Gil Junger’s film ’10 Things I Hate About You’ smartly and comically appropriates Shakespeare’s ‘Taming of The Shrew’ whilst maintaining the values and themes from the original. It would’ve been quite the challenge for one to create a modern version of a 16th century play as they would have to incorporate the main ideas and themes as well as making it fitting to today’s modern society and how we can make relations to the scenes and problems. Themes and values from the original play must be involved within the film and be conspicuous; displayed successfully in order to create a strong appropriation. Some of these have been reflected through the cinematic techniques the director has used to give emphasis and comedy. The themes I shall be discussing are Love/Marriage/Dating, Family Relationships and the Role of Women. The difference between the interpretations of Love/Marriage/Dating in the film and play are indubitably contrasting as Gil Junger Shakespeare have different beliefs to the theme. Family …show more content…
The views and beliefs regarding this theme have changed drastically over the years. In the 17th century, a patriarchal, hierarchal, structured society, women were expected to be quiet, good at housechores and give babies. If we were to go back in that time period, Bianca would be considered as the ideal type of woman that all men would desire. Katherina, on the other hand, can be considered as the ideal type of woman men did NOT desire in the 17th century. She did not meet the requirements of an ideal as she was loud and very individual. She strongly disagreed to the marriage between herself and Petruchio but she had no authority to choose her husband. (“To give my hand, opposed against my heart” -Act 3, Scene 2, Line 9) . After her transformation, her beliefs have amended to suit the ideals of society. Her loud, individual self had suddenly become a calm, woman of service for her husband, stating Petruchio as her
Ten Things I Hate About You is a 1999 film based upon the play The Taming of the Shrew written by William Shakespeare in 1593. The storyline of these two texts is about a boy named Cameron (or Lucentio in the play) who falls in love with Bianca, a popular girl at his school. Due to her father’s orders, she isn’t allowed to date anyone until her older sister Kat (known as Katharina in the play) does. The trouble is, Kat is the opposite of Bianca - unpopular and not intending to date anyone any time soon. In an attempt to solve this problem, Cameron persuades Joey (both Hortensio and Gremio in the play), a wealthy boy who also has feelings for Bianca, to pay Patrick (or
Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet is a film that converts Shakespeare’s famous play into a present-day setting. The film transforms the original texts into modern notions, whilst still employing Shakespearean language. Compared to Franco Zeffirelli’s adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, Luhrmann’s picture is easier for a teenage audience to understand and relate to because of his modernisations. Despite the passing of four centuries Shakespeare’s themes of love, hate, violence, family and mortality remain the same regardless of the setting.
Here we see Petruchio, the misogynistic male lead of the play, arrive in Padua to find a wife –ideally a rich woman, no matter her looks or personality. Upon hearing of Katharina “Kate” Minola, he decides, at once, that he will marry her. Petruchio thus seeks out Kate’s father, Baptista, to ask for his daughter’s hand in marriage. Once he is granted permission, he meets Katharina for the first time. Their first interaction is less than civil, with Kate firing insult after insult at Petruchio, calling him things such as a “buzzard,” meaning he is useless, and saying that he is too much a fool to find her “stinger” – with which her sharp words come from (2.1). Even still, Petruchio insists on marrying, and in doing so, taming Katharina, and will not take any of her protests,
In the beginning of the play Kate is “consistently in opposition to everything around her”2, meanwhile “Bianca obeys so gently and with such sweet submission that it is obvious why she is Baptista’s favorite daughter”2. In the end of the play, the roles switch and Katherina is submissive to every word of Petruchio and Bianca resists the commands of her new husband.
The Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespeare, deals with marriage. The ideas explored are primarily shown through the characters of Petruchio and Katharina. We are introduced to the trials and tribulation's which present themselves in their everyday lives. The characters bring up a traditional concept of male domination. Through the play we see the need for domination through Petruchio, and the methods he uses to dominate. While these ideas of male domination have remained a constant throughout the years, however recently there has been a change toward equality.
It is well known that Shakespeare’s comedies contain many marriages, some arranged, some spontaneous. During Queen Elizabeth's time, it was considered foolish to marry for love. However, in Shakespeare’s plays, people often marry for love. With a closer look into two of his most famous plays As You Like It and Twelfth Night or What You Will, I found that while marriages are defined and approached differently in these two plays, Shakespeare’s attitudes toward love in both plays share similarities. The marriages in As You Like It’s conform to social expectation, while the marriages are more rebellious in Twelfth Night. Love, in both plays, was defined as
10 Things I Hate About You takes William Shakespeare’s classic play, The Taming of the Shrew and manages to make it relevant to a modern audience. The story remains the same with the younger sister, Bianca, not allowed to have a relationship until her older sister, Kat, does. They did maintain several original scenes and even used several direct quotes from the original play. The writers have eliminated some of Bianca’s suitors and changed the way Kat is tamed to appeal to a modern audience. Shakespeare would have agreed with the casting of the movie. This movie may turn Shakespeare’s work into a teen comedy but it maintains many of the elements that made the play such a hit.
