Katie Valentine Professor Martin English 102-MW 9:30 10, April 2024 Will You Conform to Stereotypes or Societal Norms? The movie, 10 Things I Hate About You, directed by Gil Junger and released in 1999 takes place in a high school environment and is a modern teen romantic comedy. It shows how the main character Kat Stratford grows and develops throughout the movie. By the end of this film, we can see how she is able to balance between her strong feminist values and ideas and her newfound thoughts on love and romance. A secondary source that I looked at is called “Taming 10 Things I Hate About You: Shakespeare and the Teenage Film Audience.” In this, critics have an issue with Kat’s character development in this film regarding how finding love …show more content…
Kat shows that she does care for Bianca and wants what is best for her when she goes up to Joey (the bad boy trying to screw Bianca over) and states “Stay away from my sister” (10 Things). Whether Kat’s relationships with others are platonic or romantic, we can recognize how much she values them. I agree with Junger on a few points. Firstly, Kat’s feminist values are evident throughout the entire movie as she challenges societal expectations and norms. Her overall growth proves that a romantic relationship with Patrick does not weaken her identity. There is a point in the story when she challenges her father to the double standards he has for his daughters. She tells him, “I want you to trust me to make my own choices, and I want you to stop trying to control my life just because you can’t control yours” (10 Things). Kat wants to make her own decisions for herself, and she does not want other people to do that for her, particularly males. Secondly, Kat has depth to her character. Her every decision and action is driven by her own thoughts, values, or beliefs rather than revolving around
The Evolution of Culture Through Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate About You “How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways.” And count the ways she did. This altered quote from the famous sonnet written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning was used as a tagline for the 1999 teen comedy 10 Things I Hate About You, a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's famous play Taming of the Shrew. Both productions thrilled audiences with their witty comedy and romantic themes, but told in exceedingly different time
movie 10 Things I Hate About You of the same name uses multiple uses of the appeal pathos in order to empathize with the character Kat Stratford. She is also able to tie in ethical appeals when reciting her poem to her class as well. A combination of these appeals, as well as her emotion during the movie, is targeted toward the character Patrick Verona and the movie audience. Considering how the movie ends I would say she was successful when using these appeals. 10 Things I Hate About You is based
e.g. stereotypes. This is a person or thing that conforms to a fixed or general pattern. By the use of a standardised simplistic image. An example of this would be teenage life is demonstrated with parties, upbeat music, ect. It is the choice of the viewers to agree or disagree with these media text. The following essay will examine the representation of youths in two contrasting films. The films that will be analysed are 10 things I Hate About You directed by Gil Junger in 1999. This film
and the movie, 10 Things I hate about you, the characters can be hostile towards each other for what may seem like no reason; I know that there is a deeper meaning to these feelings because no matter what, they still want to be with each other, and this is shown through Lucentio straight out lying to Bianca, but Bianca still wanted to be with him. Through out this essay, I will be tossing around the idea of how and why they act the way they do. The play taming of the shrew is about a man named Baptista
We see the girls in both “The Taming of the Shrew” and “10 Things I Hate About You” become very close to a boy, but for extraordinarily different reasons. This coincides directly with the idea that marriage was arranged during the time of Shakespeare, and now it is typically a mutual relationship between two people. By looking directly at each girl's reason for getting with a particular guy the evolution is particularly evident. Katherine in “The Taming of the Shrew” is not happy when her father
Move Review of 10 Things I Hate About You Katerina Stratford (Julie Stiles) takes no prisoners in her approach to life. She lives a virtually un-materialistic life compared to her little sister Bianca (Larissa Oleynik) who lives life as Daddy's little princess and loves it. Only one thing stands in the way of happiness for Bianca; the one rule that stands in her household, 'No dating until they graduate'. For Bianca this is a penalty worse than death but for the once popular Kat, it's not
Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate About You both have money, attention, and deal with women. Money and attention can change someone's life and how they act drastically. In Taming of the Shrew, Petruchio changed his ways because he was getting paid to give Katherine attention which also changed her into a nicer person and made her think she was less of a shrew. Patrick and Katherine in 10 Things I Hate About You also had similar but still different changes in their life because of money and
seen in her relationship with her sister Bianca. In 10 Things I Hate About You, a film adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew, Bianca and Kat also have a bad relationship, however, Kat’s shrewish behavior towards her sister is explained, allowing the audience to understand another side to Kat and enhancing the play version of Katherine. Katherine and Bianca have a hostile relationship in both The Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate About You, however, both stories show that Katherine does not
Prompt 1: A film and a book can be very similar when they’re based on the same story but there will always be slight differences due to the author’s perceptions. In the film “10 Things I Hate About You” there is a wealthy, fierce, witty teenager named Kat who steers men away at the blink of an eye; she has a strong aggression that scares people away. As the story proceeds her man-free life ends as she begins to be wooed by a guy named Patrick who is bribed to date her so that Kat’s sister, Bianca
Gil Junger’s film ’10 Things I Hate About You’ smartly and comically appropriates Shakespeare’s ‘Taming of The Shrew’ whilst maintaining the values and themes from the original. It would’ve been quite the challenge for one to create a modern version of a 16th century play as they would have to incorporate the main ideas and themes as well as making it fitting to today’s modern society and how we can make relations to the scenes and problems. Themes and values from the original play must be involved
The comical, intriguing and riveting ‘ 10 Things I Hate About You’ directed by Gil Junger was no doubt excellently coordinated. Stephen Hunter of Washington Post assures ,“It’s a celebration of young American women, finding them…tougher…than any movie.”. This film adaptation of ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ was remodeled into the modern storyline of the alluring Bianca Stratford who is forbidden to date by her overprotective father until her insurgent sister Kat does. This ensues competition between
That They Weren’t People are constantly judged based on who they appear to be, however it may not reflect their genuine self. Kat, Petruchio, and Bianca are shown differently throughout the play, The Taming of the Shrew, and the movie, 10 things I Hate About You. They cannot display their true self and emotion due to fear of pain. As the play and movie progress, all of the characters are portrayed as something that they aren’t, whether it’s representation of their looks or imitation of their actions
10 Things I Hate About You and The Taming of the Shrew “Where did you come from, planet loser?” exclaimed Bianca, the popular younger sister. The humorous movie, 10 Things I Hate About You, staged in 1999 about an opinionated, sharp-tongued older sister, constantly degrading and criticizing people all around her, who finally finds love, is somewhat familiar. Although it might seem crazy that a high school and teenage life centered movie might somehow be based on classic literature, it actually borrows
This quote though very abrupt is also very true. Even though equality is something that is said to have been established, it is still very common to see a woman be harassed or judged by her openness to express her opinion. In the movie 10 things I hate about you, Kat, the main character is seen as a shrew for doing nothing but expressing herself and the way she feels. This movie connects heavily with the feminist theory in three main ways. One it shows that conventional, shallow girls are loved
What do you think of when I say romantic comedies? Cringy love scenes? Failed relationships? A predictable plot? Well, all these things occur in the Hollywood-adapted versions of William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate About You. Both Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate About You stars a cranky, pessimistic woman, named Katherine, who is bitter towards relationships. While her younger sister, Bianca, adores attention from men and searches for a man to fill her heart with