry, music and theater.

director:

In 1961, he was born in Doorsett, England. After a childhood acting school, he attended class at the theater and then moved on to college at a relatively late age. After graduating from college, he returned to the theater and worked as artistic director for several theater companies, including the Royal Court Theater in London. In 1998, he directed the short film 'Eight', signing a working title, a famous UK production company. Two years later, in 2000, he directed Billy Elliot, a gentle touch to movie fans around the world, and received recognition for his critics and his name on the world stage. In 2002, he completed his second film, The Hours, which featured Michael Cunningham's original novel. The drama system has already received some long praise as 'the only director who has established an impressive standard in the world of theater, fully aware of how to enthrall young people', and has a 'crisis management' ability to control dramatic timing and drama breathing On the screen. In 2008, he showed works such as <The Reader - The Man Who Reads the Book>, 2012 <Extremely Noisy and Incredibly Close>, and 2014 <Trash>.