This movie doesn’t get enough reactions! This is my ultimate comfort film, makes me cry every time. Amazing soundtrack and a great insight into the north of England in the 80s during thatcher and the miners strikes, It seems like the dad and brother are wrong but they were morally on the right side

I think that the Epilog really ties up the whole movie. His father and brother gets to see him at his absolute BEST. It's an PERFECT ending. Wonderfull movie.

I can't believe someone reacted to Billy Elliot. Such a great movie

FINALLY someone has reacted to Billy Elliot!! I’ve been waiting so long for someone to do this. Found your channel because of it. Thank you! ❤

@MichalZismanReactions

Жыл бұрын

Hey, Jonathan! Thanks for watching!

Oh wow, I'm so happy you reacted to Billy Elliot! This was quite a big movie when I was young. Along with The Full Monty, it was a rare British movie that found a lot of mainstream publicity. Glad you watched it. :D

@vanyadolly

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it was so big at the time! Maybe not in the states which is why it's been forgotten. But it's a movie that deserves to be remembered.

Billy Elliot was the first live play I ever watched in the theatre on a school trip and ot was incredible. When I found out there was a movie I watched it immediately. It's soo good and I always get emotional but the play is on another level

Beautiful reaction. I was born and grew up during this time and the movie is the closest thing to showing people how tough it really was, you did it a phenomenal service, thank you

Thank you for reacting to this movie. I loved this reaction

Beautiful reaction to a EXTRAORDINARY film! I can’t put into words how much I love this movie; *it couldn’t be better* 🩰🍿🎬👏🏾

Thank you for reacting to this move! It deserves more attention and recognition. It came out when i was in highschool and at the time I didn't know anyone who hadn't seen it, and I wish that was still the case. Such a fantastic movie with an important message that should be seen by every generation.

I'm glad you enjoyed Gary Lewis's performance playing the dad. He was also in a superb Scottish film from 10 years later called 'Neds' but if you struggled with the English accents in 'Billy Elliot' then you might be bewildered listening to Glaswegians! It's also a period piece though; this time, set in the 1970s and also about boys undertaking things not seen as macho i.e. learning Latin.

Oh, I missed this upload! What a lovely reaction. I love this movie. I watched it over and over when it came out! I was sad that I unable to go see it on stage when I was in New York. Jamie Bell is a terrific actor. I enjoyed him in TURN: Washington's Spies, when he was quite a bit older.

@MichalZismanReactions

Жыл бұрын

I knew you'd show up here eventually 😉

I saw the Broadway version in Chicago in highschool. Absolutely fantastic. What's crazy is Jamie Bell starred in the film version and Tom Holland got his start as Billy in the Broadway show years later, but they're also doppelgangers of each other. So I guess the perfect Billy Elliott is someone who looks like them.

@MichalZismanReactions

Жыл бұрын

Broadway? Nice!

@chelseahazlehurst

Жыл бұрын

Tom didn’t play Billy on Broadway. He only played Billy on the west end

Billy Eliot is my favourite film, I've never seen anyone react to it in english before, im so happy u watched it this made my day

@MichalZismanReactions

Жыл бұрын

Hey, I'm glad you came here to watch! It really is a lovely film ☺️

@peterwilliamskelhorn6675

Жыл бұрын

@@MichalZismanReactions i was 9 years old when Billy Elliot came out and its one of my favourite movies. I'm a scouser and the movie is filmed in the North East they have a strong accent up there just like we do in Liverpool

Love this movie

The Royal Academy of Ballet... Thousands of people apply for a handful of spots, and there is no finer school to study. Then to open at The Royal Theater playing the leading role!!!! People graduate from The Royal Ballet and spend a lifetime dancing and never get the leading role ever, and there's Billy. I love this film.

Can I recommend "Whale Rider". It is a beautiful film filmed and set in New Zealand. This is about a little girl that breaks through the expectations of her family and community, but she has to fight and stand up to those beliefs as well. I don't think there are many reactions to this movie- but it really deserves a wider audience.

You need to watch the Broadway musical version of Billy Elliott. It was filmed live and is available on DVD. It is brilliant.

In real life, Jamie Bell, the actor who played the title character, is a very talented dancer

@MichalZismanReactions

Жыл бұрын

It did seem like he had some kind of training 🙂

@judithflom6366

Жыл бұрын

His forte was tap but he had some ballet too but they specifically styled his dancing in the film to be as a novice who was expressing himself in a raw way. The few clips I’ve seen of him dancing as a kid was very smooth. He’s in the process of making a move where he is playing Fred Astaire. So apparently he must still have it.

@Waterford1992

Жыл бұрын

So he is a sissy in real life???

@haaavard

Жыл бұрын

@@judithflom6366 I think you are mixing him up with Tom Holland (Spiderman) who playd Billy on stage in the Musical. Elton John wrote it based on this film. Hi is playing Fred Astaire :)

I can't believe this is the only reaction to this masterpiece.

