#shrek 1

[eltehdork]

I am going to personally strangle tony fox.

You son of a bitch.

Remember these?

These blue flowers? With red thorns?

Im so pissed. It has taken me until someone said it OUT LOUD.

TO REALIZE.

ITS MY MOST REPEATED FUCKING REFERENCE.

TOBY FOX WHEN I GET YOU

[gamemerz69]

My redesign of shrek's children in shrek 5 because their canon designs look so ugly and terrible, and they don't match the shrek movies at all...

I made them look more medieval, more fitting to the timeline, more fitting designs, and more timeless and nostalgic!!!

I made Falicia a ogre princess because she wants to be like her mom, despite the fact she also wants to be a famous pop singer.

I made farkle a Rockstar that wants to be a knight to save the town, so he can be like his favorite hero.

And I made fergus a nerdy guy who wants to be a magician, he loves onion pops...(onion flavored lollipops)

It's a more shrek movie accurate design that'll match the original 4 shrek movies from 2001-2010.

Whatcha think, fabulous, isn't it?

Tell me in the comments...

[imagination-tv]

Well, actually, Fiona is just as much of a main character as Shrek. You might think what I've said is obvious, but in the entire culture surrounding this film, I haven't noticed that audiences even recognize her as a character.

All four films, even the third one, seem to ultimately revolve around Fiona, her family, or those connected to her. It's true that Shrek is the character who makes all these decisions that permanently alter the course of history, but he makes these changes in HER story.

SHE is the story.

[whatsupduloc]

thinking abt musical farquaad’s backstory rn and how, even though to the audience it’s portrayed as funny and a little pathetic, it actually is pretty tragic?

like yeah, it’s funny and all in its presentation. the ballad of farquaad is not meant to be legitimately sad. at all. however, if you remove the layers of comedy and look at the bare-bones pieces of what happened in his life, we get:

his mother isn’t alive, and died when he was very young in a way that was preventable (and something that young quaad probably heavily blamed his father for)

his father didn’t pay any attention to him growing up and was mostly absent, and he likely grew up very poor

not included in the song but like, context clues, i’m sure he was mistreated his whole life too on top of having an absent father and no mom, so there was noone in his life to support him ever

he was being pressured all this time into contributing to the “family business” aka mining which i’m sure he considered a humiliating and low-grade task which, can you even really blame him for not wanting to spend every day of his life doing hard labor

he knew his mom descended from royalty which definitely felt like a slap in the face, knowing that he could’ve had the life he wanted but it was just out of his grasp because she chose to be with his father

somehow he managed to stay living with his dad for 28 years, so i wonder if he was actually trying to pick up jobs and it was not going successfully? -> if he was not trying and just doing nothing (strong possibility), that was likely a product of a lot of hopelessness and built up anger towards the world (and for good reason)

on top of all of this, he had to grapple with a lot of self-hatred as well from his height which, honestly if i’m pushing it can be an allegory for being biracial? is that crazy to say? because looking at it from this perspective, he inherited this trait that he hates (that he hates because of how it causes people to view and treat him) from a side of his family that he now blames relentlessly for giving it to him, and now places blame on everyone else from this wider group of people to a degree so much so that he chooses to oppress them as an adult so he doesn’t have to deal with the weight of looking inward. which is… really sad? honestly this is i think one of the distinctions between him and movie farquaad (assuming they don’t have the same backstory) because musical farquaad’s actions are clearly derived from some sort of projected self hatred whereas movie farquaad seems like he’s just fairytalephobic (although movie farquaad fans feel free to correct me if i’m wrong).

lastly, i’m touchy about saying this out loud in general or making a separate post for it because of how stigmatized the disorder is already (please for the love of god don’t take farquaad as a reference for its presentation, please please please don’t, the majority of people with this are absolutely nothing like him), but all of these things that happened to him were clearly bad enough to have caused him to develop what seems to be narcissistic personality disorder, which is also obviously very untreated in him and something he would be struggling with every day. like yes, now he’s getting what he wants and everything, but it will never be enough to fully satisfy his cravings for attention and affection (which he never received in his past, leading to now) or anything else, because he can’t be god and he will never have full control over everything that he wants to be satisfied. he can look in the mirror and pretend he likes what he sees but it won’t take away from what’s really there, and it’s only a matter of time before the facade wears off and he can’t pretend to be blind anymore. and let’s be honest, his life definitely wasn’t just a series of highs one after the other, and he definitely had a lot of low points where he did see through that facade and it was really upsetting for him. and i kind of like to headcanon that his NPD’s presentation was more vulnerable than grandiose as a child (and well into those first couple years of adulthood) because it just makes sense for his environment at the time, getting absolutely no supply and just having to deal with his emotions in the only way he knew how, which by the way, was his FATHER’S FAULT!!! this is NOT a farquaad apology statement because yes he’s a major asshole who did a bunch of bad stuff he absolutely didn’t have to, but it’s undeniable that the development of these core traits of needing attention and supply are because of his upbringing and how he NEVER RECEIVED IT, was NEVER shown a single healthy coping mechanism, and was NEVER taught that anyone would love him unless he forced them to. he wasn’t SHOWN love, and that’s sad. farquaad is sad. this makes me sad

