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Princess Fiona is the Princess in the films Shrek, Shrek 4-D, Shrek 2, and Shrek the Third. Actress Cameron Diaz provides her voice.
this is princess Fiona in ogress form
and this is princess Fiona in human form
which one do you like more?
In the scene when Fiona is fighting off Robin Hood and his Merry Men, Fiona jumps into the air and freezes in place; the camera pans around her, giving her time to adjust her hair, before she finishes off two attackers in normal time. This is a reference to the movie The Matrix and the "bullet time" effect introduced in it. Fiona's fight with the Merry Men is also reminiscent of Charlie's Angels, in which Cameron Diaz stars.
In one scene, Fiona sings to the birds and accidentally kills one by singing in an extremely high-pitched tone. This is a parody of Disney princesses, in particular Snow White in an scene of Disney animation classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, who are often shown singing with woodland creatures such as birds.
During the rescuing of Princess Fiona from the dragon, when Shrek says, "Well, I have to save my ass," (referring to Donkey), there is a cookbook in the background about how to eat a knight.
Earlier in the movie, when the fairy tale creatures invade Shrek's swamp, the Papa Bear and the Baby Bear are there, but the Mama Bear is nowhere to be seen. But after Shrek explained to Donkey why he is better alone, when cutting to Farquaad's bedroom, we see what had happened to Mama Bear - she has been turned into a rug. (However, she manages to show up unharmed in the karaoke music video.)
The character Lord Farquaad was modeled after former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, who fired current DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg from Disney in 1994. That Farquaad is portrayed as being extremely short, despite Eisner being fairly tall, is supposedly because Eisner once made fun of Katzenberg being shorter than him.
On their way back to Lord Farquaad's castle, Shrek, Donkey, and the Princess are met by Robin Hood (who begins emulating Michael Flatley). Friar Tuck plays the accordion. However, when Robin Hood attempts to "rescue" Princess Fiona (and provokes an inevitable fight) the background music changes to a fast jig. However, although Friar Tuck cannot be seen to be playing the accordion any more, the background music stops immediately after he is knocked out.
Building on this, du Lac is also the name of the "rule book" of sorts at the University of Notre Dame, and is criticized by many students as being overly strict and perfectionist, much like the Lord Farquaad's kingdom.
The castle in DuLoc is an obvious parody of Disneyland, complete with a box office, turnstiles, an animatronic information booth resembling it's a small world, and ropes for queuing up patrons seeking admittance. It has also been suggested that the castle resembles the Hesburgh Library at the University of Notre Dame, which many of the film's animators attended. Similarly, Duloc is suggested to be a reference to the university's full name, Notre Dame du Lac.
The name Shrek is taken from the Yiddish word שרעק (pronounced Shreck) meaning 'fear', 'terror', or (in its closest sense) 'fright'. In German, "Schreck" has a similar meaning. The film features the voices of Mike Myers as a large, strong, peace-loving green ogre named Shrek, Cameron Diaz as the beautiful and feisty Princess Fiona, Eddie Murphy as a talkative donkey named Donkey, and John Lithgow as the villainous Lord Farquaad. Chris Farley was originally going to do the voice for Shrek and did at least half of the audio for the voice, but died before the project was completed. Dreamworks then re-cast the voice role to Mike Myers. After Myers had completed providing the voice for the character and the movie was well into production, he asked to be allowed to re-record all of his lines in a Scottish accent similar to the one his mother used when she told him bedtime stories. Myers had also employed this character voicing for a skit during his Saturday Night Live tenure, and also for the character Stuart MacKenzie in the motion picture So I Married an Axe Murderer.
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