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At the prom, Joey finds Patrick and expresses his anger that while he kept up his end of the bargain and paid Patrick to go out with Kat, Bianca ended up with Cameron instead. Kat hears this, and despite Patrick's attempts to explain, walks out on him. Joey confronts Cameron and becomes violent, only to be given a black eye by Bianca. The following school day, Kat reads her English assignment, an interpretation of [[Sonnet 141]], aloud to the class, which includes Patrick. To apologize, Patrick buys Kat a guitar which she had been longing for, and they end up together.
At the prom, Joey finds Patrick and expresses his anger that while he kept up his end of the bargain and paid Patrick to go out with Kat, Bianca ended up with Cameron instead. Kat hears this, and despite Patrick's attempts to explain, walks out on him. Joey confronts Cameron and becomes violent, only to be given a black eye by Bianca. The following school day, Kat reads her English assignment, an interpretation of [[Sonnet 141]], aloud to the class, which includes Patrick. To apologize, Patrick buys Kat a guitar which she had been longing for, and they end up together.


==Sequel==

It has been rumored that Heath Ledger is currently in talks with producers at Universal looking at making a sequel. Its is to be called "10 Things I like to overdose on". Rumored to be a musical.


==Cast==
==Cast==

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10 Things I Hate About You
10 Things I Hate About You poster
Directed byGil Junger
Written byKaren McCullah Lutz
Kirsten Smith
Produced byAndrew Lazar
StarringJulia Stiles
Heath Ledger
Larisa Oleynik
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
David Krumholtz
Andrew Keegan
Larry Miller
CinematographyMark Irwin
Edited byO. Nicholas Brown
Music byRichard Gibbs
Distributed byTouchstone Pictures
Release dates
United States March 31, 1999
Australia June 24, 1999
United Kingdom July 9, 1999
Running time
97 mins.
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish
BudgetUS$16,000,000 (estimated)

10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American romantic comedy film. It is directed by Gil Junger and stars Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Larisa Oleynik, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Larry Miller. A loose adaptation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew set in a modern American high school, the screenplay was written by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith. The movie's title is a twist on The Taming of the Shrew (see below) but is also a reference to a poem written by the film's female lead to describe her bittersweet romance with the male lead. The film was released March 31, 1999 and was a breakout success for stars Stiles and Ledger.[1][2][3]

Plot

The movie centers on a new student, Cameron James (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). Cameron develops a crush on Bianca Stratford (Larisa Oleynik), but he is informed by his new friend Michael Eckman (David Krumholtz) that Bianca can't date until her older sister Kat (Julia Stiles) finds a boyfriend. He and Michael set up an elaborate plan to find Kat a boyfriend in which they persuade another boy who has a crush on Bianca, Joey (Andrew Keegan), to pay an intimidating guy with a bad reputation to go out with Kat, leading Joey to believe that he will have Bianca when she is free to date.

Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger) seems like a good match for equally ill-reputed Kat. However, Kat resists his advances. Eventually she allows him to escort her to a party, so that Bianca too can go to the party as well. At the party, Cameron finds out that Bianca wanted to date Joey the entire time, while Kat gets drunk and must be cared for by Patrick. Bianca spends time with Joey at the party and realizes he is far from the perfect guy she expected him to be. Bianca catches up with Cameron before he leaves the party, and he ends up giving her a ride home. Kat however, becomes angry with Patrick when he doesn't kiss her while she's drunk.

At this point, Patrick has fallen for Kat, and tries to win her back. Joey pays for Patrick to take Kat to prom, though at first he is reluctant to take the money. Kat refuses to go to prom, thinking that Patrick has an ulterior motive. Bianca is upset that she can't go to prom. Kat reveals that after their mother left, she slept with Joey in a moment of distress, and was trying to protect her younger sister from making a similar mistake. She and Patrick go to the prom together, and Bianca goes with Cameron.

At the prom, Joey finds Patrick and expresses his anger that while he kept up his end of the bargain and paid Patrick to go out with Kat, Bianca ended up with Cameron instead. Kat hears this, and despite Patrick's attempts to explain, walks out on him. Joey confronts Cameron and becomes violent, only to be given a black eye by Bianca. The following school day, Kat reads her English assignment, an interpretation of Sonnet 141, aloud to the class, which includes Patrick. To apologize, Patrick buys Kat a guitar which she had been longing for, and they end up together.


Sequel

It has been rumored that Heath Ledger is currently in talks with producers at Universal looking at making a sequel. Its is to be called "10 Things I like to overdose on". Rumored to be a musical.

