Thursday, January 9, 2014

HTRLLAP Chapter 1

Quest-pects (Quest Aspects):
1. Quester
2. Destination
3. Stated reason to go
4. Challenges en route
5. Real reason to go

I shall apply these to my favorite quest-ish movie: Shrek (the first one. the sequels all sucked)
1. The quester is Shrek. A middle aged (?) ogre, not too pleased with the whole being forced to share his land with idiotic fairytale creatures thing, has little self confidence, but is fairly boastful.Consequently, the questee is Fiona.
2. His destination is the castle. He has to go to the castle to retrieve Princess Fiona so Prince Ugly Short Guy can marry her. 
3. He's told to go so he can get his land back all to himself. Which in my opinion, he should have just clubbed Prince Ugly Short Guy on the head and taken back what was rightfully his, but then this wouldn't be a quest.
4. Challenges and Trials: Donkey. Everything about Donkey. The attractive lady dragon, some lava, etc. The quest back to the castle has some more entertaining challenges, such as the musical number with Robin Hood and his merry men and Shrek gets arrowed in the butt. Also, the whole Fiona is an ogre complicates matters.
5. Real Reason: I think Shrek really wants to go on this cross country adventure to explore something that isn't his swamp which is kind of overrun right now. He wants new experiences and excitement. On the way back, the reason is loooooooooooove. 

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