The Reader Travels

I think my Shakespeare in the movies tour was devised just so I could talk about Strange Brew and 10 Things I Hate About You, two of my all-time favorite films. But I realize it’s gotten way out of hand, what with so much other material out there.

10 Things is not just another teenage movie, and it’s not just another Shakespeare rip-off. It is a fine tribute to The Taming of the Shrew, embracing the interpretation that Shakespeare was a feminist. Kat is fierce and independent, a feminist as Shakespeare himself could never have imagined.

And I even liked Julia Stiles, even though she’s deterring me from watching O. I love the scene where she gets all drunk, dances on the table and then hits her head on the chandelier. It brought me back to my own drunken high school years. I was never a table dancer, but I did tend to throw myself at guys who couldn’t stand a woman who wasn’t submissive. There were no Patruchio’s in my high school.

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