Dragons. Mythological creatures known all throughout history as a large lizard-like creature that could breathe fire as hot as magma, with wings longer than a modern day truck. Many movies have been made featuring these creatures, and now one of the most popular movies has fully come to life as it has been brought from animation to live action.
“The thing that ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ does that I believe no other dragon series has done is make many different types of dragons,” said Taft junior Khari Williams.
“How to Train Your Dragon” is a movie about a young Viking named Hiccup who was an outcast in Berk, his village, for being seen as weak and wanting to understand dragons better, rather than hunting them like the rest of the Vikings.
This eventually led to his obsession with a specific type of dragon known as the night fury.
The night fury is a pure black dragon that on all fours is around the height of an average man. It is so dangerous to where it is nicknamed “the unholy offspring of lightning and death itself.” As it never hunts for food, it never misses, and its speed has been described as unknown.
“The fact that some vikings use dragons to continue hunting other dragons always was confusing to me but now I see that it’s actually really smart if you view it from another perspective,” said Taft sophomore Bianka Guzman.
Hiccup would soon come to befriend this night fury that he later names Toothless. As Toothless is able to retract his teeth back into his gums and protrude from his gums whenever he needs to eat. This friendship later led to the Vikings’ hatred for dragons changing into a friendship bond that some of them share.
“It’s nice that his entire life was spread through the most important parts instead of 50 different movies, but rather the tree ages that everyone experiences changes at,” said Taft junior Blessing James.
The movie would later inspire two others to be made each a later time in Hiccup’s life up to “How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World,” which would be the final movie in the franchise. The movie depicts Hiccup when he becomes a full adult and the new Chief of Berk.
Now after 6 years the iconic man dragon duo have finally returned, but now in a live action movie for the first time ever. Which will be entirely inspired by the events of the first movie. The question is, will the other two films be recreated as a live action?
