" The insistent, chilling music sets a mood of polarized dislocations in the world (e.g., war and play, men and children) and in the corrupted city""s ""no-man""s-land"" environment (with its bombed out, war-torn ruins, dark and slick streets, cemeteries and sewers criss-crossing beneath he sectored zones).) were being sold by their owners and then caged, due to the orders of diminutive aristocrat Lord Farquaad (voice of John Lithgow) who had banished Fairytale characters into exile.Gore Verbinski, 168 minutesFilm Plot SummaryThe film opened with mass hangings of men, women, and even children - anyone suspected of associating with pirates, orchestrated by evil Lord Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander) of the East India Trading Company (EITC).Unperturbed by the idea of retreating into a secluded world, Jack accepts the job and plans to take advantage of the undemanding work schedule to do some concentrated writing, and he predicts that his family will feel the same ("they""ll love it"):Ullman: When the place was built in 1907, there was very little interest in winter sports.