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William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and Movie Ten Things I Hate About You
Good 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, the importance of money, social order and status, patriarchal values and finally transformation.
To represent and to appeal to today's society while a large amount of the themes and values stayed the same, some of these ideas I had to alter. I did this through the language and form of the play and also by using film techniques, if I hadn't of done this the appropriation would have seemed unrealistic and the audience would be unable to relate to the film.
To keep the appropriation true and meaningful the basic plot and characters were kept similar. For the characters I chose to have the parallel personality traits to The Taming of the Shrew characters.
For example Kate and Kat were similar as their both independent and intelligent individuals who go by their own morals and don't care what anyone else thinks of them. Bianca in both texts is seen as the object of desire' as of her submissive manner and good looks. I used similarities like these ones all throughout 10 things' with only making minor changes.
The idea of marriage and romance was demonstrated in The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare where that it was the father's right to marry his daughters off to the male who bided the "sufficient dower" and asserted the greatest masculinity.
Once the father had made this choice the daughters were forced to obey. The romance was seen as a pursuit of love to win the girl. In 10 Things I Hate About You, I chose to deal with the issue in The Taming of the Shrew in a similar fashion but with one significant difference. Marriage is the focal point in the play "not to bestow my youngest daughter before I have a husband for the elder".
While in my appropriation not once did I mention marriage.
William Shakespeare is a master of satire, and it is very evident in his work “The Taming Of The Shrew”. His use of exaggeration is impeccable, and he managed to make the entire work one giant parody. Through this satire, he makes a very important social commentary, using his influence to bring new ideas into people’s minds, and make them realize the flaws in their
Taming of the Shrew, had a great story line, which can be related to several movies that exist today i.e. Othello, 10 Things I Hate about You, and The Lion King. In William Shakespeare's play, The Taming of the Shrew, the shrew played by Katherine, had a terrible perspective on life and just about everything else. Her negativity was caused by her younger, more pulchritudinous sister Bianca. Bianca wanted to get espoused. She had all of the men's hearts, Katherine retained none. If Katherine got espoused then Bianca could get espoused. She authentically was a shrew who needed to be tamed.
Shakespeare, William. _The Taming of the Shrew_. The Riverside Shakespeare. 2nd ed. Ed. Dean Johnson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. 142-171.
Some similarities are obviously that they are both slaves who are trying to escape their misery. The characters also have a good relationship with their fathers because they taught them how to care for themselves and what to do when they need
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.
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
One similarity is that Camerine or Lucentio in both movies are the most loving characters because they both don’t use Bianca for money or fun. Secondly, according to “Ten Things I hate about You” they use the same quotes in the movie, “Taming of The Shrew (1967).” For an example, they used the quote “I Burn, I Pine, and Perish.” Thirdly, some of the scenes from “Taming Of The Shrew (1967)” and “Ten Thing I Hate About You” are similar. One scene that’s similar is when Bianca can't marry until Katherine marries in both “Taming Of The Shrew (1967)” and “Ten Things I Hate About You.” These are some reasons to show that there aren’t only differences in “Taming Of The Shrew (1967)” and “Ten Things I Hate About
The premise of the plot is held in tact but the setting is shifted several hundred years, to the 1970s. The characters’ names even remain familiar. The dialogue is contemporary English yet you can still recognize the similarities in conversation. Major themes from the original work – revenge, guilt, self doubt, fate, and prophecy still exist in this manipulated adaptation. “He (Morrissette) is able to make an interesting point about how the difference between tragedy and comedy is often how the material is viewed by the audience”.(Berardinelli)
In conclusion, William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew portrays the sexism in society by showing example of the treatment and the role of the woman in society. First this is shown by identifying the labels given to describe Katherine and Bianca in society. Another example is the dominance Petruchio has over Katherine now once he has married her. Marriage for a women symbolizes ultimate obedience for their husband. The woman is now the husband’s property. It happened to seem the two girls were far from different but in reality they were no different after all. Katherine has been tamed and now obeys her newly husband Petruchio indefinably.
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
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.
William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is an interesting story that demonstrates the patriarchal ideas of how a marriage is suppose to be according to society, what is acceptable of a woman's role in a relationship. It's a story that has many things to show for it's been remade, and remade, even slightly altered to better relate to the teenage audience.
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