The Effects of Billy Elliot on 'Coco'

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The Effects of Billy Elliot on 'Coco'

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Molina says he didn’t actually need to rewatch Billy Elliot, the story of a young boy from a coal-mining town who just wants to dance, to know that one particular scene, burned into his memory, held exactly what he wanted to wordlessly convey for Miguel. “There’s a scene where he is part of the boxing class, and __Julie Walters__is running a ballet class. He’s frustrated and he’s got all these emotions, and then he just leans against the punching bag, completely spent, and then you just see this look on his face where he’s lost. The camera does this slow push in on his face, but you hear Julie Walters’s words, and she's giving instruction to the girls doing ballet. But what she’s saying is, like, ‘keep your head up.’ I just thought that was such meaningful, powerful, beautiful filmmaking that got you into the head of this little kid who, again, hasn’t the language to vocalize what the problem is.”

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