Shrek’s Lord Farquaad Was More Evil Than You Remember
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
- Shrek and Donkey will forever be one of the best animated duo's in history. When Shrek first hit theaters audiences fell in love with not only the characters but the story and it's parody on fairy tales. Though the villain of this animated film, Lord Farquaad, may have been a parody of Disney's most powerful executive. Shrek will forever be a beloved children's movie, but as you peel back layers of the onion it seems there's a lot more behind the curtain than audiences realize.
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Naming the villain “Lord F*ckwad” and styling him off of your ex-boss is so funny
That was one of my favorite parts of the character.
It’s so hilariously petty
Who's ex-boss was markiplier?
Wait, WHAT?!
I prefer fartwad.
The fact that Momma Bear can be seen in the cage at the beginning and the next time you see her is as a rug on Farquad’s floor says everything you need to know…
Yeah :(
But, but, but... what about puss in boots: the last wish?
Wait a second. How does that work continually with Puss in Boots and the last wish?
@@razortheonethelight7303 papa bear remarried
OMG, he killed Mama Bear?!
Had the legs torn off a sentient gingerbread man. Dude was stone cold evil.
Its not just the torture part, think of it like taking away a person's prosthetic needs or further disabling somebody much smaller who didn't do anything to him as it is, and still making fun of them...
This is indeed incredibly focked on so many levels. You could say that... Farquad is the REAL irredeemable monster underneath an unseeming guise too, ironically enough a human and not a mythical creature like the one's he assumes has no complexities/feelings (meanwhile Shrek for all of his gruff exterior, only spooked people into leaving him alone, not outright mercilessly attacking unless left as a last resort... And Shrek at least let Donkey stay outside of his home. Shrek is my mood tbh xD).
@@yourcordialvermillionchapw2398 so who would you say is worse: Farquad or Big Jack Horner?
@@yourcordialvermillionchapw2398 Take this with a grain of salt, but I believe in the musical it is revealed Farquad is actually the son of Grumpy Dwarf "from Snow White" and The Princess from "the Princess and the Pea" making him a "Fairy Tale creature" or at the very least half fairy tale creature since the princess was human. This adds a layer of self loathing to his character. His mother was disinherited for marrying Grumpy, but since Farquad was her son it gave him claim to the throne. My theory is that he hates "fairy tale creatures" because he hates that his mother married one and because of that he had to work to get what should have been his birthright. Considering this is from the musical only however it's canonicity to the movies are unclear.
Should've eaten them in front of him. I always thought that was a missed opportunity.
@@hashkangarooI think the fact that he crushed the legs into crumbs without even bothering to take a bite is more evil. He wasn't even getting anything from it, just being a total asshole
Fun Fact: Alan Rickman was the initial casting choice for the role of Lord Farquaad. However, Rickman opted to play the role of Snape in Harry Potter instead and the role ultimately went to John Lithgow.
One of the few times alternate casting worked out for the best.
thanks for sharing
As much as I love Alan Rickman, I can’t see him playing this character. John Lithgow was the right choice.
Fun fact: This is the case for a lot of roles in movies in history. who cares
@@dundercontrol at least three other people who aren't actively being a party pooper.
The " f " symbol always reminded me of facebook for some reason...
Fitting really
Facebook definitely saw the symbol and remembered it meant evil. 'shit well in for a penny'
Me too, this movie was like 4 or 5 years before Facebook was even a thing though.
The real enemy was mark Zuckerberg the whole time
I always think about Facebook too
I never noticed how Zuckerberg ripped off Farquad's logo.
It's a masonic symbol
@@royXax ???? It's a letter f.
@@royXax meds no it isnt
@GameyRaccoon I think he's joking?
I've always loved the "Run run as fast as you can" delivery. Is oozing mockery and threat
so menacing lol he's mocking him but he's like screaming it
His death was actually brutal for an animated movie
In one of the Karaoke videos they made, he was still alive in the stomach of Dragon (pleading to stay alive even), we still see his ghost regardless... So he died of starvation or eventual acidic consumption.
