The Story Archive

Shrek

Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson · 2001 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

An ogre's swamp fills up with exiled fairy-tale characters, evicted by a small lord who wants a tidy kingdom and a princess who will make him a king. To buy back his solitude the ogre agrees to fetch her from a tower guarded by a dragon, with a talking donkey attached to him the whole way. DreamWorks built a franchise on sending up the Disney fairy tale and took the first animated feature Oscar with it.

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Attributes

Genre
FantasyComedySatire
Theme
Appearance vs RealityLoveIndividual vs SocietyTransformation
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
Anti-HeroAlly / CompanionDamselVillain / Tyrant
Plot structure
The QuestComic ResolutionIronic Reversal
Symbol / motif
The TowerThe MaskThe Forest
Conflict
vs Societyvs Person
Mode / tone
ComicSatirical
Culture / tradition
Modern / American

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