Animated Film Shrek
The animated film “Shrek” deals with issues and outcomes of avoiding
change, but also ultimately conveying change is inevitable. Within the
beginning of the film, Shrek is portrayed to be an intimidating,
aggressive, cruel and lonely ogre who has no friendly form of
interaction with any other life. He secludes himself from the world
because he fears there judging views; Shrek without a doubt believes
he is atrociously tormenting to look at, therefore hides his belief by
concealing it under his aggression towards all forms of life.
Through the opening scene of the film, where Shrek is within an
outhouse reading a fairytale, with the typical ending line he read “…
and they lived happily ever after”, Shrek sniggers whilst tearing the
page out and sarcastically says “yeah right, as if that’s ever going
to happen”, this displays Shrek’s unworthy attitude of life but also
his pessimism is exaggerated through his degrading words and sarcastic
perspective. Shrek tries to create fear towards all forms of life by
indirectly degrading himself, through the depiction of a sign in
attempt to prohibit any one nearing his swamp, he hand painted on the
sign “beware of ogre… stay out” with a fearsome painting of himself.
Consequently when Shrek meets Princess Fiona, and discovers her hidden
truth; her curse, Shrek’s perspective develops into a more
understanding manner. Changing from being sarcastic and bitter to a
sensitive and more considerate ogre, Shrek displays his change of
heart and attitude by picking flowers for Princess Fiona, where they
both progressively throughout the film grow to love one another.
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Novel –
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‘Lord Of The Flies’
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Author: William Golding
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Published by: Faber & Faber Ltd.
Published in: July 1959
About: William Golding sets his novel Lord of the Flies at a time when
Europe is in the midst of nuclear destruction. A group of boys, being
evacuated from England to Australia, crash-lands on a tropical island.
No adults survive the crash, and the novel is the story of the boys'
descent into chaos, disorder, and evil.
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When you see Shrek for the first time it is hard to know what kind of
My group including Alisha, Claire, Jessica and myself have decided to perform a re-told story of Macbeth in a fairy-tale context. The context we choose was 'Shrek'.
It is not uncommon to believe that humans are the most intelligent species on the planet. We are seen, by ourselves, as the strongest, most advanced creatures to ever step foot upon this green world. What animal wouldn’t want to be human if the opportunity was presented? In dog shows, for example, these animals are trained to have human-like mannerisms In Dreamworks’ production of the movie Shrek 2, Puss in Boots is seen to have very humanistic qualities that thinly veil the animalistic characteristics he possesses. In this film, Puss in Boots develops humanoid mannerisms in order to be perceived as an equal ogre assailant in the eyes of humans within the human world. Unfortunately for Puss in Boots, his cat-like bearings are emphasized all
In the 2001 animated film, Shrek, an ogre by the same name is on a mission to to regain his swamp back after Lord Farquaad begins to use it as a refugee camp for captured fairy tale creatures. Shrek is accompanied by a talking donkey, named Donkey. While on the quest to get his swamp back, he makes a deal with Lord Farquaad to go on another quest: rescuing Princess Fiona. The deal is that if Shrek rescues Princess Fiona for Lord Farquaad, Lord Farquaad will give Shrek the deed to his swamp and remove all of the squatters. Shrek agrees to this deal, and him and Donkey set off to rescue the princess. Shrek finds Princess Fiona and she is unimpressed by Shrek because he isn’t living up to her fantasies of being extremely romantic. The three escape and have a series of adventures together on the way back to Lord Farquaad's Kingdom. Shrek and Fiona fall in love during this time although neither one of them acts on their feelings. There’s a major miscommunication and Fiona almost ends up marrying Lord Farquaad but Shrek stops the wedding, defeats Lord Farquaad and marries Fiona (Adamson & Jenson, 2001).
