10 thing i hate about you
Benjamin T. Genous
DeVry University
Film and Literature
Week 7 Assignment
“10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU” in review and comparison to Shakespeare’s “TAMING OF THE SHREW”. The adaption of the Shakespearian play the Taming of the Shrew, Known as” 10 Things I hate about you”, was an adequate representation. It lacked a true representation due to the fact that the original play began with the prank played on poor tinker Christopher Sly by The Local Lord. Watch this adaption I noticed that it had no references to that aspect of the play. However the modern day version of the play did have a lot of similarly named characters and the story line was basically the same as Shakespeare’s play. Primary Characters in the play are: Bianca the beautiful young maiden, appropriately named the same in the in the film adaption, Katherine who is the sister of Bianca, and labeled as being ill tempered, heinous bitch, her counterpart in the film appropriately named “Katarina” aka “Kat” who personified the original characters temperament . The father of these to lovely maiden named Baptista Minola, a wealth old man, who declared “that no one may court Bianca until first her older sister, the vicious, ill-tempered Katherine, is married. The same held true for the Stratford sisters whose father also declare “Bianca will not be allowed to date until her older sister Katarina started dating”. Katarina vowed never to date which left Bianca, who already had two suitors, in a state of romantic limbo. The modern film version of Taming of the Shrew is shot in scenic Seattle Washington; all of the landscaping scenes give this film and old English charm. The actual school in which the film was shot, Stadium High School in Tacoma Washington, gave this film the English Castle estate feel, just as if the modern day cast was in 16th or 17th century English country side. The High School location offered a scenic backdrop of the Pacific Ocean, obviously shot in the spring and
DeVry University
Film and Literature
Week 7 Assignment
“10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU” in review and comparison to Shakespeare’s “TAMING OF THE SHREW”. The adaption of the Shakespearian play the Taming of the Shrew, Known as” 10 Things I hate about you”, was an adequate representation. It lacked a true representation due to the fact that the original play began with the prank played on poor tinker Christopher Sly by The Local Lord. Watch this adaption I noticed that it had no references to that aspect of the play. However the modern day version of the play did have a lot of similarly named characters and the story line was basically the same as Shakespeare’s play. Primary Characters in the play are: Bianca the beautiful young maiden, appropriately named the same in the in the film adaption, Katherine who is the sister of Bianca, and labeled as being ill tempered, heinous bitch, her counterpart in the film appropriately named “Katarina” aka “Kat” who personified the original characters temperament . The father of these to lovely maiden named Baptista Minola, a wealth old man, who declared “that no one may court Bianca until first her older sister, the vicious, ill-tempered Katherine, is married. The same held true for the Stratford sisters whose father also declare “Bianca will not be allowed to date until her older sister Katarina started dating”. Katarina vowed never to date which left Bianca, who already had two suitors, in a state of romantic limbo. The modern film version of Taming of the Shrew is shot in scenic Seattle Washington; all of the landscaping scenes give this film and old English charm. The actual school in which the film was shot, Stadium High School in Tacoma Washington, gave this film the English Castle estate feel, just as if the modern day cast was in 16th or 17th century English country side. The High School location offered a scenic backdrop of the Pacific Ocean, obviously shot in the spring and