Subversion of traditional fairy tales

Valentin 2022-03-19 09:01:02

The movie "Shrek" released by DreamWorks was released in 2001. In the book that Shrek started to open in the film, it reads that there is a beautiful princess in the tower guarded by the dragon. She is waiting for her true love. The kiss of true love. Like the familiar fairy tales, the princess in "Shrek" has two appearances during the day and night. The dragon who guards the princess is a dragon who looks forward to love and falls in love with a donkey, and comes to save the princess. He is a monster, he is not handsome, there is no white horse, only a chattering donkey.

It’s not the same as a fairy tale, but in the end the princess still falls in love with that ugly and terrifying monster, a story of true love over appearance. The film ends here, and the ending is still beautiful. The princess becomes a monster and Shrek. Live in it together.

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Extended Reading

Shrek quotes

  • [first lines]

    [a fairytale book appears]

    Shrek: [narrating] Once upon a time, there was a lovely princess. But she had an enchantment upon her of a fearful sort, which could only be broken by love's first kiss. She was locked away in a castle guarded by a terrible fire-breathing dragon. Many brave knights had attempted to free her from this dreadful prison, but none prevailed. She waited in the dragon's keep, in the highest room of the tallest tower, for her true love, and true love's first kiss.

    [tears out a page from the book and shuts it]

    Shrek: [laughs] Like THAT's ever gonna happen! What a load of...

    [flushes toilet and comes out of the outhouse]

  • Princess Fiona: Where are you going? The exit's over there!

    Shrek: [going to save Donkey] Well, I have to save my ass.

    Princess Fiona: [shocked] What kind of knight ARE you?

    Shrek: One of a kind.