Shrek: The Ogre's Kindness Revealed Lord Farquaad and Shrek use the correlation between them to distort the traditional fairy tale. Shrek bursts in just before the happy ending and changes the story for the better. To explain how filmmakers use presentational devices to transform the traditional fairy tale into something more exciting and adventurous, I will analyze the characters of Shrek and Lord Farquaad. A traditional fairy. a fairy tale containing an ogre or something similar is often represented as an unpleasant being. For example in Jack and the Beanstalk the giant is hunting the being whose blood he can smell, he shouts "tae fi foe fum". He is also big and heavy footed so he is seen as the "bad guy" in the opening of the film you soon find out that the opening is not like any other fairy tale out there right now. It starts with Shrek reading a fairy tale from a book, you don't see any part of his body except the big green hand turning the pages. He reads the book until he gets to the last line which says "and they lived happily ever after" he gets up and shouts, you're right, you realize that this won't be just any fairy tale as he comes out of the bathroom where he read the story and jumps into a muddy swamp for a bath! Which suggests subtitles and music. This is far from the traditional fairy tale where you ask well... Usually you are introduced to a solemn young girl who needs a young Prince Charming to come and rescue her from the highest tower of a castle. So I think viewers would be extremely surprised when they realize the grossness of... middle of paper... the characters of Shrek and Lord Farquaad I have come to the conclusion that although Shrek looks like a traditional ogre, Shrek is totally different from a traditional ogre as as lovely friends he saves the princess, then finds love through that search and gets married to top it off. Although Lord Farquaad resembles a lord, his actions suggest that he is evil. He tortures the poor little gingerbread man, takes over Shrek's swamp, and then rejects P.Fiona when he finds out what he really is at night, then tries again to claim himself king when he isn't! The story SHREK uses presentational devices to invert our expectations so that At the end of the film we realize that the "bad" is the "good" and that the "good" is the "bad!". Perhaps the message of the story is that you can't judge a book by its cover!