Shrek: The Kindness of the Ogre Revealed

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

is often portrayed as an unpleasant being. For example in Jack and the

bean stalk the giant is hunting down the being for which he can smell

the blood of, he shouts fee fi foe fum .He is also made large and

heavy footed therefore he is seen to be the "bady"

In the opening of the film you soon discover that the opening is not

alike any other fairy tale around at this present time .It starts by

Shrek reading a fairy tale out of a book, you do not seen any part of

his body other than the big green hand that turns the pages. He reads

through the book until he gets to the last line which reads "and they

lived happily ever after" he stands up and shouts yer right you

realize that this wont be any ordinary fairy tale as he come out of

the toilet where he has been reading the story and jumps into a muddy

swamp for a bath! Which cues sub-titles and music. This is far from

the traditional fairy tale in what way you ask well... You are usually

introduced to a solemn young girl in need of a young charming prince

to come a rescue her from the highest tower of a castle. So I think

the viewers would be extremely surprised when they get the grossness

of...

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...he characters of Shrek and lord farquaad I have come

to the conclusion that although Shrek seems like a traditional ogre

Shrek is totally different to a traditional ogre as he as lovely

friends he rescues the princess then finds love through that quest and

gets married to top it off.

Although lord farquaad looks like a lord, his actions suggest that he

is evil. He torture the poor little ginger bread man, takes over

shreks swamp and then rejects P.Fiona when he find out what she really

is at night then still tries to claim himself king when he’s not!

The story SHREK uses presentational devices to reverse our

expectations so that by the end of the film we realize that the "bady"

is the” goody" and that the goody" is the "bady!"

Perhaps the message of the story is that you can’t judge a book by its

cover!