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The film review discusses '10 Things I Hate About You', a 1999 romantic comedy directed by Gil Junger, highlighting its themes, character dynamics, and cinematic techniques. The story revolves around Bianca and Kat, two sisters with strict dating rules, and explores themes like self-identity and family relationships. The review praises the film for its fresh take on a Shakespearean adaptation, engaging performances, and relatable teenage experiences.

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The film review discusses '10 Things I Hate About You', a 1999 romantic comedy directed by Gil Junger, highlighting its themes, character dynamics, and cinematic techniques. The story revolves around Bianca and Kat, two sisters with strict dating rules, and explores themes like self-identity and family relationships. The review praises the film for its fresh take on a Shakespearean adaptation, engaging performances, and relatable teenage experiences.

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Film Review: 10 Things I Hate About You

I will talk about the movie “10 Things I Hate About You”. It was released in 1999 and directed

by Gil Junger. The screenwriters of this film were Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith. The genre

of this movie is a romantic comedy and coming of age. The main characters are played by Heath

Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Larisa Oleynik.

In this review, I will talk about the styles this movie contains or uses (camera techniques,

lighting, environment, mise-en-scene, among other things), the themes you can find and also

how this movie relates to the topic we discussed in Film and Tv History class, called “Ethical

Adaptations”.

This movie tells the story about Bianca, the younger sister that is desperate to date, but according

to house rules, until her older sister, Kat, doesn’t start to date, Bianca is not allowed to date.

Everything changes when Cameron, the new kid at school, falls in love with Bianca, and with the

house rules information, he will do the impossible in order to break this rule and get Bianca to be

his girlfriend.

Personally, I really enjoy this movie. Even though it is a rom-com and generally these types of

movies tend to be cliched, boring or repetitive, this movie felt fresh, new and realistic. I really

liked how most of the characters were a personification of some people I know in my personal

life, as well as a really good and accurate soundtrack that didn’t feel overused or extra. My

favorite moment is the love declaration of Patrick towards Kat in the field stairs, where he

dances and sings for her, not caring about other people watching.

This movie contains many different themes, such as Letting others see the real you, Challenging

traditional ideas, Girl Power, First affection, Relationships in the family.


Most of the scenes in this movie are filmed in a medium/close shot. The director was more

focused on the intimate and romantic moments of the characters, rather than showing the

environment. He wanted to show the audience their own little worlds and their opinion on the

outside. Having their reactions in a close up, will clearly tell you how their surroundings work,

without the necessity of showing it (in all the frames of the movie) with wide shots. Also, the

colors of the movie are fresh, bright and juvenile, showing that the movie does not have a dark

theme and will not be serious, even though there are ups and downs throughout the movie. The

director used upbeat and fun music, showing the different characters' personalities but keeping

that teenage spirit, because all of them are different, but in the end, they are all teenagers living

the same daily routine. In terms of narrative elements, the pacing goes fast given the

circumstances of a comedy and the dialogue is absurd in the beginning, but as the movie goes by,

the dialogue takes a more serious tone, since the characters go through more serious situations,

but never losing the humor of a comedy. Also, the character’s arcs are similar, even though they

go through different situations, each of them start in a miserable and more stationary and normal

daily routine, and through the end, that state of emotion changed for the better thanks to the

defeated obstacles and learned lessons. The general overview of the movie (or mise-en-scene) is

represented by three main things: the high-school setting, the bright color palette and the

characters.

This film relates to the topic of the module (Week 3: Ethical Adaptations) because, as we speak

that week of class, this movie is an adaptation from an original Shakespearean story. As the

definition says, an adaptation is “the act of changing something or changing your behavior to

make it suitable for a new purpose or situation”. This movie is the perfect example of taking a

pre-existing story and making all the changes possible and necessary in order to tell a new story,
with different people, circumstances, environments, time period, but keeping the essence of the

original story and plot-line. References can be a good way to honour the original story as well,

such as the name of some characters, their obsessions, the setting names, among other features.

In conclusion, this is a must-see movie classic. Feeling sad? It will make you happier. You want

to cry? It will definitely help you with that. Feeling hopelessly romantic? You will get excited

with every interaction between the characters. It is a very fresh and energetic movie, with a

dynamic script, performances and characters, familiar lifestyles and being a coming of age

movie, a lot of adults can also relate and remember when they were teenagers.

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