learn about as a child. Shrek did not date back to centuries ago, it was not told orally, then someone wrote it down, and it has not been rewritten in other countries and changed due to different cultures. While Shrek is a unique modern tale about Ogres, talking animals, magic and more surprises it is also a spoof and audience should recognize common characters. In the article “Shrek and Shrek II” by Jessica Tiffin, she presents the fairy tales that have the biggest relevant in the film Shrek, not
"Snow White" keeps to the traditional fairytale convention, "Shrek" subverts and parodies the traditional convention. The typical princess is beautiful but in Shrek she is an ogre. In "Shrek" it shows that everyone can find their true love. However, Shrek doesn't end up with the beautiful princess he ends up with an ogre even though he loved the beautiful princess first. This could be saying that if you're ugly your expected to have an ugly partner. "Shrek" does stray back into the traditional
Charming. This has changed many of the common personalities associated with these characters. First the hero, Shrek is not even human; he is an ogre and considered a monster in the eyes of the everyday folks and is even chased by them periodically. Yet here he was the one that saved the princess from the castle and married her. Which led to her curse of being ogre being permanent. Secondly is Prince Charming who is often described as a brave, selfless, and handsome man who strives for doing what is right
costumes in Shrek The Musical were the cherry on top of an already well produced play. Shrek and Fiona looked like actual ogres and looked very realistic with the green face and body paint. From head to toe, Shrek looked like a real life ogre. His clothing topped of him ogre like look and made him look very far from human. Similarly, when Fiona turned into an ogre she envisioned an ogre from head to toe. Donkey’s costume was also very realistic. He looked very similar to Donkey in the movie and his ears
Princess Fiona In traditional fairytles, such as 'Snow White', traditional ogres and princesses are enemies by nature. in traditional fairytales it is the prince who slays the ogre and marries the princess to live 'hppily ever after' ; they are enemies. Traditionallly thee is good and evil, ogres are evil (wiched, heartless and violent) unlike princes and princesses who are goodwilled, noble and kind. Stereotypical ogres seen as 'beasts' are those who live in the wild and slaughter animals as
just use his ogre strength to reclaim his swamp. Why go to the trouble of rescuing a Princess at all? Shrek tells Donkey that there’s much more to ogres than people think. Donkey is puzzled and asks for an example. After some thought Shrek hols out the onion in his hand and tells Donkey that Ogres are like onions. Donkey sniffs the onion and asks if they stink and make you cry? “No.” says Shrek. Donkey thinks again and wants to know if it is because like onions when left in the sun, Ogres get smelly
How the Makers of Shrek Subvert the Usual Conventions of a Fairytale Using Presentational Devices In this essay I am going to discuss how the makers of Shrek overturned the expected characteristics of a fairytale. They do this by using presentational devices such as lighting, music, camera angles and visual effect. In my opinion if the film did not use these presentational devices the way they did, it would not be as successful and people would see it in a totally different way. The producers
a complete reversal of traditional writing methods. Unlike traditional fairy tales such as “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, where the handsome prince rescues the princess and they both live “happily ever after”, the creators of Shrek have used an Ogre (usually known as vicious man eating monsters) to be the hero. This has been used to help create comedy and an interesting, if unconventional, story line. Along with a series of characters who appear to be playing each others roles and magical creatures
fraction of the audience. Shrek (Mike Myers), a large, fat, green ogre with ears like tiny mushrooms and his new wife, the podgy, green ogress Fiona (Cameron Diaz), who had once been human by day and a monster only at night, are invited by her parents, the King and Queen of the Land Far Far Away (John Cleese and Julie Andrews) to visit them in their castle. Unfortunately, Fiona's father dislikes the idea of his daughter marrying an ogre and remaining one herself. Hoping to solve both these problems
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
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
Shrek: The Kindness of the Ogre Revealed Lord farquaad and Shrek use the correlation between them to distort the traditional fairy tale. Shrek barges in just before the happily ever after and changes the story for the better? To explain how filmmakers use presentational devices to change the traditional fairy tale to something more exciting and adventurous, I am going to analyze the characters of Shrek and lord farquaad. A traditional fairy tale that contains an ogre or something synonymous
Once upon a time there was a dude in distress, or in better words an Ogre in an ordeal. Princess Fiona came back to her swamp one day and she a saw mule sitting on her front porch. This mule’s name was donkey. This mule refused to move so the princess went to Lord Farquaads castle to have this situation figured out. The Lord Farquaad and Fiona had a discussion about her property and how a mule named donkey was on it. While she was having this discussion with the Lord, she noticed a very tall, skinny
different presentational devices to create an unusual film. Stereotypically the prince is good and the ogre is evil. In traditional fairy tales ogres are pictured as man-eating beasts, while the Princes are tall, handsome and save the Princess. One example of a fairy tale where an ogre is mentioned is 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. In the fairy tale the ogre is a man-eating giant. The giant ogre chases Jack down the beanstalk. An example of a fairy tale where a prince is mentioned is 'Snow White
save her daughter. He gets to the house in minutes and sees his mothers mutilated body. “What horrible sight is this!?” He cries. The huntsman the ogre and then the creature gives him an evil smile and says “This is all for destiny, puny human”. “If you surrender your daughter I will not kill her in front of you”. The huntsman starts to get angry at the ogre. “You killed my mother and the big bad wolf.” He says. “Now I must seek revenge for the innocent lives you took you putrid monster!” The Huntsman
of their respective stories. Momotaro himself says, “ ‘I wish only to go to the Island of the Ogres, to rid the land of those harmful creatures...I wish to kill the ogres so they can never harm our people again’ “ (Uchida 1041). Momotaro is a fifteen year old boy regarded as a hero by his adopted family. Momotaro, as thanks to his parents for raising him so lovingly, sets out on quest to defeat the ogres who have robbed from the people of the island. Momotaro is also a hero originating from unknown
subverted from the usual ogre being a man eater and the prince saving the princess to the ogre becoming the rescuer and the prince being evil person who sends the ogre to do his dirty work and rescue the princess. The opening shot is of a book with someone reading what is on the pages, with classical peaceful music, with the voice soothing like a classical fairytale. The sounds were non diagetic and the book was under a spotlight. Making the book stand out to the viewer. An ogres hand appears and rips
The Message of Shrek In traditional fairy tales, ogres are man-eating beasts. The prince usually rescue the princess, they marry and live happily ever after. How do the makers of 'Shrek' use presentational devices to reverse this tradition, to reveal the ogre as good, and the prince as evil? ==================================================================== In my essay, I am going to review the characters of Shrek and Lord Farquaad, and write about how filmmakers use different camera
The main characters in the Movie Shrek are Donkey, Princess Fiona, and Shrek. Shrek is an ogre who wants to regain his swamp, and travels along with an annoying donkey in order to bring Princess Fiona to a scheming lord, wishing himself King. I feel that each of them have absolutely unique personalities and characteristics because they help unravel the story by being who they are. Shrek goes on a quest to get his swamp back and doesn't expect anything else to happen. Shrek not only gets his swamp
tallest tower of a castle guarded by a terrifying beast. A handsome prince always rescues them, for instance in Snow White and the seven dwarfs the prince who rescues her gives her the kiss of life, which is supposed to make the story romantic. Ogres in traditional fairy tales live in filthy swamplands; they have extremely bad hygiene problems and are portrayed as angry, bloodthirsty beasts. An example of this is Jack and the beanstalk, when the giant finds out that Jack has stolen from him