Satire of Fairytales

 
Satire is expressed everywhere, everyday at any time. It is the literacy work of a literature of human behavior by pointing out humor and stupid things people do. In Sherk made by Dream Works films uses satire through the whole movie.

                        Shrek            

Shrek is defiantly a different kind of fairytale, how is it that an "ugly ogre could fall in love with the princess"? Or how is it that the "princess can fall in love with an ogre"? In Shrek DreamWorks does an amazing job of using satire, making "fun" of Disney films that we all know and love. If it wasn't for Disney we wouldn't have all the happy ever after fairytales that we do. Shrek is making fun of Disney princess movies. Shrek the ogre trying to save the beautiful princess from the tower to get his swamp back from the prince. Usually the prince is the one to save the princess, not in Shrek. In Shrek, the movie pokes satire around everywhere, Pinocchio is in there with his lying and his nose getting longer, the three blind mice are actually blind. There are also the three little pigs and the big bad wolf, the big "bad" wolf is not portrayed like he is "supposed" to be in the books, he is in a bathing cap and a night gown and also sings at the end of the movie. Also Lord Farquaad is already the ruler of Duloc, his quest to become king makes no sense. Why must he marry a foreign princess to claim his own land? Answer: because it's funny because it's satire. This was written to mock the rules that serve as plot in many classic fairy tales. In the second movie there was a fairy god mother as well like in Cinderella but she doesn’t promote Shrek and Fiona's love, she wants prince Charming her "son" to marry Princess Fiona. I also think it is funny that Donkey a talking donkey falls in love and in the second movie has little dragon/donkey babies. Along with Shrek and Donkey being best friends you would have never thought of an Ogre and a Donkey becoming best friends. As well as when Shrek trys to go and wake up Princess Fiona he goes and shakes her instead of kissing her like in almost every Disney Princess movie. And lastly Princess Fiona is and ogre because she had a spell put on her when she was little which most pretty, beautiful princesses that we all know don’t turn into an ogre.

Shrek is an ogre who becomes the hero of his "fairy tale". Ogres are usually the bad guys so that sets the fairy tale idea on its head. Fiona starts out as a traditional "damsel in distress" princess, but it turns out that she's not really that type of character. She's strong, intelligent, funny, and when Shrek sees her "cursed" self, he accepts all of her, and in fact prefers her cursed ogre self. So that kind of satirizes the whole "princess" themes of fairytales. Not to mention all the pop-culture spoofs and satires in the film: The Matrix (when she's beating up Robin Hood's Men), West Side Story (when Robin Hood's men are dancing while fighting). Dulac is a spoof of Disneyland. This is a video that shows most of Shrek’s Satire within the movie

Shrek is an amazing example of Satire as well as Huckleberry Finn because Shrek and Donkey are best friends and Huck and Jim are also you would have never thought either pair would be together.