@MichalZismanReactions

Жыл бұрын

Well, technically this is the second one 😁

`The dancer at the end. His name is Adam Cooper. And the ballet he's dancing is Swan Lake but it's specifically Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake. He redid the ballet in the 90s (he redoes a lot of classic ballets like Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Romeo and Juliet, The Nutcracker as well as some original ones like Edward Scissorhands, Lord of the Flies, the Car Man) with a different storyline and where the swans were danced by men instead of women. Broke down a lot of barriers and ideas about which roles are for men and which are for women. Adam Cooper originated the role of The Swan/The Stranger in that ballet (there have been a few after him but some reckon he's still the best). (originally in Swan Lake the principal female roles (both of which are danced by the same woman) are the White Swan and The Black Swan or Odette and Odile, here there's no names so it's the Swan and the Stranger).

Great video. Has become one of my all time favourite films. 🙂👍

I am a working class dad. My second son Jamie aged 8 asked me if he could do ballet and dance I asked him what do you need. I have watched him grow into a man. He gave it up at 16 to train as a engineer. I was very proud watching him. I once asked him if he regretted giving he said yes.

The movie is SO Cool❤

Great reaction

That was a lovely movie!

Come on! Perfect ending.

You might recognize the dance teacher from the Harry Potter films. She played red haired Mrs. Weasley, Ron’s mom.

@Erika-br8xo

Жыл бұрын

And from Mama mia

@anon-ed5wf

Ай бұрын

Julie Walters is a tour de force in cinema.

I loved this movie as a kid, I think I watched it when I was 12 or 13 and every time it was on tv I'd rewatch it. Watching it now, it hits so hard. The father, when he sees Billy dancing and you see it click for him, fuck that makes me cry so hard.

Yeah, yer right, regarding Calendar Girls and Full Monty... there was a full-on decade+ of 'brit' films having that underdog motiff being exported... Saving Ned Devine, The Commitments (awesome, PLEASE DO THIS ONE, lol), Greenfingers (sweet), The MatchMaker, Bend It Like Beckham, etc. Pretty sure I'm forgetting a lot more, it was a 'busy' decade and a half there. And yeah again, that ending time-jump. It's like we never got to say goodbye to the young Billy as they went off... and it was jarring, and I get it, but the thing is, 'we' as an audience had so much time invested in the 'kid' Billy Ellliot, that to all of a sudden care for the last few seconds, for that adult version felt, I don't have the words, not cheated or undeserved, just something. They could have shot the back of that adult as he got the news his family was in the audience, then show the family, cut to him walking out on stage, cut to the dad looking on, his POV, and cut back to the youthful Billy Elliot dancing on stage, because that is the 'person' the dad would see; a father and brother seeing the child that they knew, come so far. Oh well BTW... the thing about watching a sh**-tonne of films is, sometimes... SOMEtimes... knowing a persons past gig adds a little to the reason, much less, irony, of them being cast in a present movie. Case in point, the teacher, Julie Walters, SHE HERSELF was in an underdog movie (as the Billy character kinda), an almost 'definitive' underdog gem of a movie, Educating Rita. She played the student in that, and to see her take on the teacher role, well, kinda cool. She won a Bafta and a golden globe for it, as well as an Oscar nomination. A personal fave is Shirley Valentine.

@crose7412

Жыл бұрын

@chefs kiss Two of the films you mention are Irish and another is American but I suppose that leaves 2 films which are British that Michal didn't mention (neither of which I've seen).

There is movie that is in a kind very simular but totally different called "Shine"....It has no reactions on youtube.I think if you liked this one you could give it a chance as well.

Magie Thatchers Britain ...when she turned the police on working men

One of the Best British films of all time

Glad you feel better from COVID. Could you react to the film Vanilla Sky? Stars Tom Cruise, from the year 2001. Amazing film and nobody on KZread seems to have a reaction to it

Great film and so few reactions to it on YT

Impossible to watch this with dry eyes

12:31 That's what his dad and his brother are striking against. If they're all out then they can't be made redundant. And Thatcher and her government, from what I can tell, didn't even try to set up new jobs for them in that area. There was nothing else.

Really shouldn’t have watched this reaction while on my period. Man, did I cry a lot 😭😅

@MichalZismanReactions

Жыл бұрын

🤭

"why not a hug" British people didn't really hug much in the 1980's.

10:16 I don't know if it's a case of just them thinking they were doing the right thing. Probably other people who'd say they'd done the wrong thing just then. But.....people are generally on the miners side in this case. A lot of people hated (and still hate even though she died a few years ago) Margaret Thatcher. And I'm happy to say it wasn't because she was a woman, it was 100% to do with her politics. Men and women were literally dancing in the streets in Northern England and in London (and I think in Scotland and in Ireland) when she died.

Never heard of this movie.

@MichalZismanReactions

Жыл бұрын

😲 Well, there you go 😁

@MontgomeryWenis

Жыл бұрын

It's based on the musical of the same name. I've outgrown my liking of musicals, but this story is definitely a shitload better as one.

@MontgomeryWenis

Жыл бұрын

@@Lloyd-Franklin My mistake. Still, the musical is better.

@judithflom6366

Жыл бұрын

No, the movie was first then they developed the musical based on it over the next few years after Elton John fell in love with it at Cannes.