Here you find the gingerbread man who's got issues with courage (he doesn't have much of it.) There you find the big bad wolf, who just wants to be left alone to read a book in peace dressed in a nightgown. The story's got all the moral complexity you did not know you needed from your favorite bedtime stories, where noble Princes secretly nurse an all-consuming need for power, helpless princesses learn to become self-reliant, and villainous ogres get the audience's sympathy.Īll of this is centered around the fairy tales we all have grown up reading, but with unexpected new dimensions added to the characters. Shrek is everyone's favorite fairy tale about a terrifying giant ogre, who's not actually terrifying at all, but actually a sweet and sensitive guy who is forced to put up a facade of aggression to keep a judgemental world at bay that insists on seeing him as a monster.
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