How Has Shrek Aged? - Eddache

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  @sirama31 · 4 years ago · pinned

  I work in a school and we had our grade 7's analyse fairytale tropes through Shrek. Many of the students had actually never seen the movie, the only exposure they had to the movie was through memes. They were not the most excited to watch it. Even though most of the pop references went completely over their heads they still actually enjoyed the movie and thought it was very cleverly done. The few students that said they didn't enjoy the movie seemed to base their dislike off the idea that the memes make jokes out of it, so it must be uncool. I for one enjoyed that unit most profusely. I spent the unit laughing my head off at some reference in the movie while students looked at me like I had lost it.

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  @hurd3203 · 5 years ago

  Fun fact, The first shrek movie is in the Library of the U.S congress. This means the first Shrek movie was so important that the U.S congress decided to preserve it.

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  @ryangoodrow8829 · 1 year ago

  Having a honey ad in a video about things not aging well is such poetic irony .

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  @weshansen7892 · 5 years ago

  The fact that I didnt know most of these references growing up shows just how good they've always been and still aren't outdated. You don't need to understand references for things to be funny--but if you know you know!

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  @modmaker7617 · 4 years ago

  Fun fact: Shrek 1 Polish dub was so influential to Polish dubbing history because it was the first Polish dub to replace American references with Polish ones mostly political. It spawned Polish dubs in its style called "Shrek Clones" which are made to this day. Even the MCU & Disney's animated movies Polish dubs are "Shrek Clones".

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  @TheReapers520 · 5 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiK-DPsCb1c&amp;t=535">8:55</a> I can answer this. I have a sister who has never seen babe but they constantly quote this line from Shrek as they just see it as a cute little line of Shrek sarcastically comforting donkey.

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  @weszszszszsz · 4 years ago

  the idea that a 2001 child audience would get 1950s Disney references but a 2021 child audience wouldn’t is very weird to me

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  @-callmecrazy-5859 · 5 years ago

  Shrek has aged well but has come in waves in pop culture, being a meme to make fun of for a long time and now people are actually appreciating it for being a good movie which I think is great

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  @Vanreis · 5 years ago

  I have an outside perspective on this as someone who saw the movie translated to Polish in middle school while I was still learning English and I rewatched it properly only a few years ago - the movie still worked for me despite many of the references not landing due to different culture because the makers of Shrek knew the FORBIDDEN KNOWLEGE. What is the FORBIDDEN KNOWLEGE? It&apos;s the fact that reference is not a joke and if you want to put one in your movie you better make it funny either way or risk it being unfunny to everyone who didn&apos;t get it or who watches it years later.<br><br>For example - I had no idea of who OJ Simpson even was so the reference was meaningless to me but the medieval knights following modern US police procedures was still amusing regardless.

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  @kazeryu4834 · 5 years ago

  I don’t think uncaught references will skew the data too much because your conclusion is that the movie is enjoyable even if you don’t get all the references. So naturally missing some references but still enjoying the movie would probably strengthen your core premise

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  @ApetureTestSubject · 5 years ago

  Seriously, that whole bit about Vic and Bob was an absolute revelation.<br>That is such a fascinating yet bizarre bit of knowledge to have.

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  @Beefy-Cheese · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiK-DPsCb1c&amp;t=696">11:36</a> Donkey&apos;s dancing is a reference to Chuck berry.

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