REALITY + Đà Nẵng Film Forum invite you for another Film Club Friday, this time with Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois’s 2010 American animated film How to Train Your Dragon.
On the rainy island of Berk, Vikings and dragons have been at war for generations, and every kid in the village is expected to grow up killing them. Hiccup (Jay Baruchel), the chief’s skinny, sarcastic son, is much better at building gadgets than swinging an axe. One night he uses one of his contraptions to bring down a Night Fury, the rarest and most feared dragon of all, and nobody believes him. When he finds it tangled up in the woods, he can’t make himself finish the job. So he starts sneaking back to visit it, and the secret he’s keeping from his father and the rest of Berk gets bigger by the day.
Sanders and DeBlois made Lilo & Stitch together before this, and both films love a strange creature and the misfit kid who takes it in. Toothless moves and sulks like a big black cat. The scene where he and Hiccup slowly learn to trust each other has almost no dialogue, and it’s one of the best things in the film. The flying sequences, with John Powell’s huge score behind them, still look great fifteen years on.
Film Club selections are screened in their original languages and shown with both English and Vietnamese subtitles.
Discussion will follow the screening.
Hosted by Michael.
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