Good, Bad and Morally Ambigous: The Low-Down on 9 Movie Dragons
When you stop and take a moment to think about dragons, chances
are you have a very specific image in your mind of what this
mythological creature looks and acts like, depending on whatever
your formative dragon experience was.  So you might find it
weird that a dragon can actually be a lot of different things to
different people. A lot of the differences in dragon
representations are cultural; for example, Westerners trend more
towards a dragons-are-evil mythos, while others, especially the
Chinese, revere dragons as bringers of luck. Dragons have also
changed over time; we've somewhat overcome our stereotypical
dragon sensibilities in favor of the more modern notion of
seeing dragons as 'people,' or at least assigning some sort of
human or uber-human characteristics to them.  Below is a handy
guide to the panoply of dragons in movies that might, perhaps
help you learn how your ideas of what a dragon is came to be,
and whether or not those ide