Resumé af filmen 'Billy Elliot'

The film ‘Billy Elliot’ is a story about a boy who is different. He wants to be a Ballet dancer. Jamie Bell played the role of Billy Elliot. He reveals that he often felt like Billy Elliot. Billy has been dancing ballet since he was 6 years old. He didn’t tell his friends that he was interested in ballet. He used to make excuses. When his friends found out his closest friends accepted it, but the kids he really didn’t know called him “girlie boy” or “ballerina boy”. But he wanted to prove that ballet wasn’t for girls only. He started dancing because his sister also danced. She is five years older and when she used to go all around the country doing her dancing, and he was used to get dragged along with her. He got used to it, being around girls and seeing how the teachers teach the class. He used to stand outside the door and tried to copy what they girls were doing inside, and could never do it. He once got dragged to a competition and there was this girl dancing and she was out of rhythm. He told his mother that he could do better than that. His mother told him she would get him tap shoes and he should try it. It was really his family that got him into dancing. Jamie was watching a soccer game at the time he learned that he got the role. Jamie means that Billy’s personality is a lot like his own.