This moment leaves the viewers heartbroken and stressed because Shrek looked extremely vulnerable as he was ready to tell Fiona how he really feels but is then crushed by the harsh words of hideous and ugly.this scene absolutely tells us that shrek is entering the abyss stage of the hero's journey, as he just faced his most challenging event but is then
Shrek, an enormous, disgusting green ogre falling in love with a beautiful princess (later turning into a nasty ogre) is a perfect example of a stereotypical fairytale, right? Well in the movie Shrek, the voice over in the trailer talks about a “hero” attempting to rescue a “fair princess” with the help of “his trusty companion." Besides the fact that the hero is a voluptuous green ogre and the companion is a donkey, everything fits in normally to the definition of a traditional fairytale (Diaz). Also according to Mary Kunimitsu, in fantasy films “There may be characters with magical or supernatural abilities such as witches, wizards, superheroes, mythical creatures, talking animals, and ghosts” (Kunimitsu). In Shrek, there are many of these different characters. Therefore, by explanation, a traditional fairytale with the beautiful princess getting saved by the prince and falling in love is exactly what happens in the movie Shrek, just with a twist. The voice over in the trailer for Shrek states it perfectly as he says “Shrek is a highly irreverent take on the classic fairytale” (Adamson). As an untraditional fairytale, and a parody, the movie Shrek poses the breaking of stereotypes of gender and film fairytales all the while keeping the criteria of a fairytale.
In my opinion, Shrek The Musical was a great play that brought the childhood fairytale story of Shrek to life on stage. The costumes, props, and backgrounds on the set were well made and it was obvious that much time and effort were put into the play. The story of Shrek was brought to life on Broadway and was very realistic and produced very well.
In the 21st centuries take on the fairytale Rapunzel, the movie “Tangled” depicts the troubled life of an adolescent that is raised by a woman whom is not her mother. Rapunzel is abducted from her crib as an infant by an evil witch, Gothel, for the sole purpose of using her magical hair to enhance her beauty to make her young again. As an eager Rapunzel ages, she soon wants to be set free into a world that she has yet to see.
It is likely for one to assume that a classic piece of literature set in a fantasy oriented stage will have no merits to the youths of today. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, however, with its crafty of usage symbolism, displays its relevance to issues that often trouble teens. As the story progresses from a children’s tale to an epic, the main character Bilbo undergoes a series of development, his experiences often overlapping with ordinary people. Reading the Hobbit will provide teens with opportunities of exploring the importance of several common but serious topics. People may encounter many of the themes presented in the book elsewhere repeatedly, but it’s possible that they never appreciated the applications it might have on themselves. When teens read the Hobbit, they perceive it as a simple fiction of adventure. Under proper guiding, they will be able to recognize and utilize the lessons of the Hobbit, and improve their attitudes and ideas about life.
ogre at night for the rest of her life, but when the spell is released
Original Theme statement: “ In Animal Farm, the theme using violence and terror to gain control is best shown through Napoleon because his need to gain control of the farm leads him to commit murder, tell lies, and cause fear to the farm animals.
This is noticeable when the fairytale creatures were banished to the swamp by Lord Farquaad. Since they were not normal human beings, they were seen as outcasts and thus banished away from the kingdom. This is also obvious when the townspeople go to kill Shrek with pitchforks. Shrek, being an ogre, is seen as different from the townspeople and a threat to them. This causes them to want to kill him to ensure security. The second thing I noticed in Shrek ties along with in-group and outgroup, which is prejudice. Prejudice is seen in Shrek during the scene when Shrek has a conversation with Donkey explaining why the world doesn’t understand him. Shrek spoke of the prejudice people had towards him. He told Donkey that people judge him before they even get to know him. People view him as a big, ugly, stupid ogre who wants to do nothing but eat them. This is the reason why Shrek is so isolated and avoids becoming close with anyone. The townspeople are prejudice towards Shrek because of his appearance which is similar to how certain people are prejudice based on skin color. Right after this, friendship formulation occurs between Shrek and Donkey. Like Shrek, Donkey has been treated
The animated film Shrek is a Dreamworks fairy tale that teaches us to look beyond what we expect to see, by completely subverting the traditional fairy tale concepts of gender, appearance and beauty. The characters in Shrek are vastly different from what we would expect to see in their appearance and behaviour. With unexpected plot twists, the directors of Shrek create important messages and morals that would not usually be conveyed, using techniques such as humour. The techniques have been placed strategically to result in an entertaining and educational film.
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien is set in a fantasy world that has differences, as well as similarities, to our own world. The author has created the novel's world, Middle Earth, not only by using imagination, but by also adding details from the modern world.
According to IDMb, the popular voice actors involved in Shrek were: Mike Myers (Shrek), Eddie Murphy