People may just watch Disney movies and walk out of the theater without having any knowledge of the meaning in the movie they just watched. They take their kids to pass the time away and maybe laugh for a few moments. Despite this, these people should know that inside every movie there is a meaning, even if it is an animated Disney movie. In this paper, I will discuss the movie Antz and the movie The Lion King.…
Shrek’s initially threatens the storybook characters in his swamp. His initial qualities is that of a tradition ogre. Shrek tries to scare villagers away by roaring at them. Also Shrek tries to frighten them by saying he is scarier than a giant. When the villagers arrive with the order from Lord Farquaad telling Shrek that he needs to move out of the swamp he towers of the villagers and Lord Farquaad.Shrek’s first meeting with Donkey starts off traditionally. Shrek roars at Donkey trying to scare him away, but Donkey is not frightened at all. Instead Donkey ridicules Shrek about his bad breath. Donkey continues to ask question thus causing Shrek to shout at Donkey ‘ What am I’ to identify to Donkey that he is an ogre.…
In the story "Hopfrog" the King and the Seven ministers hide behind the mask of royalty. Towards the end of the story, the truth really comes out. The ape costumes show who the King and his seven minister really are. They are beasts, monsters. Secondly , Hopfrog exposes the king to the people and tells them all the bad things he has done. The king has done Horrible things to Hopfrog so her tells the people how cruel and nasty the king and his ministers are. Hopfrog says “They are a great king and his seven privy-councillors,-…
Shrek is a big green ogre who lives alone in the woods. He is feared by all the people in the land of Duloc. When the ruler of Duloc, Lord Farquaad commands all the fairy-tale beings to live in the woods, Shrek loses his peaceful life in the swamp. He sets out with his new friend Donkey to find Lord Farquaad and convince him to remove all the fairy-tale beings back where there belong. Lord Farquaad accepts under one condition. Shrek must draw out to find the beautiful princess Fiona, who will become Farquaad’s bride, so he can be a king. Shrek begins his quest with Donkey. Fiona is in a castle which is guarded by a dragon. They rescued Fiona. Once they head back Shrek started to like Fiona, but Fiona is keeping something secret. Shrek and Fiona actually have something in common. The story, of course, has a happy ending, were Shrek stops Fiona and Lord Farquaad’s wedding, and Shrek and Fiona ends up together, at last.…
The king incessantly mistreats Hop-Frog because he derives pleasure from the anguish of a person he deems physically and mentally inferior to him, mirroring the moral flaws present in America. When the king summons Hop-Frog to help generate entertainment ideas for an upcoming masquerade ball, he pressures…
Have you ever wondered where the irregular comedy from "Saturday Night Live" and other humorous shows have come from? Well, Voltaire's Candide is the origin. The events that take place in the novel would not qualify as humorous in reality, but the author uses certain effects to make it that way. The incongruity of humor shown in Monty Python and the Holy Grail is also derived from Candide in tone, expectation, and place.…
Fortunately, Donkey was accompanying Shrek throughout his journey. Donkey serves not only as a comic sidekick but also as an ally. This ally helps the hero navigate unknown terrain in the inmost cave. Upon returning home and having to face his loneliness and despair, Shrek finally listen to Donkey’s insistent urgings that he would follow his heart and declare his love for princess Fionna. The ogre’s change of heart and the decision to act on his feelings can be marked as the beginning of hero’s initiation. The ordeal then comes when Shrek breaks into Lord Farquaad’s wedding ceremony to rescue the princess yet again. Princess Fionna, whose apathy for the lord is dwarfed by her affection for Shrek and then declares her love in return and undergoes…
Hop-Frog is mad because he was forced to leave his family to become a joke for the king. He became a jester and the young woman, also known as Trippetta, was a beautiful dancer for the king to watch. Trippetta and Hop-Frog are forced to do the unimaginable. Hop-Frog is forced to drink wine until the king told him to stop. When Trippetta tries to stop the king, he throws the wine onto Trippetta. The only time Hop-Frog gets respect is when he is helping the King come up with a show for his ball. Hop-Frog comes up with an idea about eight orang-outangs, he explains to the king about how the guests will be scared and entertained. As he is telling the king his plan, he is thinking of how he could escape during the performance. Hop-Frog would do anything to get back home. Before the ball, he prepared the king and his seven for the entertainment. When the guest finally got focused into the orang-otangs, it was time for Hop-Frog and Trippetta to…
