Blockbusters and Birdwalks
At Blockbusters and Birdwalks, you’ll listen to reviews and conversations about all kinds of movies, from Academy Award winners to exploitation masterpieces with a mix of commercial hits and obscure favorites thrown in for good measure. The point is recognizing that movies present our culture with the building blocks of social memory, enabling each of us to enjoy ourselves because movies are fun.
Blockbusters and Birdwalks
Romance, a conversation – “10 Things I Hate About You”
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Garrett Chaffin-Quiray
This is part of a series about romance in movies.
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Referenced media:
- “The Taming of the Shrew” by William Shakespears (~1590-1592)
- “Scream” (Wes Craven, 1996)
- “Some Kind of Wonderful” (Howard Deutch, 1987)
- “A Knight’s Tale” (Brian Helgeland, 2001)
- “Brokeback Mountain” (Ang Lee, 2005)
- “The Dark Knight” (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
- “Warm Bodies” (Jonathan Levine, 2013)
- “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare (~1591-1595)
Audio quotation:
- “Scream” (Wes Craven, 1996), including the song “Trouble in Woodsboro” by Marco Beltrami, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Rzp8_M_lU
- “Glasses Clink Toast Cheers Sound Effect” by UH Sound, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUjujV0PAaM
- “10 Things I Hate About You” (Gil Junger, 1999), including the songs “I Want You To Want Me” and “Cruel to Be Kind” performed by Letters to Cleo, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0FBF4FD9F6CFC790