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[[Why Can't I Hate You?|But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you, not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all]]." }}
''[[10 Things I Hate About You]]'' is a 1999 [[High School]] film which was, essentially, a sort of murky, updated [[High School AU]]-style take on ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]''. The plot is fairly standard for a romantic comedy, and runs as such:
Something is rotten in the house of Stratford. It has come to light that Katerina Stratford, the feminist, intelligent, and well, shrewish elder sister, has received an acceptance letter to a college her overprotective father doesn't want her to go to. Bianca, the bubbly, popular younger sister, got a ride home from a boy today. There's much anger and words are exchanged that cannot be taken back, and from all of this a new rule sprouts forth: Bianca can date when Kat does. This is pretty much the end of it for Bianca, as Kat doesn't really do the whole dating thing, preferring to snark and study. However, when Bianca spills this to Cameron, the new kid in town who has a crush on her and is her French Tutor, he develops a plan: Find someone who'll date Kat. But who?
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[[All Girls Want Bad Boys|The bad boy in town, of course.]] Enter Patrick Verona. He's mean, he's tough, and he scares off Cameron when he's approached with the idea. However, Michael, Cameron's new friend(ish), comes up with an idea: get Joey, a popular guy with a crush on Bianca, to cough up money for them to bribe Patrick with. This succeeds, and in the end, Patrick woos Kat by essentially being as cantankerous and stubborn as she is, only more romantic. He ends up asking her to the prom, having been given 300 bucks to do it, and while she doesn't go at first, she eventually accepts. The problem? He's actually really starting to like this girl...
Despite being a teen romcom, ''10 Things'' received some good reviews for acting, writing and general amusement value. It's still fondly remembered years later because of that. Most notably, it put its two leads on the map as dramatic actors to watch in the future. Yes, [[Julia Stiles]] and [[Heath Ledger]] had their break-out roles in a teen comedy. In the meanwhile, [[Joseph Gordon-Levitt]] (''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'') and Larisa Oleynik (the title character from ''[[The Secret World of Alex Mack]]'', not to mention JGL's girlfriend on ''Third Rock'') played the roles of Cameron and Bianca. Lastly, David Krumholtz of ''[[Numb3rs]]'', ''[[The Addams Family]]'' and ''[[The Santa Clause (film series)|The Santa Clause]]'' played Michael, and [[Allison Janney]] had a [[One-Scene Wonder]] role as "Miss Perky," the school's [[There Are No Therapists|incredibly-messed up]] guidance counselor. (This film is a shining example of [[Hey, It's That Guy!]] and [[Retroactive Recognition]].)
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=== The movie contains examples of: ===
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* [[Because I Said So]]: Their father, sort of, and also Kat towards Bianca's wish to date Joey. She doesn't explain why till the end of the movie. {{spoiler|Kat slept with Joey once. When she said she didn't want to do it again, he dumped her.}}
* [[The Bet]]: Subverted and, in a way, played straight. Joey is actually just after Bianca because his friends bet him he couldn't sleep with her, whilst Patrick is not actually betting, he's getting paid up front. But he and Kat play the rest out exactly as promised.
* [[Betty and Veronica]]: Cameron and Joey for Bianca.
* [[Black Bra and Panties]]: Bianca takes this as a sign that her sister wants to eventually have sex.
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: The guidance counselor.
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** A [[Noodle Incident]] equivalent happens in Kat's backstory. ("I still maintain that he kicked himself in the balls.")
** When Michael is on his bike and accidentally goes tumbling down a hill, he shouts "My balls!" during one of the bounces.
* [[The Grovel]]: After getting Kat so royally pissed off at him that she won't speak to him, Patrick is instructed to "sacrifice yourself on the altar of dignity and even the score." No actual groveling is involved - Patrick opts for a marching-band-assisted rendition of "Can't Take My Eyes Off
* [[Heel Realisation]]
{{quote|'''Cameron''': Have you always been this selfish?
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* [[High School Dance]]: Well, yes.
* [[Hilarious Outtakes]]: "Can I get a prophylactic?"
** "[[
* [[Hollywood Geography]]: Anyone who's ever lived in Seattle will be somewhat bemused by how quickly they get from various points of the city to others.
** An example: It's a 45 minute drive from Stadium High School in Tacoma (where the actual school building is located) to the docks where they rent the boat when they escape detention.
* [[Hormone-Addled Teenager]]: Played pretty straight with Bianca, Cameron, and Joey; spectacularly averted with Kat.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'' was a good bit more misogynistic.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Kat and Bianca's last name (after Stratford-on-Avon), as well as [[Romeo and Juliet|Pat]][[Two Gentlemen of Verona|rick's]] last name, and [[The Taming of the Shrew|Padua]] High School.
** Cameron James is named after King James, who ruled during Shakespeare's life.
* [[Megaphone Hanging]]: Stacks of Shakespeare references.
* [[Mills and Boon Prose]]: A guidance counselor, who writes bad sex novels, wants to know another word for "engorged".
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*** Whether she left in a taxi or a hearse is never established, but frankly it doesn't change much.
*** In the original script, their mother was present, but spent all of her time at the computer writing romance novels. All of the gags surrounding Ms. Perky's novels originally belonged to Mrs. Stratford.
** In the series, it's confirmed that she's dead.
* [[Missing Trailer Scene]]: Kat rejecting Patrick at the lockers then the camera zooms in on his grinning face *swoon*.
* [[The Nineties]]: [[Ska]] (lots of it), [[The Real World]] and [[My So-Called Life|Jared Leto]] references.
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** Actually, some of the items may be listed together. The words "I hate" appear in the poem ten times; the words that follow may be lumped together. Thus "I hate your big dumb combat boots and the way you read my mind" would be one item.
