confirm the version before arguing
Someone repeats the dragon-and-princess bargain as if checking a bill, already sure it is absurd.
Let me get this straight. You're gonna go fight a dragon...shrek-2001 · 2001 — Chapter 3 of 7 · 2'05" · B2
Ogres Are Like Onions, Explained: end of story
Someone recaps the deal: fight a dragon, rescue a princess, get a swamp back, and hears that donkeys should not talk. That same voice then asks for the full ogre routine. Under it is a fight about being misread. "Ogres are like onions" is taken as stink, tears, cake, and parfait, and all are refused.
What happens
Two voices argue a Farquaad deal: fight a dragon, rescue a princess, get a swamp back. One side wants the full ogre routine. The other paints a slaughtered village, asks if that sounds good, and gets a no. Then "there's a lot more to ogres than people think," then onions. Stink, tears, cake, and parfait miss. Layers is the point, closed with "End of story."
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get this straightin the first placethe whole ogre tripsound good to you
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Phrase of the scene
end of story
stop; this version is final
After cake and parfait try to replace the onion, the speaker locks the comparison shut.
We are leaving at six, end of story.
Also in this scene
- get this straight
confirm the version before arguing
- in the first place
back to the original cause
- the whole ogre trip
the full set of old ogre tricks, packed as one
- sound good to you
asks if that sounds good to you
- a lot more to
more depth than the label allows
Everything marked in this scene
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Hit straight, and let the two words before it blur.
Let me get this straight. You're gonna go fight a dragon...Keep gonna as one squeeze; don't restore going to.
Let me get this straight. You're gonna go fight a dragon...for that one purpose and no other
and rescue a princess just so Farquaad will give you back a swamp...return what was taken from someone
and rescue a princess just so Farquaad will give you back a swamp...back to the original cause
The speaker pins the lost swamp on the person who packed it with outsiders first.
which you only don't have because he filled it full of freaks in the first place.cram a place until nothing fits
which you only don't have because he filled it full of freaks in the first place.relative clause: which points back to the swamp and leaves only one cause.
which you only don't have because he filled it full of freaks in the first place.a sneer for odd people — It insults people; do not use it as a name.
which you only don't have because he filled it full of freaks in the first place.understand what is going on
I don't get it. Why don't you just pull some of that ogre stuff on him?use a familiar tactic on someone ogre stuff means the scary routine people expect
I don't get it. Why don't you just pull some of that ogre stuff on him?surround a place and attack
Throttle him, lay siege to his fortress, grind his bones to make your bread, the whole ogre trip.crush bones, the old ogre threat
Throttle him, lay siege to his fortress, grind his bones to make your bread, the whole ogre trip.the full set of old ogre tricks, packed as one
After the scare list, the speaker bags every item as one required ogre routine.
Throttle him, lay siege to his fortress, grind his bones to make your bread, the whole ogre trip.asks if that sounds good to you
After the horror list, the question pretends to ask permission and hands the cruelty back.
Does that sound good to you?a huffy preface to a correction
For your information, there's a lot more to ogres than people think.more depth than the label allows
Pushed into the monster script, someone answers that ogres are more complex than the cliché.
For your information, there's a lot more to ogres than people think.Let to lean on the next word instead of standing alone.
For your information, there's a lot more to ogres than people think.leave something outside to change
You leave them out in the sun, they get all brown, start sprouting little white hairs.have hidden depth under the surface Onion layers are outer skins; ogre layers are the unseen inside. The line says both have them.
You get it? We both have layers. [Sighs]not everyone likes it; some people don't
You know, not everybody likes onions.double negative: The two negatives still mean dislike; they do not cancel.
Have you ever met a person, you say, Let's get some parfait, they say, No, I don't like no parfait?an animal kept for carrying loads literally a pack animal, here an insult
You dense, irritating, miniature beast of burden!stupid, slow to catch on — Only with close friends; it lands as an insult.
You dense, irritating, miniature beast of burden!stop; this version is final
After cake and parfait try to replace the onion, the speaker locks the comparison shut.
Ogres are like onions! End of story.Pause on End, thin out of, and drop story.
Ogres are like onions! End of story.make a mess and fail to contain it
Do you have a tissue or something? I'm making a mess.drooling from appetite — Fine with friends; too messy for formal talk.
Just the word parfait make me start slobbering.Ogres Are Like Onions, explained
What's really going on
One voice recaps the Farquaad deal: fight a dragon, rescue a princess, get back a swamp that was filled with freaks. The reply snaps that donkeys should not talk. The recap voice keeps going and asks why not do the whole ogre trip: throttle him, siege the fortress, grind his bones. What comes back is the monster picture turned sour: decapitate a village, heads on a pike, cut the spleen and drink. "Does that sound good to you?" gets "Uh, no, not really, no." Only then does the point arrive. "There's a lot more to ogres than people think" pushes past that list, and "ogres are like onions" is heard as stink, tears, sunburn, and little white hairs. Each guess gets a no. Cake and parfait are offered because everybody loves them. "I don't care... what everyone likes" and "Ogres are not like cakes" refuse that vote. "End of story" stops the revisions.
Theme
IdentityA voice refuses the monster checklist and says ogres, like onions, have layers other people do not see.
AbsurdityLayers turns into stink, tears, sunburn, cake, and parfait, and the swamp deal never gets another serious line.
Listen for
- get this straight — Hit straight, and let the two words before it blur.
- You're gonna — Keep gonna as one squeeze; don't restore going to.
- a lot more to — Let to lean on the next word instead of standing alone.
- End of story — Pause on End, thin out of, and drop story.
For your information, there's a lot more to ogres than people think.It rejects the throttle-and-grind picture. An ogre, this voice says, is more than the monster list people expect.
I don't care... what everyone likes.The answer to the cake pitch. Popular taste is dismissed, so layers was never a bid to be liked.
Ogres are not like cakes.A flat no to swapping onions for cake. Cake having layers is not enough, because the comparison was never about a crowd favorite.
You dense, irritating, miniature beast of burden!The parfait joke will not stop, and this insult answers it. The listener is blamed for missing layers and staying on dessert.
Ogres are like onions! End of story.The comparison is restated and closed. Layers stands, and cake or parfait will not get another round.
Parfaits may be the most delicious thing on the whole damn planet.After bye-bye, the dessert pitch continues anyway. Parfait is praised as lovable, the test the onion side already refused.
Questions about this scene
Why do stink and tears show up right after ogres are compared to onions?
The next guesses take the comparison literally. Someone sniffs and asks if they stink. The reply starts to agree, then snaps "No!" Crying is guessed and also gets "No!" Sunburn and little white hairs come next, and that gets "No! Layers!" The point is then said outright: "Ogres have layers! Onions have layers."
Why reject cake if cakes have layers too?
The cake offer is "Everybody loves cakes! Cakes have layers." What comes back is "I don't care... what everyone likes" and "Ogres are not like cakes." Cake loses because it is what everyone loves, not because anyone denies that cake is layered.
Does anyone sign on to decapitating a village?
No. The picture is heads on a pike and drinking spleen fluid, followed by "Does that sound good to you?" The answer is "Uh, no, not really, no." The following line drops that picture and says there is a lot more to ogres than people think.
What does "the whole ogre trip" add up to in this argument?
The same line lists the pieces and then names the bundle: throttle him, lay siege to his fortress, and grind his bones to make your bread. "The whole ogre trip" is that monster routine, offered as one package.
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