How to Train Your Dragon 2
- warm
- brisk
- intense
- redemptive
- tender
Warm, breathless, measured animation / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Five years after uniting the dragons and Vikings of Berk, Hiccup and Toothless soar beyond their homeland, charting the vast unknown. During one of their adventures, the pair discover a secret cave that houses hundreds of wild dragons -- and a mysterious dragon rider with a startling connection to Hiccup. And as the ruthless dragon conqueror Drago Bludvist rises to seize control of both dragons and people alike, Hiccup must step into his role as a true leader and, alongside his friends and Toothless, protect Berk from a devastating war.
Our read · How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive animation · family · adventure entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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