"Dave D" <dave.D@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Mason Barge" <masonbarge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "The Starmaker" <starmaker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Did you know that Shrek is Jewish?
>>
>> Maybe it would be more accurate to say that he's a "Yiddish character".
>> A lot of the humble people in the movie are, while the royalty in the
>> movie are more Christian/European. The whole schmear seems based on
>> medeival Eurpoean, put-upon peasants, with a heavy component of
>> Jews/outsiders who have to live by their wits.
>>
>> But I agree, I think the basis of the character, and the style of the
>> legend, is very Jewish.
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> The accent is Scottish. In fact on the first movie DVD commentary it
says
> that Canadian Mike Myers tried it originally with an Canadian accent. A
> lot of the phrases like 'going the right way for a smacked bottom' come
> from his childhood with British parents in Toronto.
>
> So calling Shrek Jewish, Oy Vay! is a stretch.
>
Oh yeah, he certainly isn't blatantly Jewish, in the sense that he wears a
yarmulke and says Seder. I just think that the character and setting is
very much taken from a specific Yiddish storytelling tradition. Shrek's
persona includes Scottish and of course Scandanavian elements.
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