In the film, none of these powers are present. Adaptational Wimp: Believe it or not, Shrek actually has the ability to breathe fire, swallow lightning, and shoot Eye Beams in the original book.Regardless, her ogre form is still more attractive than her book counterpart. Here, she's a beautiful human being who's cursed to become an ugly ogre every night. In the book, the princess is a hideous, pointy-nosed ogre. Shrek is by no means handsome in the film, but he's certainly not as gruesome looking as he was in the William Steig book. As it turns out, he's right note A deleted scene had Farquaad explaining his plans to Shrek, most likely including his reasons to marry Fiona. When Shrek has to come up with a reason as to why Fiona can't marry Farquaad when Fiona asks him during the ceremony, Shrek blurts out that Farquaad is only marrying her so he can be king. Accidental Truth: See Altar Diplomacy below.Donkey convinces her to help Shrek reconcile with Fiona, and she delivers the coup de grace to Farquaad when he overpowers Shrek and Fiona. Later, they reconcile when encountering each other by a river, and Donkey grows to like her as a romantic partner despite his initial reluctance. Flattered, Dragon changes course and cuddles with him instead, crying out in pain and sadness when he makes his getaway. He realizes that the dragon about to eat him is a lady, and most castle visitors aren't nice to her. Accidental Hero: Donkey ends up saving the movie by charming a dragon.With the aid of his new and obnoxiously garrulous self-proclaimed best friend, a talking Donkey named Donkey ( Eddie Murphy), Shrek sets off on his quest to restore balance to the delicate fairy tale world he's living in. When Shrek confronts Farquaad, he agrees to let the ogre live in peace if he can rescue the Princess Fiona ( Cameron Diaz) from a dragon guarded castle so that Farquaad can marry her and become a true king. However, his perfect world is rocked when his loving home is invaded by fairy tale creatures simply seeking refuge after being cast into exile by the cruel-hearted Lord Farquaad ( John Lithgow). The film features Shrek ( Mike Myers), a grumpy ogre living happily alone in his swamp, where he regularly frightens off villagers and lives the lazily luxurious life of an ogre. It was directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, with a script by Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman and Roger S.

Shrek is a 2001 DreamWorks Animation CGI film very loosely based on the 1990 William Steig book of the same name.

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