10 things i hate about you.

Rating: 9/10 (27 September 2013)

The Taming of the Shrew Ten Things I Hate about You shows how the "tough guy" in high school, Patrick (Heath Ledger) and the nonconformist girl, Katerina (Julia Stiles), get set up on a date. Katerina found out the reason they went on their first date was a complete set up where Patrick got paid to ask her out by her sister Bianca (Larisa Oleynik). The reason Bianca set this date up was because their father said the only way Bianca could date was if Kat were to date someone too. After Kat found out he got paid to be with her, she did not understand why he would lead her on like that because she was really falling in love with him. In the end she forgives him because he gives her a guitar and he realized that by the end he wasn't in it for the money anymore -- he was in it for Katerina.
When this movie was made it was based on the older movie Taming of the Shrew. So when the director (Gil Junger) made this movie he wanted to make the plot come off similar but in modern times. He still made Katerina's character the shrew but she becomes tamed in a way that she actually gets feeling for a boy because her beautiful sister wanted a date. The modern movie was set at a high school because more people can relate to it.
I love this movie because the dialogue is so entertaining and it the whole movie is put together so well it drew me in the first time I watched it. I can relate to this movie because, I was in high school. I know how it can be with the people, who don't want to conform, or the people that think they are the prettiest, and even the ones who think they are the toughest and coolest kids in class. What Patrick did to Kat I think is completely wrong but he did make up for it in the end of the movie. I know his character really came to his senses, finally realizing dating someone because he got paid to do so was wrong and he made up for his mistakes in the end.