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Ballet Shoes

367 statements
71 feature instances
14 referencing feature instances

Ballet Shoes	type	TVTItem
Ballet Shoes	label	Ballet Shoes
Ballet Shoes	page	BalletShoes
Ballet Shoes	comment	Ballet Shoes is a children's novel by Noel Streatfeild. It is about three Happily Adopted girls living in 1930s England. Together they are being trained in dance and acting, with varying degrees of success. It was made into a BBC TV series in 1975 and a movie in 2007; the second adaptation was a BBC film starring Emma Watson as the eldest sister Pauline.The three girls are adopted as infants by a man they call Gum, short for Great Uncle Matthew. They are then left to be raised by Sylvia, their guardian, and Nana, their nursemaid. The family runs a boardinghouse, so the three girls meet many different people who live in the house.Although only Ballet Shoes has been filmed, the book had several sequels following the girls' further adventures and connections with other young girls involved in performing arts. In America these books were all titled 'something Shoes' for recognition purposes (The Circus Is Coming being retitled Circus Shoes for instance).
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Ballet Shoes	processingComment	Dropped link to TheaterShoes: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
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Ballet Shoes	isPartOf	DBTropes
Ballet Shoes / int_126ce03c	type	I Was Quite a Looker
Ballet Shoes / int_126ce03c	comment	I Was Quite a Looker: Theo in the 2007 movie, although she doesn't look much older than thirty (Movie version only).
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Ballet Shoes / int_130436b9	type	Annoying Younger Sibling
Ballet Shoes / int_130436b9	comment	Annoying Younger Sibling: Pauline and Petrova often feel like this towards Posy.
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Ballet Shoes / int_1badfb3a	type	The Heart
Ballet Shoes / int_1badfb3a	comment	The Heart: Petrova is this to the family.
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Ballet Shoes / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Ballet Shoes / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Winifred in the 2007 film version is a lot more bratty than she is in the novel. Additionally the film leaves out a detail from the book that Winifred's father is ill and she is under pressure to provide for five younger siblings. The point about her father is referenced when Winifred rushes in too late to the A Midsummer Night's Dream audition because she has been to visit her father 'at his Sanatorium in Hastings". Pauline's Break the Haughty moment is far more severe in the 2007 film version too. In the book after she misbehaves, Winifred replaces her as Alice just for the one night. However in the film Winifred is implied to replace Pauline for the rest of the performances. Posy's reaction to Madame's stroke is more unsympathetic in the 2007 film. In the book everyone had been downplaying it to her, making her falsely believe she's being dismissed for a trivial illness. In the film she knows exactly what has happened, making her behave more selfishly.
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Ballet Shoes / int_289ed9a0	type	Town Girls
Ballet Shoes / int_289ed9a0	comment	Town Girls: The three Fossil sisters. Petrova is the butch - with her love for engines and emphasis on becoming a pilot. Pauline is the femme - she's the pretty one of the trio and goes for the more glamorous career of acting. Posy meanwhile is the neither - although she's a ballet dancer, she's not particularly feminine in terms of personality (as she's the brawn in the Beauty, Brains, and Brawn trio).
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Ballet Shoes / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
Ballet Shoes / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Pauline briefly when she becomes successful on stage. She quickly learns her lesson though.
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Ballet Shoes / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Ballet Shoes / int_2978c012	comment	Stage Mom: Averted. Sylvia is glad when Pauline gets major roles, as that means there is more money flowing into the household, but she never exhibits any stage mom tendencies and loves the girls no matter how they dance.
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Ballet Shoes / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Ballet Shoes / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Unlike her orphaned sisters, Posy's mother, a young dancer, gives her up because she "has no time for babies." Posy's father is never mentioned, hinting she may be illegitimate. Posy does not resent her mother and is rather inspired by her to become a dancer herself. In the book, Posy's father is specifically noted as deceased when Gum sends her to Sylvia. His note states that Posy is "the little daughter of a dancer. The father has just died, and the poor young mother has no time for babies, so I said I would have her."
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Ballet Shoes / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Ballet Shoes / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Pauline's Break the Haughty moment is far more severe in the 2007 film version too. In the book after she misbehaves, Winifred replaces her as Alice just for the one night. However in the film Winifred is implied to replace Pauline for the rest of the performances.
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Ballet Shoes / int_32a1f455	type	Alliterative Family
Ballet Shoes / int_32a1f455	comment	Alliterative Family: The girls' adopted mother named Pauline and Petrova for the saints Paul and Peter, respectively, but was annoyed that the youngest arrived already named Posy.
