THEME: Challenging Stereotype (love, character, evil, settings)
NINA: Putting writing together
ANNALIESE: Putting writing together
SARAH: Notes (love, setting)
ISSY: Notes (evil, character)
CHRISTIE: Powerpoint
KATEY-LEIGH: Media (quotes, scenes, clips)
Shrek Classification
The film Shrek can be classified in a range of ways, depending on how a viewer sees it in their perspective. I would classify Shrek as being a film mostly based around the genre of love story, although it does fit into the genres of being a cartoon, comedy, reality, animation, and musical film. Shrek is mostly based around being a love story as once Shrek the character gets to know Princess Fiona, they spend more time together, and build a growing affection between each other, which continuous throughout the whole film. Throughout Shrek, Shrek and Fiona continue to grow around each other, even though they couldn't stand one another when they first met. The main theme and genre of Shrek is a love story because it is what brings all of the film together. Other than the whole film being an animation, it doesn't fit into the other categories as much, as they aren't what audience members remember about the film after they have seen it. It is the love that Shrek and Fiona shared, and eventually grew into over time, and it proved that anyone can love, and have feelings. Whether your a human or ogre it doesn't make any difference. This film was a very interesting love story also because it intertwined another man (Lord Farquaad) who was supposed to marry Princess Fiona. This therefore created a love triangle between Shrek, Fiona and Lord Farquaad, although Farquaad didn't even love Fiona, he just wanted to marry her firstly because she was a princess, secondly because she was extremely beautiful, and finally because then he would be King, and rule more than he did as a Lord. In other words, he was just a rich, power hungry villain, while Shrek had a whole different perspective. He actually loved Fiona, when she was in human and ogre form, and wanted to marry her because she was beautiful to him (in both forms of herself), she also had a character that he liked, which was stereotypically Princess like, but with an edge to it. Lastly, he loved her because they both shared the fact that they were ogres, and outcast from the rest of the world. But with Fiona in Shrek's life, he would no longer be lonely as the big, scary ogre that was hunted and feared. This is the reasoning behind why the film Shrek was based around the genre of being a love story, more-so than any of the other genres it fit into.
