In this essay I will discuss about the stereotyping of Bend it like Beckham and Billy Elliot and the different cultures.

There is also stereotyping towards the miners. The people who aren't on strike but are miners get stereotyped. We see this by seeing the riots towards the buses when they are going through the gates. They start throwing stuff at the bus. During this we can hear shouting and the pushing. We also see the stereotyping towards miners again when they are shopping and Billy's dad and brother confront the miner who is not out on strike. They call him a coward here and have a go at him. He pushes the trolley here. We can see the tension between them when they meet eye to eye and Billy's brother insults him. We also see the emotion involved in this strike when Billy's father crosses the picket line to pay for Billy's school. We see his brother crying in his dad arms and saying it will be alright. This part the director uses sad music to make it look more emotional and the brother keep saying everything is going to be alright. We see more stereotyping towards the miners when we here the teachers husband talk about it. He is jealous because is unemployed and has a go at the miners because they have enough already. He doesn't like the miners because they have a job and shows jealousy. We see that is dad cares about Billy thought when he sees Billy dancing for the first time and runs to the teacher to ask how much it costs, and goes to work for Billy. The director makes this an emotional film by playing sad music when something like this happens and making the actors have sad faces or something like that.

The director sets the play in a place that looks a rough area and life is hard. The houses is messy and all the houses lead onto an alleyway. The toilet is outside and a little girl is always standing there with nothing to do. Billy also has to share a room with his brother. This adds more reason why it looks like an area where you have to look hard to do well and why it's harder for Billy to dance when he also has a Brother who is someone who has a hard image when we see. We see Billy's brother have a go at his dad and during this part we hear music like he's fighting back and saying that he is a no good since mum died. Billy's dad smacks him hear and another part of emotional where it looks like the whole family is falling apart and won't hold together.

In Bend it like Beckham there is stereotyping towards lesbians, girls playing football and Indians. The Indian girl who wants to play football is called Jess and her best mate who also plays football is called Jules. It starts off with we seeing Man united playing and seeing Jess scoring who is dreaming of playing for Manchester United. We see her mum saying she is disappointed with her playing football and showing her Bares legs and saying its bringing shame on the family. This shows the curatorial side of the film and because she's Indian she shouldn't be playing football. We then see another girl called Jules shopping with her mum and her mum trying to buy her a bra. Although Jules doesn't want a bra that her mum is trying to buy. This shows that Jules mum doesn't want her daughter to play football when she says not the sports bra. We also see her mum wants to buy stuff for her daughter and be like the other mums. When we see Jess playing football, The director uses fast music and happy that makes it like she's enjoying and doesn't play that much. We see her talking to herself in her room and looking at Beckham. This shows how much she likes football when she says she could of played all night and also shows the stereotyping when she says if I had an arranged marriage I wonder if I would have someone who would let me play football. We see more stereotyping from the boys she's playing football with when they take the mick saying can you chest it, go on chest it. This is saying about her being a girl. And they say about do you swap shirts at end of the matches, taking the piss out of girls playing football again. We see more stereotyping with Jules and her mum, when she says to her dad when are you going to realise u have a daughter with breast meaning girls can't play football and saying no boy is not going to want to go out with a boy with bigger muscles. She is worried about her daughter not going out with boys and wants her too. Jess's mum says she doesn't want her running round half naked in front of men. She's says no man wants a girl who can't cook. This is stereotyping allowing boys to and girls not. When Jess goes off to play football we here Up beat music to show she's happy. We see more stereotyping when jess says she's not allowed to marry a white boy or a Muslim showing the cultural side of the film. We see some stereotyping towards the religious side when her dad says about them making fun of his turban and he wasn't allowed to play cricket. This is a bit of the religious side. We then see more stereotyping when Jess asks her sister what would mum and dad do if I bought home a Guru. This means that she isn't allowed to bring one home and marry when her sister says you better not. We then see more when Joe says his dad will piss himself if he found out he was coaching girls. We then see more stereotyping with Jules mum saying she's a lesbian likes it's a bad thing. We see more when the boys are watching her play and are making sexist jokes about the girls playing football. We see the girl call her a paki which is racist and stereotyping people. We see the cultural side of it when the wedding ceremony of it and the music making it sound more like it. During the wedding day we see them flicking between the Football game and the wedding. The music is upbeat and makes u happy. When it goes 1-1, the music gets faster and they flick between the wedding and match, slowing the wedding bit down. When they win a free-kick and a chance to win it, it slows down and Jess sees her family in the wall calling out to her, We then see Jules mum confront them telling her to get her lesbian feet out of her shoes. Her mum says she's lesbian because of the clothes she wears. When she finds out she's not a lesbian, she says it not a big deal when she thinks it is. We then see Jess's dad stick up for his daughter, because he wants her to do well introducing emotion into the film, at this bit we hear a little bit of music in the background introduce slowly making it more emotional. When they are at the airport and happy we hear Loud, upbeat and happy music. The contrast between the two mums is that they both don't want their daughters to play football for different reasons, but in the end of the day lived with it and had to deal with it. The difference is that Billy didn't have anybody to help him through it except his teacher but really had to deal with it himself, unlike jess that had Jules and her friend at the park and Joe. Although Bend it like Beckham had more types of stereotyping and contrasts bits in the films and used the music well. Billy had to fight against his dad and had to fight against them thinking he was gay when Jess had to fight against her religion.

James Peters