Shrek parodies other fairy tale adaptations, primarily animated Disney films. Shrek premiered at the Mann Village Theatre In Westwood, and was later shown at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or, making it the first animated film since Disney's Peter Pan (1953) to be chosen to do so.
Overview. Because students are typically familiar with the characteristics of fairy tales, the movie Shrek, which satirizes fairy tale traditions, serves as an introduction to satirical techniques. Students begin by viewing a scene from the movie and examining the ways in which it departs from typical fairy tales.
Shrek includes the following parody elements: Prince Charming the villain, Princess Fiona the ugly ogre and, the king who turns out to be a frog. These are parodies because they all put twists on your everyday fairytale.
Shrek was based on a real human named Maurice Tillet, a Russian-born wrestler who primarily competed in France in the 1940s. Like the ogre, Maurice was treated like a monster, described as “a fierce monstrosity, not a human being, but a stone of brutality”.
Dreamworks used words, actions, behaviours, and visual effects in Shrek to parody Disney features such as the Magic Mirror; The Three Little Pigs; Pinocchio and Little Red Riding Hood. Watch out for more references to Disney later on in the film!
Loosely based upon a story by children's author William Steig (Sylvester and the Magic Pebble), Shrek is a satiric, updated fairy-tale love story, sort of like The Princess Bride, if André the Giant had been the hero, and had worn Lou Ferrigno body paint.
Created by screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, Fiona is loosely based on the unsightly princess in William Steig's children's book Shrek! (1990), from which her role and appearance were significantly modified.
Rumpelstiltskin had his life ruined by Shrek's rescuing Princess Fiona, sought revenge on Shrek and got to rule Far Far Away (in an alternate universe), like Prince Charming, the secondary antagonist of the second movie and the main antagonist of the third movie.
It is the most ingeniously wacky, transcendently tasteless Broadway musical since The Producers, and more family-friendly than that gag-fest." The review also noted, however, that "Like other musical adaptations of hit films, Shrek... leans heavily on winking satire.
Due to his actions in the film, he becomes Shrek's most personally evil opponent. Overall, Rumpelstiltskin stands out as the second evilest villain in the series, next to Bloodwolf. Even Lord Farquaad, the Fairy Godmother, and her son Prince Charming did not go as far as he did.
Shrek is an animated family comedy about an unlikely hero, a faraway princess and the journey they take to find true love. The main messages from this movie are about following your heart and not judging someone based on how they look.
But all of the sudden, the evil Lord Farquaad banishes a bunch of fairy tale creatures to Shrek's swamp. So Shrek now must go on a quest to save Princess Fiona, along with a fast-talking donkey whose name is literally Donkey in order to get his swamp back.
Computer animation technology is extremely sophisticated, and several new state-of-the-art tools - the bounce shader and subsurface scattering - light the animated characters in a more realistic wa give their skin a natural glow from within. In Shrek's case, that's a green glow.
Dragon is a major character in the DreamWorks Shrek franchise. She is Donkey's wife, initially started out as an antagonist charged with guarding Princess Fiona in her castle, but later befriends Shrek.
As far as we're all concerned, their names are Fiona and Shrek Ogre because they're ogres. Other than that, neither of them ever had a last name mentioned in the movies.
crude or profane language: For some families this will be the troll lurking underneath the bridge. There are about 10 instances of crude slang or mild profanity.
Donkey (not known by any other name) is the second main character seen in the movie Shrek. He is seen as the overly-happy and annoying sidekick of Shrek. He appears in all the Shrek movies. He is voiced by Eddie Murphy.
Princess Fiona says to Shrek, "And where would a brave knight be without his noble steed?" Donkey misunderstands and comments, "I hope you heard that. She called me a noble steed. She think I'm a steed."
Princess Cinderella (simply known as Cinderella, or Cindy for short), is one of the princesses of Fiona's princess circle who makes her appearance in Shrek the Third. In the third film she is voiced by Amy Sedaris who later voice Tina Templeton in The Boss Baby: Family Business.
Victoria Jenson (born March 4, 1960) is an American film director of both live-action and animated films. She has directed projects for DreamWorks Animation, including Shrek, the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, giving rise to one of Hollywood's largest film franchises.
Shrek the protagonist is not a classical fairy tale of the handsome prince in quest of a beautiful princess; instead, he is an ogre. Grimm brothers wrote on text that they collected from the words of mouth giving the traditional tales a special structure and characters.