@@yourcordialvermillionchapw2398 wich is far more brutal than being chewed lol
Because animation is exclusively for kids of course. Christ
That debetable@@eclogitetack
Lots of animated movies have brutal deaths dude
I like how Lord Farquad’s main outfit colors resemble the colors used for Mickey Mouse
YUP
“Do you think maybe he’s compensating for something.. hehehe” is honestly such a brilliant joke. As a kid you think he’s talking about how short Farquad is, but as an adult you realize he’s talking about how *short* farquad is
This confused me into thinking Napoleon had a short member after I figured it out
I feel like it’s the other way around tbh
@@YourFriendlyOfficeAssistanthe had a short…finishing time, though
Similarly, Big Jack Horner is a critique on modern Disney. Jack wants to own everything magical.
There’s certainly an “othering” of magical and fairy tale creatures in the Shrek universe.
Also, like many Shrek villains that are based on folklore, he is a 180 of what he came from originally. He was once considered a "good boy," but now he is more than a "bad boy."
In like 07 I had a buddy in high school and we used to just randomly scream out “ Lord Farquaad” like the three little pigs did in Shrek and for some reason we always would crack up at it no matter how many times we did it 😂
"He huffed! And he puffed! And then he... Signed an eviction notice"
@@yourcordialvermillionchapw2398also a fun fact in middle school my drama class did a parody of “ Shrek” as a play
@@yourcordialvermillionchapw2398 i still say this in their voice a TON hahahahaha
I was incredibly confused for a good bit until I realized you were referring to 2007, not 1907...
@@flameofthephoenix8395 lol you figured out my secret I’m actually 117 years old 😂😂😂
Lord Farquaard is the Magnifico Disney wasn't able to create for their 100th anniversary.
They already did a better job with Kuzco, why Magnifico had to exist at all confuses me.
Killer declaration.
Wow I never realized how much the movie was centered around mocking Disney lol I like it even more now.
You must've not paid attention then because most people noticed right away and that made it even funnier :P
I mean I was 10 or 11 when it came out after all. I recognized the common Disney tropes and characters but didn't' realize how deep it went. @@RedRoseSeptember22
@@RedRoseSeptember22or the OP was a child like most of us that grew up with this, so we wouldn’t have noticed that
It’s even more obvious by the third movie lmao, it’s just remixed Disney princesses 💀
mocking old Disney, before the woke took over, this was the beginning of the rot
Don't forget that Lord Farquaad killed the mother bear it has a skin rug😢 out of her remains
Not to mention this is basically the comparison of skinning humans as the bear is very much sapient like us (though apparently she's fine somewhere, probably another bear he de-masculated further). Come to think of it, it's all the more disturbing he shows no sympathy to these beings despite more then likely not doing anything implicating to him, he even handicapped a living being and he laughs at it (Gingie was seen with a cane to support himself and afterwards is seen fine, yet it's still pretty scarring if you were in his doughs though).
@@yourcordialvermillionchapw2398 For comparasion the worst of the nazi skinned humans in concentration camps, and even other nazis found that kinda disgusting.
that means momma bear in the last wish is a stepmother
@@karstenschoenberg9736Pretty sure that's a completely different family of bears.
@@genera1013Yea, The Last Wish took place in a different land far away from where shrek is from. It is definately a seperate bear family.
Don't forget the climax.
He dead-seriously tells Shrek, "I'll have you drawn and quartered! You'll beg for death to save you!" and Fiona, "I'll have you locked back in that tower, for the rest of your days!" Even his knights are no-nonsense for once and just swarm Shrek; no pint, no Joan Jett, no chair, etc., this time.
has anyone heard the story that Shrek was expected to fail, and working on Shrek was seen as a punishment
Yes.
this video makes it sound like it was a planed masterpiece, do you think? something doesn't seem right @@powerpuff_avenger
@@BlackSkorpion0 No. It can happen. Disney focused on Pocahontas and sent people to The Lion Ling for punishment, and the latter ended up exploding at the box office...
