10 Things I Hate About You Shakespeare

Numerous changes certainly had to be made to translate a sixteenth century Shakespeare play into a movie, ostensibly based on Shakespeare's work, that would be suitable for a twentieth and twenty first century audience. Albeit a father who eventually relinquishes his authority once both his daughters have a steady boyfriend. Shrewish Katherina and pure Bianca were transformed into, what the writers believed to be, the modern equivalent of their characters. After all, as her cynical African American literature teacher said, she is an upper-middle class white girl. Bianca is the cookie-cutter all-American "cute" girl of her time.

She initially appears to be vapid, leading what Kat would call a "consumer-driven life". Her main goals in life seem to be securing a good-looking boyfriend, and being the only sophomore asked to the prom. However, she eventually rises to her own defense upon discovering a bet one of her admirers, Joey, places on her based on his conviction that he can, as Bianca's former best friend, Chastity, said, "nail" her on the night of their prom. Bianca gains independence as Kat learns to let her guard down and allow herself to depend on others. Patrick, Kat's only admirer and boyfriend-to-be, is a mysterious, handsome guy rumored to have a criminal background.

Like Kat, he is an outsider in their high school community, he is feared, generally looked down upon, and hated. While he might not be as mentally unhinged as Petruchio seems to be, he and Kat share the same status of the outcast, which eventually brings them together. What makes this film better as time goes on is how fun it is. Junger knew he was making a teenage romantic comedy and that is exactly what he did. It's a fun film made by young people for young people, and it shows. Every character is complex and full, with an amazing actor that brings the role to life.

Even the adults, played by Alison Janney and Larry Miller, are funny, and they do their job without being annoying as most adults are in teen movies. The stars of the film are the young cast members who allow McCullah and Smith's script to sing. Like Shakespeare, it's fast and complex and no one misses a beat. As an audience member, you feel like you genuinely get to know the characters and are part of the friend group.

"10 Things I Hate About You" is a film that falls under the category of the modern teenage romantic comedy based on Shakespearian literature, but it is more than that. It was a smart and thought-provoking, feel-good film that captures what it was like to be a teenager, both in 1999 and 2019. It is full of young spirit, as it was the first film written by McCullah and Smith (they would later write other classic comedies like "Legally Blonde," "House Bunny" and "She's the Man").

The film was truly ahead of its time, for while the characters talked about unrequited love and how hard the French test was, they also spoke about important concepts like gender and sexual politics. This mostly came from the female lead Kat, who makes it a point for everyone in the school to know that she has no interest in boys because in doing so, she'll give up her power. This is why she is considered a "loner," a "shrew" and "scary." Kat is not afraid to speak her mind and offend people in doing so.

She says what she says because she knows that she is right, even if it means not having a lot of friends or every boy not running to ask her to the dance. The film is a feminist film without the audience feeling as if they are being lectured on feminism. She's focused on getting into college and doesn't want to deal with the fakeness that is high school. Shakespeare was heavily alluded to in the marketing of10 Things I Hate About You, and within the movie itself. The movie was marketed as an adaptation ofThe Taming of the Shrew, with taglines such as "Romeo, Oh Romeo, Get Out of My Face", and Lucentio's words in regards to Bianca in the play, "I burn, I pine, I perish! The poem she writes at the end of the movie, '10 Things I Hate About You', from which the title of the movie was inspired, was intended to be a rewrite of sonnet 141 'In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes".

Kat's best friend, Mandella, is obsessed with Shakespeare, she spends most of her time pining for him. The movie pokes fun at its origins, and yet uses Shakespeare as a way to attract a wider audience. Shakespeare becomes a marketing tool because of the cultural capital he confers on the movie. In an essay titled "Shakespeare, films and the marketplace", Russell Jackson talks about how Shakespeare movies have evolved, and how their marketing has evolved with them. Shakespeare-based movies, he says, "conferred respectability on their makers and distributors, while providing an easily transportable rival to the pictorial, melodramatic mode of popular theatre" .

Had it not been for that association, the movie would largely go by unnoticed as another typical high school romance. Shakespeare gives the movie a unique following, and, perhaps, a better-informed audience. 10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American teen romantic comedy-drama film directed by Gil Junger and starring Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Larisa Oleynik.

The screenplay, written by Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith, is a loose modernization of William Shakespeare's late-16th century comedy The Taming of the Shrew, retold in a late-1990s American high school setting. In the story, new student Cameron (Gordon-Levitt) is smitten with Bianca Stratford and, in order to get around her father's strict rules on dating, attempts to get bad boy Patrick to date Bianca's ill-tempered sister, Kat Stratford . The film is titled after a poem written by Kat about her bittersweet romance with Patrick. Much of the filming took place in the Seattle metropolitan area, with many scenes shot at Stadium High School in Tacoma. Released March 31, 1999, 10 Things I Hate About You was number two at the domestic box office during its opening weekend, behind only The Matrix, and was a moderate financial and critical success.

