123 School Work

Shrek Really Really

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  When DreamWorks released Shrek to theaters in 2001, little did the audience realize that the modern fairy-tale would capture their hearts, not only through CGI animation, skilled voices and humorous plots, but also with classic morals. Of the lessons presented to the audience, the most prominent moral elucidated is that we should not judge others before we get to know them, but there are flaws in the production that lead the audience to learn a slightly different moral. Throughout the film, Shrek learned the valuable lesson that he should not have judged Fiona from the first impression that she gave him. From this moral, the audience is persuaded to believe you should not judge others, yet you are allowed to judge others who have judged you. Even with the maturing of the characters, there remains the consistent mocking of Lord Farquaad. The mockery is presented to the audience as acceptable, but it is strange how the characters dismay the very morals they learned and judge another. If you observe the difference between the book and the production of the film, you may realize that DreamWorks impacted the themes, morals, and our view of the characters that were not originally created in the book. DreamWorks also presented Shrek with an underlying rivalry against Disney, which also distorted our view of the character Lord Farquaad. We eventually we come to find Shrek, supposedly a family-film, not so appropriate.
  William Steig, author of Shrek, originally wrote the book with the focus drawn towards Shrek's attempt to save a princess who is actually uglier than he is...