10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American teen romantic comedy-drama film directed by Gil Junger and starring Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Larisa Oleynik. The screenplay, written by Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith, is a loose modernization of William Shakespeare's late-16th century comedy The Taming of the Shrew, retold in a late-1990s American high school setting. In the story, new student Cameron (Gordon-Levitt) is smitten with Bianca Stratford and, in order to get around her father's strict rules on dating, attempts to get bad boy Patrick to date Bianca's ill-tempered sister, Kat Stratford .
The film is titled after a poem written by Kat about her bittersweet romance with Patrick. Much of the filming took place in the Seattle metropolitan area, with many scenes shot at Stadium High School in Tacoma. Released March 31, 1999, 10 Things I Hate About You was number two at the domestic box office during its opening weekend, behind only The Matrix, and was a moderate financial and critical success. It was a breakthrough role for Stiles, Ledger, and Gordon-Levitt, all of whom were nominated for various teen-oriented awards. Ten years later, the film was adapted into a television series of the same title, which ran for twenty episodes and featured Larry Miller reprising his role as the father, Walter Stratford, from the film.
97 minutesLanguageEnglishBudget$30 millionBox office$60.4 million10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American romantic comedy film directed by Gil Junger and starring Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Larisa Oleynik. The screenplay, written by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, is a modernization of William Shakespeare's late-16th-century comedy The Taming of the Shrew, retold in a late-1990s American high school setting. In the story, new student Cameron (Gordon-Levitt) is smitten with Bianca and, in order to get around her father's strict rules on dating, attempts to get bad boy Patrick to date Bianca's ill-tempered sister, Kat . Centered on the lives of a group of high school students as they try to navigate school and romantic entanglements, "10 Things I Hate About You" is a great back-to-school pick. And who could forget the scene where Kat Stratford emotionally presents her poem, for which the film gets its title, in front of her class?
10 Things I Hate About Youis a 1999 American romantic comedy film directed by Gil Junger. The plot of the movie revolves around new student Cameron, who is smitten with Bianca and, in order to get around her father's strict rules on dating, attempts to get bad boy Patrick to date Bianca's ill-tempered sister, Katarina. The screenplay is a modernization of William Shakespeare's late-16th-century comedyThe Taming of the Shrew, retold in a late-1990s American high school setting. 10 Things I Hate About You is afunny and sweet high school movie that I enjoyed.
The storyline is just omay, I enjoyed the characters a lot but the main plot seems done before and cliche, but I still had fun. The cast was really good, Heath Ledger is always a joy to watch, and Joseph Gordon Levitt is such a sweet guy thats its hard not to love him. The comedy was good, I laughed many times espically at Larry Miller as thedad, but it was not nearly as funny as it couldve been.
This film had a weak plot and sometimes cliche jokes, and for the love of god do all these high school films have to end at a prom, but this movie a joy to watch with funny characters and really good acting, I enjoyed this film a lot. The film is remembered for more than serving as a breeding ground for a new generation of stars. Based loosely on Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew, the movie told the story of two sisters in Seattle, Kat and Bianca , whose overbearing doctor father forbade them from dating in the fear that they'd come home knocked up. With her best friend Chastity , Bianca is the school's queen bee and the locus of attention for the guys, and she desperately wants to date; both greasy-haired hot rod Joey Donner and sweet new guy Cameron James (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) want to be the lucky guy.
Ten Things I Hate about You As it would be expected from a typical teen movie, "10 Things I Hate about You" deals with issues like unreciprocated love and confusion. The movie was released in 1999 as a romantic comedy and as a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's famous play. Late actor Heath Ledger portrayed the male lead opposite Julia Stiles and his character Patrick Verona, was the typical bad boy who was hired to date Katarina Stratford, but eventually ended up falling in love with her. Heath was an Australian actor, photographer, and music video director. He was nominated for several accolades including the BAFTA Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Golden Globe Award, and the Academy Award for Best Actor.
