"Don't get mad. Get even."
Movie theme:
In this movie, John Tucker is the star athlete, dream boy of high school and all girl want him. He knows this and takes advantage of this by dating multiple girls at once. When the girls find out about this, they are unhappy, but the main character convinces the girls to get revenge on him instead of fighting with each other. In Act two of Hamlet, Ophelia is only involved indirectly. Polonius uses her to describe why Hamlet has gone crazy. Ophelia is similar to to the main character in this movie, Kate, in that they are both the reasons that Hamlet and John are going crazy. However, John does not know Kate is trying to destroy him, and Hamlet is only pretending to go crazy (or is he?)
Ophelia's perspective:
Father hath scurried to King Claudius in order to reveal why thou "noble son is mad." (2.2.94.) I possess a wretched feeling in mine beating chest, for I do love that "noble son" so. Matters were worsened when dear father told the king I was the cause, and beloved Hamlet that has the mad effect. He told me to reject lord Hamlets' affections, and told the king, "she took the fruits of my advice;/And he, repelled—a short tale to make—/Fell into a sadness, then into a fast,/Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness,/Thence to a lightness, and, by this declension,/Into the madness wherein now he raves/And all we mourn for."(2.2.136-142.) Oh, then father caught himself in a situation short after, involved was Hamlet! Hamlet appeared to speak in crazed tongues, but father was not sure how authentic. So father decided he must "contrive the means of meeting between him and my daughter." (2.2.202-203.) Now I must meet with the man who controls my mind during slumber. How do I obey father if he keeps pushing me toward Hamlet? E're person I have met is aware that pushing leads to falling. O, I fear that my father's spying eyes will get him into trouble with Hamlet, trouble too deep to recover from.
Comparative/contrasting quotes:
"Basketball Coach: [sees John in the thong and Coach Williams holding John's ear] What the hell?
Coach Williams: I think this belongs to you, Coach. I found it in my bed.
John Tucker: Coach, make her let go."
"Hamlet: For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a good kissing carrion— Have you a daughter?
In both of these quotes, the characters appear to be outrageous. John, a very masculine male, is wearing woman undergarments in a hotel room with a female basketball coach. The girls seeking revenge on John arranged this form of payback, however John is legitimately crazy. He willingly put on the underwear because he is mad with love, and will do any ridiculous thing Kate asks of him. In comparison, Hamlet also seems to be crazy, driven mad with love as well. In this scene, Hamlet is talking nonsense, first about Polonius being a fisherman, then about how few honest men there are in the world, and in the quote I have pulled, he is talking about gruesome images about maggots feeding on dead dogs, only to bring up Ophelia. However, everybody only assumes that Hamlet is crazy, but he is only pretending which contrasts with John's character because he is willingly acting crazy in order to gain Kate's affection. In John Tucker Must Die, the love crazy womanizer is driven crazy because the girls he played want revenge. In Hamlet, he is putting on a facade, fooling those who surround him that he is crazy from heartbreak, in order to seek his revenge on Claudius.
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