Is the Shrek Movie Dissing Disney?

[Tinkerbell]

Dreamworks sent "Shrek" scripts to Disney
By Lew Irwin, Studio Briefings
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Demonstrating that cooperation is possible even among the bitterest rivals if the motivation exists, DreamWorks executives submitted scenes of their upcoming Shrek to Disney attorneys in advance so as to avoid a potential lawsuit, the New York Post reported Wednesday. The movie satirizes numerous fairy-tale and Disney characters. Referring to the Disney characters in the movie, co-director Andrew Adamson told the Post: "It's pretty hard to have fun with fairy tales without touching the biggest purveyor of fairy tales in the world." And while some writers have suggested that the film represents a kind of personal attack by DreamWorks founder and ex-Disney exec Jeffrey Katzenberg on his former studio and its boss, Michael Eisner, Adamson remarked, "The movie's too good-hearted to be any revenge-based thing. If people think that, they're really missing the point of the thing, which is to turn fairy tales on their ears."


found it at www.hollywood.com/news/detail/article/422043

[TheNameIsMarc]

So in a nutshell, what's this article about?

[nathalie]

I think because Disney used a lot of fairytailes to make a movie from.

And if you watch Shrek 1, you can see Pinocchio, and some other characters.

[We Are One]

I do like the Shrek movies, but they just don't have the same kind of warm fairytale "magic" that Disney films provide us with

[TheNameIsMarc]

I must agree with oyu there, however, they sometimes use characters from disney, an example is the fairy godmother from Cinderella, i guess they kinda copied that from Cinderella, how many other stories have that? But that's just my opinion

[Tinkerbell]

yeah but disney didn't make up the cinderella story, its an old story that people told and i mean old, like before tv and radio and stuff like that, i had to do a paper on disney movies, and most of them are old farytales, disney just added their own characters (eg. the candle stick in beauty and the beast, the mice in cinderella...that kinda stuff).

[TheNameIsMarc]

Yes but it's still a character in Cinderella.....

[Tinkerbell]

But disney doesn't own the rights to the name cinderella, so they didnt

use characters from disney

per say, they used characters from farytales that were around long before disney ever was. But I do understand what you mean, its just that disney doesn't own the name cinderella. but characters like Nemo, belong to disney, because well it's a sotry Pixar and Disney colaborated to turn into a movie.

[TheNameIsMarc]

Ya i guess that's true, it's something that you can debate on

[quay]

tinkerbell said:

Dreamworks sent "Shrek" scripts to Disney
By Lew Irwin, Studio Briefings
............................................
Demonstrating that cooperation is possible even among the bitterest rivals if the motivation exists, DreamWorks executives submitted scenes of their upcoming Shrek to Disney attorneys in advance so as to avoid a potential lawsuit, the New York Post reported Wednesday. The movie satirizes numerous fairy-tale and Disney characters. Referring to the Disney characters in the movie, co-director Andrew Adamson told the Post: "It's pretty hard to have fun with fairy tales without touching the biggest purveyor of fairy tales in the world." And while some writers have suggested that the film represents a kind of personal attack by DreamWorks founder and ex-Disney exec Jeffrey Katzenberg on his former studio and its boss, Michael Eisner, Adamson remarked, "The movie's too good-hearted to be any revenge-based thing. If people think that, they're really missing the point of the thing, which is to turn fairy tales on their ears."


found it at www.hollywood.com/news/detail/article/422043

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