His popular works includedThe Patriot, A Knight's Tale, Monster's Ball, Lords of Dogtown, Brokeback Mountain, The Dark Knight, andThe Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, the latter two being posthumous releases. This is my homage to the 1999 teen romantic comedy '10 Things I Hate About You', a modern day take on Shakespeare's 'Taming of the Shrew'. The locations are in the Seattle and Tacoma areas of Washington State in the Pacific Northwest. This small set features the protagonist's Tacoma home and Stadium High School which starred as Padua High School in many of the movie scenes.
The next step is to capture and add Gasworks Park and the Freemont Troll. 10 Things I Hate About You is the rare movie that successfully modernizes Shakespeare, and despite feeling a little predictable it's still an above-average romantic comedy. Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Cameron, a new student at Padua high school who falls for sophomore Bianca Stratford .
However, Bianca's father won't let her date anybody until her beautiful but bitter older sister Kat has a boyfriend as well. Cameron decides to pay the equally cold Patrick to ask Kat out so that Cameron can in turn date Bianca. The story is based off of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, but with completely modernized dialogue.
The lack of Shakespearean dialogue is a welcome touch, as it makes the movie far more comprehensible and charming than other modernized Shakespeare adaptations (coughROMEO+JULIETcough). Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles are both fantastic in the roles that elevated them to stardom, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt is good as well despite being overshadowed a little by Ledger and Stiles. It can be a little predictable at times, but 10 Things I Hate About You has enough poignant moments, humor, and great acting to make it a memorable and very enjoyable romantic comedy. Every good teen movie needs a solid party scene and this movie definitely delivers.
While it might be a little more intense than some real life gatherings, as it features a lot of fancy objects being broken and general mayhem and chaos, it's still a funny part of the story. On his first day at a new school, Cameron falls for Bianca Stratford. However not only is she popular and beautiful but her father has forbidden her to date until her older sister does too. The problem is her sister, Kat, is negative, bad tempered and unfriendly and certainly undateable.
Cameron seeks the services of school bad boy Pat who he arranges to be paid to date Kat and thus allow him to go out with Bianca - but things never go smoothly when it comes to love. Geoff Andrew from Time Out praised the film's leads, stating, "Stiles grows into her character, and Ledger is effortlessly charming". Brad Laidman from Film Threat said the film was "pure of heart and perfectly executed".
The Stratford sisters, Kat and Bianca , are two very different people, which is evident as they start at their new high school with very contradictory goals. Kat is a strong-willed, in-your-face feminist looking to save the world and get out of high school as fast as she can. Bianca is a social butterfly carefully maneuvering the minefield of high school popularity.
Can each sister find happiness after getting off to a very rocky start at new school Padua High? The original series will also star Larry Miller, who reprises his film role as the girls' over-protective father. There are also revelations about a secret, swear-word-related CGI shot you've probably noticed before, and what they'd do differently if they were writing the film today. Even now, watching bad boy Patrick's hyper-articulate courtship of the tempestuous shrew Kat sets our hearts aflutter; seeing Cameron (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) burn, pine, perish as he longs for Bianca takes us right back to the ache of first love. But while Gil Junger's 1999 teen movie is now a timeless classic of the high school genre, the Taming of the Shrew-inspired rom-com still bears the marks of the decade in which it was made (among them the very fact of its Shakespeare-to-high-school transposition). Cameron James is a new student to the high school and is Bianca's second love interest after Joey.
The movie opens with him in the guidance office on the first day of school. He is instantly smitten with Bianca after he sees her and is set to date her despite her father's overprotectiveness. Netflix's latest original series Sex Education has taken the internet by storm, and it is no wonder why young viewers are getting so attached to the new show. The series is all about the son of a sex therapist who opens up his own underground sex clinic at his British high school. While that concept is totally unique, viewers did notice some references to beloved high school dramedies of the '90s.
