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...reels rely too heavily on the conceit that medieval Norsemen spoke with a Scots accent, and the other teens in Hiccup's dragon-training class never surmount their stereotypes. But Sanders and DeBlois, two Disney vets who told a similar kid-and-feral-pet fable in 2002's Lilo & Stitch, have the knack of giving life to fantastical interspecies friendships. And the technicians at their disposal (including the Coen brothers' ace cinematographer, Roger Deakins) have splashed the screen with landscapes that would captivate all eyes even if the movie weren...
...read words when you can just kill the stuff the words tell you about?” This attitude is problematic for Hiccup, who has secretly befriended a dragon he has christened Toothless—a creature whose creepy cuteness is strikingly similar to that of Stitch from “Lilo and Stitch” (a film that happens to be written by Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders, the co-writers and directors of “How to Train Your Dragon?...
...Plexiglas that were used to make the movie. The students’ films track a wide range of graphic and conceptual complexity. A work by Lisa A. Haber-Thomson ’02 consists exclusively of stick figures, but deals with the beautiful image of a woman trying to stitch together a torn book as letters pour out of it to the sound of running water. “Pop,” a film by Sarah M. Ngo ’13, shows a perfectly-drawn girl in a simplistic world surrounded by fish who repeatedly...
...many arguments was that the war would take attention and resources away from Afghanistan. If the U.S. had devoted the treasure that it spent in Iraq to bringing Afghanistan into the modern age, it would not be so overstretched now. One is reminded of the adage "A stitch in time saves nine." Obama has to struggle with the result. Greg Franks Sydney...
Threading that political needle - while trying to stitch together a complex reform bill on which the stability of the entire financial system depends - is a long shot. But at least everyone involved has a reason to make...