How To Train Your Dragon
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This document summarizes the 2010 animated film How to Train Your Dragon. It provides information on the film's production, awards, and main characters like Hiccup and Toothless. The plot involves Hiccup, the son of a Viking chief, shooting down a rare dragon called a Night Fury. Rather than killing it, he cares for the injured dragon and learns about dragons. He discovers the dragons were being forced to steal food for a giant dragon called the Red Death. In the climax, Hiccup and Toothless work together to defeat the Red Death and end the war between Vikings and dragons.
How To Train Your Dragon
- 1. How to Train Your Dragon
- 2. Information • A 2010 American 3D computer-animated fantasy film by DreamWorks Animation • Loosely based on the English 2003 book of the same name • The film was directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, the duo who directed Disney's Lilo & Stitch
- 3. Awards • The film was released March 26, 2010 and was a critical and commercial success, earning nearly $500 million worldwide • Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score at the 83rd Academy Awards, but lost to Toy Story 3 and The Social Network, respectively • The movie also won ten Annie Awards, including Best Animated Feature
- 4. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III • Member of the Hairy Hooligan tribe • Son of the chief, Stoick the Vast • Smart and is constantly creating inventions for various uses • Obsessed with proving himself to the rest of his tribe at first
- 5. • Doesn't think things through and determined to gain the recognition • Often causing problems for the tribe and himself. • shows great aptitude at being a leader and strategist • has very good observational skills which come in handy during his time with Toothless and during dragon training
- 6. • first comes off as awkward, mainly because he is a poor fighter, and rather scrawny for a Viking. • remains shy and secretive, preferring to be alone with Toothless • sarcastic with a dry sense of humor that can sometimes put him at odds with the other Vikings in his tribe.
- 7. Toothless • a Common or Garden Dragon • possesses at least two sets of wings • He is missing the left of his tail fin, lost when Hiccup takes Toothless down with his Bolas-Shooting Ballista • his is later replaced by a mechanical fin that Hiccup constructs himself • gets his name from his sets of retractable teeth.
- 8. • He does not take kindly to being offended or anyone offending or endangering his human friend, • Usually playful, docile, maybe even a little teasing when not threatened. • He also shows a great curiosity, imitating Hiccup's actions
- 9. Astrid Hofferson • a teen Viking girl of the Hairy Hooligans tribe • striking, tough, beautiful and her determined and strong persona makes her hard to impress • Hiccup's main love interest • the only Viking without a helmet • determined and extremely dedicated to becoming a Viking Warrior.
- 10. • She is generally uninterested in the other teenagers • hot tempered • most knowledgeable in dragons • has a caring side, although this is hidden by an initial attempt at violence to cover it up • Her dragon is Stromfly
- 11. Plot • The island of Berk is a Viking village that is plagued by attacks from dragons that steal their livestock and burn their homes. • Hiccup, the awkward son of the village chieftain, shoots down a dragon he thinks may be a Night Fury, a rare dragon nobody has ever actually seen. • But finds he is unable to kill the helpless animal. Hiccup instead cuts it free
- 12. • Hiccup finds the dragon trapped with its tail injured, preventing it from flying normally. • Hiccup discovers a way to earn the dragon's trust and begins to care for it. • He soon becomes the star pupil • Much to the dismay of Astrid, a girl in dragon training on whom Hiccup has a crush.
- 13. • Astrid discovers Toothless and attempts to tell the villagers, but Hiccup takes her for a ride on Toothless instead. • Toothless unexpectedly takes the Astrid and Hiccup straight into the dragon's nest, where the truth behind the dragons' constant raids of their village is revealed • The Red Death, a gigantic dragon, depends on the food they bring back or else it feeds on the dragons themselves. • Astrid wants to tell the village of the nest, but Hiccup wants to keep it a secret to protect Toothless.
- 14. • Hiccup fails to show the village the dragon's true nature and put himself in danger instead. • Toothless flies in to save him, but is captured himself. • Stoick refuses to listen to his son, demotes Hiccup from being a Viking, disowns him, and leaves with another fleet • Hiccup then concocts a plan to save the Vikings with the help of the school's captive dragons and his classmates.
- 15. • The teens arrive when the Viking fleet has already discovered the Red Death. • Hiccup and Toothless kills the Red Death with a massive explosion. • Once the explosion has settled, Stoick finds Toothless, who reveals an unconscious Hiccup safely wrapped in his wings. • The film ends with the war between Vikings and Dragons finally over with Hiccup and his friends racing their dragons • They finally live happily forever after :)
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