BILLY ELLIOT

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• Original Title: Billy Elliot
• Nationality: Britain, 2000
• Genre: Social Comedy
• Duration: 112 minutes
• Director: Stephen Daldry
• Screenwriter: Lee Hall
• Photography: Brian Tufano
• Choreography: Peter Darling
• Producer: Greg Brenman and Jon Finn
• Cast: Julie Walters (Mrs. Wilkinson), Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot), Jamie Draven (Tony Elliot), Gary Lewis (Father), Jean Heywood (grandmother), Stuart Wells, Mike Elliot, Janini Birkett VHS Edition: Universal
  

The Life in northern England in 1984 was very hard because of the miners' strike. Billy Elliot lives with his family in northern England. It is an eleven year old boy who has recently lost his mother. His father and older brother in the head just have to second the miners' strike of 1984. But Billy's life takes a turn when in the gym where he teaches boxing notes about her age to learn ballet. Decides to change his boxing gloves and delivered the ball, body and soul. With the help of Ms. Wilkinson will be introduced in that world, given the opposition of his family. Billy only supported by his best friend Michael and her ballet teacher Mme. Wilkinson sees in him a great potential to reach high into the world of dance. This attitude gets the strong disapproval of his father and brother who see ballet as "some girls" and Billy at home locked away from him. Even with his family against Billy continue to fight for the ball to get his ultimate dream: a theater debut in London's West End. I dream I get 15 years after a spectacular debut in which he demonstrated an innate talent.

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Moby Dick

The story is narrated by Ishmael, who tells how he sailed with his friend, Queequeg

(native to an island in the Pacific), on a whaling ship called the "Pequod".

The ship sails to start whaling, and there is Captain Ahab, which only has one leg because the other devoured Moby Dick.

Ahab seeks revenge on the great white whale trying to kill her. One day a sailor finds Moby Dick and the captain orders capture, but fails.

Ahab asks the ship's blacksmith forge a special harpoon to kill Moby Dick. Time after re-sight the whale.

Ahab orders to kill Moby Dick but does sink the ship and kill its crew. The only survivor is Ishmael.

CHARACTERS

ISMAEL COY: A sailor banned for two years unable to drive any boat to have sunk one on his watch.

TANGIER SOTO: It is a naval museum worker Madrid mapping department.

PETER PILOT: It is an old friend of Coy that owns the Carpanta, the boat with Gloria Dei seeking.

NINO PALERMO: Is Gibraltar and the owner of a large company digger wrecks.

HORACIO KISKŐRÖS: A former Argentine officer. In his time in the Falklands took prisoner some English and is very proud of it, so always carries with him a color copy of the cover of Time with a picture of British prisoners.

LUCIO GAMBOA: An employee of the marina in Cadiz.

PERONA NESTOR: It is a cartographer who has written some books, among other things also made the tables to Tangier and Coy put the coordinates of the Jesuits in the Modern Urrutia in a letter.

Robert Nesta Marley

He Born on 6 February 1945, in Nine Mile, north of Jamaica, the son of an African woman in Jamaica, 18 and Norval Marley, a British army captain, who disowned his son. In the late fifties, Robert moved with his mother to Kingston, the capital. It was the city where people from rural areas flocked to improve their economic situation. Like most rural families, their fate was the slums and miserable. Had great influence in the life of Bob Marley ,Rastafarian religion, a mixture of Biblical prophecy, naturist philosophy and black nationalism.

It was in this environment where she met Robert Neville O'Riley Livingstone (Bunny) and Peter McIntosh. Together they started playing, influenced by the music of Ray Charles, Fats Domino and Brook Benton. In 1963 he formed a group, 'Wailing Wailers', releasing a first single to reach number one in the Jamaican lists. Marley became one of the first to write songs about young offenders Kigston ghetto. In 1966, Bob Marley married Rita Anderson. With his friends Bunny and Peter, create a new group 'The Wailers'.

Because of the 'spirituality of his songs representatives had trouble finding the early seventies, joined forces with Lee Perry, a producer who revolutionized their work, resulting in some of his best works. In 1972, the group publishes its first album, 'Catch a Fire', which was very successful, prompting the label to make a tour of England and America. In 1973 came out his new album, 'Burnin', with new versions of their old. In 1975 Bunny and Peter left the band to pursue his solo career. I replaced the woman in the group of Bob, Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt.

The group became known as, Bob Marley The Wailers. In 1976 he published ,Rastaman Vibrations. After a failed attempt to the, Bob Marley leave Jamaica and moved to Florida, multiplying their tours U.S., Europe and Africa. The following year he released the album Exodus. In 1978 he published Kaya, a new success with songs of love and homage to marijuana. Following the release of the album. Babylon By Bus, Bob visited Africa, a fact that inspired her new album, Survival,, a tribute to the African homeland.

In 1980 he published, Uprising, the end of his last European tour, Bob became seriously ill with cancer, caused by an injury that was done some years earlier.

On May 11, 1981 Bob Marley died in a Miami hospital at age 36. His body was returned to his hometown of Nine Mile, where he lies in a mausoleum. His funeral was attended by the prime minister and senior figures in his country.