Billy Elliot - I Will Dance

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Movie
German title Billy Elliot - I Will Dance
Original title Billy Elliot
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 2000
length 106 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Stephen Daldry
script Lee Hall
production Greg Brenman ,
Jonathan Finn
music Stephen Warbeck
camera Brian Tufano
cut John Wilson
occupation

Billy Elliot - I Will Dance is the debut film from British director Stephen Daldry . The film is based on an original script by Lee Hall .

action

The film takes place during the British miners' strike in 1984/1985 . In Durham in northern England , miners are trying to strike a number of government mines to prevent the closure . The mood is so heated that there are repeated street fights between strikers, strike breakers and the police. The working class Elliot family also took part in the strike. Both the father Jackie Elliot and his older son Tony work in the mine, the younger son Billy still goes to school, the mother recently passed away.

For Jackie Elliot it goes without saying that Billy traditionally goes to boxing lessons . However, Billy has neither talent nor interest in boxing. One evening when he is supposed to continue training alone, he happens to be in the ballet class with Mrs. Wilkinson, who is practicing temporarily in the same hall with her girls' group, and discovers how fascinated he is dancing. Mrs. Wilkinson also quickly recognizes the talent that lies dormant in Billy and begins to promote him specifically. Billy keeps a secret from his family that he takes dance lessons instead of boxing lessons.

But a few weeks later, Jackie found out about it and decidedly forbade Billy to continue taking part in dance classes, which in his opinion can only soften a boy. However, Billy is determined to continue on the path he has found. This leads to violent conflicts within the family.

Mrs. Wilkinson, convinced of Billy's talent, signs him up for a nearby audition at one of the most prestigious ballet schools in the country, the Royal Ballet School in London . However, Billy cannot keep this first appointment because the family has to assist Tony, who was arrested in a street fight. A subsequent visit by Mrs. Wilkinson to the Elliot family only seems to harden the fronts.

The situation changes on Christmas Eve. Billy's father surprises Billy in the sports hall while dancing with his best friend Michael. When Billy notices this, he defiantly and determinedly dances to his father what he can already do. Now Jackie realizes how much Billy dancing means and how much Billy suffers from his father's resistance and decides to allow Billy to attend ballet school.

The next audition appointment, for which Billy and Jackie have to go to London, turns out to be unfortunate: Apart from the fact that Billy has hardly learned any classical ballet, he also becomes violent out of frustration with a competitor. When the long-awaited letter finally arrives from London, Billy takes a long time to open it. Surprisingly, the school accepts him. However, that also means he will have to leave his family and move to London.

The farewell scene of young Billy fades into another drive, on which years later Billy's father and older brother Tony go to Billy's first big performance in London, as solo dancers in Matthew Bourne's version of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake , in which the men dance the swans . The film ends with Jackie's overwhelmed expression on Billy's appearance.

synchronization

role actor German speaker
Billy Elliot Jamie Bell Nicolás Artajo
Mrs. Wilkinson Julie Walters Judy Winter
Tony Elliott Jamie Draven Björn Schalla
Jackie Elliot Gary Lewis Jan Spitzer
Billy's grandmother Jean Heywood Ingeborg Wellmann
Debbie Wilkinson Nicola Blackwell Katrina Meyer
Michael Stuart Wells Nick Forsberg

background

The film was shot in England . The budget of the film is 5 million US dollars estimated. On May 19, 2000, the film celebrated its world premiere at the Cannes International Film Festival . This was followed by other screenings at various film festivals. The film was shown in the UK on September 29, 2000, and on October 13, 2000 in the US. The film was shown in German and Swiss cinemas from November 30, 2000. On the opening weekend, the film grossed over US $ 215,000 in the US, with total revenues of almost US $ 22 million. In England over £ 1.5million was raised on the opening weekend , totaling UK revenues of just under £ 17million. Worldwide revenues of over $ 109 million were posted. More than 1.3 million viewers were counted at the German box office, in Switzerland there were more than 450,000 viewers.

The film was originally supposed to be released under the title Dancer , but the title of the film was changed due to the risk of confusion with the film Dancer in the Dark .

The film was partly inspired by the life of the professional ballet dancer Philip Mosley , who, like the title character, comes from the north of England from a family of miners. Lee Hall met him while researching his script.

The London Royal Ballet School was replaced in the film by Wardour Castle in Wiltshire .

The film shows a short black and white excerpt from the 1935 film I dance myself into your heart with Fred Astaire .

