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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.
The movie, “10 Things I Hate About You,” was released in 1999 as a romantic comedy. It tells the story of Kat Stratford, played by Julia Styles, and Patrick Verona’s, played by Heath Leger, romance, along with the romance of Kat’s sister Bianca and Cameron James. The story
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starts with Cameron moving to Padua High School and seeing Bianca. He instantly falls in love with her, but soon learns from his new friend Michael that she is off limits till her sister can date. It is at this point, very early in the movie that the viewer can distinguish that Gil Junger, the director, is emphasizing love and courtship in a more modern way but also keeping many ideas from the 16th century play the movie was based off of. As the movie continues Cameron and Michael make a plan to have Joey Donner, Bianca's other suitor, pay someone to date Kat, therefore freeing Bianca to date. In the end they agree to enlist Patrick as their fake suitor. The story then follows with Patrick taking Cat to a party, a date, and eventually to prom, for the money. While being paid though, he starts falling for Cat and she for him. At Prom though Cat learns of Patrick’s real reason for daing her, and writes a sonnet for English class describing why she hates him ending with how she hates him because she loves him. The story ends quickly after this with Patrick buying Cat a new guitar with his date money and her forgiving him. While this is the main focus of the film the romance between Bianca and Cameron takes place in the background. Bianca first falls for the model Joey but at the same party as Cat and Patrick realizes that she doesn’t like him. After this Cameron takes her home and she kisses him goodnight. She then at a tutoring session with Cameron tells him, in French, to ask her to Prom. At Prom their relationship kicks off and they end the story together. Both of these romances in emphasis and plot follow the romances Shakespeare writes about in his play, “The Taming of the Shrew.” This was the reason, that Junger created the movie, to create a modern story of the Shakespeare classic. In many ways he did a very good job, but there were a few ways that he could have improved his movie. While I enjoyed the film as a whole and feel like the goal of paralleling Shakespeare's play was met in most areas, I think there were a few areas in which the movie could improve.
One example of this is seen in the plot. I did not agree with the way that Junger finished the movie. As a character Cat would not let Patrick off so easily. I realize its purpose was to more closely tie it to the play, but I feel like it moved the movie farther from the play by breaking the character of Cat or Katherine. While in this way I feel like the play was too prominent, I very much enjoyed the usage of lines from the play being cut into the movie. The slipping in of lines, in my opinion, was a very interesting way to integrate Shakespeare's original work and keep the attention of the audience. I also enjoyed the casting and feel like the actors and actresses casted for each roll understood the position in the movie and also its relation to the play. I particularly enjoyed the performance of lead actress, Julia Stiles, in the role of Cat. I feel like she very clearly performed the fire and resilience of Cat in her portrayal, but also maintained the hidden fact that Cat does want to find happiness and go out and do things, just on her terms. Overall I feel like the dialogue and delivery of almost all lines was spot on with the quirky kind of love that Junger was trying to display. The usage quick retorts by Cat and Patrick not only showed similarity to that of Katherine and Petruchio, but also showed that these two character are the definition of a love-hate relationship. The final comment I made on this adaptation was on the music. While I greatly enjoyed the music and its place in the movie, I never quite felt like it tied into the theme or tone of the movie or play. It was obviously placed there as a way for Junger to connect to the audience of the day. There are a multitude of things that I enjoyed and disliked about the movie other than these small list, but I feel like
these most clearly show how I felt about the movie. Overall I believe the movie, “10 Things I Hate About You,” did fairly well in following the plot and theme of “The Taming of the Shrew.” It maintained both a strong tie to the play along with maintaining far enough a distance to stay its own piece. While this is a very strong positive aspect of the film, and there are many move, I still had some very strong dislikes concerning the plot and the film in general. In the end though the positives outway the negatives, and “10 Things I Hate About You,” and I only have a small love-hate relationship.
But McKellan's version, while radically different in presentation and style, is true to the spirit of the play, bringing the intrigue and violence to life in a way undreamed of in Olivier's time. The point I am trying to make is that the new version really is very good, and appeals to modern audiences.
Often times, directors take timeless works of literature and make them more relatable to modern audiences. Creating a good adaptation is very difficult, the new product must be different from the original to make it relatable, however still be similar enough to recognize as the first edition. Due to changing times, many of Shakespeare’s plays have been adapted into movies. One of the most adapted plays by Shakespeare is Macbeth. This classic sets a high standard to live up to, however the film Scotland, PA comes close.
Although this play originated in 1879 the director did not seem to have any difficulty keeping the original historical plot and at the same time blending in a bit of modern themes and characteristics. Several words were added that weren't part of Gilbert's original script. It kept the adaptation novel and interesting.
