Monday 11 February 2013

Day 42: 10 Things I Hate About You



Heath Ledger is such a babe. I just need to get that out there. I find his face enchanting and I just want to kiss it anytime he’s on screen. Anyway, moving on.

Feisty teenager, Kat (Julia Stiles), just wants to get through high school with the minimum amount of contact with the assholes that seem to populate the place. Her sister, Bianca (Larisa Oleynik), wants to be able to date but their father is rather protective and so she can’t date until Kat does. And because this is a ‘90s film, it inevitably ends up meaning that a boy is paid to date the girl. And he then falls in love with her.

I know the heart wants what it wants and it doesn’t need to explain or justify itself but I cannot understand why Cameron likes Bianca. She forgets his name immediately upon him telling her it and she shows no interest in him whatsoever. Obviously she ends up liking him and they’re cute together but I just don’t get why he was so focused on her to begin with when she barely even looked at him. I always wish in films the person would just go “right, s/he isn’t interested, I’ll move on.” But that might be too sensible. And it's not as if people are that good at doing it in real life, so maybe it's too unrealistic to expect it to happen in a film.

Beautiful angel Patrick (Heath Ledger) is paid to date Kat but you can see right away she intrigues him and that he likes being around her. When he tries to pretend he’s casually bumping into her at the concert and he watches her dancing, the way he’s smiling is a clear indication it’s more than just about the money for him. I just love the scene when they’re in the pedalo and he’s saying how he gets her attitude and that he can see she thinks if she disappoints people straight off then she doesn’t have to live up to their expectations. And then he says she messed up because she never disappointed him. Ugh, he is so smooth. I would be smitten. Hell, I am smitten and it’s just fiction.

“Don’t let anyone ever make you feel like you don’t deserve what you want.”

8/10

5 comments:

  1. I always thought Heath Ledger had greasy looking, unkempt hair and bad skin; I don't get the buzz other than he died young after making a bunch of so-so films.

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  2. I love this film so hard. And I love Heath Ledger. Hot accent. And pretty face. I totally know what you mean about Bianca & Cameron, though. It's like...how did that turn out to be anything?

    People love the challenge. And the beauties, regardless of their disregard for the people.

    The buzz is nothing to do with him dying young. He was buzzin' way before that.

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  3. There is always more of a buzz when people die young. See, for example, The Dark Knight, or The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. The former in-particular has received far more recognition than in reality it probably deserves.

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  4. I don't think he's the best actor ever, I'm not even sure about him as a person. I just like a couple of the films he's been in and I think he's a such a babe, as Shelagh so rightly put it. This movie is hardly making cinematic history, but I still love it. Ditto A Knight's Tale.

    As for anything else he's been in... *shrug*

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  5. Yeah, I'm not saying he's a wonderful actor. Sometimes I just like to look at a pretty face when I'm watching a film, y'know? And he fits the bill admirably.

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