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10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU
written by Karen McCullah Lutz & Kirsten Smith
transcription by GarethGarethGareth@yahoo.com
based loosely on “Taming of the Shrew", by William Shakespeare
Well, here it is: The complete transcription of 10 Things I Hate About You
from the movie itself. The original script available on the web is about
as similar to the final movie as Rocky Balboa is to Rocky the Squirrel.
So, by gum, somebody had to get it right. Text found in [brackets]
indicates moments where I’ve guessed what the characters are saying, due to
mumbling, or my own lack of hearing, or both.
- Gareth
EXT. PADUA HIGH SCHOOL - DAY
Welcome to Padua High, your typical upper-middle-class high school in
Seattle, Washington.
EXT. PADUA HIGH SCHOOL, THE STREET OUTSIDE - DAY
Two cookie-cutter-cute girls sing along in their car to a bit of popular
fluff music.
KAT STRATFORD, eighteen, pretty -- but trying hard not to be (and failing)
-- pulls her rundown car up next to theirs and scowls with indignation at
their choice of music.
EXT. PADUA HIGH SCHOOL, FRONT STEPS- DAY
Kat hurries toward the front door of what appears to be the Wayne Manor version
of an ordinary high school. She approaches another cookie-cutter-cutie pasting
an advert for prom on the wall, and tears it down in passing.
PROM POSTER GIRL
Hey!
INT. GUIDANCE COUNSELOR'S OFFICE - DAY
CAMERON JAMES, a clean-cut, easy-going new kid at school with an optimistic,
innocent face, sits facing MISS PERKY, a conservative spinster stereotype
turned on its head. She’s in the middle of composing some racy
lines from her pulp romance-novel-in-progress on her laptop.
MISS PERKY
So, Cameron. Here you go. (reviews his transcript)
9 schools in 10 years, my my... Army brat?
CAMERON
Yeah. My dad’s a...
MISS PERKY
That’s enough.
I'm sure you won't find Padua any
different than your old school. Same
little asswipe shit-for-brains
everywhere.
CAMERON
Excuse me. Did you just say... Am I in
the right office?
MISS PERKY
Not anymore you’re not. I’ve got deviants to see
and a novel to finish. Now scoot. Scoot!
CAMERON
Okay. Thanks.
Cameron rises to leave and passes PATRICK VERONA, a smug, longhaired
Australian, who’s on his way in.
Miss Perky looks down at her file and up at Patrick
MISS PERKY
(continuing)
Patrick Verona. I see we're making our
visits a weekly ritual.
She gives him a disapproving glance. He answers with a charming
smile.
PATRICK
Only so we can have these moments together.
Should I, uh, get the lights?
MISS PERKY
Oh very clever, kangaroo boy. Says here you exposed yourself
in the cafeteria?
PATRICK
I was joking with the lunch lady. It was a bratwurst.