The first film, like my film idea, that demonstrates progression is Billy Elliot, this film is about a boy named Billy, who lives with his widowed dad, who is a miner and his older brother who live in the city of Newcastle. As this is based in the 1980s, his family represent the victims of Thatcherism and how money is very scarce, due to the lack of funding into the mining industry. As a result of this, Billy has very little going for him in terms of making something out of his life due to this. This is especially demonstrated when his family have to resort to burning the family piano to stay warm during the winter, whilst his dad was one of thousands to strike for better pay, giving up his pay in the progress. One day, when Billy was making his way to a boxing class, he was distracted by a nearby class teaching ballet. He begins to attend them to later reveal his hidden talent, as a result, creating a big ambition to go somewhere with his amazing technique. With a lot of drama and hard work he convinced his dad and brother that he could go far with ballet, they eventually agreed to travel to London for auditions this made his family overwhelmed by his talent, therefore giving them 100% commitment in Billy's dream which he later achieved in the future after successfully joining a professional ballet school.
This relates to my story because of the odds that go against both Theo and Billy but their negative past gives them an additional drive to work hard in what they do. Examples include in the death of Billy's mother or in my story, the splitting up of Theo's mother and father, resulting him in never seeing his dad again.
The next film i feel has a similar story line to mine is Bend it Like Beckham. This is about an 18 year old Punjabi Sikh, called Jess, who lives in the city of London. She is good friends with Juliette "Jules" Paxton, who is the same age and is part of a native English family.Jess,from the start, demonstrates her passion for football and how she looks up to David Beckham. But, because she is a woman, her family wont let her play but occasionally, she would sneak out to go and play with boys at the local park. One day, Jules sees Jess playing and befriends her, encouraging her to go to a local women's football team's trial. Jess meets Joe, the football team coach, who is impressed by her skills and lets her in, despite his displays of being sceptical towards adding another player to the team. Although Jess does lie about her parents being fine with her playing football.
Later on in the story, after playing and winning a few games, Jess' parents find out about her playing and become even more strict than they were previously and forbid her from playing any more games. By this point, Jess and her team had reached the final of a tournament,so it was crucial for her to play. Unfortunately, Jess' family are distracted by the wedding of her sister, Pinky, who gets married on the same day as the big final. Initially, Joe fails to convince Jess' father about letting her go to play in the game. He reveals how he doesn't want Jess to go through the same her did when he played Cricket, as he was kicked out of the team due to him being Indian. Jess attends the wedding for her friend, Tony, to convince her father to let her go. Jess comes on to score the winner of the game in a David Beckham-style free kick. Jess and Jules were later offered a scholarship.This is very similar to my story because it demonstrates that her family didn't support Jess' passion for football. This is similar to my story because Theo's father showed no belief in his ability and eventually left his mother. Both of the plots show luck and fate was a factor. In Bend It Like Beckham, it was by chance that Jules would notice her skills just like how the Manchester United scout noticed Theo but both of them went on to do great things as a result
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