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After Farley's passing, talks went around the studio about hiring an impersonator to finish the line [...]	D
Conflicting theories abound as to Donkey's origin: one theory states he parodies Winnie-the-Pooh's E [...]	D
This is the only Shrek film where the main cast members names are shown at the beginning instead of [...]	D
Shrek compares ogres to onions, saying they both have layers. This refers to the Henrik Ibsen play ' [...]	D
In November 1998, it was announced that DreamWorks was seriously considering releasing the movie, no [...]	D
The dragon has a cookbook that includes "choice cuts" and the diagram of a knight chopped up.	D
This film was the first winner for the inaugural Best Animated Film category of the Academy Awards 2 [...]	D
This is the third, and so far the last, DreamWorks animated film (and the only film in the Shrek ser [...]	D
When the masked executioner, Thelonious, is singing, it is a direct reference to a "Stacker 2" comme [...]	D
1,250 props and environments were created in the computer for the first film.	D
Eddie Murphy and Jeffrey Katzenberg have known each other since the beginning of their film careers. [...]	D
Tom Kenny was going to voice a mugger in the original Chris Farley version. His character was going [...]	D
Radio Disney was told not to allow any ads for the film to air on the station, stating, "Due to rece [...]	D
John Lithgow was asked whether or not the adult jokes in the movie would've been too inappropriate f [...]	D
It was announced the week of the movie's release that a sequel, Shrek 2 (2004), was already under wa [...]	D
Some viewers have complained that Robin Hood was English and should not speak with a French accent. [...]	D
Shrek's outhouse has a crescent moon (the DreamWorks logo) on its door.The filmmakers had planned to [...]	D
While Donkey is a hooved animal, his movements are based on dogs and rabbits.	D
During a voiceover session, Cody Cameron suggested that Cameron Diaz marry him "... so you can becom [...]	D
An additional scene was storyboarded but never filmed that revealed Lord Farquaad's plan for Duloc. [...]	D
Janeane Garofalo was originally set to voice Princess Fiona but was summarily fired without explanat [...]	D
Because the film took so long to make, DreamWorks were able to reference other films that weren't ev [...]	D
One of the most difficult parts of creating the film was making Donkey's fur flow smoothly so that i [...]	D
Gingy, the Gingerbread Man, later became a mascot for Wal-Mart.	D
During the "Ogres are like onions" scene, the sunflowers in the background are facing the sun, which [...]	D
Loosely based on William Steig's fairytale picture book of the same name.	D
Chris Farley was originally cast as Shrek and even recorded almost all of the dialogue. However, aft [...]	D
The only film in the Shrek franchise to not take place in Far Far Away.	D
The film reached the $100 million mark after 11 days equaling the time it took Toy Story 2 - Woody & [...]	D
The third computer-animated film to be rated PG by the MPAA after Antz (1998) and Dinosaur (2000).	D
Lord Farquaad uses the lowercase 'F' ("small" f) as his flag. This is a reflection of his small stat [...]	D
Shrek's production was so grueling that Dreamworks allegedly used it as a sort of punishment. Animat [...]	D
The filmmakers also cut a lot of cameos from famous fairy tale characters from the early storyboard [...]	D
Planned characters not used in the film include Goldilocks and Sleeping Beauty. The latter of which [...]	D
After Shrek and Donkey defeat the knights at the tournament Shrek turns to the crowd and says, "Try [...]	D
Eddie Murphy says the Shrek series is among his best works.	D
Originally, there was supposed to be a scene where Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey goes through an enchante [...]	D
In the scene where everyone is lining up with their magical creatures for sale, the woman that has D [...]	D
The list of fairytale characters in the movie: Snow White and the Seven Dwarves; the Wicked Witch of [...]	D
A shot-for-shot remake, Shrek Retold (2018), was released on the internet in 2018. It has gained 2.8 [...]	D
Dreamworks considered re-releasing the film to a limited number of theaters on November 2nd, 2001, a [...]	D
The film borrows a few ideas from Disney films. Examples include: Fiona singing with a blue bird, wh [...]	D
Prior to release, the movie was viewed by DreamWorks' lawyers, since there were concerns that Disney [...]	D
In August 2022, animation tests made in 1996 depicting Shrek's original design were uploaded on YouT [...]	D
The only Shrek movie that hadn't been in production for only three years, but rather four to five ye [...]	D
The scene where Princess Fiona burps was written after a recording session where Cameron Diaz burped [...]	D
By 1997, the project was then completely re-tooled: director Ron Tippe was replaced by Kelly Asbury, [...]	D
Everything in Farquaad's castle is designed to be angular (no curves or bends) to heighten his evil [...]	D
Fiona's capture was storyboarded but never filmed. It was instead revealed over the course of the se [...]	D
Fiona uses a leaf as a hot pad when picking up the stone she used to cook eggs from the bird she mad [...]	D
Co-director Andrew Adamson frequently found himself at loggerheads with Jeffrey Katzenberg over the [...]	D
John Lithgow, who voices the dwarf Lord Farquaad, is considered one of Hollywood's tallest actors (h [...]	D
Shrek has become the subject of several internet memes; these range from the infamous 'Shrek is love [...]	D
