May 18: why is this day special for “Shrek”?

Shrek is an animated film directed by New Zealander Andrew Adamson and the American Vicki Jenson. Produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by DreamWorks Pictures. Today the family of the project launched to the world 21 years ago is celebrating, because a May 18 from 2001, Shrek he was introduced to the world, and he did it to stay.

The film features the voices of very important figures in the film industry such as Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy Y John Lithgow, among others. And it is based on the book with the title of the same name, Shrek of William Steig (was an American cartoonist, sculptor, and author of children’s literature), 1990. The film has been so impressive that it won the Oscar for Best Animated Film and participated in the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival in 2001.

His story

Shrek means “monster” in Yiddish and comes from the German “schreck” (fear, fright or shock). Its synopsis relates that: “A long time ago, in a faraway swamp, there lived a ferocious ogre named Shrek. Suddenly one day, his loneliness is interrupted by an invasion of amazing characters. There are little blind mice in his food, a huge, mean wolf in his bed, three homeless pigs, and other beings who have been deported from their land by the evil Lord Farquaad. To save his territory, Shrek makes a pact with Farquaad and sets out on a journey to get the beautiful princess Fiona to agree to be the Lord’s bride. In such an important mission, she is accompanied by a funny donkey, ready to do anything for Shrek: everything, except keep silent”.

Franchise

After the success of the first and original installment, Shrek became a franchise made up of a series of four films, all produced by DreamWorks Animation: Shrek (2001), Shrek 2 (2004), Shrek the Third (2007) and Shrek Forever After (2010). Already in 2011 the film was released The cat with bootsbased on the original characters of Shrek. This was distributed by Paramount Pictures.

Some interesting facts that we cannot miss about this production is that it is part of the AFI’s Top 10 in the Animated Films category’ In addition, in 2020 it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry from the United States Library of Congress. Something that very few achieve.

More than 20 years after its premiere, Shrek It remains one of the favorite movies of children and adults. Shrek it is “delicious, captivating, funny, intelligent, adult and adult cinema,” Ángel Fernández Santos of the newspaper described it in this way. The country.

All the movies in the franchise can be seen on Netflix.

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