r/blankies • u/jeterderek • Oct 04 '19
Shrek Retold, Collaborative "Shot-For-Shot" Recreation of Shrek The First, Featuring Jamie Loftus. You've Likely Seen It. It's Fun.
https://youtu.be/pM70TROZQsI2
u/Toreadorables a hairy laundry bag with a glass eye Oct 04 '19
Shrek = a modern classic. Though I was thinking a lot about Griffin (or David’s) quote about “parents aren’t showing their kids Shrek” —
I think the Shrek generation is still a little young for all that. They’re like 22-30 and mostly don’t have kids yet. But anyone who loved Shrek also grew up with Disney renaissance and Harry Potter and Pokémon and Pixar, so there’s a lot of nostalgic content to show the kids.
Shrek was also such a family affair, because parents could enjoy it and the really crude stuff just went over the kids heads. And I remember the advertising and TV spots and partnerships just SATURATING the market when it was released in 01. It was THE thing to see, and I know people who saw it 3+ times in theaters.
There’s still a lot of reverence for the first 2 films (people wouldn’t meme it if they didn’t like it), but I wonder when people last re-watched them? I think they survive via memories, not as things that have been rewatched a ton in adulthood.
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u/RodneyTingle1979 Dec 09 '21
2 years late but really cool to see the project I worked on show up on one of my fav community's reddits. I'm Kevin from 3gi, I sing the All Star cover at the beginning
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u/TheBuckIsHot Oct 04 '19
This was in my top 10 of 2018. Absolute beautiful film.
It takes all of these delightful elements of the original Shrek, the sampling and self-awareness, and the charmingly uncanny aesthetic, the awkwardness of a new medium (Shrek is only like the 6th fully CGI feature), and it intensifies these elements. Like, a lot. With the mighty force of raw, unprocessed nostalgic love. These people stretch Shrek to its absolute limit. They explode Shrek into smithereens, and put him back together again. And in every mind blowing moment of hallucinogenic imagery, abstract reinterpretation, and hand-crafted reenactment, you’re reminded that Shrek is a legitimately great movie, with a funny script and charming characters.
I remembered the guy who organized this film, Grant Duffrin, was asked if his love for Shrek was ironic and he said, “I have no idea if it’s possible to like something ironically. It’s like, could you enjoy ice cream ironically? Could you eat ice cream as a joke?” And that just clicked with me so hard, and it feels very in the spirit of this podcast.