10 Things I Hate About You
Feb. 29th, 2016 12:19 pmI watched 10 Things I Hate About You with Rachel. It's a modern retelling of Taming of the Shrew in an American high school.
Very sensibly, it dumps almost all of the abuse stuff, making a fairly nice romantic comedy. Although that does raise the question of, why does it bother to reference Taming of the Shrew at all? I'm not sure what *else* people are getting about the original.
It makes the interesting choice to mostly be in modern language, but also steal exchanges of dialogue from the original play (I think?) Lots of people didn't like that, but I quite liked it.
However, it did start me thinking about ways it *could* be interesting to adapt Taming of the Shrew, although all of them are likely going to be painful.
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Very sensibly, it dumps almost all of the abuse stuff, making a fairly nice romantic comedy. Although that does raise the question of, why does it bother to reference Taming of the Shrew at all? I'm not sure what *else* people are getting about the original.
It makes the interesting choice to mostly be in modern language, but also steal exchanges of dialogue from the original play (I think?) Lots of people didn't like that, but I quite liked it.
However, it did start me thinking about ways it *could* be interesting to adapt Taming of the Shrew, although all of them are likely going to be painful.
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