Continued Explorations - Music and the Fictive Dream 2, the Return of Shrek
Everyone knows or at least has heard of or seen Shrek, either as a meme or from the original movies. Well, I'm kicking a dead horse here, and please don't do that because that isn't very nice, with bringing back the meme icon: Shrek. Our story begins on a bright sunny day in 1990, William Steig writes a book simply titled: Shrek! William Steig, a previous cartoonist from The New Yorker had only just started writing children's books, one of these books was Shrek! Which follows the story of Shrek, a hideous being that was just kicked out of his parent's swamp. Shrek encounters a witch that reads his fortune after a trade of Shrek's lice, and the witch told him about how he (Shrek) would be brought to a castle by a donkey, fight a knight, and marry a princess. The movie started coming together when Steven Spielberg bought the rights to the story (haven't found any information for how much). Spielberg had initially planned to ...