[whatsupduloc]

Now, lettuce turn the tables, what are your sincere opinions on movie quaad?👁️

rubs hands together like a fly

okay so. i dont really pay him much mind because i know both of us have established that musical farquaad and movie farquaad are pretty much different characters — he’s just really different from musical farquaad and doesn’t have many of the traits that i’m drawn to typically. the reason i love musical farquaad so much is BECAUSE of his flamboyance, patheticness, gayness, over the top dramatics (ex. the deep inhales for 20 seconds because he thought he was getting a pretty pony), etc. i have a thing for characters with mega huge egos (bill cipher being my previous #1 special interest for like ten years) which movie farquaad DOES have and i love that!!! but the way that musical farquaad goes about it makes me laugh and i love how emotional and sensitive + completely immature he is (literally acting like a child at the end of the ballad of farquaad, “I’LL PUNISH YOU DADDY CUZ I’M ALL GROWN UP AND BIGGER THAN YOU’LL EVER KNOW!!!!!”). movie farquaad might be this way deep down or something but what allures me is that with musical farquaad it’s completely unveiled and he’s not hiding SHIT. movie farquaad doesn’t really have this same outward childishness so he doesn’t interest me as much. + i’m not especially drawn to mystery, i like how you can read him (musical farq) like a book + also that his ego is so inflated that he probably doesn’t even realize how non-mysterious he is. i also really love musical farquaad’s backstory and how his fucking father is grumpy from snow white and the seven dwarfs its so good. his daddy was grumpy. so good. and about the backstory thing, it gives me more to work with that i draw on when i’m thinking abt his childhood which i do often (and have a young quaad design that i will make a better drawing of and post one day but it’s very different from your young movie quaad that i recall seeing you draw lol which is honestly a testament to how different they are in general) <- with movie farquaad we don’t even know if this is his backstory or not so there isn’t that element to explore in the lense of wow that’s pathetic he moved out at 28 yikes (and again the patheticness is what i enjoy)

anyways, i was rlly embarrassed when i first got this special interest because of who it was. lord farquaad is such a memed upon character that i knew i would not be able to bring this up as casually as i can bring up something like bill cipher, especially bc i have to then FURTHER specify no, it’s specifically when he’s in shrek the musical that he’s my special interest😭😭

that said, YOUR page specifically opened me to a world of regular movie farquaad appreciation, so i’ve come to view him in a different light as well!!! i never rlly thought the farquaad maya winky type jokes were funny just bc that type of humor is not funny in general (…to me) but i honestly still didn’t take him seriously so it was like internalized farquaad shame with my own interest in the musical version LMAO but then i came across you and all your farquaad posts and was like wait this is honestly incredible he’s such a great character

tl;dr i like him but he’s not really my cup of tea, essentially just because he’s too nonchalant for me. movie farquaad is a character that can genuinely be cool and musical farquaad is just so completely lame and that’s what i love. but i do appreciate him a lot especially since he originated what later became musical farquaad. at the end of the day they’re just SO different and i think if he were a tad more dramatic and flamboyant and over the top i’d love him a lot more but that’s where musical farquaad comes in to play. i like him very casually!! i’d say the only thing i expressly don’t like is his attraction for fiona bc 😭 you know the scene… it was not necessary… i’m so glad musical farquaad would never be attracted to a woman. god bless

edit bc there was one thing i forgot to mention: i do like how movie farquaad acts in the muffin man scene more than in the musical bc i think its way funnier. it contrasts them pretty well bc in the musical he’s shouting over this but in the movie he’s so genuinely intrigued and in deep thought about it that it makes me laugh. married to the muffin man……….

[tadoriaselan]

The GenZ I'm training at work described every shrek movie beyond the first as "too woke" this baffles me. What is "too woke" and how is shrek 1 not woke but shrek 2 is. Help

[whatsupduloc]

movie farquaad and musical farquaad are 2 separate people however i do think that musical farquaad looks in the mirror and thinks that he is movie farquaad even though he is so not. movie farquaad is objectively way more tuff and mysterious and intimidating than musical farquaad. headcanon on top of this that the nose + chin contour is canon in universe and musical farquaad doesn’t rlly look like that he just thinks it makes him look manlier and more snatched so he wears a bunch of makeup

[whatsupduloc]

everyone look at my shrek the musical lord farquaad specific nails and also this dog