However, if you are a fan of the British playwright, there are little Easter eggs that would put a smile on your face.
You would want to play soccer with Kat, or fall in love with Patrick.
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If you’re not a Shakespeare fan, you may still love the movie and fall in love with the characters. Instead of dramatic Shakespearian dialogue, there’s clever jokes filled with teenage angst. Screenwriters Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith and director Gil Junger perfectly fit the story in the modern day. There are no period costumes or Shakespearian verses unless they’re coming from the drama club. Unlike today’s retellings, the film doesn’t seem like a Shakespearian adaption. So Cameron (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) convinces Patrick (the late Heath Ledger), the toughest boy in the school, to date Kat so he can ask Bianca to the prom.
Now, Bianca is the most beautiful girl in the school but isn’t allowed to date until her sister does, who again, would rather watch paint dry than spend time with a boy. The film follows the same plotline but bases the characters in a modern California high school. The only problem is that Katherina (Julia Stiles) is too headstrong and has no interest in getting married. The film is based on Shakespeare’s comedy “The Taming of the Shrew.” The premise involves Bianca (Larisa Oleynik), the most beautiful woman in town, who is not allowed to get married until her older sister Katherina does. It’s funny and cute, and based on the classic play “Twelfth Night.” Most of the films were box office and critical successes, but out of all of these romantic comedy Shakespeare treasures, none of them shined as bright as 1999’s “10 Things I Hate About You” which turned 20 years old on March 31. Others were modern stories based around Shakespeare’s plays like the 2006 romantic comedy “She’s the Man” where Viola (Amanda Bynes) pretends to be a man in order to play on the soccer team. Some of these films were actual adaptations like 1996’s “Romeo + Juliet” staring a pre-Titanic Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. Across the nation, American cinema started creating films based on Shakespeare’s classic work, but directed for teenagers. The 1990s and early 2000s developed a new trend in cinema: Shakespeare for young adults.
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