How To Train Your Dragon and stories that retain the purity of their concepts

How To Train Your Dragon had a simple, but compelling idea at its heart: dragons make awesome pets. So the entire story is engineered around this key concept, and it's all the better for it.Other movies have good ideas, but dilute them with unnecessary subplots. Let's look at how movies like How To Train Your Dragon and Tokyo Drift keep their ideas pure.

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