Alexis+Beckton

Shrew-ed Up
A modern day view of the play "The Taming Of The Shrew" & the movie "Fired Up"

...... Like most plays made by William Shakespeare "The Taming Of The Shrew" deals with honesty and deception in relationships. Lucentio and Tranio devise a plan for Lucentio to marry Bianca by disguising themselves as a teacher and another suitor. In the movie "Fired Up" Shawn Colfax & Nick Brady set out for cheer camp to trick girls into sleeping with them for two weeks and then sneaking away before the completion of the camp. ...... Although the play and the movie are similar in concept the Shawn Colfax & Nick Brady go about it in a different way. While the boys friends and coach don't know what's going the two boys create stories to tell the girls involving saving puppy's and dying Grandmothers to convince the cheerleaders into sleeping with them. Lucentio and Tranio were more detailed in their planning. Men will do anything to get close to a woman even if it means lying to them.

**//"We Have Not Yet Been Seen In Any House, Nor Can We Distinguished By Our Faces, For Man Or Master ..." //** **//(Act I, Scene i, 205-213) //** ..... In this quote, Lucentio and Tranio are first making their plan on how Lucentio can become a suitor to Bianca. Lucentio realizes that no one knows what they look like he tells Tranio to pretend to be him. To take on all the responsibilities "Lucentio" would have while he pretends to be a school teacher. They didn't care about lying to Bianca or how she would feel, Lucentio only wanted to trick her into loving him. He wanted to have control of her heart. ....The same trickery is the core of the plot when Shawn and Nick first plan their arrival at cheer camp. .... In this scene from Fired Up the two boys are talking their way out of Football camp so they can become cheerleaders. "So not only yesterday do I find out I'm adopted. The people I've been calling "Mom" and "Dad" are actually two infertile impostors who bought me outside of a meth clinic in Cincinatti for two boxes of Sudafed ..." While Nick is clearly lying to Coach Byrnes about his parents the coach allows him to miss football camp. The best friends with the plan where quick on their feet but every story came with a lie until they got to cheer camp.

.... In this scene the boys are caught in their lies. "These two have been playing you, they didn't come here because they like cheerleading, they came here because they like cheerleaders." The boys show no remorse when Dr. Rick, Carly's (the cheer captain's) boyfriend exposes them to the team about ehy they are really there. The cheerleaders explain that they always knew, but were in for a surprise when Dr.Rick presents bus tickets dated for that day. With the competition still another week away the girls feel cheated and hurt. "These two have been playing you, they didn't come here because they like cheerleading, they came here because they like cheerleaders." .... The boys are kicked off the squad and out of cheer camp, it isn't until their bus ride home when they realize that they had built long lasting friendships with the people on the team. "I'm not into all this hooking up anymore" Shawn confesses to Nick. With all of the lies they tried to use to control the situation they ended up losing control.

<span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">.... <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">In the play Lucentio becomes someone else and plays with Bianca's emotions. Lucentio couldn't predict the outcome of his plan but gaining her trust as a school teacher he was able to greatly effect her. Bianca didn't have a choice but to fall in love with him. While Nick and Shawn were at cheer camp they still had the front up that they were there to cheer which made the girls believe what they were saying. After the lies were revealed and the boys came back Carly couldn't help but fall in love with Shawn. Throughout time men have been taught to lie as a way of getting closer to women.