Upshot of Truepenny's evening

[truepenny]

10 Things I Hate About You has joined Clueless on the very short list of adaptations which I will watch in preference to watching or reading the original.

I like that movie.

Comments

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

How about Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons?

[kattahj.livejournal.com]

Well, the original in this case is rather offensive. "I'll treat her horribly until she's a good wife!"

The Moonlighting version was sweet, though. But yeah, "10 Things..." is sweeter still.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Haven't seen it and can't, right at the moment, remember what it's an adaptation of. Which doesn't exactly add up to a no, but doesn't make it to a yes, either.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

The Taming of the Shrew is a horrid play. Not quite as horrid as Two Gentlemen of Verona, but horrid nonetheless.

That's why I like 10 Things I Hate About You. It isn't horrid. Patrick isn't trying to change Kat; he's just falling in love with her.

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Clueless is the best Emma adaptation indeed-- fabulously funny and sweet.

10 Things...well, it's not bad. Still remember the Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You scene very well.

& :-)

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[kattahj.livejournal.com]

He offers to get her a tambourine if she's displeased with him. How much better can it get? :-)

[reannon.livejournal.com]

I really like "10 Things." I also liked "Cruel Intentions," the teen version of "Dangerous Liasions," the American version of "Les Liasions Dangerouses"... see how this stuff gets going?

I guess the best thing about "10 Things" is that you don't hate Kat. In fact, you're cheering for her as she kicks ass, and teaches her sister to do the same. There's little enough of that in teen movies, you know.

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

Me toooo!!

(Apropos of nothing, you have seen Branagh's _Love's Labours Lost_, haven't you? "I won't dance, don't ask me...")

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I haven't, but it's on my list.