The film's story originally followed the adventures of a teenage ogre who just didn't want to lurk around the swamp and frighten people. Shrek (who was basically a sweet, well intentioned soul) wanted to do good. His ultimate dream was to become a knight and rescue fair damsels in distress. In this version of the film, Princess Fiona was voiced by rather gruff, sarcastic female comic Janeane Garofalo. The princess was the one who didn't trust people, and it was Shrek's sweetness, kind heart and good nature that eventually caused Fiona to open her eyes and learn that it was wrong to judge a person just based on how they looked. According to Jim Hill Media, "Were you to ask the folks at Dreamworks, they'd probably still tell you that the Chris Farley version of Shrek would have been infinitely better than the Michael Myers / Cameron Diaz version that the studio eventually released in May of 2001," but in December 1997, the tragic passing of Chris Farley caused a ripple effect, because he was no longer available to record the rest of his dialogue for Shrek's title character, Dreamworks had no choice but to chuck everything that they'd done up until that point and start the movie from scratch. This mean recasting the role. But Chris's fellow SNL-er Mike Myers seemed incapable of playing a sweet, sincere character, which meant that the ogre's part in the picture was going to have to be radically rewritten to play to Myers's strengths. Which is how the gruff, emotionally remote version of the film's title character came in being. Of course, given that the title character of Shrek was now going to be sarcastic and nasty, that meant that the role of Princess Fiona would have to be rewritten as well. Which is why Garfofalo suddenly found herself out on the street while Cameron Diaz was brought in to play the kinder, gentler version of Fiona.

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