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Threading the needle

Posted: 01 Jul 2014, 16:32
by MartianArchaeologist
Another really subtle story arc is the "threading the needle". The payoff here is when Hiccup and Toothless use a corkscrew spin to thread the needle through a hole in the tail of the Bewilderbeest. They'd been trying to thread through sea stack holes during the entire movie, and that's one of the things they were practicing.

I'm wondering why they didn't show that outright--maybe they didn't want to mess with dragon model sizes as much as they had to in the first movie. But when I finally got that--"Hey, thread the needle success!" the realization was very cool.

Threading the needle

Posted: 01 Jul 2014, 18:24
by Polychrome
Heh. Oddly what was running through my head during that scene was a grunt from Halo and a bowl of petunias...

Threading the needle

Posted: 02 Jul 2014, 01:06
by WasBornCrazy
O.O I didn't even notice. Time to watch it again. For the 4th time.

Threading the needle

Posted: 04 Jul 2014, 09:14
by MartianArchaeologist
Polychrome
01 Jul 2014, 22:24
Heh. Oddly what was running through my head during that scene was a grunt from Halo and a bowl of petunias...
Meaning our brains work in a similar fashion, then....

Threading the needle

Posted: 04 Jul 2014, 09:49
by mycove
That is so right !!

3rd screening for me tomorrow, so I'll be enjoying the moment again !

Threading the needle

Posted: 12 Jul 2014, 00:29
by MartianArchaeologist
:)

Always a pleasure finding a comment from mycove that I've previously missed.