By Shana Logan

“This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay and/or viewings of Shrek”
Drew’s Script-o-rama http://www.script-o-rama.com/oldindex.shtml

 Cinderella
 Snow White
 Sleeping Beauty
 Three Little Pigs
 Pinocchio
 Gingerbread Man

 Rights
 Contract
 Public Domain: Author dead for 50 yrs.
 Publishers: Film companies first
(Downs and Wright, p. 300)

 “In Hollywood, everything is a commodity”
(Downs & Wright, p. 301)
 Playwright vs. Screenwriter: Money
(Downs & Wright, p. 301)
 Storytelling can be used for exposition

Once upon a time there was a lovely princess.
But she had an enchantment upon her of a fearful sort which could only be broken by love's first kiss.
She was locked away in a castle guarded by a terrible fire-breathing dragon.
Many brave knights had attempted to free her from this dreadful prison, but none prevailed.
She waited in the dragon's keep in the highest room of the tallest tower for her true love and true love's first kiss.

ACT I: Princess in distress in dragon-guarded castle
ACT II: Brave knight rescues her;
They fall in love, meet obstacles
ACT III: Fairytale ending – he gets girl

 Event / Ordinary World
(Shrek in his element: swamp; receives unwanted guests - fairy tale creatures that Farquaad sent there)
 Disturbance / Call to Adventure
(Shrek leaves swamp to get fairy tale creatures out)
 Reluctant Hero
(Shrek must rescue Princess to get swamp back from
Farquaad)
 Wise Old Man
(donkey becomes sidekick; provides exposition)
 Protagonist’s Decision / Into the Special World
(Shrek accepts mission to rescue Princess)
(Chapter 2, Down’s & Wright, p. 33)

 Enemies, Allies, Test
(Enemy: Lord Farquaad; Allies: fairytale creatures & donkey; Test: defeats dragon & rescues Princess)
 Inmost Cave
(Shrek and Princess fall in love on road to Dulac and
Lord Farquaad; their inner conflict leads to outer conflict)
 Supreme Ordeal
(Princess agrees to marry Farquaad; leaves Shrek; goes to Dulac with Farquaad)

 Enlightenment / Seizing Sword
(Shrek realizes Princess is an ogre like him)
 The Road Back
(Shrek comes back to get Princess to marry him)
 Climax / Resurrection
(Princess at the altar about to marry Farquaad; Shrek comes in to stop wedding; sun sets and Princess’ ogre side is revealed; Farquaad wants to lock her up again)
 Catharsis / New Balance
(Farquaad defeated by donkey with dragon; dragon eats Farquaad; Shrek and Princess in ogre form get together; marry; ride off into the sunset)

 Songs are integral to the film
 Adds to dialogue: Exposition
 Captures the tone: trendy, irreverent, fun
 Two tracks by hit-makers:
Smash Mouth: "All Star"
The Monkees, "I'm a Believer” www.cdshakedown.com/ 071301.htm

I thought love was only true in fairy tales
Meant for someone else but not for me
Love was out to get me
That's the way it seemed
Disappointment haunted all my dreams
And then I saw her face
Now I'm a believer and not a trace
Of doubt in my mind
I'm in love I'm a believer
I couldn't leave her
If I tried
- The Monkees


Human outside, ogre inside

Ogre outside, human inside

Low status, high morals

High status, low morals