It was a breakthrough role for Stiles, Ledger, and Gordon-Levitt, all of whom were nominated for various teen-oriented awards. Ten years later, the film was adapted into a television series of the same title, which ran for twenty episodes and featured Larry Miller reprising his role as the father, Walter Stratford, from the film. Though it came four centuries later, the well-loved 1999 teen rom-com adaptation is not as nice as it appears. Kat, Junger's "shrew," is a second-wave feminist at her core. She's teased by her peers, who insinuate that she is a lesbian , and her younger sister is embarrassed by Kat. But by the end of the movie, Kat has "calmed down." She no longer wants to do all the things she used to love and she has cast off her feminist views, all in order to date her crush.

This embodiment of "manifest femininity"—the idea that all women really want is to be loved by men—is inherent in the relationships feautred in romantic comedies. But the concept is most striking in "10 Things I Hate About You" because the female lead literally changes her progressive stance on feminism to a conservative one in order to date a cute boy. Junger has not used this Shakespearean play to reiterate gender roles prevalent in the 16th Century but he has made the point in this film that he believes feminism has no place in the modern world. Based on this film, feminism, in Junger's eyes, has done its part to give women enough freedom and now it only serves to make women disagreeable and unattractive. Which, Junger seems to assert, is a woman's (and man's) worst nightmare.

97 minutesLanguageEnglishBudget$30 millionBox office$60.4 million10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American romantic comedy film directed by Gil Junger and starring Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Larisa Oleynik. The screenplay, written by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, is a modernization of William Shakespeare's late-16th-century comedy The Taming of the Shrew, retold in a late-1990s American high school setting. In the story, new student Cameron (Gordon-Levitt) is smitten with Bianca and, in order to get around her father's strict rules on dating, attempts to get bad boy Patrick to date Bianca's ill-tempered sister, Kat .

As it would be expected from a typical teen movie, "10 Things I Hate about You" deals with issues like unreciprocated love and confusion. The movie was released in 1999 as a romantic comedy and as a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's famous play. The film's main characters are Kat and Bianca Stratford , Patrick Verona , Cameron James (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and inspired on Lucentio), and Joey Donner . 10 Things I Hate About Youis a 1999 American romantic comedy film directed by Gil Junger. The plot of the movie revolves around new student Cameron, who is smitten with Bianca and, in order to get around her father's strict rules on dating, attempts to get bad boy Patrick to date Bianca's ill-tempered sister, Katarina. The screenplay is a modernization of William Shakespeare's late-16th-century comedyThe Taming of the Shrew, retold in a late-1990s American high school setting.

The fact that one of the only vocally feminist characters in contemporary mainstream pop culture is the shrew highlights the general undesirability of such qualities in young women. Feminism can confer confidence in individuality on those that adhere to its values. It often pushes young women to believe in their strength and intelligence, as opposed to their physical appearance.

It teaches us to subvert gender norms and carve out our own paths, the paths that we desire for ourselves, as opposed to those that society tells us we should attempt to attain. At the beginning of the movie, Kat is very unconventional as a portrayal of an 18-year-old girl in a movie targeted at a young audience. She refuses to be nice because that is what is expected of her. She admits that she is "a firm believer in doing something for your own reasons". She is one of the few unabashedly intelligent female characters of the late nineties, which is now thought of nostalgically as one of the only time in American TV history that had a number of smart girl heroines.

At around the same time the movie was produced, there were quite a few popular TV shows with strong independent female characters. And, last but not least,Freaks and Geekswhich gave us Lindsay Weir, clever, cynical and unapologetically weird. Though the film traffics in reductive tropes that are often sexist—the bad boy, the pretty boy, the AV nerd, the popular girl—it at least works to add some complexity to its main female character that the original play doesn't offer. Shakespeare's Katarina, the titular shrew, hates men for no apparent reason; 10 Things' Kat is at least a developed-enough character to have a backstory to explain her behavior.

About three-quarters of the way through the movie, Kat reveals to Bianca that she had slept with another student when she was a freshman in high school, right after their mom left the family. "Afterwards I told him I didn't want to anymore because I wasn't ready, and he got pissed and he dumped me. The film is based on Shakespeare's comedy "The Taming of the Shrew." The premise involves Bianca , the most beautiful woman in town, who is not allowed to get married until her older sister Katherina does. The only problem is that Katherina is too headstrong and has no interest in getting married.

The film follows the same plotline but bases the characters in a modern California high school. Now, Bianca is the most beautiful girl in the school but isn't allowed to date until her sister does, who again, would rather watch paint dry than spend time with a boy. So Cameron (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) convinces Patrick , the toughest boy in the school, to date Kat so he can ask Bianca to the prom. A less literal update is seen in the treatment of 10 Things' characters, all of whom are treated with far more heart and sympathy than Shakespeare's originals. Yes, their high school woes may not be world-ending, but there is nothing but love in this story. Patrick is a classic bad boy whose willingness to sacrifice his dignity for the sake of his beloved subverts this trope while also possibly making him a perfect man – a far cry from the source material.

