Film Techniques Used in Shrek to Ensure the Broadest Possible Appeal To Viewers
The animators of 'Shrek' use many film techniques to make certain of
the broadest possible appeal to viewers. For example, its constant
references to popular culture, its new style of animation, its wide
range of characters and most of all its humour.
'Shrek' was an award winning film in 2000, receiving an Oscar for
'Best Animated Film'. The popularity, both on the big screen and
DVD/VHS, is due to its wide audience appeal and the use of the latest
ground-breaking animation techniques.
One way the animators have ensured a broad audience appeal is through
the films characterisation. The four main characters; Fiona-the
princess, Shrek-the ogre, Donkey-Shreks companion, and Lord
Farquaad-the evil guy, each have different personalities and very
different characteristics. This makes the film interesting and
appealing on a number of levels.
Shrek, Donkey, Fiona and Farquaad each put across a different message
to the audience, and each viewer, young or old, will be able to relate
to at least one of the main characters.
The main character, of course, is Shrek. Shrek brings a lot of humour
to the film but also puts across one of the main messages of the film:
'don't judge a book by its cover.' Shrek is an ogre living on the
outskirts of a town called Duloc, where he is hated and wanted dead by
the people of the town, mainly because he is different from everybody
else and nobody understands or knows him. The film sees Shrek
befriended by an unwanted donkey that, unlike anyone Shrek has ever
encountered before, warms to him and is desperate to be friends ...
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...pular realistic effect.
I think the morals that come across in Shrek are its best points. They
make the film more than just a film. They give it something that
stands out from so many other films because we can all learn a little
from watching 'Shrek.' So many of us can relate and respond to the
messages we receive from the various different characters. These sorts
of things make the film worth while to view even if you are not a huge
fan of animated movies.
Overall 'Shrek' is an excellent film that goes to so many lengths to
ensure a broad audience appeal in over seven main ways, the best being
its varied characterisation and refreshing humour, and extreme
realistic effects so that you cannot help but find yourself getting
lost in the world of Shrek, Donkey, and Fiona at least once during the
animated fantasy.
Throughout the movie the director breaks down the message in clever ways and makes the message very precise and clear. In the movie the director was attempting to teach the viewers a life lesson. In order to have peace of mind and continue to actually “live” it is important that you don’t hold grudges, believe, have faith, and no matter the situation don’t ignore signs due to your stubbornness or convincing yourself otherwise when you know the truth.
There are many more examples throughout this movie that can be connected or assessed to the many different concepts that was learned. There are many real-life events and these concepts are important because they allow people to see how different types of people and families deal with stress and problems and it is important not to judge or jump to conclusions and maybe take a step back and take time to consider what others may be going
The movie teaches us to look beyond the cover and into who someone is as a person. We also learn that sometimes contact with people makes us reconsider our judgement towards them, to find out the real person underneath.
In one particular scene, director was truly a great one, featuring special focus on his dad life and the Colorado River. It was so cool to highlights of the movie by one of his favorite poem written by his dad when he was born, the Important Place. Also, this film was a good length, not excessively long but long enough to tell the story. This is really important today there were no such unwanted scene in the film, which literary the most closely and accurately delivered. In my opinion, this film is forced to possess the characters of a great aspect, and turns to make for quite the adventurous. There was no special character encounter rather than his dad, learned something from the secret Colorado River. Another great aspect of the film was the special footage that were introduce in this film was an enjoyable aspect to be a good documentary film, and that’s how this film is different from the rest.
This movie is a wonderful production starting from 1960 and ending in 1969 covering all the different things that occurred during this unbelievable decade. The movie takes place in many different areas starring two main families; a very suburban, white family who were excepting of blacks, and a very positive black family trying to push black rights in Mississippi. The movie portrayed many historical events while also including the families and how the two were intertwined. These families were very different, yet so much alike, they both portrayed what to me the whole ‘message’ of the movie was. Although everyone was so different they all faced such drastic decisions and issues that affected everyone in so many different ways. It wasn’t like one person’s pain was easier to handle than another is that’s like saying Vietnam was harder on those men than on the men that stood for black rights or vice versa, everyone faced these equally hard issues. So it seemed everyone was very emotionally involved. In fact our whole country was very involved in president elections and campaigns against the war, it seemed everyone really cared.
Although there were many concepts that were present within the movie, I choose to focus on two that I thought to be most important. The first is the realistic conflict theory. Our textbook defines this as, “the view that prejudice...
Throughout the novel the reader finds out that one cannot stew over a negative situation, but instead, find the positive in a negative situation and move on to better things. In addition, people should always be themselves because we all matter, no matter what our differences.
The one of the main themes in the epilogue, and in the entire novel is
...movie that I fell in love with. But most of all I love how the story line is a great overlap into the cinematically engaging movie. There is a great use of camera, timing, shots and story line that are portrayed in this movie without being too overwhelming. This allows the audience to relax during the movie and just take in the scenes as a story from reality. To this day, and even still doing this paper I still come to find different aspects of the movie that I missed the previous times I have watched it.
...ence” is an example of one that is much more than that. Without relating this movie to current political events, the movie might not have resonated with the viewers as deeply as it did. Americans continue to see these types of violent movies for enjoyment; this enjoyment extends beyond the movie theater when the audience can leave with new perspectives. Movies live on through daily conversations, books, and the internet; however, this could only occur if we are able to relate the movie’s message back to something in our lives. People receive messages best when they willingly accept it and Cronenberg claims that Americans willingly accept movie violence because we all have a personal history of violence; that “it's wired into our DNA” (Interview). Without sermonizing, he shows us why we desire what is publicly reprehensible and how we are able to make peace with it.
... is the brutality of hate and racism. The emotions running high in the movie makes it powerful and moving and the death of Derek’s younger brother Danny Vinyard is shocking enough to bring tears to many viewers’ eyes. The movie ends with Danny’s voice reading his paper out loud and he ends his paper with a very important quote by Abraham Lincoln. This quote shows how Danny’s, as well as Derek’s, mindset changed from the beginning of the movie to the end. When hearing this quote it leaves the viewers in awe that Danny finally started to look past his hateful ideologies but ends up dead because of the lifestyle him and his brother decided to lead. “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained we must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature”.
Provide a paragraph ONLY summarizing your understanding of the film. In this summary, address the main theme or idea of the film as well as any underlying themes that are conveyed during the production. In other words, what primary message was conveyed to the audience IN YOUR OWN WORDS via the production of this film? (Note – I have seen all of these films – thus, this section should be one paragraph only – the majority of your critique should include your responses to Items 3 & 4).
...s is a good motivator. I believe that the purpose of this film is to show people that no matter who you are or what people tell you, you can always do what you set your mind to. No matter how many people tell you that you can?t do something for whatever reason, you yourself have the ability to prove them wrong, if you have the will power and the motivation you can get anything you set your mind to.
“We fight each other for territory; we kill each other over race, pride, and respect. We fight for what is ours. They think they’re winning by jumping me now, but soon they’re all going down, war has been declared.” Abuse, Pain, Violence, Racism and Hate fill the streets of Long Beach, California. Asians, Blacks, Whites and Hispanics filled Wilson High School; these students from different ethnic backgrounds faced gang problems from day to night. This movie contains five messages: people shouldn’t be judgmental because being open-minded allows people to know others, having compassion for a person can help people change their views in life, being a racist can only create hate, having the power of the human will/goodness to benefit humanity will cause a person to succeed at any cost and becoming educated helps bring out the intelligence of people.