The Taming of the Shrew and the movie ‘10 Things I hate about you’ (1996) film adaptation, select one scene that differs greatly between the play and the film, explain why alterations and adjustments made in ‘10 Things I hate about you’ molds these scenes into something more ‘suitable’ for modern audiences.
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In terms of film adaptation, 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) can only be described as an extremely loose adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Rather than attempting to create a film that remained extremely faithful to the Shakespeare play, the team behind the movie instead opted to rework the original text into a film that would fit into the teenage romantic comedy genre, with an intended audience of primarily teen and preteen girls. As such, 10 Things is part of a tradition of loose Shakespeare adaptations including Never Been Kissed (1999) and Get Over It (2001), all of which demonstrate a “quest for contemporaneity, rather than fidelity” and at first glance appear to barely be related to Shakespeare at all (Hopkins 10). Although many aspects of Taming were drastically changed or removed completely from 10 Things, in some ways the film still manages to capture the spirit and themes of the original play.
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