For those of you who know me, you know I’m a huge fan of how to train your dragon. I love the movie and the books even more than my kids, and for a while, I had to hide how much I loved “kids” movies. In order to expand my writing style, I thought I’d start doing little reviews on movies I love, their connections to books, character descriptions, things that stood out in my mind, etc. This is the first of what I hope will be a normal series!
DreamWorks’ hit animated film “How to Train Your Dragon” is loosely based on the book of the same name by Cressida Cowell. Aside from some of the main characters and basic story elements, there are numerous differences between the book and the movie. A simple look at the toothless and hiccuping main characters in the book compared to their portrayal in the film reveals just how far the film deviates from the book’s story.
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hiccup and toothless as individual characters
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III’s character and appearance in the movie closely resembles his description in the novel. he is a scrawny viking from the tribe of hairy hooligans, unusual for both his physical appearance and his intelligence. he is commonly teased and belittled by the other Vikings, much like at the beginning of the first film. however, he owns two dragons, one called Toothless and the other Windwalker.
the toothless dragon is drastically different in the book and the movie. while the movie portrays him as a huge black night fury, the rarest and most intelligent of the dragon species, in the book he is a small green and red dragon, believed to be a common or garden dragon. later, it is discovered to be a young sea dragon giganticus maximus. as its name suggests, it has no teeth.
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the relationship between hiccups and edentulousness
In the book, Cressida describes Toothless as a disobedient, selfish and ungrateful dragon, but very attached to hiccups. The film portrays Hiccup and Toothless as best friends, sharing a great relationship and being in tune with each other’s needs and desires. Toothless is very obedient in the movie, except when he thinks he has a better plan than Hiccup. While Toothless is small enough to sit on Hiccup’s arm in the book, in the movie he is a huge dragon that Hiccup loves to fly on.
Another important difference is the way the relationship between hypo and edentulous evolves. In the book, the villagers of Berk have a tradition of capturing and training dragons, and Hiccup captures Toothless to train them according to the rite of passage. However, Toothless’s disobedience gives Hiccup a lot of trouble, and he eventually figures out his own way to train the dragon.
The story of the film is completely different, as the Vikings of Berk consider dragons as their enemies. Hiccup, in an attempt to prove himself to the town, attempts to take down a dragon. he successfully manages to attack a night fury and goes in search of the injured creature to finish it off. however, when he finally finds the dragon, he cannot bring himself to kill it. eventually, he frees the dragon and even fashions a makeshift tail for it when he realizes that he can’t fly on his own. As Hiccup spends time with the dragon and helps him take to the skies once more, the two become good friends. Hiccup eventually manages to convince the rest of the village that Vikings and dragons can coexist in peace, and even teaches the others how to befriend and train dragons.
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