It will be rapid to write off 10 Things I Hate About You as yet another doltish comedic-romance with films about high schools comparable to these flowing through projectors like water down the Nile.
Katarina and Bianca's family is run by Walter Stratford (Larry Miller's Pretty Woman), a doctor who is all too familiar with adolescent pregnancy and protects his kids accordingly. "In what he considers to be a moment of cynical humor, the" no dating "policy of the family is changed to" Bianca will date ... when [Katarina] does. "Bianca 's destiny is bleak with prom just ahead; unless, of course, she can tame the shrew. Don't think it's a simple job, as Bianca kindly points out, that her sister "... is an especially hideous loser breed."
It's complicated and always confusing to keep Katarina up to date. When Cameron, who loves Bianca, learns of her father's new law, he's swift to get advice from a friend. The idea they dream up is to manipulate "someone with money completely." That's Joey, the other guy with a crush on Bianca, in this case. A buddy of Cameron's, a young loser, convinces Joey to pay someone who has the guts to take the shrew out. The answer lies no farther away than the master scribe's second blatant reminder: Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger). This Verona is far from fair; it is alleged that he had previously laid down his prison scene. Moreover, to the above-mentioned English teacher, Katarina freely opined that "Hemingway was an addict who stuck around Picasso, trying to nail his leftovers." The laws of high school cinema inexorably turn Romeo and Juliet into Patrick and Katarina.
The components of a high school comedy are a constant reminder of the fact that this is not exactly what Shakespeare had in mind: a party polluted with liquor, the deception of a best friend, and a prom. Yet even these traditions are rooted in Shakespeare; Falstaff was drunk, Romeo and Juliet met at a dance, and Caesar learned the hard way about loyalty.
You have to remember that the 10 Things I Hate About You story is timeless, and it is just as witty and comical a few hundred years later as when people looked gleefully on, groundlings below and brassieres stuffed on stage.
