When I was a kid I used to watch the movie Shrek all the time. The movie was just so hilarious to me I just couldn’t stop watching it. My favorite part in the movie is when Shrek goes to confront Lord Farquaad about all of these enchanted creatures living in his swamp. There are a bunch of nights waiting to fight to see who is going to save princess Fiona from the big fire breathing dragon and bring her back to Lord Farquaad so he can marry her and finally be a king. Shrek interrupts the whole thing and they try to kill him, but he makes a fool of all the knights trying to kill him, he pulls of wrestling moves in the wrestling wring and donkey runs over a bunch of knights with a big barrel of beer. The rest of the movie I just saw as a love …show more content…
This movie is actually quite discriminative. If you really look at it all of the villagers are discriminative towards ogres and all the other creatures. All throughout the town there are signs the say no ogres allowed or ogres are not welcome here. This is an obvious form of discrimination in the movie. All of the villagers think he is a terrible monster that will “grind his bones for his bread”. When the villagers go and try and attack Shrek he surprises them from behind and says he will “make a soup from your freshly peeled skin, shave your liver, squeeze the jelly from your eyes”. He says all this just to scare them away and hopefully they will never try and come kill him again. This is not however the way Shrek really is. Shrek as we later find out is actually nicer than we thought. He ends up becoming friends with donkey who aggravated Shrek all through the beginning of the movie. The reason Shrek became friends with donkey is because donkey did not look at him as an ugly scary ogre, donkey just saw him as another person he could talk to. This is an example of donkey not discriminating other people but getting to know them first before making assumptions about that
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
Segregation has played a substantial role throughout American history. Many court cases and different trials in different time periods have proven that a person’s skin color can dictate many things, such as where they go to school and where they sit on public transportation. The struggle to achieve equality was made even more difficult by the legislation of the Plessy vs. Ferguson case.
Its oppressive force lurks everywhere you go. Burning behind the eyes of one, lapping up the souls of another. Starting wars. Destroying lives. You can try to run, but you can’t hide. It is lethal, and you can’t escape. We are all victims.
Discrimination is too common in the current day and age. It is used to help ignorant, weak people with insecurities to feel better about themselves. Humanity as a whole needs to learn to be more accepting of others, differences and all. Disney Pixar’s “Day and Night” is a short film about two characters, Day and Night, who couldn't look past each other’s differences in the beginning, yet by the end, they developed a mutual appreciation of each other through getting over their fear of the unknown and discriminating others. In “Day and Night,” the characters’ lack of understanding and prejudice paradoxically assists the characters, Day and Night, in developing tolerance for each other and learning to embrace their differences. Ultimately, “Day and Night” proposes that even though the unknown is not well-perceived by others until they experience the said "unknown" themselves, humanity should be less judgmental and more open-minded because nobody is perfect and everyone is different and perfectly unique in their own way.
In conclusion, Shrek The Musical was a very creative and well produced play that I really enjoyed watching. The costumes, props, backgrounds and theme all helped in bringing the whole play together and to life.
Racism is a huge problem around the world. It ruins lives and makes people not want to live because of all the disgusting effects that come with it. The worst thing about racism is that people can’t control what color skin they have and how they look but people still judge them and don’t respect them. Racism discriminates characters because discriminates characters because it prevents, equal respect, equal laws / rights, and equal fairness.
Finally, Shrek must rescue the Princess. This is one of the major tests Shrek faces. When he arrives at the castle after prolonged journeying and conquering previous tests he is brought to realize more lies ahead than the forethought lead him to believe. He has to get his mentor across the terrifying abyss and rally him through the castle. He then has to outperform a dragon, besting it in wits. This shows the true potential of the hero. It really brings to life in Shrek what everyone hated however, in a positive light. It twists apathetic monstrosity into a strong, valiant
The Subordinate Position of Women in Shrek 2 Media representations tend to highlight the binary opposition which often depicts female as negative inferior and male as positive superior in the hierarchically arranged modern society (Shaughnessy, Stadler. 2002). By repetition, the media can naturalize the subordinate representation of women that no other interpretation is possible, thus leading to the legitimization of masculinity and denigration of femininity (Rayner, Wall & Kruger. P83). Male, or even female, unconsciously accept this subordinate femininity as both natural and inevitable and in some way correct. The film – Shrek 2 – although attempted to challenge the tradition stereotype of female in a male hegemonic society, its success was limited. The film actually helped reproducing and legitimizing the dominant position of men and the subordinate position of women.
