Essay on Shrek

The film ‘Shrek’ is the first ever fairytale animation. It was hugely successful in the box office. It made 52 million dollars on its opening weekend. It’s based on a mixture of different fairytales. This film subverts the conventions of a normal fairytale in order to expose the unrealistic portrayal of the fairy tale world. […]

For this essay I am going to compare two very popular films; ‘Shrek and ‘Snow White’. I am going to show both the difference and the similarities between the two films by comparing the genre, the language, and the use of animation and the characters. I am firstly going to analyze ‘Snow White’. This classic […]

The makers of Shrek overturn many traditional stereotypes through characters like Shrek and Lord Farquaad. Shrek and Lord Farquaad are the opposite of their traditional stereotypes with Shrek being the kind-hearted ogre and Lord Farquaad being the evil prince. Another example is, in Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack is chased by the giant, who wants […]

The representation of Shrek sometimes follows the narrative theory throughout the story, comparing to the fairytale of a hero, prince and a princess. In my essay I am going to comment on cropping, mis en scene, representation, connotation and denotation. I am also going to comment on how Shrek starts of as a reluctant hero […]

‘Shrek’, what can I say about Shrek? It is one of the most successful animated films ever screened, if not the most successful. Shrek has cleaned up at the box office and even stole the first ever Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film from Pixar’s Monsters Inc. So what makes Shrek so unique and so […]

‘Shrek’ is an award winning animated film that appeals to all ages due to its unorthodox and interesting approach to a fairy tale. In traditional fairytales there will be an attractive young maiden; a handsome, brave man usually of high office, as the hero; and inevitably bitter, disfigured evil character. Most plots will meander through […]