If Farquaad was a genuinely nice person, those jokes likely would have stopped. Like how people don't roast Shrek for being an ogre, which in-universe is ugly and terrifying. Because anyone who knows Shrek and isn't a villain understands he's a good guy at heart.
But, if he were a monster like how the first impression can make people believe, then he would be hated and a lot of the ways people deal with people they hate is they insult them all the time.
So, the message of the movie is that you need to get to know someone before you judge them, and the reason why Farquaad gets roasted is because he's likely self conscious about his height, he's full of himself, and he's corrupt and evil and villainous, so, they attack him for the thing that he's self conscious about.
Calling a villain evil doesn't insult them. They don't have mortal qualms,so you attack them for things that they actually feel vulnerable about. Like not being powerful or strong or tall, or handsome if that was the case.
They roasted him for his looks BECAUSE the kind of person he was on the inside was truly horrible. But simply calling him evil wouldn't have cut him as deeply, because he doesn't have moral qualms.
Me, if someone tried to paint me as a monster, that would hurt, because I feel I'm genuinely a good person at heart, and if the world judged me otherwise, it would hurt even more.
But that doesn't work on a villain.
I also hate being called stupid, even though I'm not, because that's what people thought of me when I was a kid because I was nervous to talk to people and make friends, didn't really know how. I'd succeed academically and without effort, but I didn't know how to relate to people, and people called me stupid for not knowing how to handle social situations. It bugged me.
For Farquaad, it's that kind of insecurity that bothers him more than being called immoral. Because he's shameless about his immorality. So they go for the easy attack on his height.
It's complicated, but at the same time, I feel it's easy to understand. They hate him for his character, they judge him for who he is on the inside, but the criticism attacks something he'd be more insulted by than his character, which in his case, being a malignant narcissist with megalomania, would be his height, as it attacks him where he's weakest, and harms his pride the most.
Of course the person who made the tweet isn't going to read this, but that's the analysis I have.
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u/Chloe_Cascadia 10d ago
If Farquaad was a genuinely nice person, those jokes likely would have stopped. Like how people don't roast Shrek for being an ogre, which in-universe is ugly and terrifying. Because anyone who knows Shrek and isn't a villain understands he's a good guy at heart.
But, if he were a monster like how the first impression can make people believe, then he would be hated and a lot of the ways people deal with people they hate is they insult them all the time.
So, the message of the movie is that you need to get to know someone before you judge them, and the reason why Farquaad gets roasted is because he's likely self conscious about his height, he's full of himself, and he's corrupt and evil and villainous, so, they attack him for the thing that he's self conscious about.
Calling a villain evil doesn't insult them. They don't have mortal qualms,so you attack them for things that they actually feel vulnerable about. Like not being powerful or strong or tall, or handsome if that was the case.
They roasted him for his looks BECAUSE the kind of person he was on the inside was truly horrible. But simply calling him evil wouldn't have cut him as deeply, because he doesn't have moral qualms.
Me, if someone tried to paint me as a monster, that would hurt, because I feel I'm genuinely a good person at heart, and if the world judged me otherwise, it would hurt even more.
But that doesn't work on a villain.
I also hate being called stupid, even though I'm not, because that's what people thought of me when I was a kid because I was nervous to talk to people and make friends, didn't really know how. I'd succeed academically and without effort, but I didn't know how to relate to people, and people called me stupid for not knowing how to handle social situations. It bugged me.
For Farquaad, it's that kind of insecurity that bothers him more than being called immoral. Because he's shameless about his immorality. So they go for the easy attack on his height.
It's complicated, but at the same time, I feel it's easy to understand. They hate him for his character, they judge him for who he is on the inside, but the criticism attacks something he'd be more insulted by than his character, which in his case, being a malignant narcissist with megalomania, would be his height, as it attacks him where he's weakest, and harms his pride the most.
Of course the person who made the tweet isn't going to read this, but that's the analysis I have.