Ten Things I Hate About You

In the film Ten Things I Hate About You (1999), there are two sisters, Kat and Bianca, who begin as polar opposites. However, as the film continues, the sisters begin to change, and begin to become more and more alike. At the end of the film, they have much more in common and are very different than they were at the beginning of the film. This is most evident by comparing the first couple scenes that we see each girl and the last couple scenes that we see each girl. Kat and Bianca become more alike as the film progresses, and this is shown through many film aspects including the cinematography, mise-en-scene, and the editing of the film. At the beginning of the film, Bianca is portrayed as the young innocent girl, who just wants everyone to like her, which they do. She is very concerned with how she looks, acts, and how people think of her. In her first appearance of the movie, she is shown in a white dress, her movement and walking is slowed, there is slow, cliché “falling in love”, non-diegetic music playing, and she is shown smiling and laughing. The white dress symbolizes her innocence, the music and the slowed movements create a sense that the character who is seeing her, Cameron, is seeing

She is wearing light colored clothing, her hair is down, and she is also kissing Patrick in the middle of the campus. This shows a huge change in Kat’s character. The light clothing shows the difference in the “darkness” of her personality before and her personality at the end of the movie. This scene shows that she is now more laid back, and less uptight than before. Having her hair down shows a permanent change in her personality, as it is continuous through two different scenes. Finally, kissing Patrick in the middle of campus is crucial. She is now in the middle of campus, acting as a “normal” student at the high school, not as an outcast as she had been at the beginning of the