listening to a good song but it was in a shrek film so the entire time ur like
a joke apparently popular in Russia in the 90s
“Everything the communists told us about Communism was a damned lie.
unfortunately everything they told us about capitalism turned out to be true.”
A chinese official visited america to see how the american government propagandandized it’s people.
So the official went up to an american and introduced himself.
He said, “I am from china, and I want to know how the american government spreads its propaganda.”
The american said, “ oh, this is america, our government doesn’t do that.”
The chinese official said, “yes! that is what I am talking about, how did they do that?”
Like somebody in the tags has already said:
Hollywood.
Those actors are not paid so much only because of the money they bring in.
Americans are always the good guys (which gets glaringly obvious when you’re a third party watching the film).
America is the Everyman - in How To Train Your Dragon everyone is Scottish except the protagonists because that is the “neutral” gaze, plus of course the heroic one
Villains are vaguely foreign coded
In an Apocalypse only America is left standing, which, given the pandemic response, is laughable
The good, stalwart guy is called ‘Captain America’, for chrissake.
He doesn’t much like regulations, either does he?
The dire poverty Americans live in is made the standard and ‘relatable’, no one ever says: “We don’t live like that in Argentina, wtf is this?”
Every problem can always be solved by punching someone in the dick and overriding democratic freedoms
No one ever sees a Hollywood movie about terse diplomatic missions with grudging mutual respect by both parties after which, thank goodness, a conflict is peacefully resolved, omg that was close
You never see a movie about an American war crime. UN? Possibly. German? Constantly. Russian or Middle Eastern (though very seldom Israeli), yes, yes, often. America just Doesn’t Do That 🙃
I was drawing a bunch of pentagrams in my notebook during math class because I was bored and I think I drew 150 pentagrams in total before a devilish-looking guy wearing a red suit broke down the door of the classroom and yelled “wHAT the fUCK do you wANT?!”
this username escapes me every single time
i cant stop thinking about this post
same energy
How dare you. The animation for Shrek at the time was INSANE.
I feel like what people who were born after Shrek always miss is that it was actually a huge unironic cultural sensation. The minions want what Shrek had. The mcu sits awake at night cursing lord farquaad because they could never have a villain as well written as him
Shrek was a revolution for 3D CG animation.
Compare human figures in Toy Story (1995)
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Monsters Inc. (2001)
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001)
and Shrek (2001)
Even Shrek himself counts
Look at that detail - Shrek and Farquaad have subtle stubble, Shrek has liver spots on his scalp, characters have pores on their skin, Shrek’s ears here even have a subtle transparency like real skin and cartilage. His linen tunic has scruffy and rough edges and lint bobbing on the shoulders. Shrek doesn’t just represent a step forward, it represented a BIG jump. Look back at the early 3D Pixar films and you’ll see a progression in what 3D software could effectively render - first plastic toys, then chitinous insects, then scaly or leathery monsters with an enterprising look into the astoundingly complicated field of hair and fur. Shrek is a joke now, but it revolutionised the field of animation. Shrek finally prompted the Academy to add an Award for Best Animated Feature; after Beauty and the Beast lost Best Picture a few years before, Shrek was the point they could no longer dismiss the art and effort that go into animated films.
It also killed interest in 2D animation in the west but that’s none of my business
Never forget that they had to tone down the detail on Fiona’s hair because it looked TOO realistic to the point it was distracting.
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