10 Things I Hate About You Essay

For my critique assignment, I decided to focus on the late 90’s film, “10 Things I Hate About You” by Gil Junger that was based off of Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew”. The very first time that I saw this film, I do not even think that it was intentional. I was just casually in my room with the TV on a random channel, and not even paying attention to whatever show or movie was playing. Then I actually started to focus on the film because at the time, I was a huge Batman fan and I saw that Heath Ledger (The Joker) was in the film. From there on, I was all in for watching this movie to see exactly how Heath Ledger would perform in other roles besides a chaotic villain. And none the less, I was actually dragged into the film as well as the other characters, and become very intrigued by the way this film was actually portrayed. Now of course, this was at least 4 years ago when I first saw the film. So it was very important that for this particular assignment, that I revisited the film to remember exactly how everything in the film went and to refresh my memory.
10 Things I Hate About You focuses on the high school lives of two sisters that have been put in a somewhat awkward position from their dad. …show more content…
I am a person that very much loves to watch action packed films that keep me on the edge of my seat, but it is also good to watch other films such as this one that take a different approach. Not a lot of romantic comedies can keep me as intrigued as “10 Things I Hate About You” did. Strong performances by Heath Ledger were a huge reason to my enjoyment of the film, savage characters like himself in this film are ones that I feel a lot of times can simply takeover a film themselves. Not only is this a modern romantic comedy, it is a great approach of Shakespeare’s, “The Taming of the Shrew” that I would highly recommend for theatre lovers as well as movie lovers everywhere to