Further yet, the king uses Hop-Frog’s intoxication as a way to help him create the best character possible for the upcoming masquerade. Hop-Frog is justified because the king is taking advantage of him. Also, the king is cruel because one of his generals forces Hop-Frog to leave his home. Hop-Frog soon becomes a present to the king. Because Hop-Frog is viewed as lesser of a human for his disabilities, the king decides he is the one to determine Hop-Frog’s value. Hop-Frog is justified because his value to the king is only valid when it comes to amusement and his inventive imagination. Secondly, Hop-Frog is justified because the king strives to make practical jokes. The king finds amusement in situations where other people embody embarrassment. For example, the king and his councilors find it amusing when Hop-Frog drinks the wine. When a tear rolls down his face, he drains the cup of its liquid, and his eyes gleam, the councilors laugh at the king’s successful joke. Hop-Frog is justified because the king’s aspiration to create practical jokes causes Hop-Frog pain and…
To what extent is the phrase “Lions led by donkeys” a fair description of what happened at the Battle of the Somme?…
“The Taming of the Shrew” by William Shakespeare, is a very notorious play that has been rewritten and turned into multiple Hollywood films. One very popular version of the famous play is the movie directed by Mr. Franco Zeffirelli. Although most think that this version is the most accurate representation of the original play, there are still many distinct differences.…
Shrek tells the tale of a lonely ogre trying to find his way though life in the forest. Along the way, he meets new friends, falls in love with a princess, fights a prince, and learns survival skills, all the while learning even more about himself. He realizes exactly what it means to be a good person, someone people can trust, as well as being comfortable in his own skin. Satire is the use of humour and with a critical attitude, irony, sarcasm, or ridicule for exposing or denouncing the frailties and faults of mankind’s activities and institutions such a folly, stupidity and vice. Shrek subverts fairy-tale traditions by making fun of numerous classic conventions by using unexpected events and characters, and by reversing things audiences would typically expect in a traditional fairy tale story. Vicky Jenson and Andrew Adamson make this story a modern day version of fairy tales beliefs today where modern day values have changed.…
In the movie Shrek directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, a significant theme is judgement. This is shown through people’s first reaction when they saw Shrek, Shrek’s conversation with Donkey and subversiveness of Princess Fiona.…
The original Disney cartoon of a lion cub blamed for his father's death has been remade into a Broadway musical acclaimed all over the world. Seen by over twenty five million people in over 15 thousand performances this intricately designed wonder has taken over 37 thousand hours just to build the puppets and masks. Julie Taymor the director and costume designer was faced with a problem of whether to create humans or animals playing the part and she decided to make masks that show the animal face, as well as, show the human face giving the character his or her personality. As for expressing other animals that are not part of the main cast or to express a certain theme, 2 different kinds of puppetry were used to express an African theme.…
What if the princess wasn’t cursed in the traditional means, and instead turned into a horrendous beast? What if the prince is not a prince, but a monstrous ogre? This musical answers these questions, and also answers the questions of what happens after “Happily ever after” for many of the population’s beloved fairy tales, like the Three Little Pigs and Pinocchio. Shrek, the ogre, gains a companion in the form of a talking donkey, and the two become the most unlikely of friends. However, this is not a simple love story or fairy tale. Despite the comedic jokes and light-hearted themes of the musical, there are darker undertones. Fiona and Shrek both reveal abuse from their childhoods, and the fairy tale creatures reveal the discrimination they faced when they are banished from their homeland because of their status. The central theme of this musical is not of love, but of acceptance of who we are. It celebrates multiculturalism and dismantles racial discrimination. According to Brater, "The freaks' heroic resistance to Farquaad's oppression provides the impetus for the musical's celebration of difference" is the most important aspect of the book (154). This is notoriously important given the year this was produced; the same year the United States received its first African American president. This central theme of acceptance and multiculturalism created unity not just at the end of the musical’s…