Most specifically, Sex Education and 10 Things I Hate About You have a lot in common, fans are pointing out. And once you start looking for those similarities yourself, it really is wild how much the new Netflix series has in common with the iconic teen movie. On March 31, 1999, the high school rom-com 10 Things I Hate About You hit theaters, and grossed a modest $53.4 million worldwide. It was the American film debut of Heath Ledger, and also helped to launch the career of Julia Stiles. Loosely based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, 10 Things I Hate About You pits two sisters, Kat and Bianca, against each other as they romance high school boys. Bianca isn't allowed to date until Kat does, so Joey Donner pays Patrick Verona to take Kat on a date and to the prom.
Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith wrote the script and went on to pen Legally Blonde and The House Bunny. TV director Gil Junger helmed it, and rock band Letters for Cleo contributed some songs. Here are 10 non-odious facts about the iconic late '90s teen flick. This modern retelling of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is set in an upper-middle class Seattle high school. When the sweet Bianca Stratford decides she wants to start dating, her paranoid father establishes a rule that she can date when her slightly older sister, Kat—an angst-ridden harpy who alienates everyone around her—gets a boyfriend of her own.
Rivals Cameron (the decent straight-shooter) and Joey both want to date Bianca badly enough to hatch schemes to find a match for Kat. He's the school "bad-boy" with a reputation far worse than any evidence to support it, an Aussie heartthrob who contracts to be Kat's social escort, but develops genuine feelings for her in the process. Before too long, the deceptions start to unravel and people are seen for who they really are. They mostly are lame, trading on the same old plots and clichés that have been around since Animal House and Porkies. The recent trend has just seen classical texts adapted giving rise to some poor films like `She's all that'. The plot for this is basically `The Taming of the Shrew' updated - most of it bares little resemblance to the play but that doesn't matter - the core is interesting enough to stand on it's own.
It may not surprise you in terms of who gets which girl and it's fairly predictable in a romantic comedy type way but that's not it. The movie benefits from appealing performers and some genuinely fresh and funny dialogue. Comedian Larry Miller is terrific as the girls' father, overprotective because their mother abandoned the family and because as an obstetrician he sees too many pregnant teenagers. The scene in which a girl bears her breasts to a teacher is worth discussing. In October 2008, ABC Family ordered a pilot episode of 10 Things I Hate About You, a half-hour, single-camera comedy series based on the feature film of the same name.
Larry Miller is the only actor from the film to reprise his role in the television series. The director of the film, Gil Junger, directed many of the episodes including the pilot while the film's music composer, Richard Gibbs, also returned to do the show's music. The show premiered on July 7, 2009, and ended on May 24, 2010, lasting only 20 episodes. One fan on Reddit pointed out a number of similarities that the show and movie share. Probably the most noticeable is when Jackson professes his love for Maeve by singing a song in front of the whole school with the swing band backing him up.
That scene is definitely reminiscent of Patrick belting out "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" with the marching band to win over Kat. In case you forgot, 10 Things I Hate About You came out 20 years ago in 1999, starring Julia Stiles as the outspoken and tough Kat Stratford and Heath Ledger as the bad-boy outcast Patrick Verona. The story is an adaptation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew translated to a modern high school, in which nerdy newcomer Cameron (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) bribes Patrick into dating Kat so that he can date her popular younger sister Bianca . From a plot standpoint, there does not seem to be too much overlap with Sex Education, but once you break down some specific scenes, the similarities become clear.
Oh, and be warned that some mild spoilers for Sex Education are coming up. In contrast to Patrick, who is seen as intimidating and manly, Cameron is seen as sweet and delicate. Cameron routinely tries to ask out Bianca or flirt with her, but she doesn't seem to ever reciprocate his feelings until she kisses him after the party. At the end of the film he asks Bianca to prom and the next day they begin officially dating. Cameron has moved nine different times in ten years and has a father in the U.S. The school was the filming location for many of the scenes of the 1999 movie 10 Things I Hate About You.Stadium High School in Tacoma , WA, in the fog.
