Male voice-over: ( laughs and rips off a page) Like that's ever gonna happen.
She waited in the dragon's keep in the highest room of the tallest tower for her true love and true love's first kiss.
Many brave knights had attempted to free her from this dreadful prison, but non prevailed. She was locked away in a castle guarded by a terrible fire-breathing dragon. Meanwhile, there was an princess who had an enchantment upon her of a fearful sort which could only be broken by true love's first kiss. And whenever a mob came along to attack him he knew exactly what to do, scaring them away. And so the young ogre went on his way and found a perfectly rancid swamp far away from civilization. Ahh, I know it’s sad, very sad, but ogres are used to that – the hardships, the indignities. On his 7th birthday, the young ogre and his parents sat down to talk, just as all ogre parents had for hundreds of years before, telling him about he was ready to take his own way, warning him that because of his looks, humans will hate him. It was a pretty nasty place, but he was happy because ogres like nasty. Narrator: Once upon a time, there was a young ogre named Shrek, who lived with his parents in a bog by a tree. A storybook opens to reveal its story as the voice-over narrator reads) ( The film opens with the opening credits starting as "DreamWorks Pictures presents" and "A PDI/DreamWorks production". ( DreamWorks Pictures logo with the "S"s being green and with Shrek-esque ears) ( In the memory of Dora Wilson (1902-2000), a dreamer and a worker)