@@powerpuff_avenger It's kind of like being punished by having to sit in the corner in timeout and you're bored and notice a crack in the wall, you look inside and find a coin, after timeout is over you make an implement to get the coin out and after research it turns out to be a 14th century gold coin. You don't tell anyone but end up getting the coin appraised, selling it on eBay, and you get two coin collectors in a bidding war and end up making 8 million dollars.
@@SnowPrincessSally Where'd you get that analogy that's pretty ridiculous.
John Lithgow certainly made Farquaad entertaining to watch. A true Love to Hate Villain.
You forgot to mention the exact moment the fight breaks out in the courtyard and the absolute chaos it causes shows Duloc's citizens what they're missing due to Farquad's rule snuffing out any individual thought. They were cheering for Shrek because he genuinely brought excitement to Duloc just by being there and doing what he does best.
After Farquad dies, Duloc falls entirely into disarray and becomes a ghost town.
Lord Farquad is a fairly underrated Dreamworks villain to be honest. Sure hes no Lord Shen, Tai Lung, Fairy Godmother or Death, but like you said he's clearly not a physically imposing or terrifying villain, and is in fact a joke, but hes a man who demands perfection and expects perfection unable to be satisfied or contempt with what he has and wants to most beautiful bride, which juxtaposes Shrek's life who is happy with his messy swamp amd while Shrek believes he has everything he needs but after meeting Fiona and Donkey Shrek learns theres so much more to life and found happiness with going out of his comfort zone and finding love and friendship, things he never believed he was worthy to have as a monsterous Ogre
Yes, Shrek and Faarquad's lives parallel each other, both want what is in their eyes their "perfect" little worlds to keep rolling, so is not too surprising that they reached some level of subconscious empathy with each other initially and reached a deal, and Shrek with that received his character development that he fully deserved because he was just very lonely and bitter.
He’s like a satirical version of Grimmel
Dressed as Farquaad this Halloween.
Studied intensely all 5 minutes of his screen time.
Was shocked to see he has not even 5 minutes of being an icon lol
"Shrek's Lord Farquaad was more delicious than I remember"- The Dragon.
Lord Farquaad is what King Magnifico should have been. Which goes to show you how incompetent Disney is now.
Yes, agreed 100%. Magnifico seems like a good guy who had a nervous breakdown like Ned Flanders did after the hurricane on The Simpsons and not an evil man and all the evil he did was when he was brainwashed by the evil book, so he was basically the Green Ranger from the original Power Rangers that my mom watched when she was a kid. Wish is a frustrating movie. So much missed potential, Disney did everything wrong but not in the way the protagonists of The Producers did, it was just sad.
Back when Evil Characters actually did Evil Things.
*jack horner entered the chat
Fun fact: it's not a kid's movie. Suitable for kids to a degree, but it's aimed at adults.
That’s where animation is at its peak imo.
Exactly! Just because a movie is devoid of sex doesn’t mean it’s for kids. And the same for blood, violence, and foul language. Those are not what makes a movie aimed at adults. So why, then, is every time an animated film comes out that doesn’t have blood, cursing, or sex, is it immediately called “only for children?” -by some people. It’s like they don’t understand the themes are what make the film, not the rating.
Good animation is made for adults and suitable for kids.
Thank you! So sick of people calling animated movies "for kids" when that's not true at all.
??? i watched it as a kid and i loved it. it's for everyone.
"He's been turned into a meme."
Me: **Glances at the "ASMR Lord Farquaad does your makeup" video sitting in the suggestions on this video.**
Never knew that Shrek was a get back at disney
which makes this even more hilarious
Well yeah, he represents the Disney company, of course there's a ton of evil below the surface.
The fact that Farquaad is a take that to Disney is even funnier in the Neutral Spanish dub where he is voiced by Humberto Velez, who is famous for being the official voice of Winnie the Pooh since the late 90s, though he's also famous for voicing Homer Simpson
He turned Mama bear into a RUG~ How evil can you get~
Farquaad's Dictatorship over Fairytale Creatures got more unsettling and dark as I got older. And it makes me appreciate the Musical a little bit. Say whatever you want about this stage show, but seeing the Banished Fairytale Characters stand up to Farquaad and reveal to Duloc that he's a Son of a Dwarf was incredibly satisfying.