The school was the filming location for many of the scenes of the 1999 movie 10 Things I Hate About You. "We knew we wanted to write a teen movie and whenCluelesscame out, we thought Amy Heckerling was a genius for contemporizing a classic [Jane Austen's Emma], so we decided to try that as well," McCullah told The Script Lab in 2015. "We choseTaming of the Shrewand figured out which story lines we wanted to keep and update and how we'd go about it and then outlined all the characters and the story while we sat on a beach in Mexico." The movie is very self-aware of the absurdities of the scenarios these teenagers find themselves in. After all, the movie's first scene is dedicated to describing the different stereotypical groups in Padua High School and right away uses a cheesy slow-motion shot to show Cameron's instant crush on Bianca. The film, however, is able to laugh at itself and use these elements to show how the main characters are actually much more nuanced than what you would initially expect.
In fact, the few adults in the movie, such as the father of the Stratford sisters and Ms. Perky, the counselor, are often portrayed in an even more ridiculous light than the teenagers. Stories are driven by character and the ones in 10 Things I Hate About You are so well-constructed that they are the reason this movie holds its spot not only in the realm of high school movies but in film history. What makes this movie charming is that the characters themselves are extremely charming. Exploring the motivations of characters like Kat , Bianca , and Cameron (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and the things that make them complex is the movie's greatest success. The band appears as themselves a couple of times in the film, including a scene on a rooftop, where they sing their Cheap Trick cover, "I Want You to Want Me." Lead singer Kay Hanley told Popdose that the experience scared the band. They had to perform the song on a patch of roof the size of Hanley's kitchen, and on a windy day.
A film inspired by the classic Shakespeare play "The Taming of the Shrew.", set in a modern day high school. Part of what makes Kat's story so relatable and entertaining is her dream of going away to college. Near the start of the movie, Kat is thrilled to receive an acceptance letter from Sarah Lawrence, but her dad thinks she would be better off going to a local college. Audiences can relate to Kat's desire to leave the town that she grew up in and spread her wings, and this is a constant theme in many teen movies and TV shows.
She's ready to be more independent and she doesn't see much reason not to take a risk. If you grew up around low rise jeans, Brittany Spears, and shopping at Limited Too you probably know this movie too. Born in 1997, I grew up watching '10 Things I Hate About You' and after re-watching it as an adult it is better than I remember. Based on the Shakespearean novel 'Taming of the Shrewd", the romantic comedy '10 Things I Hate About You' is an icon of the early 2000s.
If you are also an early 2000s movie junkie here are some of the spots to see all the '10 Things I Hate About You' filming locations. Parents should also know that there are a great many references to sex, even by the standards of teen comedies, and there is a wild party with teen drinking and smoking, and brief references to drug use. On the positive side, the heroines demonstrate a very healthy attitude and strong self-esteem, defending their hearts and their bodies very capably.
One admits to having had a bad sexual experience in 9th grade, then deciding she was not ready for sexual involvement, and learning to think for herself in the future. And when one of the characters decides to drink tequila at a party, she ends up dancing in an embarassing fashion and then throwing up in front of the boy she likes. Many of the scenes were filmed on location at Stadium High School and at a house in the Proctor District of Tacoma, Washington. Costume designer Kim Tillman designed original dresses for Larisa Oleynik and Julia Stiles, as well as the period outfits for Susan May Pratt and David Krumholtz.
Heath Ledger and Joseph Gordon-Levitt's vintage tuxes came from Isadora's in Seattle. After her turn as Kat's Shakespeare-obsessed best friend, Pratt appeared in teen movies Drive Me Crazy and Center Stagebefore landing several roles on the small screen throughout the 2000s, including Masters of Sex and Outcast. Janney's role as the high school guidance counselor who is more focused on writing her erotic novel than on her students was one in a long list of more than 130 acting credits to date. On the small screen, the seven-time Emmy Award-winning actress is known for playing C.J. More recently, Janney earned an Academy Award for her turn as Tonya Harding's mom in I, Tonya. In 2019, the notoriously private star appeared in the critically acclaimed film Bombshell.
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