The first 2001 film to win the "Best Animated Feature" Oscar, beating out Jimmy Neutron - Ragazzo pr [...]	D
The film's story originally followed the adventures of a teenage ogre who just didn't want to lurk a [...]	D
Towards the end, Dragon knocks out the last pane of glass stained window. And all that remains is th [...]	D
Back in 2001, DreamWorks said in February 2003 that the Shrek franchise was expected to deliver $1 b [...]	D
The film's music editor provided the sound of the dragon 'burping' up Farquaad's crown.	D
The "Fairytale" theme that opens the film would become the theme music for DreamWorks Animation.	D
Linda Hunt was slated to voice a character, Dama Fortuna in the original Chris Farley version. Her c [...]	D
When the fairytale creatures arrive at Shrek's swamp, you can see Papa Bear comforting Baby Bear at [...]	D
The song "All Star" by Smash Mouth, heard in the opening credits, was only a placeholder for test sc [...]	D
The job of composing the score was offered to David Newman, but he turned it down because of his wor [...]	D
The knight that gives Donkey a mean stare is the same one that tried to capture him at the beginning [...]	D
Cameron Diaz has said that Princess Fiona's romantic/practical nature was more like her sister rathe [...]	D
Mike Myers actually read opposite his (then) wife Robin Ruzan when recording his lines for the clima [...]	D
In the original script Dragon was going to have hair on her head and be more overweight so Donkey's [...]	D
Shrek showering in mud and bathing in water were two of the hardest things to animate in the movie. [...]	D
Shrek became DreamWorks' mascot for the company's animated productions.	D
Earlier in his film career, J.J. Abrams worked on this film (credited as Jeffrey Abrams) as part of [...]	D
Shrek saying to Donkey, "That'll do, Donkey, that'll do" is a reference to the 1995 film "Babe" abou [...]	D
The effects department actually took mud showers to study how to realistically portray mud in the fi [...]	D
Just after release, DreamWorks started work on Shrek 2 (2004).	D
Mike Myers originally voiced Shrek with his natural speaking voice before the film was test-screened [...]	D
Director Andrew Adamson chose to replace the earlier tournament scene with the WWF spoof because to [...]	D
Kathleen Freeman's final feature movie before her death shortly four months later.	D
The film has 31 sequences, with 1,288 shots in every sequence total.	D
Robin Williams was going to have a role in the film, but he suffered a bitter falling-out with Jeffr [...]	D
Storyboard artist Cody Cameron provided the voices for Pinocchio and the Three Little Pigs. In fact, [...]	D
According to Andrew Adamson, Shrek's height varies between seven and eight feet depending on who you [...]	D
Second Cameron Diaz movie where her love interest was green. The Mask (Cameron's movie debut) was th [...]	D
Donkey's appearance was based on Pericles ("Perry"), a miniature Donkey who lives in Barron Park, Pa [...]	D
Early concept sketches of Shrek in the 1990s saw him living in a garbage dump near a human village c [...]	D
Gaming hosts Jim Lange and Jimmy Fallon recorded the voice of the Magic Mirror (Lange in particular [...]	D
When climbing up the fiery mountain to rescue Princess Fiona, Donkey says "My mouth was open and eve [...]	D
Donkey annoying Shrek with his singing was one of the first scenes to be animated. The scene at Fion [...]	D
(June 2008) Ranked #8 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "A [...]	D
When Donkey goes off alone in the castle in search of stairs, he mutters "I am the stair master." Th [...]	D
An armor expert was brought in to show the animators a variety of armors that they could use as insp [...]	D
Shrek was adapted into a stage musical in 2008 with music by Jeanine Tesori and lyrics by David Lind [...]	D
Nicolas Cage was initially offered the role of Shrek but he turned it down because he did not want t [...]	D
Over 1,000 fantasy characters invade Shrek's swamp at the beginning of the movie.	D
Computer animation production started on the project on October 31, 1996, and took more than four an [...]	D
At Only 90 Minutes This Is The Shortest Shrek Movie	D
Although Z la formica (1998) was the first computer animated film produced by DreamWorks, it was Shr [...]	D
The original script had Princess Fiona born an ogre to the late King and Queen of Duloc. They had he [...]	D
Farley's version of Shrek was completely different from Mike Myers' version. Farley's version was ab [...]	D
Farquaad's tourney has strange events such as horse wrestling and a drinking contest.	D
Though Shrek bears a striking whole-body resemblance to the late wrestler Maurice Tillet ("The Frenc [...]	D
The character of Shrek is based on a figure of the same name in Russian folklore, dating as far back [...]	D
The late Alan Rickman was the initial casting choice for the role of Lord Farquaad. However, Rickman [...]	D
Mike Myers was hesitant about succeeding the role of Shrek from Chris Farley, due to them being frie [...]	D
The principal actors never met each other. They all read their parts separately, with a reader feedi [...]	D
The film also foreshadows Fiona's identity as something other than a normal human princess. For inst [...]	D
In 2020, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Cong [...]	D
Farquaad's executioner is seen breaking a mirror. According to a famous superstition breaking a [...]	D
When Mike Myers came on board, he insisted on a complete script rewrite to remove any vestiges of Ch [...]	D
