Describe a memorable character in the text - Billy Elliot.

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Describe a memorable character in the text.

Explain how verbal and / or visual features of the text were used to help you remember this character.

Billy Elliot was the interesting character in the film “Billy Elliot” directed by Stephen Daldry.

Eleven-year-old Billy lives with his father Jacky, older brother Tony, both coal miners, and his frail Nana in a mining town in the north of England.  Life is not easy; the miners are on strike and times are tough. In this mining community boys are expected to do tough sports like boxing. Billy tries to fit in the world of his father Jacky and Brother Tony. Billy goes to boxing lessons every week though he is not very good at it and his heart is in Ballet.

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He is passionate about dancing and we are shown this in the opening scene of the movie, where we are shown a close up of hand putting long play on turntable song “I was dancing when I was 12”. Then Billy bounces on bed where we again see a close up of his face, arms, hands and feet

Sunflowers on wallpaper, yellow T – short, green shorts describes the mood of exhilaration and shows a sense of joy in his own body, in the music. He shows an uninhibited delight in his body and in the music that ...

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*** This essay is a bit short so consequently doesn't fully develop the ways in which verbal and visual features of the text help the audience to remember Billy as the main character. However, the visual features are stronger than the verbal - inclusion of dialogue and quotes would have brought the verbal aspects of this analysis alive. Overall, much more attention needs to be paid to detailed technical film language and in depth analysis.