587. Directorpiece Theatre: The Postmodern Legacy of Shrek 2

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🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Adam and Abe talk about how Shrek 2 is thoroughly postmodernist, was indicative of the 2000s, and how comedy will forever be indebted to the movie Shrek 2. It’s an art criticism podcast on Shrek 2, so you know. Features: Abe Epperson: https://twitter.com/AbeTheMighty Adam Ganser: https://twitter.com/therealganz Check out our movie’s crowdfunding page and consider dropping some coin on our largest ambition YET: https://seedandspark.com/fund/papa-bear Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans Check our store to buy Small Beans merch! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-small-beans-store?ref_id=22691

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0:55.7	I kind of missed DreamWorks's animation style actually. Yeah, I do. I only saw a few DreamWorks
1:18.0	animated films in their heyday, but I kind of appreciate that there is a little bit more of
1:26.4	fidelity to realism in some ways than like Pixar. It's not as cartoony as Pixar to me. I don't know
1:34.3	if I see what you mean. Yeah, I don't know. It's obviously their big cartoons in their DreamWork
1:39.4	face, which is like a popular theme. There's definitely something like that's what made them all
1:48.0	look the same and that's easy to make fun of thing, but they were trying to do something different
1:54.3	from like let's reinvent the artistic wheel. Other time there's a texture to them that I feel like
2:03.3	you just don't see in movies anymore. They definitely have their own like you know it's minor,
2:08.3	but unique sort of affectation that is missing and that's kind of unfortunate. It does make me
2:16.0	realize that like you know how like golden era of Disney animation 90s, you know little mermaid,
2:23.3	Aladdin, etc. They all had a they have a similar look and there's something about the legacy
2:30.8	where it's like oh they all look and feel the same. So even so if you like it, that means the next
2:37.4	one that it already feels like a warm blanket, you know. Well, I mean I don't want to jump too far
2:43.2	ahead into your theory, but I will say that one thing that struck me as I was reading it is
2:50.3	that Shrek 2 is a little bit on an animation continuum that might start with Aladdin.
2:56.4	Aladdin might be the first film that's doing some of the ideas that you're talking about in animation.
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