Cast

Production

Production Credits

Production Companies

Production Management

Filming locations

  • Exterior shots were filmed in Tacoma and Seattle, Washington. The high school's exterior was shot at Tacoma's Stadium High School.
  • Bianca and Kat's home in the film is in Tacoma's exclusive North End neighborhood, the same neighborhood where the home from The Hand that Rocks the Cradle is located.
  • The high school marching band which plays during the outdoor stadium scene was actually the Warren East High School from Kentucky Marching band, which is a rival school to Stadium High School.
  • A brief scene takes place at the Fremont Troll in Seattle, Washington.
  • Katarina and Patrick's date takes place at Gas Works Park in Seattle, Washington.
  • The biker bar that Patrick is shown going into is the Buckaroo Tavern in Fremont, Seattle.[4]

Shakespearean references

10 Things contains many references to Shakespeare's works. Comparison of The Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate About You reveals some similarities, mostly in character names, general plot ideas, and themes. For starters, the two titles both sound similar and rhyme.

The two sisters in The Taming of the Shrew are called Katharine and Bianca, while the two sisters in 10 Things are named Katarina, known as Kat, and Bianca. Kat and Bianca's last name is Stratford, making reference to Stratford-upon-Avon, the English town known worldwide as the birthplace of William Shakespeare. Katharina's suitor in Shakespeare's play is Petruchio of Verona, who becomes Patrick Verona in 10 Things. In the movie, the high school is named Padua, the city in which Shakespeare's play is set.

Comparison of the two works will also reveal similar plot ideas. For instance, Shakespeare's Lucentio wishes to wed Bianca but cannot until her sister is married. Knowing that Bianca cannot enter into any relationships, he poses as a tutor named Cambio in order to become closer to Bianca — much as in 10 Things where the similarly named Cameron takes up French to tutor Bianca. While still posing as Bianca's tutor, Lucentio confers with a somewhat wild character, Petruchio. Like Patrick, he is an out-of-towner and little is known about him. Petruchio agrees to marry Katharina simply for the dowry that comes along with her, allowing Lucentio to pursue Bianca — just as Patrick agreed to date Kat for the money offered to him by Joey.

The characters of 10 Things are unusually verbose, regardless of the cliques to which they belong, which is much in keeping with the style of Shakespeare. At several points the characters also either directly quote Shakespeare or allude to his style of writing in their own speech, typically for comedic value. For example, upon seeing Bianca for the first time, Cameron declares "I burn, I pine, I perish!" Also, when Michael pulls out on his motorbike in front of Kat and she apprehends him, he calls her "the shrew."

An additional tie-in to the work of Shakespeare is the fetish that the character Mandella (Susan May Pratt) has for things Shakespearean, including costumes, plays and poetry. In an apparent third (although not quite as developed as the two lead couples in the final film) coupling, Michael falls for Mandella while learning about Kat. The attraction begins when he starts to quote Macbeth to her and she finishes the line. Mandella is told later in the film that William Shakespeare will be her date to the prom. Fulfilling the promise, Michael appears dressed as William Shakespeare. The title of the song "Cruel To Be Kind" by Letters to Cleo is taken from a line from Hamlet.

The Shakespeare references continue when Kat is assigned to write her own version of Shakespeare's Sonnet 141. Her poem becomes "10 Things I Hate About You."



Soundtrack

The 10 Things I Hate About You soundtrack was released on April 6, 1999.

  1. Letters to Cleo - "I Want You to Want Me"
  2. Semisonic - "FNT"
  3. Sister Hazel - "Your Winter"
  4. Jessica Riddle - "Even Angels Fall"
  5. Save Ferris - "I Know"
  6. Leroy - "New World"
  7. Ta-Gana - "Saturday Night"
  8. Joan Armatrading - "The Weakness in Me"
  9. George Clinton - "Atomic Dog"
  10. Brick - "Dazz"
  11. The Cardigans - "War"
  12. Madness - "Wings of a Dove"
  13. Letters to Cleo - "Cruel to Be Kind"
  14. Richard Gibbs - "One More Thing"

Songs not on Soundtrack

References

  1. ^ Aames, Ethan. "Julia Stiles on "The Omen"". Cinema Confidential News. June 5, 2006. Retrieved on October 28, 2006.
  2. ^ Eisenbach, Helen. "10 Thing We Love About Julia Stiles". Manhattan File Magazine. January 2000. Retrieved October 28, 2006.
  3. ^ Maher, Kevin. "Heath Ledger- The Accidental Hero". Times Sunday Magazine. October 14, 2006. Retrieved October 28, 2006.
  4. ^ IMDB
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