10 Things I Hate About You

Hi, my name is Samantha Meyer and I am currently a freshmen here at SIU. I plan on studying fashion design and merchandising. Obviously I have a love of fashion and shopping, but I also enjoy gymnastics and playing tennis occasionally. In the movie 10 Things I Hate About You I found that there are many stereotypes especially the cliques in the typical 90s teen movie.

In 10 Things I Hate About You it starts out with Cameron "the new kid" being shown around by Michael "the geek." He is showing all the cliques that would be in a high school. While Michael is showing him all the cliques Cameron sees "the it girl" of the school Bianca. He instantly needs to have her and will do anything to have her. Since Michael knows all the groups he ends up helping Cameron try to get Bianca. The only problem is that Bianca is not allowed to date because her sister Kat wont date. So it become this whole web of lie that all come out in the end. But like a typical Romantic movie everyone ends up with someone they wanted in the end.

The director showed all the stereotypes of a high school, yet some were in an exagerated way. The way class is shown in the movie is through the sizes of the houses and the high school. These were obviously upper class students. Gender was shown by the way that the people in the movie acted towards the opposite sex. Race was not really an issue in the movie because they were mostly the same race or if they weren't they were of the same social class so it didn't matter what their race would be.