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Dragons, stars, and elsewhere...
15 years ago
So, who went and saw Dreamworks' How to Train Your Dragon? I did! And it was f'in amazing. One of the best animated movies I've seen... ever... of all time...
Now that I'm done gushing I'll get to my journal entry. So spring break started yesterday (or is it teh day before...?), and I kicked off the chill-out week with the previously named film. Again, awesome. I'm going to see it again in a few days, but that's not the point. The amazing idea, display, story, design, you name it.... Was outstanding. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and it was really one of those movies that got me thinking about our world....
Earth. Humans. We have such a boring existence compared to the other worlds that we house in our imagination. What I wouldn't give to live in a world where I could ride a dragon, slay zombies, or use magic. These amazing and entertaining ideas make me so.... depressed!
I sat outside for a good many hours last night... just staring up at the stars. I let my imagination run wild. I pictured things from many of my favorite stories flying through the night, but the one I kept coimg back to was that amazing movie I had seen only hours earlier. I pictured the rare and deadly Night Fury zipping through the sky at nearly unrecognizable speeds. I pictured dragons fighting in the night, fire iluminating the darkness, blotting out the stars. I pictured this... and I wanted to cry.
Something with the story of this simple movie really struck me. Maybe it was something inside that was gradually building, but something about the little viking boy trying to gain his father's approval, the misundertood battle of reptile and man, and that kick-ass black dragon that could move at speeds faster than sound and shoot neon blue bombs from its mouth really woke somwthing in me. I looked at the stars and thought of how drab our world is compared to the world of our own minds. I don't want to live as just some ordinary guy in some ordinary place with ordinary things happening. I want to be Hiccup, the smart and adventurous little viking who befriends the coolest dragon on the planet and saves his village. I want life to be fiction....
tl;dr
The earth sucks, and I want a pet dragon.
Go see How to Train Your Dragon. Now.
Now that I'm done gushing I'll get to my journal entry. So spring break started yesterday (or is it teh day before...?), and I kicked off the chill-out week with the previously named film. Again, awesome. I'm going to see it again in a few days, but that's not the point. The amazing idea, display, story, design, you name it.... Was outstanding. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and it was really one of those movies that got me thinking about our world....
Earth. Humans. We have such a boring existence compared to the other worlds that we house in our imagination. What I wouldn't give to live in a world where I could ride a dragon, slay zombies, or use magic. These amazing and entertaining ideas make me so.... depressed!
I sat outside for a good many hours last night... just staring up at the stars. I let my imagination run wild. I pictured things from many of my favorite stories flying through the night, but the one I kept coimg back to was that amazing movie I had seen only hours earlier. I pictured the rare and deadly Night Fury zipping through the sky at nearly unrecognizable speeds. I pictured dragons fighting in the night, fire iluminating the darkness, blotting out the stars. I pictured this... and I wanted to cry.
Something with the story of this simple movie really struck me. Maybe it was something inside that was gradually building, but something about the little viking boy trying to gain his father's approval, the misundertood battle of reptile and man, and that kick-ass black dragon that could move at speeds faster than sound and shoot neon blue bombs from its mouth really woke somwthing in me. I looked at the stars and thought of how drab our world is compared to the world of our own minds. I don't want to live as just some ordinary guy in some ordinary place with ordinary things happening. I want to be Hiccup, the smart and adventurous little viking who befriends the coolest dragon on the planet and saves his village. I want life to be fiction....
tl;dr
The earth sucks, and I want a pet dragon.
Go see How to Train Your Dragon. Now.
enlightening thoughts *nods*