Heath Ledger is named immediately in three affirmative turns, and the consensus on the supremacy of both Andrew Keegan and Heath Ledger is noted, with no shots at the women in the movie; the two got to the mountaintop, Ledger's with a marching band.

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10 Things I Hate About You The Rewatchables January 9, 2018

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Apex Mountain

Andrew Keegan; Julia Stiles (one host puts this over Save the Last Dance; two name Save the Last Dance)

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Asked whether this is anyone's apex, the first answer is a hedged 'I mean, I guess Andrew Keegan', which another turn firms up as both his heat check performance and his apex, congratulating him for going out on top.
For Julia Stiles, two hosts call Save the Last Dance her apex, despite one taking issue with her dancing, while a third puts this film over Save the Last Dance.
Stiles is outshined by Heath Ledger here, and Sean Patrick Harris (as transcribed) does not bring it the same way in Save the Last Dance; that film also features an unrecognizably different Kerry Washington, identifiable only by how she over-enunciates like Olivia Pope.
Her later career is surveyed: Dexter as Lumen, the Borne (as transcribed) films that Chris Ryan would push for, The Prince and Me, the rough patch of Mona Lisa Smile and O, then Columbia and a return with State and Maine (as transcribed) and Silver Linings Playbook; she is very good at being mean.

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The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance

Andrew Keegan

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Nobody is sure what the award means, but all agree Andrew Keegan wins it: someone on fire and punching above their weight class; his lines are played as a clip.
Keegan is a prick in all the right ways, from showing off two modeling photos, this one or this one, to calling someone a cheese dick, a great nineties bully term; the modeling at the party is iconic.
It is clearly Keegan because nothing in his filmography comes close, though Camp Nowhere is defended as a good Keegan performance.
Keegan's heat check is also called his apex, a real Dion Waiters move; he burned hot and fast in this movie.

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Andrew Keegan could not draw the anatomy gag and David Krumholtz showed him how; the film was shot entirely on location, with Stadium High School in Tacoma as the school; Kat's poem took one take with natural tears

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Andrew Keegan (Andrew Keaton, as transcribed) did not know how to draw the anatomy gag and David Krumholtz showed him; the hosts find this baffling, debate whether it is a drawing rather than knowledge problem, and one notes that the on-screen attempt in four parts is not how it is done, though building it serves the punchline.
It is a very well directed, tight 90-minute film that hits all the right notes, down to the process of drawing the gag.
The movie was filmed entirely on location, so the gigantic stadium, staircase and Hogwarts-looking school is a real school, Stadium High School in Tacoma, Washington, which is wasted on teenagers; asked what happens there when it rains, the answer is that they shot in summer, and it is a grand vista for Heath Ledger's debut.
Research found the poem took only one take and the tears were natural and improvised.

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What’s Aged the Best?

The cast; Kat's ahead-of-its-time wokeness and coolness; Bianca's wardrobe and the Prada backpack line

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The cast is impressive: Stiles, Ledger, and Andrew Keegan, whose acting career has faded but who has fame as the leader of a Venice spiritual organization called Full Circle, covered by New York Magazine, busted by undercover agents for selling illegal kombucha and now pursuing sound healing according to a Keegan quote to Page Six.
Keegan was also in O, the Othello remake with Julia Stiles that marked the downturn of the teen Shakespeare trend; 10 Things is the highlight of a trend that started with Romeo and Juliet, and Hartnett is in O.
Kat's wokeness is ahead of its time: she slams Hemingway after someone calls him romantic, insists the Spanish Civil War matters, and delivers the line about being male and an asshole making you worthy of our time, while playing it lovable rather than as a shrill shrew. — Andrew Gruttadaro
Watching as an adult brings envy and respect for how Kat conducts her life at 17, going to weeknight shows at a bar; the film name-checks Bikini Kill and the Raincoats, bands one host only learned about recently via 20th Century Women; teenage characters rarely age this well, even if her coolness may have made her less relatable to teens.
Bianca's wardrobe, white jeans with a crop top, is back in even if the tailoring differs, and the line 'I like my Skechers, but I love my Prada backpacks' is both funny and prescient about a backpack renaissance.

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