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I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry.<br />
I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call,<br />
[[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]]." }}
[[Ten 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:
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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 (TV)|The Addams Family]]'' and ''[[The Santa Clause]]'' played Michael, and [[Allison Janney]] had a [[One
Also has a sitcom based on it, which airs on ABC Family. More information on it can be found [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Things_I_Hate_About_You_(TV_series) here.] Despite only lasting two years, it amassed an impressive fanbase and was generally considered better than expected for a [[Recycled:
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{{quote| '''Ms. Perky:''' People perceive you as somewhat...<br />
'''Kat:''' Tempestuous?<br />
'''Ms. Perky:''' "[[Precision F
* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: After [[Heath Ledger]] finished his audition, the director turned to his mostly female staff and said "I'm not gay. But if I was, that is the kind of guy I'd want to sleep with."
* [[Face Doodling]]: Actually took place while the character was awake. Joey doodles on Michael's face as he's trying to speak.
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{{quote| '''Cameron''': Have you always been this selfish?<br />
'''Bianca''': Yes. }}
* [["Hey You!" Haymaker]]: {{spoiler|Bianca}}'s pulls one off at the dance.
* [[High School AU]]: It's pretty much just ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'' with high school and more modern things.
* [[High School Dance]]: Well, yes.
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* [[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
* [[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.
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** 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
* [[Non
** 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 Knights Tale]]''. Despite this, he ''didn't'' consider this film to be an old shame, just not where he wanted to take his career.
* [[One
** 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.
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* [[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 prettyness gets lampshaded in the movie.
{{quote| '''Cameron''': And Kat likes ''pretty'' guys.<br />
'''Patrick''': Are you saying I'm ''not'' a pretty guy? }}
* [[Recycled:
* [[Romance On the Set]]: Joseph Gordon-Levitt dated both Larissa Oleynik ''and'' Julia Stiles after filming... not at the same time. The main cast apparently became fairly close friends, regardless.
* [[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 parade.
* [[She Cleans Up Nicely]]: Kat and Patrick have this effect on one another.
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* [[Small Reference Pools]]: Kat complains about not discussing literature by women, and <s>only</s> mentions [[Jane Austen]] and Charlotte Bronte.
** She also mentions Sylvia Plath and Simone De Beauvoir, but they arguably fit under Small Reference Pools as well.
*** [[Fridge Brilliance|Perhaps because,]] given the extremely well-known nature of these authors, it's a pretty [[
* [[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.
* [[Totally Radical]]: Played for laughs in-universe; Walter Stratford's various attempts at speaking 'teen' in an effort to get his point across to his daughters aren't as successful as he hopes.
* [[Tsundere]]: Kat is a definitive type A.
* [[Two
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]:
{{quote| '''Patrick:''' Joey can plough whatever he wants. <br />
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* [[Vanity Is Feminine]]: Poked fun at when Patrick is told Katerina prefers "[[Pretty Boy|pretty guys]]." "... Are you telling me I'm not a pretty guy?"
* [[Wedlock Block]]: The premise of the movie (but with dating instead of marriage).
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Cameron gives Bianca a piece of his mind when he learns that she was just manipulating him and his feelings towards her to try and get closer to another guy. This is, of course, [[Wrong Guy First|after Bianca has decided that maybe he's the better choice after all]].
{{quote| '''Cameron''': Just 'cause you're beautiful, that doesn't mean that you can treat people like they don't matter.}}
* [[Why Can't I Hate You?]]: Exemplified perfectly in the poem.
* [[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 to Snark Combat]], [[The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry|especially between the Stratfords]]
* [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]]: Parodied.
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** Though Bianca isn't as smart as Kat, she is not dumb as stated by her teacher being dragged away by cops
*** "Was this because I gave you an A-?"
* [[Hey
** Kat's car in the series was Cameron's in the movie.
* [[Hide Your Gays]]: Mandella is hinted at being a lesbian and appears sporadically, until it's confirmed and she disappears. {{spoiler|Michael}} disappears for several episodes only to return to come out.
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* [[Irony]]: Walter constantly gets on Bianca for the slightest things when in reality she hasn't done anything nearly as bad as Kat did.
* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: Bianca thinks this of Cameron when Michael {{spoiler|who really is gay}} gives him a makeover
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Bianca is actually quite good at delivering them and has on more than one occasion called Chastity out.
** She also receives a brutal one from Cameron. It's not exactly true as it is his false perception of her.
* [[Sudden School Uniform]]
* [[Talent Show]]: In the episode 'The Winner Takes All'.
* [[Third
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: After Cameron hears Bianca's date wants to have sex with her he goes out of his way to sabotage the date rather than telling her. She hates him briefly when she finds out
* [[Younger Than They Look]]: Patrick, who is supposed to be 17, was played by a 21 year old and looked like it, mainly due to his muscular build, very deep voice, mature facial features, and the way he dressed. Walter even pointed this out in one episode, calling him out to Kat as 'your friend with the disturbingly deep voice who looks much older than 17.'
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