Board Thread:Clubs/@comment-38091275-20190513174141/@comment-38518755-20190614003225

MagicDaydreamer wrote: This club is very, very dead.

DISCUSSION QUESTION

when a book is made into a movie, do you usually watch and enjoy the movie or rely on the book?

⚠️ '''WARNING: HTTYD RANT AHEAD! READ AT YOUR OWN RISK''' ⚠️

The book is almost ALWAYS better (I said ALMOST) in my opinion. A lot of the time, the movies get the characters or the plot wrong. How to Train Your Dragon is a book series, but usually people haven’t heard of the books. (Bluejay, if you’re somewhere, somehow reading this, I’m pretty sure you’ll agree.) And it’s SO DIFFERENT.

The books have 3 main characters: Hiccup, the scrawny son of the chief of the Hooligans and is horrible at everything except sword fighting; Camicazi, who is the daughter of the chief of the Bog Burglars and is extremely good at sword fighting, pick-pocketing, and rescuing Hiccup; and Fishlegs, who’s even skinnier than Hiccup and even more horrible at everything than Hiccup. There’s also Snotlout, who isn’t a main character, but he’s Hiccup’s cousin and he’s wants Hiccup killed (he doesn’t want to betray his tribe, he just tries to discreetly kill him every chance he gets) so that he’s next in line to be chief. The movies have 6 main characters, Hiccup (who gets a lot better at everything, but he loses a leg), Astrid (who replaces Camicazi), Snotlout (who gets a lot nicer), Tuffnut (who was a minor character in the books and he definitely isn’t like the one in the movies) Ruffnut (where did she come from?), and Fishlegs (who gets a whole lot larger and he doesn’t have glasses. I would go on about characters, but I would probably break the thread.

OK, DRAGONS. In the series, Toothless is a Common or Garden Dragon and is green and tiny and harmless. In the movies, he transforms into a super-rare, super-powerful riding dragon: a Night Fury (Hiccup rides a Windwalker in the books). Stormfly, who was Camicazi’s Mood Dragon, is turned into Astrid’s Deadly Nadder (which has 8 legs I believe in the books). Also, Toothless has a crush on Stormfly. OH, AND THEY CAN TALK - THEY MISSED THAT. There’s a language that the dragons speak called Dragonese, and Hiccup is the only human that can fluently speak it, meaning that he’s the only one that can talk to dragons. AND THIS IS A BIG PART OF THE BOOKS - HICCUP WOULD BE DEAD BEFORE BOOK 1 ENDS IF HE COULDN’T SPEAK IT.

I’m done... for now.... DUN DUN DDUUUUUUN