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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‘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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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 following essay will be an explanation of how Shrek and the fairytale creature’s freedom of rights were violated. Although most people might not realize there were many violations executed by lord Farquaad against most of the characters in the movie. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is very important because it provides justice and protection for every human individual. Shrek is an ogre who just wanted to be left alone but his swamp was invaded by the rest of the fairytale creatures. He goes on a quest to save Princess Fiona for Lord Farquaad. Along his journey he has to overcome many obstacles despite his rights being violated every step of the way. Lord Farquaad was an unjust ruler; he violates fundamental freedoms, Democratic
The first scene of Shrek starts off with him in his swamp having fun to an upbeat track (All Star by Smash Mouth), which presents Shrek to be a laidback, peaceful character. After the opening scene, there were a bunch of nearby villagers, who have negative stereotypes about ogres, headed towards Shrek’s swamp to try to drive him away from there (Constructivism). The usage of stereotypes set a theme for the film, to never judge a book by its cover. Once Shrek met Donkey and Fiona, neither one of them assumed that because Shrek was an ogre, it meant he is an evil monster. In addition, everyone else in the movie does not call him Shrek. Everyone calls him “Ogre” instead, further confirming the stereotype. In another scene after Fiona goes into a cave at night to sleep, Shrek and Donkey have a conversation of the aftermath of their quest to rescue Fiona. Shrek goes off on a tangent about how people hate him despite not even getting to know him. Donkey shows an example of personal construct by telling Shrek that he never thought of him as an ugly monster. This scene shows the bipolar dimensions aspect, where people who never tried to know more about Shrek would have a default negative view about him. Donkey, who learned more about Shrek during their journey, does not characterize him as any type of villain and
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.
There is a non diagetic song over the top of the opening credits scene , it is a happy lively song, which reflects the personality of Shrek. There is a long shot of shreks home with the sunshin...
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