If social media memes were hitting, like they do now, BEFORE FB came out, the farquad F would be even more iconic 😭
When hes introduced and needs help down from his horse still makes me laugh
Farquaad wanted to get rid of all the fairy tale creatures because he considered them lesser and they got in the way of his desire for "perfection."
Wait... So Farquaad is the fairy tale version of Hitler? 😬
Arguably, he's worse. He's got the mentality of Hitler, with the ideals of Himmler and Goering, and minus the warped as fuck visions of utopia. Like, he's doing all this messed up stuff, for himself, for his own happily ever after. Like, the Reich was, despite being despotic, cruel and all-round the worst, operating on a 'these ends justified our means, we are building a new and better world.' Which, I reiterate, they were going to just create an authoritarian hellscape if they had somehow succeeded.
I guess the question here is, is it more evil to do bad things for selfish reasons, or do bad things for perceived good reasons?
oh.
You're not the only one to think like so. That whole thing has "Holocaust" written all over it, "trains" and all.
😮
Bruh
Supposedly Hades from Hercules was made to look like Katzenberg, and Farquaad being a caricature of Eisner was revenge for that.
Everybody makes fun of Donkey, but he's a legend in my books. Married a dragon and had half donkey-dragon babies. Name another donkey you know that did that😂😂😂
There was even a deleted scene where Shrek and Donkey meet up with Farquad after the Knight Brawl where it showed Farquad's plan, showing his plans for domination and such, also ties back into a scene later in the final film where Shrek and Donkey mocks Farquad for his height to Fiona despite not meeting him prior in the final film as was seen.
He was so evil that he had the temerity to deny Shrek his Diet Coke.
The most evil part of his charecter is that he's inspired by Michael Eisner
Farquaad was indeed despicable, but managed to also be entertaining - a loathsome character who was uncompromising in his evil and indulged in it, yet by his lack of shame he possessed a certain charisma that exerts his presence - 'a small man can cast a large shadow' as it were
I def agree, however, I remember thinking how the message of acceptance was undermined by the relentless short jokes against Farquaad
I did not realise Lord Farquaad was the Trinity Killer.
Jack Horner is sort of like Lord Farquaad in a few ways, except Jack has the opposite motive of wanting all magic to himself while Farquaad seeks to ban/extinguish it. They both hate fairy tale creatures all the same. I don't know if they'd hate each other or be best friends who take turns betraing eachother and laughing about it.
The vibe of PB2 is so different from the Shrek movies. It's hard to believe the two movies are in the same universe.
@@darksideofevil13 That honestly makes me like them both more. It makes for a more authentic feeling for a world. This real world you and I both live in functions just the same; various different areas with impossibly contrasted settings somehow still coexist.
@@Alizudo Agreed, not complaining, it's just funny to think about. I often find myself laughing and thinking: Oh yeah, this is in the same world as the wisecracking, farting, Scottish ogre.
He and also the kingdom of far far away have probably helped to ensure Shrek is the only ogre remaining in that part of the world.
Ogres are feared much more then other creatures, and believed to eat people.
So I bet to ensure safety and due to fear of them, these two kingdoms probably set about wiping out every ogre from their lands, and thus it is why Shrek is the celebrity already, he's the only ogre left, the one obstacle in these kingdoms minds to their completed goal.
And then Shrek 4 happened and introduced a bunch of them.
@@darksideofevil13
Shrek 4 is a alternate timeline of sorts, so it no doubt caused a butterfly effect, probably because Fiona escaped and changed fates of others no doubt
I now can't help but think about how Shrek foresaw Guantanamo Bay with the Gingerbread Man scene.
Guantanamo Bay is older than Shrek...
No, thats exactly the amount of evil I remember
Specifically trapping and sending the fairytale creatures to Shrek’s swamp is symbolic of Disney capturing open domain characters to their park in Florida.
Well Donkey's character is based on the bard, who is known to charismatic and sleep around with whomever he wanted to.