Cameron, played by a baby-faced Joseph Gordon-Levitt, carries enough self-absorption without self-awareness to make his naivete endearing rather than bland. Larisa Oleynik's Bianca gets the best makeover; while materialistic and lacking her sister's academic drive, vacuity and subservience are replaced by forthrightness and autonomy. Despite its modern setting, the movie stays true to the play for the most part.The Taming of the Shrewis set in Padua, Italy.

His eldest, Katharina, is despised and reviled because of her "shrewishness", while his younger daughter, Bianca, is adored and admired because of her good looks and modesty. Bianca has a crowd of smitten admirers who are vying for her hand in marriage, which includes the three gentlemen Hortensio, Lucentio, and Gremio. To win Bianca over, Hortensio and Lucentio disguise themselves as teachers without the other's knowledge, and they each convince Baptista to hire them as instructors for his daughters.10 Things I Hate About Youfollows the same general plot. Despite being set in Seattle, Washington, its young characters attend Padua High, perhaps the modern equivalent for a small city. The movie is about a father terrified of his daughters sexuality and certain that they would be unable to take care of themselves. His eldest, Kat, is loud-mouthed, independent, and angry at the state of the world.

His youngest, Bianca, is pretty, popular, and somewhat shallow. Bianca, just like her namesake, has a hoard of admirers she is unable to date because of her father's rules about dating. In order to free Bianca from her father's rule, her admirers set Kat up with the intimidating, dangerous-looking Patrick by paying him to go out with her. Cameron, Bianca's boyfriend-to-be, teaches himself some rudimentary French in order to be her tutor, and win over her affections, as Lucentio does in the play. Shakespeare's play,The Taming of The Shrew,was written between the years 1590 and 1592.

Four centuries later writers Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith put together a movie adaptation of the play called10 Things I Hate About You. Despite the very different settings the two works of fiction take place in, certain things remain constant, such as the ways the characters are portrayed and perceived. Unlike today's retellings, the film doesn't seem like a Shakespearian adaption. There are no period costumes or Shakespearian verses unless they're coming from the drama club.

Screenwriters Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith and director Gil Junger perfectly fit the story in the modern day. Instead of dramatic Shakespearian dialogue, there's clever jokes filled with teenage angst. If you're not a Shakespeare fan, you may still love the movie and fall in love with the characters. You would want to play soccer with Kat, or fall in love with Patrick.

However, if you are a fan of the British playwright, there are little Easter eggs that would put a smile on your face. This adaption is completely its own and stands perfectly by itself, which also shows how Shakespeare's work truly is universal and timeless. 10 Things I Hate About You is afunny and sweet high school movie that I enjoyed. The storyline is just omay, I enjoyed the characters a lot but the main plot seems done before and cliche, but I still had fun. The cast was really good, Heath Ledger is always a joy to watch, and Joseph Gordon Levitt is such a sweet guy thats its hard not to love him.

The comedy was good, I laughed many times espically at Larry Miller as thedad, but it was not nearly as funny as it couldve been. This film had a weak plot and sometimes cliche jokes, and for the love of god do all these high school films have to end at a prom, but this movie a joy to watch with funny characters and really good acting, I enjoyed this film a lot. Possibly the greatest teen movie of the decade, 10 Things I Hate About You is the perfect 90s time capsule.

Watching the movie, originally released in 1999, as an adult is a true blast from the past. In many ways, the film is even more perfect now than when it first came out. It's also easier as an adult to appreciate the fact that10 Things I Hate About You was based off of Shakespeare's play, The Taming of the Shrew.

Of course, not everything about the movie is great, and, while the good parts are better than ever, the bad parts are also worse. No era was so prolific for high school romantic comedies as the late 1990s. Films like She's All That, Cruel Intentions, Never Been Kissed, and Clueless offered an idealized depiction of life as a white, upper-middle class American high school girl.

These films were often riddled with reductive tropes—the "good girl," the "bad boy," the stoners—and contained troubling morals about body acceptance and how women should have to change to please men. 10 Things I Hate About You is the rare movie that successfully modernizes Shakespeare, and despite feeling a little predictable it's still an above-average romantic comedy. Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Cameron, a new student at Padua high school who falls for sophomore Bianca Stratford . However, Bianca's father won't let her date anybody until her beautiful but bitter older sister Kat has a boyfriend as well. Cameron decides to pay the equally cold Patrick to ask Kat out so that Cameron can in turn date Bianca. The story is based off of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, but with completely modernized dialogue.

The lack of Shakespearean dialogue is a welcome touch, as it makes the movie far more comprehensible and charming than other modernized Shakespeare adaptations (coughROMEO+JULIETcough). Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles are both fantastic in the roles that elevated them to stardom, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt is good as well despite being overshadowed a little by Ledger and Stiles. It can be a little predictable at times, but 10 Things I Hate About You has enough poignant moments, humor, and great acting to make it a memorable and very enjoyable romantic comedy. Late actor Heath Ledger portrayed the male lead opposite Julia Stiles and his character Patrick Verona, was the typical bad boy who was hired to date Katarina Stratford, but eventually ended up falling in love with her. Heath was an Australian actor, photographer, and music video director.