Similarities And Differences Between Billy Elliot And Kes
In this essay I am comparing the two films Kes, made in 1969 and set
in the 1960's and Billy Elliot, made in 2000 and set in the 1970's.
Both of which have the same location, Northern England and both have a
strong relation to a working class environment where coal mining was
the main source of employment. The films are similar in terms of
community, family, and the characterisation of Billy, the central
character in both films. The films are different however in terms of
setting, action, style and ending, I shall be focusing on all those
listed points later in my essay.
The main character in both films is called Billy; this is not all they
have in common. Firstly both the characters undernourished and come
from poor backgrounds. In Kes Billy's father is never around and in
Billy Elliot the boy's mother has passed away. They are both the
youngest in the family and both have much older brothers that bully,
patronise and intimidate them to a great extent. In both films the
main characters find their own separate ways in which to escape from
their hopeless and challenging life. In Kes this is done through Billy
looking after and training a hawk and in Billy Elliot through Billy
learning to ballet dance. Examples in the films to support this theory
would be in Kes when you see how happy Billy is when training the hawk
and the same with Billy when he starts dancing down the street.
Through this the main characters find compassion and comfort as their
hobby begins to allow them to learn things that it is impossible to
teach at school etc. Both these characters also have deep
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...ed some of their ideas (e.g. one parent family) and
filming techniques to make there own 'child' story.
Obviously the differences (although it does not appear so in my essay)
greatly exceed the similarities. However I do feel that it is unusual
to have two films with so many similarities, yet if you watched one it
may not remind you of the other, this is to their credit.
The most similar part of the two films is the main characters (Billy
in both cases), because of the way they both retreat to their
passionate interest. The most different part of the two films is the
families. In Kes they are non-dependent and do not appear to support
one another. Yet in Billy Elliot it is very clear that in the end they
not only support one another but also care for and love each other, as
displayed in the ending of the two films.
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