Film music

The following music tracks can be heard in the film:

criticism

The editorial team of Cinema says: “Stephen Daldry's melodramatic feature film debut skillfully embeds the bittersweet story in a hard but heartfelt realism. "Live your dream," says the film. "Ok, done," one calls back enthusiastically. "

According to the Lexicon of International Films , the film is “an elaborately staged drama that uses the entire spectrum of emotional seduction. The film knows how to benefit from the unusual setting and the sophisticated characters as well as from the rousing music. "

BR-Online sums it up: “But not a minute does“ Billy Elliot ”slip away into a gray social study. Cinematographer Brian Tufano, who has shown in films such as " Trainspotting " and " Quadrophenia " that he is a master of visual realism, creates images that are as powerful as they are poetic. Anyone who has enjoyed films like " Brassed off " and " All or not at all " will rediscover all the qualities of current British cinema in "Billy Elliot". Humor, authenticity and lots and lots of feeling. "

Awards

Billy Elliot - I Will Dance received fifty film awards and the same number of nominations. The actor of the title hero, Jamie Bell , won the British BAFTA Award for Best Actor, beating four Oscar winners in 2001 ( Russell Crowe , Michael Douglas , Tom Hanks and Geoffrey Rush ) who were also nominated in the same category. Director Stephen Daldry, the original screenplay by Lee Hall and Julie Walters , who acts as Billy's ballet teacher, were nominated for an Oscar .

BAFTA Awards 2001
  • Best British Film
  • Best Actor: Jamie Bell
  • Best Supporting Actress: Julie Walters

Nomination in the categories:

  • Best movie
  • Best Director: Stephen Daldry
  • Best Supporting Actor: Gary Lewis
  • Best Original Screenplay: Lee Hall
  • Best Score: Stephen Warbeck
  • Best camera: Brian Tufano
  • Top note: Zane Hayward, Mark Holding, Mike Prestwood Smith
  • Best editing: John Wilson
  • Best young talent:
    • Stephen Daldry (Director)
    • Lee Hall (screenplay)
Golden Globe Awards 2001

Nomination in the categories:

  • Best Film (Drama)
  • Best Director: Stephen Daldry
  • Best Supporting Actress: Julie Walters
Academy Awards 2001

Nomination in the categories:

  • Best Director: Stephen Daldry
  • Best Supporting Actress: Julie Walters
  • Best Original Screenplay: Lee Hall
Screen Actors Guild Awards 2001

Nomination in the categories:

  • Best Actor: Jamie Bell
  • Best Supporting Actress: Julie Walters
  • Best acting ensemble
British Independent Film Awards 2000
  • Best British Independent Film
  • Best Director: Stephen Daldry
  • Best Newcomer (On Screen): Jamie Bell
  • Best script: Lee Hall

Nomination in the category:

  • Best Actress: Julie Walters
César 2001

Nomination in the category:

  • Best foreign film
Empire Awards 2001
  • Best British Film
  • Best British Actress: Julie Walters
  • Best newcomer: Jamie Bell

Nomination in the category:

  • Best British Director: Stephen Daldry
Prix ​​Lumières 2002

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.

musical

Director Stephen Daldry made a musical version of the film in 2004 with a budget of £ 5.5 million. The play has been running with great success at London's Victoria Palace Theater since May 12, 2005. For the music of the musical, Daldry was able to win Elton John , who approached Daldry in Cannes with the idea of ​​adapting the film as a musical. The book and lyrics were written by Lee Hall. From October 2007 to December 2008 the musical was also shown in Sydney at the Capitol Theater with great success and then moved to Melbourne as planned, where it was also enthusiastically received. It has been running at the Imperial Theater on Broadway New York since October 2008 with equally great success, for which the film was adapted with a budget of 18 million US dollars. In June 2009 the musical won 10 Tony Awards .

In September 2014, the musical was broadcast live in cinemas around the world.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Locations according to the Internet Movie Database
  2. ↑ a b c d e budget and box office results according to the Internet Movie Database
  3. ↑ a b c d Start dates according to the Internet Movie Database
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Background information according to the Internet Movie Database
  5. ^ Billy Elliot - I Will Dance. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ^ Billy Elliot - I will dance. In: BR-online. Archived from the original on September 1, 2004 ; accessed on August 22, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Nominations and awards according to the Internet Movie Database
  8. ↑ Tagesschau: "Billy Elliot" big winner at Tony Awards ( Memento from June 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Billy Elliot the Musical live in Cinemas ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / billyelliotthemusical.com