11/8/2022 0 Comments Shrek face meme![]() Perhaps Shrek gets its edge from the fact that it is, in part, a fuck-you. How the hell did a kids movie have the right to be this confrontational from the very beginning? A far cry from Beauty and the Beast - even Beast was overly concerned with manners. It’s a gross-out sequence that still grosses me out - it isn’t cute-gross, it’s gross-gross. Shrek picks his wedgie, showers with mud, and farts in the swamp. And then it arrives: the glorious moment Smash Mouth’s “All Star” begins to play as muddy lettering and a gross montage introduces us to our hero. For one, we meet Shrek in an outhouse, and he’s immediately foul-mouthed and irreverent - this is no clean-cut Toy Story. Shrek forever.įrom the movie’s first scene, it’s obvious this is not going to be like other kids movies. It subverted the machinery of animated fairy tales by questioning who they are for in the first place, it let us briefly have a laugh at the Disneyfied views we grew up with, and it urged us to ditch them for the green, ugly truth: that we may all be deeply flawed in irreparable ways, but we still deserve to love ourselves. So how did a movie that seemed like it was doomed become a bottomless well of inspiration across decades? Beyond the green ears and the cute-ugly merch and the endless sequels, Shrek worked - and still works - because it is genuinely edgy. It now has resonance for people who were still babies when it came out. Two decades after its release, Shrek is still a source for shared references, memes, and TikToks. But in an unlikely twist, it has also managed the rare feat of enduring through generations. Shrek went on to become a global phenomenon worth billions. It was revolutionary, expanding the boundaries of CGI and challenging the accepted tone of children’s movies, while also becoming a box office hit. The film about an ogre who just wants some alone time before he gets a taste for helping people turns 20 this month. ![]() ![]() Usually, to get content like this, I’d have to sneak into a movie that carried a far more forbidden rating, like PG-13, possibly even R. This may have been a familiar character, but I was seeing him portrayed in a very different, even adult, setting. ![]() I mean, the Gingerbread Man was dunked (waterboarded?) in milk. It’s not a scene that’s crucial to the story by any stretch, but I remember watching it as a preteen and having a jolt of a foreign feeling - that even though I was watching an animated movie, I was getting away with something. When did Shrek win you over? Do you remember which scene? For me, it’s when the Gingerbread Man has both of his legs cut off while being tortured for information on whether he knew the Muffin Man (the Muffin Man?). ![]()
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