Shrek Reading?!

Okay this Shrek reading totallllllyyy threw me for a loop. When you watch Shrek as a kid you get the overall kind of “kid” message; be nice to people, everyone is different but our differences are what make us unique, etc. But these sociologists absolutely blew the lid straight off and took Shrek in a completely different direction. They mainly focused on how by changing a story in a book to a story based in animation the filmmaker had to dive into the plot and characters of these stories to make it more complex. The fact that they also used animation helped drive home the ability to play with fairytales and how whimsical they are. I guess my question through all of this is that did the filmmakers at Dreamworks intend for all of this to be construed? I find it hard to believe that someone making a children’s animated film about an ogre purposefully made stylistic choices that centered around political regimes like anarchism and totalitarianism. If the filmmaker doesn’t do any of this intentionally does it still count?

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  1. UnknownOctober 23, 2018 at 1:51 PM

    This reading also got me thinking. I was wondering... how conscious were the animators when making the decisions to make the story more complex? I wonder if they worked backwards, for example saying I want Shrek to dive deep into a "depression". Did they think of the complexities first, or did they say animate streak becoming more "sad" throughout the movie (in specific spots) and then realizing they were making it more complex without noticing.

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