Movies I Love: 10 Things I Hate About You
12 Jan
Some films are just made to be cackled over, and 10 Things is one of my favourites. Whenever I hear the opening bars to One Week by the Barenaked Ladies I’m instantly 13 again and it’s that Christmas when I got a VCR machine for my room. I must have seen it hundreds of times, and screeched various lines of it at my friends hundreds more. Also, baby faced Joseph Gordon-Levitt is CUTE! Here are some of my favourite moments:
Chastity: I know you can be overwhelmed, and you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed? Bianca: I think you can in Europe.
Bianca: Can we, for two seconds, ignore the fact that you’re severely unhinged and discuss my need for a night of teenage normalcy? Mr Stratford: What’s normal? Those damn… Dawson’s river kids sleeping in each other’s beds and whatnot?
Ms. Perky: People perceive you as somewhat… Kat: Tempestuous? Ms. Perky: “Heinous bitch” is the term used most often.
Chastity: Mr Stratford it’s just a party. Walter: And hell is just a sauna.
Bianca: Where did you come from? Planet “Loser”? Kat: As opposed to Planet “Look At Me, Look At Me”?
Mr. Morgan: Someday, you gonna get bitch-slapped and I’m not gonna do a thing to stop it.
Ms. Perky: Nine schools in ten years. My, my. Army brat? Cameron: Yeah, my dad is, uh… Ms. Perky: That’s enough. I’m sure you won’t find Padua any different than your old schools. Same little asswipe shit-for-brains everywhere.
Kat: You’re looking at this from entirely the wrong perspective. We’re making a statement. Mandella: Oh goody, something new and different for us!
Mr. Morgan: All right, not that I give a damn, but how was everybody’s weekend? Joey: Oh, I dunno, maybe we should ask Kat? Mr. Morgan: Unless she kicked the crap outta your dumb butt, I don’t wanna hear about it!
Walter Stratford: And I’ll get to sleep at night. The deep slumber of a father whose daughters aren’t out being impregnated.
Kat: We’re going now. Walter Stratford: Alright, wait a minute. No drinking, no drugs, no kissing, no tattoos, no piercings, *no* ritual animal slaughters of any kind. Oh, God, I’m giving them ideas.
What are your favourite films to quote?
Image above from here.
