Shrek Evaluation

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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.
In the film directed by Andrew Adamson, and Vicky Jenson, a creature named Shrek lives a peaceful life deep in the woods, and then one day this life is disturbed by all sorts of fairytale creatures that have been relocated to Shrek’s home by the ruler of Duloc, Lord Farquaad. Shrek and the talkative Donkey arrange to find Lord Farquaad in order to convince him to take the fairytale beings back from where they came from. Farquaad, who wants to become the King of Duloc, agrees to take the creatures back under one condition: the ogre must bring Princess Fiona so that she may become Lord Farquaad’s bride. Shrek fulfills his quest but on the way back to Duloc he develops feelings toward Princess Fiona. Piotr Sobocinski, the movie cinematographer, applied variety of visual ideas that focused on the beauty of a fantasy landscape during the long journey. Harry Gregson-Williams, John Powell, and James McKee Smith made the motion picture complete by adding music to the story. The music and ...

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...high angle shots, two or three shots, and close ups establish the mood and relationship between the characters. Whether the sound was orchestral or pop music, it had a significant value to the plot, sequences, and shots of the story. In the case of movie shots, editing had a significant value to the film in order to help identify characters importance to the plot of a story.

Works Cited
Adamson, Andrew, Vicky Jenson, Aron Warner, John H. Williams, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Ted
Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman, Roger S. H. Schulman, Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, John Lithgow, Cameron Diaz, Vincent Cassel, and William Steig. Shrek. Glendale, CA: DreamWorks Animation, 2006.
Everett, Mark. “My Beloved Monster.” Rec. 1996. Eels. DreamWorks, 2001. MP3.
Jett, Joan. “Bad Reputation.” Rec. 1981. Bad Reputation. Blackheart Records, MP3.
“Shrek.” IMDb. IMDb.com, Web. 16 Nov. 2013.

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