Blog Task 14: My first paragraph
DreamWorks Animation SKG emerged in 2004, along with its most successful film sequel Shrek 2.the "biggest CGI movie ever, grossing £470million"[1], becoming Disney’s biggest competitor. Unlike most animated films, it challenged the normal codes and conventions expected from this genre by using Levi Strauss’ theory through reversing the binary opposition, making an ogre a “hero” and the fairy godmother a “villain” in Propp’s character roles. This could be down to post modernism as they don’t believe traditional values.
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"I want what any princess wants - to live happily ever after… with the *ogre* I married."
How are heroes/heroines and villains typically represented in contemporary animation films? Paying close attention to Shrek 2 (2004)
society changing: more pluralistic, progressive
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