{"id":18799,"date":"2020-08-15T21:26:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T04:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=18799"},"modified":"2020-08-15T21:28:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T04:28:02","slug":"classics-recast-into-high-school-settings-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2020\/08\/15\/classics-recast-into-high-school-settings-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Classics recast into high school settings, revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Back in 2010, I posted about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/02\/06\/classics-recast-into-high-scho\/\"> classic works of literature reworked as movies set in a modern high school<\/a>. Comments on that post led me to expand my definitions a bit, and I\u2019ve seen a couple more such movies since then. So I thought I would post the updated list:<\/p>\r\n<table>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <th>Movie<\/th>\r\n    <th>Year<\/th>\r\n    <th>Original<\/th>\r\n    <th>What I thought<\/th>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td>West Side Story<\/td>\r\n    <td>1961<\/td>\r\n    <td>Romeo and Juliet<\/td>\r\n    <td>Didn\u2019t love it.<\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td>My Own Private Idaho<\/td>\r\n    <td>1991<\/td>\r\n    <td>Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and Henry V<\/td>\r\n    <td>Loved it when I first watched it, liked it less on rewatching years later.<\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td>Clueless<\/td>\r\n    <td>1995<\/td>\r\n    <td>Emma<\/td>\r\n    <td>Loved it.<\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td>10 Things I Hate About You<\/td>\r\n    <td>1999<\/td>\r\n    <td>Taming of the Shrew<\/td>\r\n    <td>Liked it quite a bit.<\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td>Cruel Intentions<\/td>\r\n    <td>1999<\/td>\r\n    <td>Les Liaisons Dangereuses<\/td>\r\n    <td>Didn\u2019t like it. Perhaps that was inevitable, given that I <em>love<\/em> the Malkovich\/Close\/Pfeiffer <cite>Dangerous Liaisons<\/cite>.<\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td>O<\/td>\r\n    <td>2001<\/td>\r\n    <td>Othello<\/td>\r\n    <td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/05\/15\/o\/\">Thought it was okay<\/a>.<\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td>Brick<\/td>\r\n    <td>2005<\/td>\r\n    <td>Assorted Hammett stories.<\/td>\r\n    <td>Found it really interesting, but flawed.<\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td>She\u2019s the Man<\/td>\r\n    <td>2006<\/td>\r\n    <td>Twelfth Night<\/td>\r\n    <td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/03\/02\/review-shes-the-man\/\">Loved it<\/a>.<\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td>Beastly<\/td>\r\n    <td>2011<\/td>\r\n    <td>Beauty and the Beast<\/td>\r\n    <td>Don\u2019t think I\u2019ve seen it yet.<\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td>The Half of It<\/td>\r\n    <td>2020<\/td>\r\n    <td>Cyrano de\u00a0Bergerac<\/td>\r\n    <td>Loved it.<\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n<\/table>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,44,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-movies","category-theatre"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18801,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18799\/revisions\/18801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}