Billy Elliot PPT

Masterpieces of connection Using poetry, prose, drama and film for SACE Stage 2 English Communications Text Response Study to deconstruct masculinity

Only connect... 

Billy Elliot

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Touch Me

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When the Rain Stops Falling

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Meaningful connections…

Making Connections 

In Stage 2 English Communications…

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To achieve the learning outcomes for the Text Study, students must demonstrate understanding of the structure and language of particular textual forms and identify the values, attitudes, and beliefs conveyed by these forms. The capacity and willingness of students to read critically and purposefully are highly valued.

Making Connections 

…is key to Critical Literacy

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Studying one text in relation to another allows students to recognise that the same idea, experience, emotion, or opinion can be explored in different ways. By exploring ideas of intertextuality students can consider the choices made by authors and the interpretation made by readers.

Making Connections 

…is key to Critical Literacy

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The influence of context on language and the way in which power, bias, and discrimination are embedded in language can be considered.

Making Connections 

…is key to the Text Response Criteria

Students’ performance in text response will be judged by the extent to which they demonstrate:  clarity in identifying the characteristics of different text types (e.g. FILM) and the ways in which those characteristics are used by authors;  depth of treatment in recognising the connection between their own ideas, experiences, beliefs, and values and those explored in the text

WARNING metalanguage ahead 

Synecdoche

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Metonymy

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Diegesis, diegetic

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Tracking,dolly,zoom

Write as many notes as you can by word associating on the phrase below:

Fathers & sons

Stephen Daldry’s Billy Elliot 

Why can’t a boy be more like his da’? – Seamus Heaney’s “Digging” By God, the old man could handle a spade, Just like his old man.

 MICHAEL MICHAEL It’sIt’s a load a load of of bollocks bollocks  BILLY BILLY

NoNo itsits not not

 MICHAEL MICHAEL It’sIt’s shite shite kicking kicking people people in.in. Anyway, Anyway, I don’t I don’t know know

why why you you bother. bother.  BILLY BILLY

I’mI’m good good

 MICHAEL MICHAEL Are Are you you shite. shite. Look Look at at them them gloves, gloves, they they went went

out out with with the the Ark. Ark.  BILLY BILLY

They’re They’re meme Dad’s, Dad’s, these. these.

 MICHAEL MICHAEL Exactly. Exactly.

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I sort of disappear. Like I feel a change in my whole body. Like there’s a fire in me body. I’m just there. Flying. Like a bird. Like electricity. Yeah. Electricity.

Where Billy comes from - the world of his father (and brother) 

MICHAEL It’s a load of bollocks

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BILLY

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MICHAEL It’s shite kicking people in. Anyway, I don’t know why you bother.

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BILLY

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MICHAEL Are you shite. Look at them gloves, they went out with the Ark.

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BILLY

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MICHAEL Exactly.

No its not

I’m good

They’re me Dad’s, these.

Where Billy wants to go - his true nature

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I sort of disappear. Like I feel a change in my whole body. Like there’s a fire in me body. I’m just there. Flying. Like a bird. Like electricity. Yeah. Electricity.

Wayne Sleep as the notable exception

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Billy Elliot’s referencing of Wayne Sleep shows the efficacy of a notable exception in questioning unthinking gender stereotypes.

Wayne Sleep as the notable exception

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Sleep’s (and Adam Cooper’s at the end of the film) athleticism and stamina are masculine values that can find a place within a highly expressive art form.