Jeremy+Cothran

Comparing "Taming of the Shrew" to "(500) days of Summer"
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In "Taming of the Shrew" One of the female characters Katherine has a different approach on how love is defined and questions whether it is real or not. Which is very similar to the main female character in the 2009 movie "(500) days of summer" where Summer does not believe in love or even wishes to have a relationship status.

Then there is Petruchio who sways in and claims that he will tame and wedd Kate, However Tom, the man who falls deeply in love with Summer was on a constant struggle to find out what their status was which eventually led to them breaking up.

Petruchio was eventually able to make Kate love him and respect him, in which he fulfilled his obligation that he proposed by taming her. And In a way Tom Tamed Summer, however sadly they did not end up together, According to Summer Tom showed her that there is destiny and that there is Love, and she was able to Love somebody else and Marry them, but unfortunately Tom was left out in the open :(

These situations are different in a narrow aspect, but if looking in a broader view you can see how these relate and how these characters can relate to what they believed and what they were doing.

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="I am as peremptory as she proud-minded;= =And where two raging fires meet together,= =They do consume the thing that feeds their fury."= (Act II, Scene i, 124-26)

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In this quote, Petruchio describes how both he and Katherine are very strong-willed, and how these forces will combine once he woos her. That this could be as dangerous as a raging fire doesn't seem to concern Petruchio, or even Katherine's father. The extreme situation calls for extreme measures.


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In this early scene from "My Best Friend's Wedding," Julianne anxiously declares to her friend George that "I'm a busy girl. I've got four days to break up a wedding and steal the bride's fellow." Unlike Petruchio, she remains on edge during the entire film--she is either ranting to George about the next phase in her plan, or nervously putting her deceits into action. This fuels the humor in the movie, but it also reminds the audience that what she's doing is wrong.

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Julianne's friend George, however, is not so supportive of her idea.
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After her first attempts to break up the wedding fail, George comes to visit her and asks: "Do you really love him? Or is this just about winning?" When she says that she does in fact love him, George gives her a piece of advice that he repeats for the rest of the movie: the only chance she's got is to be honest and tell her friend the truth. Interestingly, George doesn't even believe this will get Julianne what she wants, but he still thinks it's the only worthwhile path.

That Julianne doesn't win her man in the end only reinforces that a modern audience wants to see true love above all else. Petruchio finishes off "Shrew" with a wife, twenty thousand crowns, and a sense of accomplishment; All Julianne has at the end of "My Best Friend's Wedding" is a deeper understanding of love and commitment, but we're left with the feeling that this will help her later in life, after the movie ends. Plus, she's smiling again before the credits roll: she has her gay friend George to spin her around the wedding dance floor as a consolation.