For last weeks assignment, I watched the movie Shrek 2. I think that the movie has a lot of social representation, and it gives clear examples of it. I would also like to bring up that if you just watch Shrek 2 and not any of the other Shrek movies, then you don't know what time period that the movie was based in. That is the case with me, as Shrek 2 is the only one of the movies I have seen. I don't know whether it's based on modern times or medieval times. It has the same 'style' of communication that we do today (we don't speak like Shakespeare), but in the movie there is a king and a queen, which obviously we do not have today.
The king and queen are both older white people and the king kind of has this strange, meaning look about him all of the time. Even when you see him before he sees Shrek, he just kind of looks different from your stereotypical rich, healthy king. It must be intentional that he looks that way, because he's one of the bad men through most of the movie. Another example is the character Donkey. Donkey is a very loud and obnoxious donkey, but he also seems kind of low in self-esteem. After he drinks some potion, the dark colored, weak looking donkey, who is also voiced by a black man, turns into this majestic white stallion and automatically becomes high on confidence and self-esteem.
I'm not trying to say that the creators are racists or socialists or anything, but those two examples are only two of several examples of socialism. So feel free to discuss in the comment section and let me know if I'm for some reason wrong about what I'm saying.
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I thought the first Shrek was a better film that dealt with breaking character archetypes, plus I thought it was just a hilarious movie.
ReplyDeleteWhile they do talk like a modern time dialogue, I thought that the aesthetic totally fits that medieval time period.