He even fucks a dragon 💀💀💀
And he literally banged a dragon
“NO! NOT THE BUTTONS! Not my gumdrop.. buttons!”
For a movie that started off as one massive "YOU SUCK!" project from a bitter ex-employee, Shrek evolved into such an interesting and unique world that I'm surprised Dreamworks hasn't capitalized on it more like it did with How to Train Your Dragon and Kung Fu Panda. So many fairy tales from so many cultures and countries and so many more possibilities. Granted it managed to do that eventually with all the Shrek sequels and the Puss In Boots movies (which became a whole mini-franchise on its own with one baller of a finale), but I'm still surprised there isn't more.
I also think we need shrek 12, and an animated series, and a movie just about the gingerbread man. We need movies for each of the princesses that further mock disney.
He killed the mama bear 🥺
Saw this in theaters when I was 8 years old. I still quote this movie and Im 31.
The amazing thing about villains in old children's movies is that they managed to be both super evil and funny at the same time. That's ironically a Disney tradition they're continuing while also lampooning Disney. Farquad's kingdom also gives me some Orwellian 1984 vibes as well (except he's "Little Brother Is Watching You").
I think that playing some of the best bits straight (like villains getting to have humour while still being menacing and evil) just makes sense. Taking something like that and making it your own is sometimes better than parodying it, and having Farquad have literal little man syndrome allows him to fit into a villainous niche (evil mastermind intent on "world" domination) that's usually occupied by far more "serious" villains - in essence, playing the "villain is both evil and humorous" theme straight let them parody the more overtly-threatening evil masterminds Disney loves so much.
Looking at that "f" on Farquaad's banners now has unable to see anything other than the Facebook logo.
“Run, run, run as fast as you can! You can’t catch me! I’M THE GINGERBREAD MAN!”
You’re a monster!
@@zanemartin6699 I’m not the monster here, you are! You and the rest of that fairy tale trash poisoning my perfect world… Now tell me!! Where are the others?!
Farquad was looking for a "final solution" if ya know what I mean
But he kept his word and gave Shrek his swamp back.
As a kid?? I was like 18 when this came out!
So you're about 36+
For god's sake, Shrek isn't a KIDS MOVIE!!!! It was never meant to be.
It's meant to the adults who grew watching those kids movies. That's why it touches certain themes, humours and not child friendly jokes
I think kids movies can and should have adult jokes. Not themes, unless it ends in a good ending and isn’t too much, but a healthy amount of mature material.
Farquaad is really compensating for something after all! 🏰
I'm not sure how true it is but I read that Lord Farquaads father is grumpy dwarf so if it is he essentially locked up and evicted his own father and uncles.
I don't know how canon that is to the films, but that is the case in the stage musical.
Lord Farquaad's appearance is practically a copy of Sir Laurence Ollivier's Richard III
THE GINGERBREAD MAN!?
You can sprint with sheer velocity, but you can't capture him. Of course, it's the gingerbread man.
THE MUFFIN MAN?
Bro was such a chad
"2 decades ago". Damn I'm old
Bold of you to assume that I’m not constantly thinking about this movie in perfect detail
the captain of the guard who was at the table and then reading Shrek and Donkey their arrest statements was voiced by iconic Disney actor Jim Cummings too
The irony is that because of that personal drama Disney probably would have been different in the early to mid 2000s. Without that rivalry Disney probably wouldn't have have stepped up their game with 3D animation movies. After Shrek Disney Pixar gave us Monsters Inc, The Incredibles and Cars. If you want a successful business then you have to have a good rival to push you. So basically we got some really good movies thanks to someone's anger over a promotion.
Thoughts on doing the Fairy Godmother next?
We can add another layer if we analize in retrospect, knowing that modern disney villains are selfish morons at best, meant to be mean or neglecting instead of evil to not offend modern audiences... while being created by a manipulative mega corporation, the Disney facade of the perfect Farquaad Kingdom fits perfectly.
I mean, just starting with Hans from Frozen. A spoiled kid who didin't get the throne wants to marry a princess to aquire power... it really feels like they managed to grow a diluted Farquaad from the dragon's poop.