* [[Old Shame]]: Averted, a lot of people expected [[Heath Ledger]] to continue in the teen comedy genre but he instead refused a lot of similar roles until he started to get the parts he wanted like in ''[[The Patriot]]'' and ''[[A Knight's Tale]]''. Despite this, he ''didn't'' consider this film to be an old shame, just not where he wanted to take his career.
** Julia Stiles, on the other hand, would rather people talk about any of the ''other'' movies she's made since this one. She's not exactly ''ashamed'' of it, she just wishes more people expressed an interest in the ''rest'' of her career.
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Allison Janney as Ms Perky. Technically a Two
** Or a Three-Scene Wonder {{spoiler|if you count a deleted scene where she's shown making out with the soccer coach}}.
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: Played with. [[Heath Ledger]] occasionally slips into his native accent, but this is mentioned as because his character spent some years growing up in Australia.
* [[Overprotective Dad]]:
{{quote|'''Walter:''' Kissing isn't what keeps me up to my elbows in placentas all day!}}
* [[Paintball Episode]]: A variation in the
* [[Pair the Spares]]: Chastity ends up with Joey; Michael starts dating Kat's best friend Mandella.
* [[Parking Payback]]: Kat's least favourite person parks his shiny new sports car behind her, in the middle of the road. This is, itself, illegal and done specifically to annoy her, but Kat takes it a bit too far when she backs right into him, destroying the side.
* [[A Party - Also Known as an Orgy]]: [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Pretty Boy]]: Patrick's
{{quote|'''Cameron''': And Kat likes ''pretty'' guys.
'''Patrick''': Are you saying I'm ''not'' a pretty guy? }}
* [[Recycled: the Series]]
* [[Romance on the Set]]: Joseph Gordon-Levitt dated both
* [[Rooftop Concert]]: The movie ends with a crane shot, revealing the band Letters to Cleo playing on top of Padua High School.
* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful]]: Bianca believes she can manipulate Cameron's feelings for her based on this. When he finds out, as seen in the [[What the Hell, Hero?]] examples below, Cameron disagrees.
* [[Serenade Your Lover]]: The famous "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" scene in the stadium. With a brass band and a parade.
* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: Kat and Patrick have this effect on one another.
* [[Show Some Leg]]: It isn't exactly her leg.
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{{quote|'''Ms. Perky:''' His testicle retrieval operation went quite well, in case you're wondering.
'''Kat:''' I still maintain that he kicked himself in the balls. }}
* [["Shut Up" Kiss]]: Bianca does this to Cameron when he calls her out on her actions at the party (
** Subverted later when Kat finally finds out that Patrick was paid to date her. He tries resorting to this to convince her that he really did love her, but she was too angry and pushed him away.
** Played straight again at the very end of the movie, after {{spoiler|Patrick finally wins Kat back by buying her dream guitar for her.}}
* [[Small Reference Pools]]: Kat,
▲*** [[Fridge Brilliance|Perhaps because,]] given the extremely well-known nature of these authors, it's a pretty [[All the Tropes Wiki Drinking Game|egregious]] error that even they aren't being taught?
* [[The Snark Knight]]: Kat is quite a good example of this character-type.
* [[Teeny Weenie]]: Joey, apparently. Kat threatens to reveal this to the cheerleading team if he tells anyone that he slept with her.
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* [[Wild Teen Party]]: [[In Which a Trope Is Described|In which Kat gets drunk, dances on a table, and throws up in the park.]]
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Kat runs out on Patrick a total of three times over the course of the movie: once after the drunk [[Almost Kiss]] (which Patrick [[Above the Influence|didn't go for]]), once after he accidentally pulled a cigarette, and (of course) at the prom after the truth comes out.
* [[World of Snark]]: [[Stepford Snarker|Kat]], [[Little Miss Snarker|Bianca]], [[Sarcastic Devotee|Michael]], to name only a few, and plenty of [[Snark
* [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]]: Parodied.
{{quote|'''Michael''': ''(in character)'' The shit hath hitteth the fan... eth.}}
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=== The series contains examples of: ===
* [[Cassandra Truth]]: Bianca tries to explain to people that she didn't have sex with her teacher but no one listened and he was arrested (although he was having sex with another girl)
* [[The Cast Showoff]]: The talent show episode may have been created so [[Camp Rock|Meaghan Martin]] could sing.
* [[The Cheerleader]]: Bianca, [[Alpha Bitch|Chastity]], [[Brainless Beauty|Dawn]] etc.
* [[Cliff Hanger]]: The season one finale, which became the series finale when the show wasn't renewed. [[Overprotective Dad|Walter]] walked in on Kat and Patrick right after they finished having sex. Bianca and Dawn quit the cheerleading squad in protest over their Chastity being unfairly kicked off, only to find out that Chastity is transferring schools and they didn't have to quit. Joey had become a contestant on a reality show and Bianca tunes in just in time to see him kissing another one of the contestants. [[Word of God|The creator]] of the show was nice enough to tell fans [http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/06/07/10-things-i-hate-about-you-season-two/ how things would have developed if the series had continued] Basically, {{spoiler|Kat and Patrick's relationship would grow closer, though they'd eventually clash about college.(Kat wants to go and wants Patrick to go, Patrick doesn't think college is his thing.) We'd meet Patrick's mom and stepdad, and Walter would become a sort of father figure to Patrick. Kat's other possible love interest, Blank, would be around, but it wasn't quite going to turn into a full-fledged love triangle. Joey would get kicked off the reality show, causing him to lose a bit of his spark. His and Bianca's problems(from his cheating and bit of a personality change) would lead to Bianca confiding in Cameron, which would lead to a Bianca/Joey/Cameron love triangle. Chastity was going to be gone for good, since the actress quit the show, and Dawn would be given a bigger role to compensate}}.
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