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Ballet Shoes / int_3322e9cd	type	Hollywood Old
Ballet Shoes / int_3322e9cd	comment	Hollywood Old: Theo acts as if she's an Old Maid - though she's in her thirties at most. (Movie version only.)
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Ballet Shoes / int_3be1cf38	type	Gag Haircut
Ballet Shoes / int_3be1cf38	comment	Gag Haircut: Theo tries to give herself "a permanent wave" and ends up frying a lot of her hair, leaving it short for the rest of the film (Movie version only).
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Ballet Shoes / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Ballet Shoes / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: Sylvia is disgusted when she finds out Posy's. Posy is upset when her dance mistress has a stroke...because it means Posy won't be able to get dance lessons from her any more.
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Ballet Shoes / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
Ballet Shoes / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Mr Simpson's wife and child are dead in the film version, to allow for a romance with Sylvia. His wife is alive in the book, where there is no romance, and they don't have a child.
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Ballet Shoes / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
Ballet Shoes / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted: The girls all love their adopted family dearly, and only Posy expresses some kind of angst over not knowing her real mother - because her mother gave her up as opposed to dying like the other two. (Movie version only. In the book, the sisters feel that it's "grand" that Posy has a mother.)
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Ballet Shoes / int_4c961994	type	Acquired Situational Narcissism
Ballet Shoes / int_4c961994	comment	Acquired Situational Narcissism: Pauline's success in a stage production of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland soon goes to her head and she becomes rather arrogant. Getting demoted to understudy brings her crashing back down to earth, as she's suddenly reminded of why she needed the job in the first place.
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Ballet Shoes / int_4ff31e76	type	Playing a Tree
Ballet Shoes / int_4ff31e76	comment	Playing a Tree: In the 2007 film, Petrova and Winifred play pea pods in a tacky version of Cinderella. In the book, it's Petrova who is stuck being a "jumping bean" in a pantomime of "Jack and the Beanstalk."
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Ballet Shoes / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
Ballet Shoes / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: In the 2007 film Sylvia thinks Mr Simpson is romancing Theo. She's teaching him how to dance so he can impress her.
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Ballet Shoes / int_555d6a8b	type	Locked in the Bathroom
Ballet Shoes / int_555d6a8b	comment	Locked in the Bathroom: Pauline does this after she misbehaves and Winifred replaces her as Alice for one night. She doesn't want to cry in the bedroom, because Petrova and Posy, who share it with her, might come in, so she locks herself in the bathroom to cry.
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Ballet Shoes / int_655f472c	type	AcceptableFeminineGoals
Ballet Shoes / int_655f472c	comment	Acceptable Feminine Goals: Averted initially as all three girls wish to get their names in the history books, but Pauline and Posy eventually pursue acting and dancing careers, while Petrova wishes to become an aviatrix.
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Ballet Shoes / int_67d0342c	type	Breaking the Fellowship
Ballet Shoes / int_67d0342c	comment	Breaking the Fellowship: The story ends with Pauline moving to Los Angeles to start a film career, Posy going off with the ballet to dance in Europe and Petrova getting flying lessons to become a pilot. Additionally the house is sold, meaning the boarders all disperse.
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Ballet Shoes / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Ballet Shoes / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Posy was named by her birth mother. It's likely that - since the woman was a dancer - she gave her daughter a name that would inspire that quality.
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Ballet Shoes / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Ballet Shoes / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Emilia Fox plays Sylvia Brown. Fox's mother Joanna David played Theo Dane in the original adaptation of the book.
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Ballet Shoes / int_6f0fd7b8	type	Everyone Loves Blondes
Ballet Shoes / int_6f0fd7b8	comment	Everyone Loves Blondes: Blonde Pauline is the pretty one and the one who is noticed most out of her sisters. This is justified by the setting; in the 1930s, natural blonde hair was one of the high standards of beauty.
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Ballet Shoes / int_707bb8ce	type	Pair the Spares
Ballet Shoes / int_707bb8ce	comment	Pair the Spares: The 2007 film pairs up Sylvia and Mr Simpson, looking like Theo will be left on her own. She ends up reunited with an admirer from her chorus girl days.
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Ballet Shoes / int_71038217	type	Wrench Wench
Ballet Shoes / int_71038217	comment	Wrench Wench: Petrova, in exchange for being the worst dancer of the three, is this.
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Ballet Shoes / int_71efe088	type	Crack Defeat
Ballet Shoes / int_71efe088	comment	Crack Defeat: Petrova gets the part of Mustard Seed in A Midsummer Night's Dream despite giving a lacklustre audition, when her competition was the much more talented Winifred. Petrova gets the part because the directors are in a rush and Winifred is late to the audition.
