]Swann noted: "What a murderous thug I look!" Tony recalled an instance of Swann""s alleged illegal activity during their student days.Actors who were offered or considered for the role of the middle-aged, obsessed European intellectual included Kubrick""s first choice - Noel Coward, then Cary Grant, Laurence Olivier, Rex Harrison, and David Niven.[At the film""s ending, the viewer wonders if his diary""s composed thoughts are a dream state - after his almost certain death.As he declared himself king with the binding marriage, Farquaad ordered his men to kill Shrek and imprison Fiona back in the tower for the rest of her life.