Glenn_Brailsford_WeddingCrashers

In "Shrew," Katherine was persistent and steadfast on being the person that she was no matter what anyone said, until she decided that it was time for a change. In the 2005 movie "Wedding Crashers" The main characters Owen Wilson & Vince Vaughn (John & Jeremy) change from their "one-night-stand" ways to actually caring about two individuals. In "Wedding Crashers" John & Jeremy both were following a set of guidelines that they used to get girls during weddings. These tactics included lying and telling them that they were other people so that they would seem more appealing to their targets, just like in “Shrew” where Lucentio, portrays himself to someone else to hide his true identity. After they found two that they actually had feelings for they changed into different people from what they were before.



In this scene John (Owen Wilson) was popping champagne and enjoying the life of a wedding crasher. In this scene later on in the movie when he falls for Claire he was sneaking out of his room to see if she was awake because they didn’t get a chance to finish talking earlier. I think that John relates to both Katherine and Lucentio’s characters because Katherine was content with being the person that she was in the beginning of the book and that nothing was going to change her. John was the same way. He felt as though he had met the person that made him want to be a new person and that's the same attitude that (along with a little persuasion) Katherine developed at the end of the book. He also can relate to Lucentio because he made up new identities for himself in order to get what he wanted. Although Lucentio did it out of love and John only did it out of lust it is the same concept. John and Jeremy had very different ideas on what love was. Jeremy was disappointed in John because he was falling for this girl and he was trying to tell him that it was "against the rules." John however didn't care because he really liked her. Later on Jeremy falls for the sister if the girl John likes, named Gloria. When John found out about Jeremy and Gloria he thought that the reason Jeremy "loved" her so much was because of her sensuality. Which made him realize they had 2 different definitions of what love was and what it meant to them individually. "Wedding Crashers" relates to "Shrew" because it shows how a series of event can change a person. In "Shrew" Katherine changes from the mean, self-determined person to a loving caring serving wife. In "Wedding Crashers" John goes from the party hardy man he was to a loving compassionate man who isn't afraid to show his feelings. In both these characters learning to do this I think it made their lives much easier then they would have been if they kept the lifestyle they had going.