![]() Gobber is an affable character who has a missing hand and leg. But for all I know the third one is great. Alas, two years later they came out with another Madagascar movie, so I guess I was wrong. I thought this brief cameo in How to Train Your Dragon was a clever way for DreamWorks Animation to say that it’s finished making terrible films, and it’s going to focus on making high-quality ones. I wasn’t impressed at all by the first Madagascar, so I didn’t see the sequels. One is holding a dead hippopotamus – the same one from the Madagascar films. When Toothless takes Hiccup and Astrid to the Dragon Queen’s lair, we see a bunch of other dragons carrying food with them. The rest of the candlelight in that scene is brilliant, but watch for that moment when it doesn’t react as it should. However, they don’t react at one moment when Hiccup turns a page, with the same swiftness as he did the cover. ![]() During the “Dragon Handbook” scene, Hiccup has two candles near him that react when he opens the book cover and when a door bursts open and lets in a gust of wind. I’m sure that candles are incredibly hard to pull off because they’re such small things, but they are affected by even the smallest breeze. I have great respect for animators who are able to add realistic details that might go unnoticed but nevertheless immerse viewers in the world they have created. It adds an extra dimension to the scene, though, allowing us to not only see what Hiccup is seeing but experience the fear that is gripping him. It’s so subtle that I didn’t notice it for the longest time. But a flash of lightning disrupts him halfway through, and when he warily returns to the morbid task of reading about dragons’ abilities to kill people, suddenly the images start moving. When Hiccup first reads some of the pages in the “Dragon Handbook” on a dark, stormy night, the images are all static, as they should be. Turn on your subtitles if you have trouble hearing it. This little moment is easy to miss because both characters whisper the line softly. When they say those words, they also don’t yet realize that their actions have caused Toothless/Hiccup to be forever maimed. It gives us some insight into Toothless’ character without anyone having to say a word.īoth Hiccup and his father Stoick say “I did this” when they find Toothless lying in a state of semi-consciousness. This is an example of excellent visual storytelling. It’s a really cool moment that apparently was an accident in the animation process, but the filmmakers kept it because it was so creepy. When the camera pans across Toothless’ body for the first time when he’s tied up in front of Hiccup, for a split-second we see his eye closed, but then his wing passes in front of it, and when we see the eye again it’s open and staring at Hiccup. ![]() I hope these will add to your appreciation of this wonderful film. I would like to share 10 details that I think are really interesting but can be hard to spot in How to Train Your Dragon. And after all those viewings I still discover new things to love about it. My kids love watching this movie, and so I’ve seen it more than a dozen times now. I love How to Train Your Dragon, as you can tell from one of my most popular articles of all time: How to Train Your Dragon vs.
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