The play was complete in itself being that it led the reader to use his or her imagination to put together all of the complexities of their interactions. That being said, I would recommend the film over the written play because of how powerful the messages shown by the actors through body language are. They brought a level of depth to the message that the original author was unable to achieve.
Filmmaking and cinematography are art forms completely open to interpretation in a myriad ways: frame composition, lighting, casting, camera angles, shot length, etc. The truly talented filmmaker employs every tool available to make a film communicate to the viewer on different levels, including social and emotional. When a filmmaker chooses to undertake an adaptation of a literary classic, the choices become somewhat more limited. In order to be true to the integrity of the piece of literature, the artistic team making the adaptation must be careful to communicate what is believed was intended by the writer. When the literature being adapted is a play originally intended for the stage, the task is perhaps simplified. Playwrights, unlike novelists, include some stage direction and other instructions regarding the visual aspect of the story. In this sense, the filmmaker has a strong basis for adapting a play to the big screen.
The themes and values present in The Taming of the Shrew for the appropriation to be successful needed to be evident in 10 Things I Hate About You. These included romance and marriage, the importance of money, social order and status, patriarchal values and finally transformation.
The film remains faithful to the themes of Macbeth. It does not dilute the eternal qualities of evil and treachery that are so viscerally expressed in the play.
Transformations inherently contain traces of the author’s social and cultural context. Much of the same can be applied to “Much ado about nothing”. It incorporates comical features, yet retains the sense of tragedy which is attached to almost all of Shakespeare’s plays. Brain Percival’s role as a director, was determining, understanding and distinguishing the social norms and the social structure of the society, and how the themes represented in the play can be transformed into a modern text. The Elizabethan society was typically a patriarchal society. Percival has used as well as transformed certain themes and textual features to ensure, that the film is more appealing and assessable to the critical modern audience.
Amy Heckerling’s movie Clueless focuses on an upper middle class 16-year-old girl, Cher, who lives in a nice neighborhood with her father and stepbrother, Josh. Cher and her friend, Dionne, take in a new girl, Tai, to help her fit into their high school. All of the major characters in the movie are in adolescence, which ranges from 10-19 years of age. In adolescence, teenagers undergo cognitive and emotional development. According to Piaget’s cognitive developmental theory, adolescents are in formal operational period from 11-20 years of age. During this period, adolescents develop abstract thinking and rational decision making. They experience two aspects of adolescent egocentrism, imaginary audience
The modern setting naturally incorporates the use of modern inventions, modern clothing, and modern behavior. These factors change the audience’s perspective and analyzation from the original play to the movie. For example, the use of bicycles made transportation easier and the running away seem less impossible. The modern clothing took away from the inherent magic, much like changing the setting originally affected this. The behavior of the characters that changed due to this setting change, however, disturbed the original emotions and analyzations one might make from reading the work as intended, through William Shakespeare’s original
Kenneth Branagh creates his own individualistic adaptation of this classic through the use of visual imagery, characterization, and setting. Branagh cut many lines and speeches from the text to better support his interpretation of a more open and informal society of warm-hearted, affectionate characters. Though Shakespeare's mood is more formal, Branagh remains true to the essence of the play as all of the same characters and most of the dialogue are justly included in the film. Although distinct differences can be made between Branagh’s film and Shakespeare’s written work, they both share a common denominator of good old-fashioned entertainment; and in the world of theater, nothing else really matters.
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.
One notable difference between William Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Julie Taymor’s film version of the play is the altered scenes that made quite a difference between the play and the movie version. This difference has the effects of creating a different point of view by altering the scenes affected the movie and how Taymor felt was necessary by either by keeping or deleting certain parts from the play. I use “Altered Scene” in the way of how Julia Taymor recreates her own point of view for the movie and the direction she took in order to make the audience can relate to the modern day film. I am analyzing the way that the altered scenes changes to make a strong impression on the audiences different from the play. This paper will demonstrate
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...more creative with script of the play. He did this primarily by writing dialogue that conveyed both emotional and everlasting love along with self-sacrificing for love. Through the movie the people who were concerned with obtaining money from this play began to accept the romantic sensation of the play. The characters change from negative to neutral or completely positive. Fennyman is the perfect example of this he is obsessed with getting his money back at the beginning but at the end he is more concerned about the play and his role has the apothecary. Overall the movie did not only show how Shakespeare life and personal experiences affected his writing but how they changed the personality of the actors and the higher ups. The higher ups opinions where changed drastically realizing that there are occasions were change is required to evolve society and it thoughts.