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Shrek at 20: How a chaotic project became a beloved hit – Sydney Morning Herald
The idea that an ugly ogre could be a big-screen hero in a romantic-comedy fairy tale was not one that many had high hopes for.
But that genre had rarely been attempted in the movies (William Goldmans Princess Bride is the only film that comes to mind) and never in animation, Rossio said via email. In comic fantasy, you play all the story elements straight, with one change: the characters in the story are well aware of the conventions of the genre of their own story. It was an experiment.
In its early years, Shrek had gone through a few producers and filmmakers, including Kelly Asbury, who had left to co-direct another DreamWorks…
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