the two films I will be discussing today are Taming of the shrew and Ten things i hate about you. each of these offers a commentary on love. Some of the similarities in these films are the plot,Characters and themes. the plots are similar in the fact that they are both about the liberating of women by men. the characters are used to reinforce this and are reflective of the the eras studied. In the Elizabethean era a man was considered as someone who is big strong and incharge of the house. This changes in the second film which is set in 1999 as one is set in that era and one is not . This can create some contrast between the viewer’s understanding of the films. In the film “Taming of the Shrew” the character Lucentio arrives in the city of Padua to attend university but falls in love with a beautiful girl Bianca. Unfortunately Bianca already has 2 suitors and her father has forbidden her to marry until her shrewish sister …show more content…
During the tour he sees Bianca a perky blonde student. Her father has forbidden her to date. He later alters that rule to allow her to date if her feminist alternative sister Katarina has a date as well. In order to get a date with Bianca, Cameron tricks Joey into funding a scheme to get the baddest guy in the school Patrick Verona to ask Kat out. Patrick persists until Kat agrees to go out with him. He eventually falls for Kat, however she finds out about the scheme. He then needs to try really hard to win her back which he eventually does. In this modern version the girls have the power in the relationships. Bianca has power over Cameron and even Kat eventually has power over Patrick. This also reflects the attitudes of modern society. There is one scene when Kat is drunk and dancing on the table that reflects some still current chauvenistic