Shrek""s plan was to consult with the Muffin Man with a Bakery on Drury Lane, and create a giant Gingerbread Man (named Mongo) (a parody ofGhostbusters (1984)andBlazing Saddles (1974)): "It""s alive!" (a reference toFrankenstein (1931)).Dr.Dixon was summoned to administer truth serum (sodium pentathol) to Zira, while Cornelius was taken away to his quarters, when he strongly objected to the hypodermic needle injection: "We only use those things for killing.There, they hear the scream of enemy shells for the first time.The Germans are already suffering from lack of supplies and food.The raw recruits are greeted by disillusioned, cynically-stoic veterans of the war.Inside a deserted factory, the seasoned old-timers Westhus (Richard Alexander), Detering (Harold Goodwin), and Tjaden (George "Slim" Summerville) meet the "green" soldiers: "Here""s some more.Plot SynopsisThe beautifully-realized, poetic film opens with an allegorical subtitle:A Song of Two Humans:The main characters are unnamed archetypal figures in a love triangle: the Man, the Wife, and the Woman from the City (the Vamp).