10 Things I Hate About You

What a way to start my movie marathon. I don't think I'd watched a movie with Heath Ledger (besides The Dark Knight) since his death. He was soo incredibly cute in 10 Things I Hate About You!

This movie was one of my absolute favorites because of the Shakespeare link of course but also because it's a great high school chick flick. I went through a phase when that's all I watched, so it was pretty sad funny to realize how much of the movie I have memorized!

What I love about this movie besides Heath is the fact that it's a remake of The Taming of the Shrew, but it isn't a word-for-word one. Not that I don't like those too, but I love the idea of introducing an old story to a new audience, in a new way. The concept is still there, just in words and imagery that makes more sense to today's society.

Watching this movie also prompts me to remember a super-old episode of Moonlighting. My parents might be amazed that I actually remember that show, but they did a spoof of The Taming of the Shrew as well, and it was fantastically funny.

So hooray for Shakespeare and Heath Ledger.