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 __**Hypocritical egotistical love **__ = **Comparing "Taming of the Shrew" to "Zack and Miri make a porno"** =

“The Taming of the Shrew" creates the sense of love between Bianca and meat to be only the after effect from Petruchio forcefully marrying Katherine. In "Shrew," the wild and demanding Petruchio swears he will have Katherine as his wife, no matter the cost. In the 2008 movie "Zack and Miri," The main characters are in serious debt and are about to be evicted. They come up with a plan to create a porn movie to have enough money to pay the bills to their apartment. In a twist of events, the two best friends who never questioned the passionate love they never knew they had for each other, was caught on tape on a coffee bean sack for everyone to see. Though Petruchio and Zack share the same feelings toward money. That they will go to dire needs or actions to make this a reality. Their situations were quite different, since Petruchio forcefully in the beginning wouldn’t stop until Katherine would be seen with and marry him. It is stated that he wants money and since Katherine is rich it would be a win-win situation considering the male were dominant in their time period. In contrast, Zack creates a last minute idea for their dire need of money. He doesn’t show in the movie or give any hint that he had feelings for Miri, as Petruchio also didn’t show. The challenges that were created from money woes resulted in love being exposed. Since Petruchio was able to marry Katherine, Bianca was now free to have a boy friend and be able to get married. The challenges they faced in Latin created the chemistry and love at first sight. Like wise, if money woes weren’t a part of the life of Zack and Miri, they wouldn’t have made the movie, thus not having sex, hiding the feelings that they had covered up this whole time.

I would also state the similarity that Lester in Zack and Miri and Petruchio in the “Shrew” have the same idea of women. They believe they are just women who have no feelings but to sell sex or make them richer. Petruchio at first meeting Katherine interprets her insults as sexual innuendo. Lester does the same when he meets Kendra, the opposite from Katherine in her ways of looking at fame also to create much more money for them and to not think of each other in a relationship and that sex is something passionate and serious. These two situations make for different kinds of humor, and also show how society's attitudes towards courtship have changed over the centuries. **Even if most people believe that the male characters in the “Shrew” and “Zack and Miri” are disgusting egotistical pigs, they created or paved the way for love to be shown. If it wasn’t for these characters, then love wouldn’t have been at its purest, alive and mistaken, in the wake of hatred and biasness committed from both time periods past and present, it is great to know that love had still existed through a mistake.**

** "I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; ** (Act 1, Scene 2, Pages 75-76) In this quote, Petruchio explains that he is here to find a wealthy wife to wed and since friends with Lucentio, would help do him a favor and marry Katherine even if she is scold minded. This is the beginning stage that creates the love chemistry between Bianca and Lucentio.
 * If wealthily, then happily in Padua" **



In this early scene from "Zack and Miri” The electricity, heat, and water have been turned off in Zack and Miri's apartments because of the lack of money being paid toward bills. They begin to converse and create ideas that would help solve this problem. Zack comes up with the idea to make a porno flick. She begins to resist on the idea as Katherine had shown throughout the whole ordeal with Petruchio trying to marry her. But then accordingly agrees on the idea to see how far it will take them.

 ** (Act 2 Scene 1, Pages 207 – 214 ) **
The struggles between the main characters are examined in this quote. Petruchio’s first meeting with Katherine results in a bitter and sexually hint of conversation that Katherine isn’t up for the idea of talking to this guy as Petruchio brings his egotistical views to the picture by turning everything she states into a sexual innuendo. He turns “My tongue in your tail.” into a sexual image. This passage embodies not only a conflict between Petruchio and Katherine, but also the sexual tension underlying it.


|| In this scene, we see the conflict in making the film and the egotistical and views on his friend Miri. He creates the scenes for each person and assigns everyone except for Miri with two sex scenes. The only person he wants her to have sex with is himself and she gets angry at the idea and states it is unfair that he can have sex with another girl besides her but she isn’t aloud to have sex with another guy. This gives us the first look at Zack being a pig in terms of thinking only for himself and not for his best friends feelings for this ordeal.

** And time it is when raging war is done **
 * “At last, though long, our jarring notes agree, **
 * To smile at ’scapes and perils overblown.**
 *  My fair Bianca, bid my father welcome,” **

**(Act 5 Scene 2, Pages 5-10)**

Through the conflicts in the “shrew” Petruchio created love at first sight with Lucentio and Bianca. If it wasn’t for him marrying the shrew Katherine, then Lucentio wouldn’t have had the chance to even have her notice him and create the intimacy that was brewing between these two since they first laid eyes on each other. Lucentio explains in this quote that finally everyone has reconciled and now is the time to laugh at past dangers and adventures. These past dangers and adventures are the deal you get when you have male characters like these. They create drama and conflict but something is bound to fuse together to make them seem as a decent man.

One of the final scenes in the movie “Zack and Miri” shows Zack and Miri having sex for the first time. It is a passionate scene and is remarked as making love from the film director of the porn flick. The result of making a porno because of dire need of money claimed two souls for love because sex was initiated and the intimacy inside of them was exposed for all to see. This concludes that the most egotistical males of Zack and Miri and the “Shrew: created a sense of endearment toward them, for making love happen in its most purest form, through mistake and fortune.

These two pieces of art are very comparable in sense that the male made the mistake to think of the woman to be beneath them and domesticated to any issue that they created. But through a problem and sense of help, they created love for others (Lucentio and Bianca) or for themselves (Zack and Miri). It was unintentional and unheard of in both time periods. Which makes this connection full of interpretation for a ‘feel good story’ that happens so rarely in real life.