‘The House of the Dragon’: This scene from ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ inspired the ending of the first season

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* We talked about several relevant facts of the 1×10 of “The House of the Dragon”. If you haven’t seen the episode, don’t read on!

“House of the Dragon” ended its season almost two weeks ago. However, the series continues to give a lot to talk about. Recently, the director of the last episode, Greg Yaitanes, gave very interesting details on an important sequence of the chapter: the first dance of the dragons, the chase between Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) and Lucerys (Elliot Grihault) on the back of their winged. beasts. As Yaitanes explained to Entertainment Weekly, to do this scene saw ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ and ‘Jurassic Park’, films from which he took important ideas and inspirations that would serve him for the last episode.

Showrunner of the series, Ryan Condal, told Yaitanes to make the chase sequence a scene worthy of “Game of Thrones”: “Lean on everything the series offers you”, advised the director. Yaitanes, who is not lacking in experience and has collaborated on all kinds of projects, from ‘Bones’ to ‘Perdidos’ as well as episodes 2 and 3 of ‘The House of the Dragon’, listened to Condal and made the last scene. of this series a sequence that we will remember for a long time.

Yaitanes made it clear that they let him choreograph and plan the battle between the dragons himself, giving him a lot of creative freedom. For the realization of this scene, the director saw films in which he was inspired to create the first dance of the dragons. “During the preparation, I saw the first ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ because [el director de fotografía y ganador del Oscar] Roger Deakins was his visual consultant. So, from a cinematic point of view, he would have been very attractive. “ explained. Yaitanes ended up tweaking the details of his dragon battle after seeing the DreamWorks movie and finding many similarities: “‘How to Train Your Dragon’ is definitely full of action scenes you wouldn’t want to be compared to.” The director’s statements arrived a week ago, but a video uploaded to Twitter has again sparked interest in them, a video in which you can clearly see how the ideas are drawn from the animated film for the dance of dragons that closes the season and begins the civil strife between the Targaryens.

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In addition, the director of “The Black Queen” explained that he also returned to see one of the great classics of reptilian beasts, “Jurassic Park” from 1993. “There was a sense of scale in the dinosaurs that I believe none of the later films can pick up on. [El director, Steven Spielberg] I knew what I wanted to frame for height and took a lot of hints on what made dinosaurs so big and interesting. So, yeah, there’s a lot of “Jurassic Park” in Storm’s End and in the air “, Detailed Yaitanes.

A chase that ends in disgrace

Initially, Aemond’s character chases Lucerys simply to intimidate and scare him, to make fun of him and his little dragon. However, this Targaryen rides the oldest and largest dragon currently existing in Westeros, a beast that will not listen to reason and will engage in pursuit to the point of ending and killing little Arrax and his knight. In the original work, Fire and Blood, as well as at many points in the series, is implied between dragon and knight there is a special connection, a connection that explains that, although young people do not want to fight, dragons make their own decisions and attack each other, defending their owners from the danger they are going through. As the director pointed out: “the dragons start fighting each other, and now it has nothing to do with these children”.

Therefore, the conclusion of this perilous quest is the death of Lucerys Velaryon, son of Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy), and her little dragon Arrax, who is split in half by the great old Vhagar’s jaws. This is a wonderful interpretation of the quote from Viserys (Paddy Considine): “The idea that we control dragons is an illusion”. Yaitanes says this scene was the perfect example of the deceased king’s reflection: “You’re putting nuclear weapons in the hands of children, and even if [Aemond] perhaps he did not intend to kill [Luke], what did you expect? Then you see the complexity and gravity of what he did. I thought I did a great job of making this character not just a one-dimensional black hat. “