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Clickable Emoticons	doeslingx wrote: > I'm going to attempt a pretty haphazard analysis of why I fell in love with > HTTYD. There are lots of individual things: it's got a relatable witty > hero, the greatest animated creature [i]ever[/i], seriously neat flying > sequences and a brilliant soundtrack. > > But I think there are two bigger reasons. > > Firstly, there's the three core relationships that the film is centred > around, each of which is fantastic: > 1. Hiccup-Toothless: it's a boy-and-his-dog pairing with a hint of Romeo > and Juliet (two warring factions etc), but it's so well done. The Forbidden > Friendship scene blows me away every time. > 2. Hiccup-Stoick: Hiccup earns his father's respect, but on his own terms. > Stoick redeems himself by saving Toothless from drowning and apologising to > Hiccup ("I'm proud to call you my son..."). It's really > heartwarming stuff. > 3. Hiccup-Astrid: Basically they're really cute together, and the > tough-girl-with-nerdy-boy dynamic is a clever inversion of what we'd > normally get. Also, Romantic Flight is the [i]second[/i] best scene in the > film. > > Reason number two is the film's theme: the whole thing is about overcoming > preconceptions. Hiccup originally tries to kill Toothless but realises he's > misjudged dragons ("he was as scared as I was"). Toothless' first > instinct is to attack (and maybe kill) Hiccup, but he sees something in him > and holds back. Stoick thinks dragons are evil and dangerous but by the end > sees how wrong he's been and tries to make amends. Astrid desperately wants > to kill a dragon until Hiccup and Toothless make her see what they really > are, then she tries to help them out. In the end it turns out that everyone > in Berk has misjudged Hiccup, and they end up hailing him as the guy who > saves them from the Green Death. > > That line - "so why didn't you?" (I think both Hiccup and Astrid > say it at different points) - perfectly sums up what this film is all > about: understanding.
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DarthBacon 04 Aug 2014, 06:46

Gosh that's amazing. That should totally be our fandom song/slogan/theme!

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