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unusual facts about Shrek: Music from the Original Motion Picture


Shrek: Music from the Original Motion Picture

The album was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music (lost to the score of Moulin Rouge!) and the Grammy Award for "Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media" (lost to the score of O Brother, Where Art Thou?).


Alastair King

In addition to his concert works, King has composed music for various films, including Shrek, Chicken Run, and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and television programmes, including the FIFA World Cup 2002, The Last Detective, Second Nature and William and Mary.

Amick Byram

A well-known sessions artist in Los Angeles, California, Byram has sung in over 100 films, including The Prince of Egypt ( as Moses), Shrek, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Hercules, Mulan, Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World, The Road to El Dorado, and The Matrix.

Armen Poghosyan

В 2000–2008 became a music leader at the "Pythagoras" studios for the duplication of Russian language full-length musical films and cartoons such as Mary Poppins, Sleeping Beauty, Corpse Bride, Hannah Montana, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Little Mermaid, Shrek.

Beijing Shijingshan Amusement Park

The park also features a host of costumed characters that look remarkably similar to not only Disney's trademark characters, but also Shrek, Hello Kitty, Doraemon, Bugs Bunny and a number of other trademarked characters.

Bicolor cat

Other well known cartoon bicolor cats include Krazy Kat, Felix the Cat, Tom Cat from Tom and Jerry, Jess from Postman Pat, Kitty Softpaws from the Shrek spin-off Puss in Boots, Figaro, Beans and Sylvester.

Collective memory

Numerous TV shows and films such as The Simpsons, Family Guy, Scary Movie, the Shrek films, and the films of Mel Brooks, have referenced, parodied, imitated and recreated these famous scenes, often to the point of overkill.

Dean Edwards

His work as a voice actor includes Scottie Pippen and Spike Lee in Celebrity Deathmatch, a robot in Robotomy, and Donkey in Scared Shrekless after Eddie Murphy refused to reprise his role (which Edwards is also known for, and impersonated Murphy while providing the voice of Donkey).

DreamWorks Animation in amusement parks

The film is chronologically sequenced between the original 2001 film Shrek and Shrek 2 which was released in 2004.

The parks, which are expected to be completed in 2015, will feature themes based on Shrek, Madagascar, How to Train Your Dragon, Kung Fu Panda, and Turbo.

Fan service

Intertextual fan service is now being inserted into media aimed at younger children as well; this can be seen in Shreks upside-down kiss scene, which is a reference to an upside-down kiss scene in Spider-Man.

Halli Cauthery

He wrote the score for the Shrek Hallowee'en television special Scared Shrekless, which aired on the NBC network in October 2010; as well as the Lifetime Television film Living Proof (film).

Hugh Vanstone

Vanstone is scheduled to design lighting for several 2008 productions including Yasmina Reza's play, The God of Carnage and Peter Gill's Small Change (London); Boeing Boeing (revivals on Broadway and in Australia); and "Shrek the Musical" (Broadway).

Jaguar Racing

Ironically, in Jaguar's final season, the team received the most publicity when two of the team's mechanics, having won an inflatable donkey from the movie Shrek from a give-away on a fizzy drink can, photographed it around the paddock at several races and set up a website for the pictures.

John A. Davis

In 2002 Davis was nominated for an Oscar along with Steve Oedekerk in the category of Best Animated Feature for Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, bust lost to DreamWorks Animation's Shrek.

Lee Lanier

After working for Buena Vista Visual Effects at Walt Disney Studios in Los Angeles, Lanier worked at PDI/DreamWorks in the San Francisco bay area—where he created digital special effects for the movies Shrek and Antz.

Leslee Feldman

Leslee Feldman is the Head of Casting at Dreamworks, the studio which produced such films as Shrek, The Prince of Egypt, Road to Perdition and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, among others.

Major Bloodnok

In the DreamWorks film Shrek, a reference is made to the Major when the title character points out an Ogre constellation known as 'Bloodnok The Flatulent'.

Roger Kleier

He has performed and/or recorded with Annie Gosfield, Marc Ribot's Shrek, Elliott Sharp, Fred Frith, Joan Jeanrenaud, Ikue Mori, Carl Stone, Laurie Anderson, Phill Niblock, Alan Licht, David Moss, Hahn Rowe, Chris Cutler, David Krakauer, Chris Brown, Zeitgeist, Relâche, Agon Orchestra, William Winant, Zeena Parkins, Stan Ridgway, Trevor Dunn, Ches Smith, and others.

Sally Dworsky

She has been an important voice actress and singer in animated films such as The Lion King, Shrek, and The Prince of Egypt in addition to releasing her own albums.

Shrek SuperSlam

Characters like Black Night,G-mome, Quasimodo, Anthrax, and the Witch named Luna weren't in any of the Shrek movies but Humpty Dumpty was in Puss in Boots.

Shrek video games

There are quite a few educational Shrek games that exist for the V.Smile and V.Flash.

Shrek!

The film was an immediate commercial and critical success, and won the first ever Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

Sir Nobonk and the Terrible Dreadful Awful Naughty Nasty Dragon

The story of Sir Nobonk is a generic parody of Medieval-type stories about knights and dragons (similar to Don Quixote or the much-later Shrek), set within a Medieval world with modern anachronisms for comic purposes (such as garden hoses for knights to wash out their armour).

Strange Weather Films

Strange Weather Films founded by Andrew Adamson and Aron Warner (the creative team behind the Shrek and The Chronicles of Narnia franchises) is a Los Angeles based company which finances and develops motion picture, television and original programming.

The Lost String

It features performances of a range of Ribot's music and appearances by Anthony Coleman, Brad Jones, EJ Rodriguez, Los Cubanos Postizos, Catherine Janiaux, The Lounge Lizards, Shrek, Christine Bard, Ted Reichman, John Zorn, Ned Rothenberg, Sim Caine, Bruce Cox, Dave Hofstra and Arto Lindsay.

Universal Studios Singapore

The park features the world's tallest pair of dueling roller coasters that are based on the popular television series, Battlestar Galactica; a castle from the world of Shrek and Monster Rock, a live musical show featuring the Universal Monsters.

Universal Studios South Korea

The park will most likely include popular attractions from its sister parks, such as those based on King Kong, Jurassic Park, The Mummy, E.T., Shrek and Waterworld.

Vanitha Rangaraju

Rangaraju was part of the team that won a 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for movie Shrek, for which she was credited as lighting technical director.


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