How to Train Your Dragon

How to Train Your Dragon movie is a classic example of the Major category. There are Vikings, there are dragons and that's about where the similarities end. Don't get me wrong I love the movies, but I think I love the books just a little bit more ( I'm a bookworm, can't help it). Other differences:

  • Toothless: Movie, Dark, large, and mysterious "night fury". Books, small, green, and mischievous.
  • Snotlout is Hiccup's cousin is the books.
  • Astrid in the main girl protagonist in the movie seems based off of Camicazi, a clever if not too boastful heir to the big burgler tribe.
  • Here's the big difference int the books dragons are everywhere, with all sizes, and they are the quite literal slaves to the Vikings. Hiccup can speak to dragons in Dragonese and wants to convince the tribes of the archipelago to free the dragons (and some human slaves of a certain uncouth tribe).
I could keep going, but the differences are too many for just one review. Some important things that stayed the same are the strained relationship between Hiccup and his father. Crowell wrote the books with a question in mind "How can two people be so different, but still love each other?" It was a question she asked about her own father and herself. I don't want to spoil the books, but Drago's,from the movie, rebellion of dragons is pretty similar to in the books except it's lead by the great sea dragon Furious, not a human. Cowell's series is so interconnected even things that seemed minor in the first book are important by the last book. The movies also show some of that quality. If you look closely the scar on Hiccup's chin, that his mother recognizes him by, is in the first film. Indeed I even wondered why it was there at one point. Anyway there are good stories whichever one you choose to read or watch.

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