A parody is a literary or artistic work that imitates another work in a comic or ridiculing way. The document discusses examples of parodies in poems, books, paintings, movies, and TV shows. It then focuses on parodies created by Lewis Carroll and in the Shrek movies. The Shrek movies parodied many aspects of Disney films, characters, stories, and the Disney company itself as a way for Dreamworks to get revenge on Disney.

1. What is a parody?
• A literary or artistic device that imitates the
characteristic style of an author or a work
for COMIC effect or ridicule.
• Poems, books, paintings, tv shows,
movies
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“Las Meninas”
by Diego Velázquez

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“Las Meninas”
by Pablo Picasso

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Tiger Wood Parody of Nike Swish

5. “Mona Lisa” by
Leonardo Da Vinci
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6. “Mona Lisa” parody
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7. Movie Parodies
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8. Books
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LEWIS CARROLL’S PARODIES
“Twinkle, twinkle, Little Star, How I wonder
where you are,”
becomes
“Twinkle, twinkle, Little Bat, How I wonder
where you’re at.”

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ISAAC WATTS’ ORIGINAL POEM:
“AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF”
How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower!

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LEWIS CARROLL’S PARODY
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale?

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SHREK
PARODIES

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THE STORY OF SHREK:
JEFFREY KATZEMBERG AT DISNEY
• From 1975 to 1984 Jeffrey Katzenberg
worked with Walt Disney in Who Framed
Roger Rabbit, The Little Mermaid, Beauty
and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion
King
• But in 1984 when expected to become
2nd in command under Michael Eisner, he
was passed over.
• (Arter 3)

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SHREK: REVENGE OF JEFFREY
KATZEMBERG
• To get his revenge on Disney, in 1994
Katzenberg joined Steven Spielberg and
David Geffen to form “Dreamworks.”
• And Dreamworks parodied all things Disney
in their “Shrek” movies.
• Shrek is a Yiddish word and also a German
word. In both languages, it means “fear,” or
“terror.”
• (Arter 3-4)

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PARODIES OF DISNEY CHARACTERS
• Dreamworks used words, actions, behaviors,
and visual effects in Shrek to parody such
Disney icons as Beauty and the Beast,
Cinderella, Dumbo, the Little Mermaid, Peter
Pan, Pinocchio, and Sleeping Beauty.
• Earlier, Shrek says that ogres are layered,
like onions. At the end of the movie, Shrek
and Fiona ride off in an onion-shaped
carriage.
• (Arter 10)

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PARODIES OF FOLK LITERATURE
• Since much of Disney’s success was grounded in
the recreation of folk literature, parodies can also be
found of the Gingerbread Man, Goldilocks and the
Three Bears, the Three Blind Mice and the Three
Little Pigs.
• For example, in the parody of the Three Bears, Mama
is wearing a pink hair bow, and later there is a bear
rug in Farquaad’s bedroom which is also wearing a
pink hair bow.
• (Arter 4)

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PARODIES OF DISNEY STUDIOS
• Dreamworks also parodied Disney
Studios in Shrek by reproducing its
parking lot (called “Lancelot”), its long
winding lines of people, its turnstyles,
and its sets, and its buildings.
• For example, when people enter DuLac,
the puppets are singing “Welcome to
DuLac” in the same key and tempo as
“It’s a Small World.”
• (Arter 5)

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PARODIES OF EDUCATED CULTURE
• Art is parodied in the scene where
Farquaad lies under a Sandro Botacelli
tryptych in the position of Venus in
Boticelli’s “The Birth of Venus”
• (Arter 8)