Article: Twelfth Night's cinematic adolescents: one play, one plot, one setting, and three teen films.(Just One of the Guys, Motocrossed, She's the Man )(Critical essay)

Some of you may have noticed the commercials for She's The Man inform us how the movie is based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (as if some professor is sitting there watching TV in the middle of the night, sees the ad and figures, "hey, if it's based on Shakespeare, I might want to check out that teenie bopper, Amanda Bynes romp."). (Waffle)

Many parents of adolescents find themselves at some point ensconced in the sticky-armed chairs of a local movie theater, awaiting a film chosen by their offspring and watching preview after preview for the latest teen films. I may, however, have been the only one who was bruised by elbows from both sides during the preview ...

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