Lord Farquad very real. I mean it's not like it's unknown today with politicians that villianices minorites, gathers them in camps and punish them when they object, like Shrek. Shrek actually attacted back, violently. But he's seen as a hero. Unlike others in the real world. I wonder if Shrek would have been a hero, if he'd failed.
“While the enemies of the emperor draw breathe, there can be no peace.”
- Indrick Boreale
I just realized Farquad's clothes have the same colors as Mickey Mouse's.
Lord Farquaad may have been portrayed as a comical villain in the movie Shrek, but a closer look reveals he was actually quite evil. Not only did he exile all fairytale creatures from his kingdom, forcing them to live in Shrek's swamp, but he also attempted to marry Princess Fiona against her will in order to become king. Additionally, Farquaad showed no regard for the lives of others, as he ordered the extermination of the ogre population in his kingdom and sent his knights to capture and kill Shrek. Farquaad's actions were driven by his desire for power and control, making him a truly sinister character in the film.
Wow that name really went over my head as a kid
I like that one meme that's a shot of Farquaad at 6:30 with red lipstick and a septum piercing photoshopped on his face and the caption says "all scene girls look like this nowadays"
Do you know.... The muffin man?
One interesting tidbit is that he is the son of Grumpy and the Princess from the Princess and the Pea. He was furious his mother left behind her royal lifestyle for a simpler one.
John Lithgow the legend.
Another famous villain Farquaad reminds me of is Laurence Olivier's portrayal of Richard III, especially the hair and the outfit
Ironically, it's Dreamworks making the enchanting fairy tale films these days while Disney has become a parody of itself. How times change.
I never thought he was scary, but extremely memorable
His name is F-wade. It's in the name.
I believe to this day, Lord Farquaad is the only Shrek villain that isn't from a fairytale or some kind of mythical being. That's interesting because the first film was made to hurl insults towards Eisner, but the sequels seem to create villains from fairytales that completely do a 180 to traditional fairytales we've seen (for example, the Fairy Godmother, who is viewed as the helper towards the protagonist, is now the villain of Shrek 2).
I like the timing of this video. Very smart.
Something I just realized... You know how Farquad's logo is a stylized F? F is next to D on keyboards. Layers, my vrothers.
Oh that's not...
@@velmad3894 It's another layer to the parody. Naming your entire company, theme parks and all after yourself. I mean, he isn't alone in it, but it's not as common as it was when Disney was alive, and even then, their initial was rarely the logo.
I just noticed that @6:01 it bears a resemblance to the room above the firestation infamous as being the place Disney stayed at when he was in Disney Land, only just having been bricked up and in the process of being repainted dreary.
You know. I never noticed before that Farquaad has the same color scheme as Micky Mouse.
How many more reasons can he find to gush about how great Shrek is?
Not that I'm complaining.
I never caught the paint bucket and ladder in Duloc. Thats a really damn clever detail
Say what you want about farquaad but he actually kept his promises and gave Shrek his swamp back
Also Farquad:
"Take it and go, before I change my mind"
I don't know man, should Shrek have stood longer, Farquad might have him sent to the gulag I mean his patience was indeed miniscule, not to mention still all the more discriminatory towards Shrek saying he doesn't have any feelings like damn XD.
learned something new
it does give another angle to this story which is cool
The good old days
Shrek isn’t a “kids movie.” Its comments like that that make some people think of animation as “only for children.” And that’s simply not true.
It's comments like this that make people think kids only deserve garbage content. Just because it's good doesn't mean it's not for kids and being for kids isn't an insult.
He’s basically a goofy version of Judge Claude Frollo.
My niece loves to recite the Muffing Man bit between the Farqkawd and gigerbread man.
He behaves like a real absolute monarch 😅
Great video.
This sort of reminds me of what is happening in 2020s today! 😔😔
I never felt scared of Lord Farquaad, I just felt he was someone who's weird and selfish
I mean the interrogation scene was not frightening when I saw it in theaters everyone was hysterical, shit was funny.