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Ballet Shoes / int_7360806f	type	In-Series Nickname
Ballet Shoes / int_7360806f	comment	In-Series Nickname: The girls call Sylvia "Garnie," short for "Guardian." This is due to Values Dissonance - as it would be scandalous for the public to mistake Sylvia's daughters for her own and that they might be illegitimate.
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Ballet Shoes / int_7a0374eb	type	Impoverished Patrician
Ballet Shoes / int_7a0374eb	comment	Impoverished Patrician: Sylvia, sort of - she's consistently struggling financially but has 3 servants (okay, so for a long time she's only been paying two, the other being her own mother-surrogate), lives in a high-end district of London, and her teenaged daughters take paid work years before she does.
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Ballet Shoes / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Ballet Shoes / int_7febc23b	comment	Theo Dane as well; a bubbly and fun-loving woman whose Establishing Character Moment is dancing in her room. (Movie version only.)
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Ballet Shoes / int_829b958e	type	Embarrassing First Name
Ballet Shoes / int_829b958e	comment	Embarrassing First Name: When Posy is delivered to the house, her letter states that she was unfortunately named so. However she never is shown having any trouble with the name herself; it's mainly Nana who feel this is inappropriate.
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Ballet Shoes / int_82fc5bdf	type	Bratty Half-Pint
Ballet Shoes / int_82fc5bdf	comment	Bratty Half-Pint: Posy is rather loud and shrill compared to her older sisters. Winifred is portrayed this way too in the 2007 film.
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Ballet Shoes / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Ballet Shoes / int_83a30cd3	comment	Middle Child Syndrome: Plain Petrova, who has no artistic gifts, is sandwiched between prettier sisters who are gifted in acting and dance respectively. To make matters worse, she is expected to attend a demanding performing arts academy with them without complaining. She gets some relief from Mr. Simpson, who shares her interest in motors and often acts as a surrogate father towards her. Although uniquely for the trope, it's Petrova who gets the most scenes with Garnie - which hints that she might be the latter's preferred daughter. She certainly never gets reprimanded like Pauline and Posy do at various points.
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Ballet Shoes / int_85debad9	type	Plucky Girl
Ballet Shoes / int_85debad9	comment	Plucky Girl: Posy. So much that when she faces a future without ballet lessons, she sneaks into a theatre where a famous Czech ballet company is rehearsing and performs for the director. Thanks to her natural talent and knowing Madame Fidolia, she's offered a spot.
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Ballet Shoes / int_8605f0c0	type	Promoted to Love Interest
Ballet Shoes / int_8605f0c0	comment	Promoted to Love Interest: Mr Simpson's wife is alive in the book, but both she and a young son are dead in the 2007 to allow for a romance with Sylvia. There isn't a romance in the book.
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Ballet Shoes / int_87154420	type	Arcadian Interlude
Ballet Shoes / int_87154420	comment	Arcadian Interlude: Everyone gets a break from money, school and career worries when Sylvia rents a house in the country for a holiday.
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Ballet Shoes / int_8748f851	type	Brainy Brunette
Ballet Shoes / int_8748f851	comment	Brainy Brunette: Petrova is known as the clever child of the three.
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Ballet Shoes / int_89a17726	type	Spell My Name with an S
Ballet Shoes / int_89a17726	comment	Spell My Name With an S The author's last name completely defies the I before E except after C rule.
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Ballet Shoes / int_8e20ae0d	type	Child Prodigy
Ballet Shoes / int_8e20ae0d	comment	Child Prodigy: Sylvia actually was one, at least to a palaeontologist guardian. Posy as well from a dancing perspective.
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Ballet Shoes / int_90d5b651	type	Our Fairies Are Different
Ballet Shoes / int_90d5b651	comment	Our Fairies Are Different: An in-universe example in the book. Nana and the girls are surprised that the costumes for the fairy roles in "A Midsummer's Night Dream" consist of colored bodysuits and little else, rather than traditional wings and wands. Nana is dismissive when the director explains they are "modern fairies." This isn't present in the film, as Pauline and Petrova's costumes have wings and flowing gowns. Also in the book, Pauline is cast as a Fairy Godmother in a pantomime, where she does have a traditional fairy outfit, and Nana brings up the earlier fairy outfits, approving far more of the Fairy Godmother costume.
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Ballet Shoes / int_938e9bc0	type	Absent-Minded Professor
Ballet Shoes / int_938e9bc0	comment	Absent-Minded Professor: Amateur paleontologist Great Uncle Matthew fits this trope. He seems to forgot about the existence of the Fossil children for years and sends no financial support. When he returns home, he wonders who the three young women in the house are - forgetting that babies grow up.
