Taylor+Stover

** //The wackness of the shrew// **
==== My movie is The Wackness, in this movie there are many as pects as to where love and change are involved. The relationship that i'm comparing from __The Taming of the Shrew__ is the one between Katherine and pertuchio and from __The Wackness,__Stephanie and Luke.In The Wackness, Luke falls in love with Stephanie, but she was quite the opposite from him. She was beautiful popular and ultimately unattainable and he was very unlucky in the love department, he knew just as well as everyone else that she was way out of his league. On the last lonely summer in New York before college Luke finally catches Stephanie's attention, he wanted to change her and himself so that his fantasy of being her one and only could come into play. He did everything in his power to make himself into the man she would want to be with. Unfortunately she didn't care enough for his changes or to change for him. ** Changing people is a hard task to accomplish, one can only change if they wish to.**====

 "A women moved is like a fountain troubled-
** muddy, ill seeming, thick, bereft of beauty." ** -Taming of the Shrew scene 2 act 5
 * Quote analysis:**This quote is saying that a changing women can be a bad thing, it can take away from her beauty and happiness. It almost seems like its saying that changing can turn one to be ill. When Pertuchio treats Katherine badly, in attempt to take the shrew out of her, it seems like he takes her dignity away as well. She went from a strong women, to what almost seemed as just a sad lost girl who gave into every command.

//"Know what your problem is, Shapiro? It's that you just have this really shitty way of looking at things,// //ya know? I don't have that problem. I just look at the do//p//eness.// //But you, it's like you just look at the wackness, ya know?// //All you have to do is look at me. And kiss me."// //-Stephanie//


 * Quote Analysis:** After Stephanie tells Luke this, he decided to take a good look at himself, and turned it around. Instead being the guy who was paranoid about things and worrying about little things,he started to act in ways that made him into the man that he presumed Stephanie wanted.


 * "Thus in plain terms: your father hath consented that you shall be my wife, your dowry ‘greed on,and will you, nill you, I will marry you. Now Kate, I am a husband for your turn, for by this light, whereby I see thy beauty— **
 * Thy beauty that doth make me like thee well— thou must be married to no man but me, for I am he am born to tame you, Kate, and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as other household Kates. Here comes your father. Never make denial.I must and will have Katherine to my wife." **
 * Quote Analysis:** Here Pertuchio tells Katherine that he MUST wed her, and with that he also included the plans he had for changing her, he claimed that he was born to tame her and strip her of her wild ways. And in The Wackness thats exactly what Luke wanted to do with Stephanie



**"Quote from The Wackness"**
 * Luke:** Do me a favor, Steph?
 * Stephanie**: Huh?
 * Luke:** Don't say nothin, ok? Just stand there til I leave. I wanna remember this. I've never done it before.
 * Stephanie:**Never done what?
 * Luke:** Had my heart broken.
 * Quote Analysis:** Here Luke is soaking in everything that just happened, he spent time and energy changing himself for a girl, who in the end felt nothing and only used him to help fill the void of her summer loneliness.

Conclusion
In The Wackness Stephanie didn't end up changing for Luke, in a sense it almost seemed as though she was scared to change for him, maybe afraid that it would take away the power and hold that Luke made her feel like she had over men. On the other hand in The Taming of the Shrew, Katherine gave in. She took the way Pertuchio treated her and made it work, which led her to change shrew ways. Making changes to better ones self is necessary for people to grow, and accommodate. But there are times when the changing happens to win someone over. Reforming to fit someone else's needs isn't