NP Disney related

[Otto]

"But the worst example of the movie's runaway deflation isn't a dirty or
puerile joke. It's when the waking Princess Fiona greets the morning by
singing a genuinely moving song. She is soon joined in her reverie by a
bluebird, who trills along with her happily, until it attempts a
particularly high note-and suddenly inflates and explodes, leaving a pair of
smoking talons still clinging to its branch. It's a startling and downright
ugly moment, one for which you are quite unprepared. But it gets worse.
Fiona then sees the dead bird has left a nest of three eggs. We behold the
orphans with her for a moment, wondering what will become of them, until
this poignant image dissolves into three eggs frying in a pan. Ha! Another
joke! And Shrek and his mugging donkey eat the eggs for breakfast. The
audience in my particular theater groaned and sighed, obviously horrified.
If only they had known this was all a pointed, brilliant send-up of the
singing bluebird scene in Disney's Snow White of 1938."

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> Shrek doesn't just subvert the treacly Disney version of fairy tales, it
> subverts the glorious and mysterious and ennobling idea of fairytales
> themselves.
> http://www.christianitytoday.com/books/web/2001/may30.html
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Sorry, but this sounds like a real funny movie. If it really "subverts the
glorious and mysterious and ennobling idea of fairytales themselves" I don't
want to know what the author of the review would say to our "Hänsel &
Gretel"-game in Gravity's Rainbow. It's in the words "glorious",
"mysterious", and "ennobling" that give away the pov of the writer. He wants
to sell a romantic past to the kids, who are, I hope, not mislead to another
war by fairy tale stories.
It's the Disney-version that lies by leaving out the implicit sexual content
from the Grimm-fairytales.

Otto