Around the time of Shrek Forever After, McDonald's had released a promotion of Shrek themed glasses [...]	D
"Shrek" means "monster" in Yiddish, and is derived from the German word "Schreck", which means "terr [...]	D
Shrek was almost made in stop-motion animation, but early tests proved too costly and executives wer [...]	D
Donkey was the easiest character to sketch since no-one knew what a talking donkey would look like. [...]	D
In the original pitch, Shrek was to be a knight and rescue Donkey from a wicked witch. Shrek also va [...]	D
In 2007, Jeffrey Katzenberg said that the film not only saved the company, financially speaking, but [...]	D
There are 36 unique locations in Shrek - more than any other computer-animated film at the time.	D
The song "I'm a Believer", which has become one of the series' theme songs, was chosen specifically [...]	D
This film is considered the Anti-Disney film since despite being a film based on his book also parod [...]	D
William Steig, the writer of Shrek, also wrote a Children's book called "Sylvester and the Magic Peb [...]	D
Steven Spielberg was originally going to produce the film in 1991, when he was in charge of Amblin E [...]	D
Producer John H. Williams got the idea to adapt Shrek from his then pre-school aged sons. "To me it [...]	D
The pre-production on Shrek started in 1995. Dreamworks first hired a motion capture company to deve [...]	D
The film's art director Douglas Rogers visited a magnolia plantation in Charleston, South Carolina t [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2004 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Ameri [...]	D
Farquaad sending Shrek to save Fiona for him to get his swamp back could be a parody of the Wizard o [...]	D
Donkey and Fiona are the only characters to refer to Shrek by name in this film. Others would later [...]	D
Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy and John Lithgow have all appeared in projects where they played multiple c [...]	D
Tom Bosley and Marion Ross were slated to voice Shrek's parents in the original Chris Farley version [...]	D
Eddie Murphy's BAFTA nomination for his voiceover performance was the first of its kind.	D
The film marks Mike Myers' sixth performance with a Scottish accent, following Il Saturday Night Liv [...]	D
Fiona originally was planned to be so real, she looked human. But next to an ogre and a chatty donke [...]	D
The intent with Fiona was to create the most photorealistic CGI depiction of a human. Prior to this, [...]	D
After Neil Diamond went to see the DreamWorks animated hit, he heard a group of giggling youngsters [...]	D
Mike Myers was in New York City when they realized that the line "What are you doing in my swamp?!" [...]	D
In 2001 it became the first American animated film screened at Cannes film festival since Le avventu [...]	D
Originally, Shrek was intended to have magenta skin, having been based on the ogres of Icelandic myt [...]	D
Rumors abound that Lord Farquaad was based on former Disney CEO Michael Eisner. If the rumor is true [...]	D
When Magic Mirror was introducing Fiona, one of his lines was "She likes Pina Coladas and getting ca [...]	D
Producer John H. Williams first encountered the Shrek book when he found his children reading it.	D
The line "You're on your way to a smacked bottom" was improvised by Mike Myers after he got annoyed [...]	D
Monsieur Hood's Merry Men perform to Riverdance: The Show (1995).	D
The film heavily parodies fairy-tales in general. But it also explicitly pokes fun at Disney's movie [...]	D
After working on the film for five years, co-director Kelly Asbury left the production to go work on [...]	D
During the scene in which Shrek, Donkey and Fiona are isolated from each other, John Cale's 1991 cov [...]	D
Shrek received his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.	D
Raman Hui, supervising animator of Shrek, stated that Fiona "wasn't based on any real person." and h [...]	D
The whole animation team from Z la formica (1998), DreamWorks' first animated movie, were recruited [...]	D
In an interview once Eddie Murphy joked that the movie Shrek, and his character Donkey, became so po [...]	D
John Lithgow's first CGI Film	D
The first film from DreamWorks Animation where the main villain dies.	D
The song "Welcome to Duloc", which is sung by the wooden dolls in the cabinet at the entrance to Dul [...]	D
In just over four weeks, the film became the best-selling DVD of all-time. With more than 5.5 millio [...]	D
A fairy godmother was originally included in the movie, but was cut out in the beginning of the movi [...]	D
The second DreamWorks Animation's computer-animated film as well as the second one to be rated PG by [...]	D
When Donkey and Shrek are looking up at the stars, Shrek points out the constellation "Bloodnok the [...]	D
After rescuing Fiona, Shrek sarcastically asks her if she was expecting Prince Charming. This foresh [...]	D
The opening storybook sets up the appearance of Fiona, as well as where she is being held and her cu [...]	D
Mike Myers improvised numerous lines in the film, including when he addresses the guests at Fiona an [...]	D
Merchandise for the movie includes baby mobiles, Shrek, Donkey, and Fiona figures.	D
Voted number two in channel 4's (UK) "Greatest Family Films".	D
Cameron Diaz, having undergone Kung Fu training during the making of Charlie's Angels (2000), became [...]	D
After Mike Myers completed his dialogue in his own voice and Shrek's animation was being completed, [...]	D

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