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When someone is a female their first thought should not be weak or nurturing, just as when someone is male their first though shouldn’t always be powerful. Unfortunately it has becomes so ingrained in societies mentality that this is the way that things work. The Taming of the Shrew is a past writing piece that expands on a mentality that is modern. The male gender cannot be put into this same constraint. Petruchio is the epitome of what society would describe a male as. He thinks he is in charge and always the superior to women. He expects Katherine to always do what he tells her to do, because he believes that is her duty as his wife. Moreover he should not be expected to do that for her. Furthermore, Bianca is what many would describe as the perfect woman. She is nurturing and she does not speak out against what she is told. When she does speak she always speaks like a lady. She exists merely for decoration in the home and to serve her husband. Katherine is the inconsistency in this stereotype on femininity. Her purpose in the novel originally is to rebel against this biased thought on female gender roles. Katherine is not afraid to speak out against the things that she is told to do. If she disagrees with something she will act on it and she is just as strong as the men in the novel; which is why many of the men actually fear her. Katherine is not submissive and does not believe that the only reason that she exists is to serve a husband. Katherine does not want to be just the damsel in distress, she wants to be in charge. At the end of the novel there is a switch in the personalities of Katherine and Bianca. This alteration provides the purpose of showing that gender is not something that someone can be confined in just because they were born a female. A woman can have many different traits and still be feminine. It is impossible to put femininity in a box because there are no real qualities for what
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare is a play that is ahead of its time in its views toward gender roles within society. Katherine is a woman who is intelligent, and is not afraid to assert her views on any given situation. She is paired with another obstinate character in Pertuchio. The Marriage formed between the two is a match made in heaven for two reasons. First Because Katherine is strong enough to assert her views, and more importantly, she realizes when she should assert them. The second reason the bond survives is that Petruchio is strong enough to accept the fact that Katherine has a mind and, more importantly he loves her for that reason. Petruchio cleverly weaves the relationship into the framework of society without compromising the integrity of the relationship. Petruchio does this by comparing Katherine’s at attitude to repulsive clothing. Carefully and calculatingly, Petruchio forges a relationship that is envied by all who witness it.
An adaptation of shakespeare’s ‘The Taming of the shrew’, ’10 things I hate about you’ has a lot to live up to and it could be suggested that the makers had a responsibility to address some of the issues in a way that was appealing to 20th century teenagers. This is achieved throughout the film successfully.
Hatred and love, two of humanity’s strongest feelings. In many cases people consider them opposites, but the line between them is thin. In the movie “10 Things I Hate About You,” by Gil Junger, Junger tries to show the thinness of this line. This follows the footsteps of Shakespeare, whose play, The Taming of the Shrew, from which the movie is adapted. This movie was very interesting in its portrayal of the play, but does have a few errors or ways that it could improve.
In two well put together playwright and film audiences are shown a story of a couple in two differentiating ways. The play Taming of the Shrew and the movie Ten Things I Hate About You explore many of the same characters displayed through a more modern outlook. One character, which plays a crucial role in both the play and movie, is Petruchio. Although he has a differing name (Patrick) in the film, he greatly resembles Petruchio, but likewise, is different in many aspects. The main difference can be seen through Petruchio’s feelings toward Katherine. Each of these similar characters are both in it for the money, but as time progresses Patrick begins to develop feelings for Katherine. Patrick is more interested in learning about Katherine. He
What do you think of when I say romantic comedies? Cringy love scenes? Failed relationships? A predictable plot? Well, all these things occur in the Hollywood-adapted versions of William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate About You.
Shakespeare establishes a clear comparison between the sisters through their father, Baptista. From the beginning of the play we see a clear preference toward Bianca. He discusses how their daughter are to be in a relationship. “Gentlemen, importune me no farther,/That is, not to bestow my youngest daughter/Before I have a husband for the elder./If either of you both love Katharina,/ Because I know you well and love you well/ Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure” (1.1.48-54). Baptista freely offers Katharina with out any detachment, while Bianca should be courted properly by the men. In addition to her father preferences, the mates wanting to marry the sisters also like Bianca. As one of the mates discussing which they prefer, Tranio refers to “ [The] eldest sister is so curst and shrewd /That till the father rid his hands of her” (1.1.180). From the first scenes it is clear that there is rivalry between who is the better sister.