Has Shrek changed? See how Oggro’s look was in the first version

The Shrek franchise is about to get bigger! Last Thursday, 28, a teaser of “Shrek 5” was released, which despite being released to confirm that Zendaya The voice acting team will join to give voice to Fiona’s daughter with Ogro, Felicia, ended up drawing the attention of fans for presenting a change in the design of the characters.

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It turns out that, as in previous sequences, the look of these figures eventually underwent a modernization, which could be brought as a natural change due to the technological advances used to create animated stories, such as “The Incredible 2”, for example, which despite having a higher animation pattern, kept the characters as in the first movie.

But in the case of the preview, the changes have not pleased the audiences that have been following history for decades. This is because, in addition to the expected increase in animation quality, fans noticed that the characteristics of the characters were changed, putting Shrek and their family in a much more cartoonish style than seen in the 2001 animation.

With the repercussion that still gains strength among netizens, the doubt arises: the look of Shrek was always the same from the beginning? The answer, contrary to what many can imagine, is no!

The first version of Shrek

When the animation began to be developed by Dreamworks, the appearance of the ogre was much more similar to that of the work that inspired the creation of the movie: “Shrek!”, Children’s Book of William Stieg Launched in 1990, as the character had a cone -shaped head, crooked and dirty teeth, hands, feet and belly, and an unfair expression.

This version came to life in conceptual arts and even in test filming, which stood out for the dark tone and the annoyance that Shrek’s look brought, after all, even though he was not scary as on the pages, since he appeared to have a somewhat goofy personality, his look, way of moving and speaking caused strangeness.

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At the time, who would give the character voice would be the comedian Chris Farleywhich recorded almost every speech of the ogre before passing in in 1997. With the death of FarleyMichael Myers was cast to replace it-and it was from then on that Shrek’s look has undergone transformations.

First, according to the portal Hugo Gloss, the character gained sketches inspired by the appearance of Myers. In this version, Shrek was too nice to be an ogre.

Next to that, Myers requested that the script be written again, since he did not want to replicate the work of Farleyand in the midst of the modifications, came the final look of the plot – which continued with two original characteristics: the horn -shaped ears and greenish skin tone, but now included in a body and face created ideally for the plot.

With this, the grumpy character became well accepted by the audience right away, since “Shrek”, a plot that accompanies the ogre in the mission of saving a princess tied up from a tower protected by a huge dragon to be able to have his swamp free of enchanted creatures, raised $ 484 million (Rs 2.6 billion in the current quotation) at the worldwide box office.

The story, which serves as a satire to the traditional fairy tales that inspired great Disney classics, also pleased the criticism, as it became the first title to be awarded the best animation category in 2002. At the time, the plot ran against “Jimmy Neutron” monsters, also released in 2001.

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Due to his success, “Shrek 2” (2004), “Shrek Third” (2007) and “Shrek Forever (2010) were launched and the expected” Shrek 5 “, which is scheduled to debut in theaters more than a decade and a half after the latest sequence on December 25, 2026.

The new movie will have Eddie Murphy (Donkey), Mike Myers (Shrek) and Cameron Diaz (Princess Fiona) again in the voice acting cast, while Walt Dohrn, Screenwriter and artist of Shrek 2 and 3 who was also cast as head of history of ‘Shrek Forever’, a movie in which he gave voice to Rumplestiltskin, now comes as director.