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Ballet Shoes / int_969ea113	type	Ballet
Ballet Shoes / int_969ea113	comment	Ballet: It's in the title! Although there's rather less of it than one might suppose from the title. Posy, the ballet-oriented sister, is the one least focused on and is really not a POV character at all. Even in the parts of the book directly about the performing arts, there is a lot more time spent discussing acting and the theatre.
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Ballet Shoes / int_98576799	type	Throw the Dog a Bone
Ballet Shoes / int_98576799	comment	Throw the Dog a Bone: Ironically enough, despite Winifred becoming brattier in the film, she gets a boost she didn't get in the book. When Pauline misbehaves in the book, Winifred replaces her for just one night. In the film, it's implied that Winifred will play Alice for the rest of the performances.
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Ballet Shoes / int_9e1548b4	type	Old Retainer
Ballet Shoes / int_9e1548b4	comment	Old Retainer: Nana, who raised Sylvia as a child and helps to raise the Fossil children, sticking around even when Sylvia can no longer pay her.
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Ballet Shoes / int_a0eeac39	type	Odd Name Out
Ballet Shoes / int_a0eeac39	comment	Odd Name Out: Pauline and Petrova are named after Saints Paul and Peter, but Posy came to live with them already named.
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Ballet Shoes / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Ballet Shoes / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: The children are put on the stage to help bring in money to support their families, which no one bats an eye at; however, they are still being taught schoolwork by tutors (referred to as "coaches" in Pauline's first contract for stage work.).
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Ballet Shoes / int_aff29d6f	type	Beauty, Brains and Brawn
Ballet Shoes / int_aff29d6f	comment	Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: Pauline is the beautiful one, Petrova is the smart one, and Posy, while not the stereotypical brawn, is a much better dancer than her sisters. She's also more of a Plucky Girl compared to the two of them.
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Ballet Shoes / int_b2f26025	type	Genki Girl
Ballet Shoes / int_b2f26025	comment	Genki Girl: Posy, the most cheerful and upbeat of the sisters. Theo Dane as well; a bubbly and fun-loving woman whose Establishing Character Moment is dancing in her room. (Movie version only.)
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Ballet Shoes / int_b61b755f	type	Tomboy
Ballet Shoes / int_b61b755f	comment	Tomboy: Petrova is as close as can get to this in her time period.
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Ballet Shoes / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
Ballet Shoes / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book: Starring Emma Watson.
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Ballet Shoes / int_ba3b41d6	type	Ironic Echo Cut
Ballet Shoes / int_ba3b41d6	comment	Ironic Echo Cut: Petrova gets a sty in her eye just before an audition, and Nana is giving her something to put on it and assuring her no one will notice. Cut (in the 2007 film) to the casting directors asking for "girl with the red eye" to step forward.
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Ballet Shoes / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
Ballet Shoes / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: Red headed Posy is the spunkiest and most energetic of the sisters.
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Ballet Shoes / int_bda88535	type	Life Isn't Fair
Ballet Shoes / int_bda88535	comment	Life Isn't Fair: Winifred learns this when Pauline is given the role of Alice instead of her even though Winifred is more talented. Adding insult to injury she later loses the part of Mustard Seed to Petrova (who has no aptitude whatsoever) when she is late for an audition through no fault of her own.
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Ballet Shoes / int_bf9163d9	type	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Ballet Shoes / int_bf9163d9	comment	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The trio of sisters Pauline, Petrova, and Posy, respectively.
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Ballet Shoes / int_ccfc0535	type	Letting Her Hair Down
Ballet Shoes / int_ccfc0535	comment	Letting Her Hair Down: Sylvia has her hair tied back for the whole film. But for her wedding she wears it down for the first time.
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Ballet Shoes / int_cd1b0fcc	type	Prima Donna Director
Ballet Shoes / int_cd1b0fcc	comment	Prima Donna Director: Madame Fidolia, especially at first.
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Ballet Shoes / int_cdee850f	type	Dancing Is Serious Business
Ballet Shoes / int_cdee850f	comment	Dancing Is Serious Business: Posy and Madame Fidolia.
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Ballet Shoes / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
Ballet Shoes / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Nana who is another surrogate mother to the girls and has plenty of wit and spunk despite her age. (On the other hand, she's the one who keep making disparaging remarks about Petrova's interests.)
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Ballet Shoes / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
Ballet Shoes / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: In the book the director Mr Sholsky is Jewish, but played by black actor Adrian Lester in the 2007 film. (Of course, this doesn't presuppose that Mr Sholsky couldn't be both black and Jewish.)
