Elliot Reid

If there is a fact film directors apparently have not yet realized, it is that the extraordinary, magnificent Shakespeare plays simply cannot ever be transformed into films. With every Shakespeare film released we witnessed this in the predictable, gullible and ludicrous acting of Leonardo DiCaprio in the vulgar 1997 Romeo and Juliet, and in the poor filmography of Roman Polansky’s Macbeth. Therefore, when I was preparing myself to watch the modern version of The Tempest, filmed in 2010, I was expecting

Billy Elliot: The Musical Live was set during a devastating, yearlong coal miners’ strike in England that began in 1984 and portrays the persistent rawness, poverty, violence and other hardships of the era. The dark moments are balanced by the warm sense of community that pervades a small mining town and, most appealingly, the release and promise of a better life that young Billy Elliot finds after he discovers his talent for ballet. Billy Elliot is a social drama as it deals with a variety of social

My theme report is exploring safe stereotypes and how it impacts belonging in society. My four texts are Mother’s love your sons by Glenn Colquhoun, Billy elliot directed by Stephen Daldry, Big brother little sister by Witi Ihimaera and Captain Fantastic directed By Matt Ross and Viggo Mortensen. Mother love your sons enforces the idea of safe stereotypes and how it impacts belonging in society. A safe stereotype in my view is a clear role that society approves of. I’m looking at texts which have

Two different but similar forms of writing are able to be tied down into one general but specific category. In the book, Mistakes Were Made (but not by me), by Elliot Aronson and Carol Tavris, Aronson and Tavris commentates on events that people go through. The book is mainly about Elliot Aronson’s and Carol Tavris’ opinion on how people behave and should behave when caught in tough situations. Instead of focusing on one main character in the book, each section of the book illustrates a different

Billy Elliot is a character who breaks his society’s stereotypes, as he pursues a career in ballet, a sport deemed only for girls. Growing up in the fictional mining town of Everington, he is subjected to the narrow minded views of the community, in which Billy is expected to follow family traditions to become a miner. Instead, his passion for dance pushes through these stereotype barriers as he trains hard to become a student at the prestigious Royal School of Ballet. As Billy is learning the dance

Watergate, the greatest scandal of the 20th century, remains a shrouded mystery. Early on the morning of June 17, 1972, there was a break-in and several burglars were arrested inside the office of the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters in the Watergate Office complex building located in Washington, D.C. Thus began a series of events that would shake the public’s confidence in its most visible symbol of American authority and prestige: the presidency of Richard Nixon. A seemingly random

Elizabeth Bennet is witty but prideful, Emma Woodhouse is well meaning but frightfully un-observant, and overcoming these flaws is what drives these characters’ arcs throughout their respective books. Yet in Austen’s novel, Persuasion, at first, Anne Elliot seems as if she is the perfect woman. She is a woman of “birth, beauty, and mind,” (Austen 20), she manages to be liked by nearly everyone she meets, and she was the only one to keep a calm head when Louisa fell in Lyme (79). However ideal she may

life and social situations. An individual must reevaluate their social environment and society’s viewpoints on matters, such as gender roles and the expectations of others, to be subjected to a change in lifestyle. Stephen Daldry’s 2000 film, ‘Billy Elliot’, showcases the struggle of a young boy as he develops in his Northern England town and experiences a new love for ballet, an activity stereotypically reserved for petite females. His fight for a life in ballet corresponds his family’s protests against

Comparison of Billy Elliot the Movie and Novel The film, 'Billy Elliot' is about a boy called Billy, who loves dancing. The story is set in the north of England in the 1980s, where the only jobs outside cities would be in factories or coal mining. The director of 'Billy Elliot' uses many techniques in which to make us like/empathise/feel sorry for Billy. The film begins in silence with a close up on the gramophone. This immediately makes us think that the music is

Billy Elliot, directed by Stephen Daldry, details the life of an 11-year-old working-class boy who is caught up in the poverty and violence of North-east England during the 1984 miner’s strikes. After a local ballet teacher discovers Billy’s raw talent for dancing, Billy decides he wants to be a ballet dancer. Billy had to overcome many obstacles in order to follow his new found dream. Two of these were family traditions and expectations, and social class. Billy also received help to overcome many