Makayla Heaton
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How to Train Your Dragon Book versus the Movie
How to Train Your Dragon is one of my favorite movies of all time. I started working at the Carolina Theater when this movie came out. When showings of How to Train Your Dragon let out, handfuls of people came out drying their tears with napkins they had originally intended for their buttery popcorn fingers. Most people do not know however that the movie is based on a book. Let alone, that there is a whole series! I never realized how many differences between the book and movie there actually was.
The plot in the book is entirely different from the movie. In the movie, the Vikings are seen as being at war with the dragons and have a custom of killing them. Hiccup of course shows them that these “beasts” are trainable, and they all live happily ever after. In the book however, the Vikings were already accustomed to capturing and training the dragons.
In the book Hiccup actually has two dragons. Toothless is not a night fury, which was made up for the movie. Instead Toothless is Hiccup’s hunting dragon, and he is rather small and a common garden dragon. Hiccup’s second dragon is his flying dragon, Windwalker. Hiccup adopted Windwalker because he knew no one else wanted him.
One of the biggest differences from the book and the movie is that Asterid, Hiccup’s love interest was made up entirely for the movie. Asterid is not featured in the book series at all. Some say that Asterid represents the book female character Camicazi. Camicazi is a great sword fighter and one of Hiccup’s very good friends. Despite the major differences, Author Cowell still felt like the movie captured the message portrayed in her book.
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