To what extent does the film Billy Elliot manage to challenge masculine stereotypes? In Billy Elliot, people at that time were so conventional that they strictly divided what things man could do and what things women could do. Once a man do the thing belong to the other gender, he would be strongly opposed and would be regard as abnormal. Ballet, a very skilled and artistic dancing with carefully planned movements, was definitely considered a female activity. Unfortunately, our little Billy was instinctively fascinated with it. Undoubtedly, he encountered a lot of difficulties in pursuing this ballet dream. Billy’s first obstacle was himself. Living at that time, influenced by the environment of homophobia, he was afraid to be regard as a faggot. Many times he refused Mrs. Wilkinson and her daughter to come to practice dancing claiming that it makes him look like a sissy. But his desire to dance overwhelmed everything. He began to learn ballet stealthily and stole a book to practice at home. Maybe there was a coincidence important to his determination to dance. His friend Michael dressed in female look at home, and was not embarrassed while Billy occasionally ran into it. Apparently Billy was startled at the beginning. But actually he didn’t feel disgusted about Michael which he thought he might do. Strangely, he accepted Michael’s odd hobby instead of pushing him away. From then on, he came to realize that everyone would have some rum secrets, and it doesn’t mean that person is abnormal or perverted, it’s all natural. Thus, he resolved to pursuit ballet regardless of the masculine stereotype because he could convince himself that it was not his fault to love ballet. And at the end of the movie, the extraordinary leap of adult Billy is the best rebuttal to masculine stereotype. Then, as typical male characters as Billy’s father and brother, they are so masculine that at first they were strongly against Billy’s idea. They are miners whose lives were full of hardship, which cultivated their tough characters. But it doesn’t mean that they didn’t love Billy. Without job and income, Billy’s father still gave him 50p each day to take boxing class, wish he could be as masculine as him. What he had is so called “tough love”. Since his father Jack saw Billy dancing in Christmas’s Eve, he knew what ballet meant to his son, he realize how much his son love dancing, and he decided to support him even if it cost a lot to make his dream come true. This comparison exactly showed how much he love Billy. Eventually, kinship conquered masculin