Shrek - Blog Posts
I had an epiphany
about Shrek 2.
And its groundbreaking character-development-foreshadowing.
We all remember ‘Accidentally in love’, the opening song, where our newlywed protagonists are having the time of their lives
There’s this lyric in the first verse:
How much longer will it take to cure this? Just to cure it, 'cause I can't ignore it if it's love (love) Makes me wanna turn around and face me
HMMMMM WHERE HAVE I HEARD THAT
OH I KNOW
Much later in the movie, when Shrek has turned human and is returning to the castle, determined to change for the woman he loves, and ‘Changes’ plays in the background
AND WE HEAR THIS:
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Turn and face the strange
AND THIS (although this verse isn’t in the movie but it’s still IN THE SONG):
Every time I thought I'd got it made It seemed the taste was not so sweet So I turned myself to face me But I've never caught a glimpse
If the short evil dude from shrek was a square...
Call that a farquaadrilateral
Ok but, Shrek's story is a very good inspiration for any ship's fanfic. I'm literally watching Shrek 2 right now and I'm picturing a lot of ships lol.
I really need more fics, headcanons, C.AI bots or whatever. I just want to see more ships inspired on Shrek bc I love the dynamic 😔✊
Absolutely the animation is 5 stars the characters are just 👌🏻 and how they portray everything is amazing
to my fellow fans of animation and film in general: please please please, see puss in boots: the last wish in theatres if you get the chance. i mean it. it has no right being as good as it is and i’m very sad that there’s so little talk about it here on tumblr. i enjoyed every single character; they all serve a narrative purpose and everyone’s arcs are meaningful, including the worst of the villains. the worldbuilding & how the narrative plays with classic fairytale lore is extremely fun — a loving callback to early shrek that still feels like its own thing. the character designs are excellent. the animation is spider-verse levels of insane, with several transitionary moments that had my jaw on the floor. the music is beautiful. i was shocked by how just how dark the movie was willing to get at times, too; dealing with themes like death, mortality, animal / child abuse, commitment issues, and toxic masculinity. there’s a depiction of a panic attack that hit so close to home for me i was almost in tears, especially how they chose to resolve it. it was very touching and true to real life, which isn’t something you’d expect from a fantastical cartoon.
in an industry that’s being dominated by disney, we need to support films like this now more than ever or we’re not going to have many more of them. give it a shot if you can — i promise you won’t regret it.
I just got back from seeing that new puss in boots movie. I have decided that it is a cinematic masterpiece.
Badly drawn The beatles as Shrek characters? IDK ❤️
ALSO the glasses… i wanted to mix round glasses with mop top era john because yes❤️
Under 'memories I sometimes think I imagined': one time I was being babysat at a family friend's house, I think I was about 10.
My aunty (not actually a relation) puts on Shrek, on a burned DVD. I mention that it's burned because it's relevant to this story. I think it was just a plain disc, silver probably, with 'Shrek' written on it in marker. (Not relevant: I also saw 'Meet the Fockers' next to it in the CD album and felt vaguely scandalised for some reason?? Just by the name... I mean, to this day I would avoid saying it out loud.)
This is not my first time watching Shrek. I have enjoyed it many times before this particular day. I would notice if anything was amiss (foreshadowing!).
Some time passes. I am sitting on the sofa enjoying what is a standard viewing of Shrek, except for one thing. She comes back into the room to check on me. Is everything fine? Yes, I answer. Except I think there's a scene missing from the DVD.
By now, we're well past the point where it should have played (it's the Merry Men scene). I don't think I even get to finish my sentence before I realise she is glowering at me. This is surreal (to me). I was a very meek child and almost never got in trouble for anything, outside of my own family. She's frowning like I am saying something wrong, so I just backtrack and say it's a good movie and I'm enjoying it, no missing scenes at all, everything's Very Normal Actually.
She walks away and in my head I am left wondering what I did wrong. Perhaps she owns a defective copy of Shrek and this is a sore point for her. I don't know much about DVDs at this point in life-- maybe scenes can randomly cut out, she has never experienced the scene-skip I am describing, and I sound crazy to her. Maybe she just expected nothing to be wrong when she came to check on me, and the presentation of an obstacle upset her.
In the intervening years, I have managed to come up with the following semblance of an explanation: (1) she's very devoutly Christian*, (2) she purposefully had a cut of Shrek made without the blasphemy that was the Merry Men scene, thus enabling guilt-free viewings of Shrek, and (3) she wasn't counting on my existing memory of Shrek to be strong enough to detect any difference in this version, and was displeased when I called it out. Actually, on (2), it's not necessarily a religious thing now that I think about it, but there's precedent of religious nutjobs holding a very surface-level 'won't they think of the children!' attitude, the kind that might drive you to commission a 'clean' version of what is already a kid-appropriate movie. To omit exactly one dirty joke, because there are many others that cannot be censored without just... completely destroying the flow of the movie. (And I do think it's a great movie, a rare movie that grownups and kids can enjoy on different levels! It's a really special movie, beyond all the memeing it's so prone to.)
Anyway, I don't think I've ever typed this out in full before. I don't really expect anybody to read it. What's one more weird story on the internet?
I found this mildly unsettling at the time, like having tripped into an alternate reality. Now it's just bizarre. You're really going to stare down a child because they remember Shrek too well?? You're gonna cut out a whole choreographed musical number and then gaslight me into agreeing it was never there?? Wild. Formative experience for sure.
*she gifted me a 'My First Bible' when I was 5, and my immediate family isn't Christian. The imagery of the crucifixion scared me a little. But I think culturally, it kicked off a kind of outsider fascination with biblical stories and creation myths for me, so I guess that's cool?
Shrek Forever After is a masterfully crafted film, its full depth is squandered on the blank eyes and minds of ten year olds.
Shrek and Donkey went to Raven Brooks to rescue Aaron from his father who is locking him in the basement.
At a casino and Smash Mouth is here. They just played I’m a Believer?!? What year is it??
They played Shrek for the kids at work today and I fear….. all I could think about….. god…..
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Shrek and Fiona are kinda Kagehina coded…
Ooop- jumpscare
I am objectively correct and you all know it /j
The Substance (2024) // Shrek (2001) & Shrek 2 (2004)
I do have a landscape as my lockscreen but the best part is my background... it's just this meme of Shrek
I'm currious tumblr what is your phones lockscreen and/or background?
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