JungerÃÂs film ÃÂTen Things I hate About YouÃÂ is indeed an unsuccessful transformation of ShakespeareÃÂs play ÃÂThe Taming of The ShrewÃÂ mainly because it has lost much of the adapted text.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines successful as:1.Accomplishing an aim or purpose.
2.Achieved fame, wealth, or social status.
And defines transformation as:1.A marked change in nature, form, or appearance.
So is the film a successful transformation of the play? Well judging from the definition of ÃÂsuccessfulÃÂ, this film is not a successful transformation of ShakespeareÃÂs play despite that it has achieved fame and wealth, it has not accomplished the aim or purpose of the film which was to transform the social context of 16th Century Italy to 20th Century America and to draw humour out of the Elizabethan play.
In my opinion, JungerÃÂs film ÃÂ10 Things I Hate About YouÃÂ is not a successful film for many reasons.
William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, Act IV,...
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English: Petruchio (Kevin Black) and Kate (Emily J...One of which is because it avoids the overwhelmingly violent and sexist nature of ShakespeareÃÂs work as the disturbing nature of PetruchioÃÂs ÃÂtamingÃÂ and brutalisation of Katherina has been almost completely eliminated from the film because of the rise in feminism in the 20th century, thus making the play unacceptable by todayÃÂs standards. In the play Katherina is ÃÂtamedÃÂ by Petruchio to become the perfect wife, which in those days would have been a wife who would act as a servant to their husband. Katherina is starved, deprived of sleep, had things which she desired torn and destroyed in front of her and just generally treated like garbage. In the film Patrick Verona (taken from Petruchio of Verona) had to change himself and adapt to Katarina Stratford (taken from Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace of Shakespeare) for her to fall in love with him. Patrick has to...