Toe Pick
The Taming of the Shrew
is a fun play to remake into movies. You’ve got a spunky girl causing a bunch of trouble, an overbearing father and a lot of sexual tension with this new man in her life. It’s a great formula for a Hollywood comedy.
I faked my way through an honors paper that asked the question of whether Shakespeare was a feminist or not. Instead of actually answering the question, I went into this whole BS answer about how Shakespeare was part of a baby boom generation, so yeah, he might’ve been a feminist maybe.
On the surface the story might look a little sexist, right? You have this shrew of a woman who needs to be put in her place, tamed as it were. But what we really see is a man who learns to appreciate the fire in this woman and to see what really motivates her as a person.
And yadda yadda yadda, I’m not sure why I like The Cutting Edge
so much, but I will watch this movie every time I catch it on cable. And you can hear the words echo in the house, as me and my man sing in unison: “Toe pick!!!”