Discrimination has been present in many forms throughout history. The hate filled acts have been performed many times throughout the years, but was seen as socially unacceptable during and after the Civil Rights Movement. Remember the Titans takes place during the Civil Rights Movement, and showed how equality between races was still being fought for in the community. Remember the Titans showed how football created unity between the white and black community, but also showed the issues the black community faced. Remember the Titans depicts many forms of hate filled discrimination because it showed physical violence, social outcasting, and protesting on the belief one race was superior to another.
The movie Shrek is a 3D animated adventure involving the protagonist by the same name and his sidekick, Donkey, as they embark on a journey to save a princess from her castle for Lord Farquaad. On the outside, Shrek is a mean and scary ogre, but underneath his “onion-like” personality lies a sad, lonely soul. Shrek is not a typical, Disneyesque fairytale; it is a fairytale that parodies every “once upon a time” and “happily ever after”. By making an ogre the main character, the film breaks the typically boring, fairytale pattern. As said in the movie Shrek, “sometimes things are not always what they appear to be”. One of the recurring themes in the movie is the idea that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, challenging people’s tendencies toward bias.
How would you like it if someone walked up to you and berated you based on the color of your skin? A characteristic like that isn’t even something you can control, so an insult of that nature can leave one furious and oppressed. Discrimination is inevitable in any culture, throughout history, in modern times, and even in ancient times. For example, the oppression and murder of 6 million Jewish people during the Holocaust, the African Slave Trade which occurred for multiple centuries, and more recently, the “ethnic cleansing” of Rohingya people in Myanmar, brought on by the government of the Asian nation, all of which are tragedies doomed to happen when history repeats itself and people do not learn
Many, many games have succumbed to its parasitic presence. But in the end the sandwich must crumble, for shrek is here with us, and always will be. We worship his presence with the offering of onions, in hope we too can become the sharpest tool in the shed. I once had an experience with the almighty green god. Be me, nine at the time.
Within Aladdin, there are themes of stratification, stereotyping, and discrimination. “Stratification occurs when members of a society are categorized and divided into groups, which are then placed in a social hierarchy” (Ferris). Race, gender, class, age, or other characteristics are the categorized qualities predominantly. Aladdin mainly focuses on issues relating to class and gender. Stereotyping occurs throughout the movie and can be defined as, “the judging of others based on preconceived generalizations about groups or categories of people” (Ferris). Discrimination is also prevalent in the movie and occurs when “unequal treatment of individuals based on their membership in a social group; usually motivated by prejudice” (Ferris). Ideas
communication to more intimate communication. Shrek is the fairy tale where the ugly, green ogre is the hero, donkey that talks non-stop as his sidekick, and there is a princess who turned into an ogre at night. At the beginning Shrek helped the donkey and as result the donkey tried to be his friend even though Shrek insulted him over and over. But the donkey could not realize why Shrek was trying to avoid him and liked to be isolated from the social life. Every one hated Shrek for his ugly outfit without thinking twice. That is why Shrek was tried to keep himself away from everyone and did not want any friend ever. But the donkey was a following Shrek at his every step after all the insulting from Shrek and he escorted Shrek at his journey of rescuing the Princess Fiona. But in real if anyone misbehaves as Shrek did with the donkey can never be friends as the turned out to be very intimate buddy at the end.
Love is a word that’s been both miss-used and over-used all at once. Romantic movies change our definition of and have a big impact on this definition greatly. There have been many movies and novels made over love, but never like this. “The Notebook” is a love story about unconditional love that two people have for each other. This emotionally, heart touching story will have your eyes blood-shot and burning from you not wanting to blink your eyes. This tremendously wonderful love story will have you not wanting to even miss a millisecond of this heart throbbing film. With many plot twists and many scenes that will have you falling off of your seat and you not having any nails by the end of the movie, this is the movie for you. This emotionally rich film is full of action, laughter, and romance, which is the perfect trio combination. This movie shows us how love can bind us together forever. This film went above and