On Bill and… Shrek?
Craig Mazin (on the Scriptnotes podcast) in a discussion of characters’ want versus need:
A lot of the time the character isn’t aware of what they want until they become aware of it.
Like, I like to look at Shrek, because it’s such a clear, elegant storyline. What he thinks he wants is not what he really ends up wanting, it wasn’t even what he wanted at the beginning.
What he wanted, of course, was to be loved. He just didn’t know that that was an option, so he went to a new want, which is “I want to be alone”.
So there’s the want that you’ve lost, the want that you think you want, and it changes. What we want changes as we move through life and things smash into us.
I mean, that’s also Bill, right?
Shrek came out in 2001, so two years before the Cordeceps apocalypse!
Theoretically, Bill could have seen the first Shrek movie.