For this concert report, I attended a concert at The Runcible Spoon. This was on a Tuesday evening and the environment was different than I thought. What struck me was the environment of the concert. I didn’t feel like I was really at a concert as I thought that I would because of the informality and it being at a concert. From going to this concert, I was able to conclude that concerts at restaurants have a much different feel to them than formal concerts. When we walked in, the musicians…
There are many ways in which Gil Junger and Shakespeare explore the theme of relationships in their texts. A range of film techniques in Gil Junger’s ‘10 Things I Hate About You’ and literary techniques in Shakespeare’s ‘Taming of the Shrew’ are used to convey ideas that sibling relationships can grow and change over time, romantic relationships require trust and that favouritism in families can have negative effects. In ‘Taming of the Shrew’ characters are employed to show that sibling…
The Taming of the Shrew is a play wrote by William Shakespeare between 1590 and 1592. At the beginning of the play you meet Christopher Sly, whose a drunken man all the time. Sly gets kicked out of the bar and he eventually ends up falling asleep next to the lord’s house. When the lord gets home from hunting, he sees Sly lying on the ground passed out from being drunkhe orders his people to take Sly into the house and clean him up and put him into the house’s nicest bed and be taken care of.…
Both Franco Zeffirelli 's 1967 romantic comedy,The Taming of The Shrew, and Gil Junger’s 1999 classic, Ten Things I Hate About You, are based on a shakespearian play, The Taming Of The Shrew. The 1967 film shares a name with the original play, and is based in the Elizabethan Era and the destination the original play takes place, Padua. Similarly, the modern take on the play is a high school cliche, set in Padua High School. Both films are most often viewed as the tale of two lovers, but are…
A difficult question that someone can ask you, is how would you define music. Music is so many things to so many different people. It can be a way out, a way to express yourself, or it may even be a part of your culture. Music has come so far from when Beethoven and Mozart created their own music. Music has shifted gears to adding auto tune and many other things that help enhance an artist’s musical performance or music in general. Music back then was known as pleasure or a night out to…
Taming of the Shrew has been adapted in many different ways. A very famous modern approach to the story is the film 10 Things I Hate About You directed by Gil Junger. Junger’s movie is one of the best adaptations of Shakespeare 's humorous play. Junger’s movie 10 Things I Hate About You and Shakespeare’s play The Taming of…
Music has become “man's red flower” of modern times. Apple products have taken the technological world by storm and have begun to revolutionize the musical world within the past decade. On May 28, 2014, Apple announced the purchase of Beats electronics and Beats Music for 3 billion U.S. dollars. In acquiring the famous music business, Apple began to promote their new addition with inspirational commercials. The 2015 Apple Music ad opens up with a radio host announcing Pharrell Williams’ new…
Taming of the Shrew Versus 10 Things I Hate About You Have you ever considered how many of your favorite modern romances are actually based on plays written over 500 years ago by a famous playwright, William Shakespeare? For example, millions of young adults have watched and loved the movie, “10 Things I Hate About You”, without realizing it was actually based on a famous play by Shakespeare. After viewing the movie, many similarities to Shakespeare’s play, “Taming of the Shrew”, come to mind.…
“Now, go thy ways; thou hast tamed a curst shrew.” There are many differences between the play The Taming Of The Shrew and the movie 10 Things I Hate About You. There are also several similarities between the two. Both stories have the same general plot. In 10 Things I Hate About You, there is no character who acts as Lucentio/ Cameron. Lastly, both of the stories have the same antagonist and the same protagonist. In both of the stories, the father of Katherine and Bianca says that Bianca isn’t…
explored. The characters explored in Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate About You, are similar. The main characters have similar or the same names, for example Katerina becomes Katherine, Bianca’s name stays the same, and Petruccio who is Patrick. One similar theme explored in both of the plays is disguise. Although Taming of the Shrew uses this theme more, there are disguises in 10 Things I Hate About You, such as when Cameron says that he is a French tutor, or when Patrick acts as…