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The gist of the rom-com is that Bianca can’t date Cameron until her older sister Katherina finds a boyfriend, so Cameron attempts to set her up with Patrick. 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) – The Taming of the Shrew

Simba’s closest friends Timon and Pumbaa pay homage to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the original, and Mufasa, like Hamlet, returns as a ghost. But the parallels are hard to ignore: Mufasa and Old Hamlet are both killed by their power-hungry uncles, Scar and Claudius. It’s easy to dismiss the relationship between The Lion King and Hamlet, since Shakespeare obviously didn’t come up with the “evil uncle” trope. In both Ran and King Lear, two of the lord’s children turn against him, prompting the death of the entire family. Hidetora (Tatsuya Nakadai) is the character equivalent of King Lear, whose three sons Taro (Akira Terao), Jiro (Jinpachi Nezu), and Saburo (Daisuke Ryu) correspond to Shakespeare’s Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia.

Ran (1985) – King Learīased on both the legends of the daimyo Mōri Motonari and the Shakespearean tragedy King Lear, Ran is cited as one of Japanese filmmaker Kurosawa’s finest achievements. In the Shakespeare version, Tybalt kills Mercutio, and Romeo kills Tybalt, whereas in West Side Story, Bernardo (George Chakiris) kills Riff (Russ Tamblyn), Tony’s best friend, which results in Tony killing Bernardo. West Side Story (1961) – Romeo and JulietĪrguably just as famous as the source material, West Side Story follows forbidden lovers Tony (Richard Beymer) and Maria (Natalie Wood), who, like Romeo and Juliet, meet a dance and profess their love to one another in a balcony scene. Like Prospero in The Tempest, Morbius (Walter Pidgeon) begrudgingly watches his daughter Alta (Anne Francis) fall in love with one of the outsiders, just like Miranda does in the Shakespeare play. Rather than getting stranded on an island, the expedition scientists in the 1956 American science fiction film find themselves on a faraway planet. 7 Shakespeare-Inspired Films Forbidden Planet (1956) – The Tempest Take these 7 blockbuster hits for example - their writers took inspiration from arguably the greatest writer in the English language: William Shakespeare.

Just because you’re an insanely creative creator doesn’t mean you need to reinvent the wheel.