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10 Things I Hate About You
1999 · Film · 97 min
Directed by Gil Junger
On the first day at his new school, Cameron instantly falls for Bianca, the gorgeous girl of his dreams. The only problem is that Bianca is forbidden to date until her ill-tempered, completely un-dateable older sister Kat goes out, too. In an attempt to solve his problem, Cameron singles out the only guy who could possibly be a match for Kat: a mysterious bad boy with a nasty reputation of his own.
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Well, he's wrong, and that's why there are so few "modern English" productions put on. And also why Shakespeare plays in the original language continue to live. When you see it performed live, you still get the gist.
The language is still beautiful. That's the point. More to the point, the audiences would not increase at all if they were translated into modern terms.
On the other hand, no one in the theater minds if you adapt the plot into something else entirely.
Ran (King Lear)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089881/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_3_nm_5_in_0_q_ran
10 Things I Hate About You (The Taming of the Shrew)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147800/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
That's fair, not sure if I had seen any of his movies when I was that age either. Maybe 10 Things I Hate About You. It was a big deal at the time and his death still makes me more sad than any other pop figure that's died in my lifetime, I think. I'm not sure if the death of River Phoenix felt the same way to his fans, but Heath Ledger made such a big impact for the short time he was with us... it's so sad that he didn't get more time to grow because he was one of the best.
I wish I had a link for you but it’s a relatively common thing to have TV shows and movies sampled in lofi tracks. I’ve heard clips from anything between “Talladega Nights” to “10 Things I Hate About You”.
I agree that your overall point is broadly correct, but I think that a good principle in internet discussion is to be "liberal in the evidence you accept, and conservative in the evidence you 'send'".
The overall thrust of the "there's too many sequels and remakes" argument is that recent cinema shows a staleness/creative exhaustion in the industry, which is relying on brand recognition to cover for its failings. One creator expanding on their animated shorts to make a feature film out of them (Office Space) or a filmmaker making a (relatively creative, I think) adaptation of Shakespeare (10 Things I Hate About You), doesn't really demonstrate that, IMO. Many of the other examples you cite do. Certainly people have been complaining about sequelitis in movies for as long as I can remember (30+ years).
My own impression of a big trend in film over recent decades is the decline of comedies, especially in the family comedy/romantic comedy sub-genres. But I don't have hard data on that either.
The Wikipedia article for 1999 in film is there for all to see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_in_film#1999_Wide-release_films
Between The King and I (Disney animated), Baby Geniuses, Doug's 1st Movie, 10 Things I Hate About You, Wing Commander, The Rage: Carrie 2, My Favorite Martian, and Office Space, I see plenty of sequels, low-effort trash, and remakes. And that's just stuff that came out in the first three months of the year.
edit: We got a remake of Wild Wild West, a remake of Tarzan, a sequel to Austin Powers, a sequel to The Brave Little Toaster, a prequel to Star Wars, and our second Shakespear adapation of the year in months 4-6.
double edit: In 7-9, we got another Muppet movie, an Inspector Gadget remake, The Haunting and The Thomas Crown Affair were both remakes, a Universal Soldier sequel, and a Dudley Do-Right remake.
I have no interest in continuing to analyze this list, thing were just as bad twenty years ago
IMHO, there's room for both the original and new versions. Some of the best, most approachable Bard these days is in modern movies: A Thousand Acres, 10 Things I Hate About You, etc. I saw A Thousand Acres without realizing it was King Lear until then end. Then I realized, "Well, no wonder it was such a terrific story!"
Shakespeare is good enough that they keep ripping off his plots for movies, including my guilty favourite: 10 Things I Hate About You.
This is an interesting problem.
You're right. They'd be the Aardvark.
I remember looking for a movie that had a number in the title at a local movie rental place ten years ago (both the name of the movie and the place escapes me). I expected to find them in front of the "A" movies only to discover that they had alphabetized assuming the number was spelled.
Sad to say, the movie was probably something along the lines of "10 Things I Hate About You" being spelled Ten Things I Hate About You, but as a geek and a man, I am unwilling to admit that.
Put in some preceding exclamation points and some spaces for good measure and they'll live in infamy in (almost) every usenet newsreader.