I’ve watched an interesting interview on youtube with Katie Couric and Elton John, and how he turned the film Billy Elliot into the award winning Broadway show. In the interview, John explains that what hit home with him most in the movie, was the very end when Billy dances to Swan Lake and his father is in the audience. John said that his father never approved of what he did, and even when he became successful his father never showed up to any of his shows until eventually they reconciled, but there was never a moment of approval like Billy had. John also said that a big difference between the film and the musical, is that the musical is just as much about the miners as it is about Billy. The true part of “Billy Elliot” was the situation with the miners, and so John was inspired to make that part of the film more evident in his show. The main theme he talks about in the show is what I think is a main theme in the movie, that something beautiful can come out of something tragic, such as Billy’s dancing coming out of the miner’s strike and all the opposition he had to go through to get to where he is at the end of the film.
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