A core: getting along
In my opinion, the story of How to Train Your Dragon 3 revolves around one core - getting along. This is actually the core of the entire trilogy under the theme of "Man and Dragon". The first is about encounters—the beginning of getting along, and the third is about separation—the continuation of getting along in another form.
Two elements: trust and empathy
"I don't know what's ahead, but I believe in you." This tacit trust exists between islanders and chiefs, between heroines and heroines, between sons and mothers, between partners, and between Between Toothless and the protagonist, Toothless and Guangsha, Dragons and Toothless.
Surprise and anxiety, excitement and loneliness, are copied from Toothless Boy's face to the hero's face, and then copied to other people's faces, like the spread of a cold virus, quickly and naturally. When Toothless and Guangsha were hanged under the aircraft, the dragons gave up attacking and resisting successively. I would like to think that they were not forced by Toothless's power, but out of empathy for Toothless's feelings for Guangsha.
three relationships
The family, love, friendship, hostility, etc. that people get along with each other can almost be seen in the relationship between dragons and dragons. In the relationship between people and dragons, the male protagonist represents harmonious coexistence, his father once represented confrontation and isolation, and the villains represented utilization, enslavement, and life and death.
How to Get Along - Two Examples
The heroine always supports and encourages the hero. What is especially commendable is that after Long Qun left with the arrested Toothless Boy, the heroine did not express her opinion directly, but let the hero vent his emotions first, and then spoke, and followed the hero's emotions. and character to guide. This kind of non-violent communication skills, which use sparse instead of blocking and take advantage of the situation, apply to any two people.
The hero's mother always maintains a proper distance from the "Second Master": she tells the other party that she can call her name without having to see outsiders; she rejects the other party's proposal to scout together, but explains that "you are more needed here"; quietly at the end Tell the other person that you are very smart. I believe that neither the screenwriter nor the director will come up with "I call you brother, you call me dad" whether it is out of the three views of the film or out of respect for the hero's father's unswerving feelings. evil taste. Therefore, the male protagonist's mother's attitude towards the "second master" is the care of the elders for the younger generation, which not only draws a clear line, but also takes care of the feelings, and also pays attention to encouragement.
(Off-topic: The movie clearly shows the "triangular relationship" between the hero's mother, the muscular man and the "Second Master" and the characters of the three people with just a few lines of dialogue and expressions, which increases the breath of life, storytelling and Interesting, without taking up too much space, very clever.)
Culture and Inheritance - Two Scenes
At night, when the male protagonist's father hugged the male protagonist and wanted to stir up the fire, he first put his son's hand on the iron fork, and then fiddled with his son.
At sea, when the male protagonist is holding his son and wants to lower the anchor, he first puts his son's hand on the wooden pole, and then presses it down together with his son. (Behind them, the heroine and daughter are pulling the cable together.)
The two subtle "father and son work together" reveal cultural concepts and inheritance spirit in the silent part of life, which is very meaningful.
a detail
The male protagonist has green pupils and Toothless has green eyes.
The heroine's pupils are blue, and Guangsha's eyes are blue.
Then:
(The picture comes from Time Network)
About the ending
The end of the film clearly shows a desperate effort to "pull" back. The plot of the reunion shows that the ending is not "forgetting each other in the rivers and lakes", and the lines also repeatedly emphasize that the separation is temporary. The first part of the end credits constantly flashes the scene of the hero and Toothless in the trilogy together. The last one of them, the last scene of the movie, and the last scene of the whole trilogy, is the hero caught Holding his son and daughter's hands close to Toothless's head, what an obvious "to be continued"!
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