Ten Things I Hate About You and its Relevance to a Modern Audience Although the movie Ten Things I Hate About You is based on a Shakespearian play‚ it was released in 1999 so it was essential that the director Gil Junger made it both relevant and appealing to a modern audience. He does this primarily through alterations to the setting and the characters‚ with few changes to the basic plot. The target audience is teenagers‚ and all the major characters are also teenagers and are all in high school
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10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU! The movie starts out at an American high school with a new student named Cameron sitting in the office of the Principal Ms. Perky. He is then shown around the school by Michael‚ who will become his best friend. During his tour is when Cameron first sees Bianca Stratford and he instantly falls in love‚ there is only one problem: she isn’t allowed to date. And neither is her sister‚ Katarina‚ a senior who loves indie rock and is a feminist. But Kat and Bianca’s father alters
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morning/ afternoon ladies and gentlemen I am Gil Junger and I am present here today to inform you on how I appropriated the Shakespearean play "The Taming of the Shrew" into the modern day teen flick "10 Things I Hate About You" ‚ whilst still being able to keep the key themes and values evident throughout the film. 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
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10 Things I Hate About You 1. Some elements of the stills that tell us that ’10 Things I Hate About You’ is a teen movie are: Kat and Pat staring at each other angry confrontations between two (moody) teens Ms Perky - disapproving or disappointed adults‚ most likely teachers and parents Cameron and Bianca together young love’ Teenagers are predominant in all stills Grungy rock bands and emphasis on music rebellion and hobbies The prom stereotypical of films involving
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the three plots of The Taming of the Shrew. The three plots are the fooling of Sly‚ the wooing of Bianca‚ and the wooing of Katharine. Central Idea: Serving to inform the audience that The Taming of The Shrew has three plots whereas most stories only have one. I also want to better inform the audience of the three main plots. Introduction I. From the "SPT-1113 List of Topics" I chose to discuss the three plots of Shakespeare’s play‚ The Taming of the Shrew. A. Did you realize that a story can
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Justin Palmer Mrs. Harris AP Language and Composition 23 February 2013 Taming of the Shrew Essay: In the critical essay “Role-Playing in the Taming of the Shrew”‚ author Richard Henze argues that William Shakespeare’s play‚ “The Taming of the Shrew”‚ begins as part of that jest and as a play‚ a pretense‚ within the pretense of Sly ’s role as lord” (Henze). Henze also goes on to state‚ “What Petruchio does during… the taming of Kate is like the Lord with Sly”. As evident in both the induction and
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I am a passionate aspiring director and photographer‚ who loves experimenting and creating art that I can enjoy as well as my audience. The video clips showed in my portfolio are bits and pieces of a movie‚ "With Love‚ Alex"‚ directed and produced by me. My artwork is a drama‚ horror‚ and thriller flick that takes place in the life of high school senior‚ who holds a grudge on her best friends and takes actions on them. The theme of the movie was inspired by the 90’s coming-of-age comedy films‚ such
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different context. The taming of the shrew is one of Shakespeare’s earliest comedies. Although it may have appealed to the audience in its time‚ an appropriation of the play into a film may have been essential in order to reach a modern‚ 21st Century audience. Since film has the ability to reach a mass audience a more modernized version of Shakespeare’s play was created -“10 things I hate about you”‚ directed by Gil Junger. Although different in its appropriation‚ by comparing‚ -‘The Taming of the Shrew’
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The Taming of the Shrew is a performance that raises a number of issues concerning appearance versus reality. The assumption that many characters in the play are persuaded to be what they are not ignores the evident fact that each character chooses the role that they are to play. The culturally constructed hierarchy of power causes the actors to perform certain roles to avoid the constricting norms in society and retain their identities. Despite the ease with which they mask their true selves‚ the
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In the Shakespearean play The Taming of the Shrew‚ Katherine is perceived to be a “shrew” because of her uncontrolled hostility and impudent behavior. Some believe at the end of the play Petrucchio tamed Katherine. However‚ she was not tamed. Katherine was rude to her father because he tried to control her life. Katherine so badly wanted to be in charge of her own decisions and for that reason she would not become tame for any man‚ even her father. Katherine also shows no sign of trying to make ends
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