The movie She’s the Man (2006) is directed by Andy Fickman. It’s a romantic comedy and based on William Shakespear’s comedy Twelfth Night; or, What You Will. You can see that in characters and places names. The movie centers around Viola Hastings who pretends to be her brother so she could play with the boys soccer team. Leading actor of the movie is Amanda Bynes who plays the role of Viola Hastings. But all the roles are important for the plot. I will be telling about the characters later on.
The plot of the movie is humoristic and the personal relationships are complicated just like the ones on Twelfth Night. It all began when the girls’ soccer team in Cornwall got cut. At the same time Viola breaks up with her boyfriend Justin. Her brother goes to a music festival to London for two weeks. At which time Viola comes up with an idea to pretend to be her brother to get to play on the boys soccer team. The plan works well until some students are beginning to doubt. In the big soccer game it all comes clear and it gets some unexpected twists and turns. At the end there’s a dance in which personal relationships clears out.
The character s in the movie are typical high school students. The movie focuses on the soccer team’s players, coaches and their friends. Personal relationships are complex and in some way all relate to each other. Names and personalities are largely from Shakespear’s comedy but they have been modernized to the present day. The characters are humoristic which fits in comedy. The actors and actresses who were selected to the movie are popular among young people.
She’s the Man is based on Shakespear’s comedy Twelfth Night. She’s the Man’s plot is similar to Twelfth Night. Duke has a crush on Olivia and Olivia has a crush on Viola who has disguised herself as her brother Sebastian, Olivia kissing the real Sebastian not the disguised Viola and Duke learned from “Sebastian” how to get Olivia’s attention. In addition the names of the main characters are similar and there is lot of references to other Shakespeare’s plays and the names of the places are from the Twelfth Night.
I like this movie because it’s so fun and I don’t have to think about anything and still understand everything. It’s not those quality movies but it is the perfect movie for movie night with friends.