10 Things I Hate About You

In the movie 10 Things I Hate About You we can clearly see and establish the conventions. This is mainly shown through the settings, the way the characters are dressed and their actions and also through the binary oppositions that the audience can identify. This movie is a typical teen movie because it includes all the characters and stereotypes that a teen movie usually portrays.


The binary oppositions established in this movie are :

• Love and hate
• Parent and Children
• Male and Female
• Pretty and ugly
• Fun and boring

The conventions that we are introduced to in this movie are:

• High School
• Prom
• Sports Field
• Class rooms
• House Parties
• Bedroom 
• Car Park
• Entrance to the school
• School corridor

This movie also shows us the conventional characters of teen movies such as :

The perfect girl (Bianca)                                                                               The ugly girl (Kat)

                                                                                 

The normal/regular guy (Cameron)                                                         The beautiful weirdo (Patrick)

Geek (Michael)                                                                                             Kat's Best-friend (Mandela)                                                                                                         

The rich guy (Joey)                                                                      

                                      Bianca's mean best-friend (Chastity)