How to Train your Dragon Live Action, My first experience with this franchise

How to train your Dragon is the latest in the line of "let's turn our old Animated classics into Live Action Movies" Craze that was first started by Disney all those years ago, Now, some of these Live action remakes are actually great, like Lilo and Stitch, some add something new to the world of the old movies like Cruella, and some are Mulan 2020.

In recent times it seems every movie studio is rushing to get the sweet sweet money from this almost sure fire(according to them) thing.

So much so, that Dream Work, A studio known for it's animations, has decided to make a Live Action Remake.

So... how does it compare? Well I can't say, because This is my first How to train your Dragon movie...

Sacrilege I know.

But as an aside, I did like this movie, this movie has a simple concept that it seems to want to get across, not everyone fits in in a one size fits all type of situation, and not everyone should.

Sometimes what makes you different is what makes you great, even if, everyone else sees it as something that makes you lesser.

There are many ways you can look at this.

You may look it as a modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet with Hiccup being Romeo and Toothless being Juliet, you may see it as a story of self acceptance.

Or you may see it as a retelling of how humanity outgrew it's warring ways and decided to settle in as a society.

I think we all know that at a certain time, Humans were nothing more than Hunter Gatherers who occasionally lived in settlements, but mostly moved around and dedicated all their resources to defeating the forces of Nature that are moving in constantly to wipe them from existence.

We see this in the settlement of Berk as in the beginning, every single living person in the village is training to kill Dragons, and how everything they do seems to be singularly focused on how to kill them.

So much so that any who can't are seen as needless deadweight, Like Hiccup for example.

But the thing about Hiccup is that he like his predecessor Mulan, is a lateral thinker, he solves problems in ways that others do not usually think of, and in the beginning, it seems that the problem he wants to solve is not being able to kill a dragon.

One that he quickly solves by trapping a never before seen Night Fury, the only dragon type that no one has ever seen but it comes rarely, strikes true and then disappears.

Hiccup goes to finish the job and kill the Dragon, but is unable to as he sees in it, the same fear that goes through him.

So, in a move that absolutely no one anticipated, he learns to communicate with it, and tame it, this gives him an edge in his training as he knows all the ways a dragon can be subdued without using a weapon, which includes an eel for some reason.

As Hiccup and his new pet Toothless grow close, so does he rise in his ranks as a Dragon Hunter, meanwhile his father, the chief, leads an expedition to find the "nest" which is unsuccessful.

Until he returns, learns of his son's bond with this Dragon, and immediately decides to use it to find the nest and kill every Dragon, unbeknownst to the fact that therein lies a far larger(pun intended) threat than any have ever faced.

And to see it's parallels in real life, one can obviously draw the comparison to the taming of wolves by humans, which later led to Dogs, a species so friendly, that they are literally called, a man's best friend.

And it is through these forms of cooperation and taming of wild animals to eliminate common threats that Humanity could grow past it's warring ways and focus their resources into other forms of growth.

As is seen in the end when Berk changes from a warrior village, to one that lives in peace with it's Dragon neighbors.

But for all it's amazing story Telling, and awesome CGI, I could not shake the feeling, that this is a story that has been told before, Obviously, I haven't seen the original and so cannot yet confidently say whether this is something that positively added to this Story or not.

Guess I know what I am going to do now...