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• 10 Things I Hate About You

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  Taming of the Shrew, but in a late 1990s Seattle, Washington high school.

• She's the Man

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  Twelfth Night in an early 2000s boarding school with a side of soccer.

• West Side Story

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  Romeo and Juliet with teenage gangs (one white and one Puerto Rican) in 1950s New York. Also, it's a musical.

• Forbidden Planet

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  The Tempest is already a bit fantastical, but this film takes it to another planet entirely. Yes, Leslie Nielsen used to be a leading man back in the 1950s.

• 蜘蛛巣城

  Throne of Blood

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  Akira Kurosawa brings us Macbeth, but in Feudal Japan.

• My Own Private Idaho

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  Henry IV part 1 and 2, but also a queer cult classic that takes place in the early 1990s in the United States (and also Rome.)

• The Lion King

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  Hamlet, but with animated animals and some fine music. Also, Nala is fine, unlike Ophelia in the original.

• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

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  Hamlet, but from the perspective of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern instead of Hamlet.

• Strange Brew

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  Hamlet, but in a Canadian beer factory. This is one of my favorite films.