ems asked Jasper Fforde:

What do you think about 10 Things I Hate About You-type adaptations? Any you especially like?

Jasper Fforde This is about the teenflick 'Taming of the Shrew', yes? I enjoyed it a lot, actually, and that is, of course, one of the Shakespearean tradition's greatest strengths: adaptation. Baz Lurhman's adaptation is probably my favourite R+J, and even if you don't like it, no-one in the history of the universe will ever better the moment they meet, with the fish tank in between. Inspired. Richard III with Ian McKellen, especially the queen departing for France in a deHavilland Rapide aircrat. Class act.

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