What did Shrek 1 give us?

German Grimm is the originator of fairy tales. He was born in linguistics, but what made him famous was the compilation of Grimm's Fairy Tales. Last year was the year of Andersen, and we can't forget this Dane. Another great tradition before Shrek was Disney Company, but when children of our generation remembered the fairy tales on paper in their childhood, children in the late 1990s had acquired their traditional knowledge through cartoon TV and movies. Skipping Greek mythology and Aesop's fables, we came to the new world created by DreamWorks. We can no longer call the story of DreamWorks a folk tradition, it is a fantastic story. Shrek 1 is a famous work of DreamWorks. The first thing it should do is to establish its position in the new world in front of tradition. Then we can see how Shrek, the ogre, exerts his authority in the plot.

At the beginning of the film, Shrek is introduced as a brand-new character. The symbolic image of "ogre" comes from the magical literary genre in the romantic literary movements of 18 and 19 century to a great extent, which obviously has a certain distance from the folk oral literature tradition. As a traditional demon, Shrek lives a lonely life of rejecting outsiders. Until one day, a talking donkey came into his life. Later, more people from the "tradition" came around Shrek's residence with the intention of occupying his residence. All this comes from the villain Lord Faquard, whose kingdom Duroc seems to be the kingdom of traditional life-according to the plot, traditional fairy tale characters once lived here. But then Farquaad played a Chinese urban management, all the fairy tale characters were driven out of the city, and Shrek's forest was designated as their new residence. Shrek wants to negotiate with Farquaid. The emergence of Shrek, a "non-traditional" factor, made Farquaad change his mind on his own initiative, although he was fully capable of killing Shrek. The villain hopes to complete a hero rescue operation in the traditional sense and usher in a fairy tale ending in the traditional sense, but after he used Shrek to rescue the princess for him, he began to embark on an unconventional plot development track. Therefore, Farquaad can't expect this unconventional method to bring him a traditional ending.