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Ballet Shoes / int_d8e0e9f7	type	Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You
Ballet Shoes / int_d8e0e9f7	comment	Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Uniquely it's the child herself who invokes this. Posy's birth mother was a ballet dancer and gave her up because she wanted to keep her dancing career. Posy grows up wanting to become a dancer too.
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Ballet Shoes / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Ballet Shoes / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Theo talks dreamily about an admirer she had in her chorus days whom she met every night at the stage door. The same man ends up at the house towards the end, happily reuniting with Theo. (Movie version only.)
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Ballet Shoes / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
Ballet Shoes / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: Dr Jakes and Dr Smith are hinted to be lesbians and suspected to be so by many fans, but neither the book nor the film elaborates. Note that they do rent two rooms at the boarding house.
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Ballet Shoes / int_eb002293	type	Shrinking Violet
Ballet Shoes / int_eb002293	comment	Shrinking Violet: Petrova, as the one sister that doesn't enjoy performing.
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Ballet Shoes / int_ef3d1b57	type	Technician Versus Performer
Ballet Shoes / int_ef3d1b57	comment	Technician Versus Performer: Played with a bit. It's mentioned that Petrova, who hates dancing, ends up being one of the most technically proficient dancers in the school because she hates dancing, so she ends up taking basic classes year after year and gets all the core moves completely ground into her mind. But her performer sisters are the ones who always get major roles in ballets and plays, while she's always (gladly) stuck in the background. Although in this case, her sisters aren't bad at technique; they just never learn it by rote the way she does. Petrova does have a leading role at one point, but that's because Pauline is portraying her brother, and it's more convenient to cast her as the sister. Also comes into play (possibly) in the book with all-round brilliant, plain Winifred vs. good-at-acting-but-merely-competent-at-the-rest, beautiful Pauline. Mostly it's observed that Winifred's not very attractive and looks shabby at auditions (because her family are flat broke and chaotic), but she also seems to lack Pauline's charisma.
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Ballet Shoes / int_f0c4ce7d	type	The Lost Lenore
Ballet Shoes / int_f0c4ce7d	comment	The Lost Lenore: In the 2007 film adaptation Mr Simpson's wife died of typhoid fever, along with their son.
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Ballet Shoes / int_f19e8a55	type	Bad "Bad Acting"
Ballet Shoes / int_f19e8a55	comment	Bad "Bad Acting": Petrova when she is playing Mytyl in "The Blue Bird" (1975 film) and Mustard Seed in "A Midsummer's Night Dream" (2007 film) is called out for her expressionless acting. A variation in the 2007 adaptation. When Pauline is cast in a film and has to act a sad scene, to show her "inexperience" while filming she just doesn't put any effort into her line and has to be taught to put emotion in by the director. Having acted on the stage plenty of times, it should really be that she needs to be taught to tone down her emotion.
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Ballet Shoes / int_f33ff01c	type	Adaptational Context Change
Ballet Shoes / int_f33ff01c	comment	Adaptational Context Change: In the book, Sylvia doesn't want the girls to attend the academy because the two doctors are already going to educate them, and she doesn't think it's practical. Nana likewise agrees. In the film however, Sylvia is worried about the cost of lessons, and it's Nana who talks her around. Theo also rents her room on the condition that the girls attend the academy in the film, whereas in the book she's been staying at the house for a while before she suggests it.
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Ballet Shoes / int_f818b637	type	Dude, Where's My Respect?
Ballet Shoes / int_f818b637	comment	Dude, Where's My Respect?: Posy gets annoyed when the family is making a fuss about everything Pauline will need for her audition - and none of them has said anything to her about the news that she is the first student to be trained privately by Madame. (Movie version only.) Winifred reacts this way when Pauline gets the part of Alice, because she "looks right." She screams that it has nothing to do with talent and storms off. (This tantrum is in the movie version only. In the book, she is in quiet tears because her family needed the money she would earn, since the father is sick and can't work.)
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Ballet Shoes / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
Ballet Shoes / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming Pauline, Petrova, and Posy Fossil. Lampshaded by Nana: Could also apply to all of Noel Streatfeild's works: Ballet Shoes, Tennis Shoes, Circus Shoes, Theater Shoes, Party Shoes, Movie Shoes, Skating Shoes, Family Shoes, Dancing Shoes, and Traveling Shoes. Important to note that many of these titles were different when published in England and only became ___ Shoes when published in America.
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Ballet Shoes / int_ff2ceef1	type	Old Maid
Ballet Shoes / int_ff2ceef1	comment	Old Maid: In the 2007 film Theo feels anxious about her age and acts as if she's an Old Maid when she's barely older than 30.
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