Ancient mapmakers used to designate mysterious or perilous geography with the legend “Here There Be Dragons.” In today’s pop culture, the most long-awaited dragons aren’t here just yet. In The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, director Peter Jackson only afforded a brief glimpses of Smaug, J.R.R. Tolkien’s ancient, avaricious reptile. Part two of The Hobbit trilogy, subtitled The Desolation of Smaug (due in theaters Dec. 13, 2013) should provide a showcase for one of literature’s most famous monsters, with “Sherlock’s” Benedict Cumberbatch providing the voice and motion-capture movements a la Andy Serkis’ Gollum. Plus, in HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” Danaerys’ three young dragons have so far merely been cute little lizards, but if the series continues to track George R.R. Martin’s books, they’ll get bigger and more threatening after the show returns for its third season on March 31. Fearsome creatures that cross cultures, dragons have made high-profile appearances in live-action and animated films for years:

10. Dragonheart (1996)
Rob Cohen’s fantasy epic plays partly like a mismatched buddy comedy, only the reluctant partners turn out to be a monster-slaying knight (Dennis Quaid) who teams with the last remaining reptilian monster to fight a young tyrant (David Thewliss). The film cleverly casts Sean Connery as the cantankerous but dignified creature and the film features some occasionally inspired bursts of comedy: at one point the two protagonists have a stand-off, with the knight holding a sword while inside the dragon’s mouth. The film loses some credit by naming the dragon “Draco,” which sounds like the “John Smith” of dragon names.

9Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part Two.  (2011)
The mythological beasts pay frequent visits to the Harry Potter series. The first film, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, establishes Robbie Coltrane’s Hagrid as a dragon enthusiast and introduces a cute hatchling named Norbert. The Goblet of Fire delivers a dandy battle scene between Harry and a bristling “Hungarian Horntail” as part of the Tri-Wizard Tournament. The best dragon, however, occurs when Harry and his pals attempt a heist from the wizard bank Gringott’s and discover a sightless albino dragon as a subterranean guard. Both a menacing creature and a pitiable one, the dragon conveys plentiful personality in brief screen time and provides the heroes with a spectacular getaway.

8. Reign of Fire (2002)
In one of cinema’s strangest post-apocalyptic scenarios, a brood of fire-breathing dragons hatch in contemporary London and proceed to lay waste to the planet, until a ragtag group of English survivors (including Christian Bale and Gerard Butler) and some American commandos (led by a whiskered Matthew McConaughey) team up to battle them in Northumberland. The dark, moody tone and squabbles between the humans keep the film from being as much fun as it should be, but the dragons provide a delightful bunch of old-school monsters who threaten mankind like a plague of devils. The film’s coolest image, of dragons incinerating London’s House of Parliament, is better captured in the poster than the actual movie.

7. Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Disney’s animated feature draws heavily from the Tchaikovsky ballet for a film that has the loveliness of a medieval tapestry, but not a lot of narrative punch. This changes at the end when Prince Philip comes to Sleeping Beauty’s rescue and the evil sorceress Maleficent transforms into a splendidly-designed dragon with a nifty black, purple and yellow color scheme and horns that match the witch’s headdress. Maleficent the dragon proved to be Disney’s scariest big-screen creation since the devil Chernabog in the “Night on Bald Mountain” segment of 1940’s Fantasia.

6. Beowulf (2007)
Robert Zemeckis’ animated take on the epic poem suffers from some of the same Uncanny Valley issues as his previous “performance capture” film The Polar Express. Ironically, the marauder that dominates the film’s last act looks more realistic than most of the supporting humans. The underrated film deserves more attention than it received in release, primarily for its clever script by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avery, which provides some ingenious twists on the Old English epic. I won’t spoil the particulars, but warrior-turned-king Beowulf (Ray Winstone) turns out to have a relationship to the dragon, which lends the story some of the tragic complexity of Le Morte d’Arthur.

5. Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster (1964)
Japan’s line-up of kaiju monsters features several giant, fire-breathing reptiles, with Godzilla and the fire-breathing turtle Gamera arguably qualifying as dragons. Godzilla’s arch-nemesis, the invading alien King Ghidorah, features a design that harks back most directly to dragons of yore, and features three heads with crocodilian faces, a bifurcated tail, golden scales and a penchant for emitting lightning bolts at enemies. Appearing in a half-robotic version in 1991’s Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah, Ghidorah is probably the deadliest beast in all of Godzilla lore, and takes on all of his rivals in 1968’s Destroy All Monsters.

4. Dragonslayer (1981)
The central creature of this downbeat medieval adventure has unquestionably the best name of any movie dragon ever – “Vermithrax Pejorative” – and gets a terrific build-up. It ventures forth from a burning lake in ominous cave and feeds on a steady diet of sacrificial virgins chosen by a rigged lottery by the corrupt local monarch. An ill-fated village priest (Ian McDiarmid, Emperor Palpatine himself) accuses Vermithrax of being straight-up Satan and gets burned alive for his trouble. It’s a shame the well-intentioned movie surrounding the monstrosity doesn’t hold together better. It’s clearly inspired by Star Wars, but, as a sorcerer’s plucky apprentice, Peter MacNicol proves so callow, he makes Mark Hamill look like Harrison Ford. Nevertheless, the film features some shocking violence for a PG Disney movie, as well as undeniably cool design, including a 40 foot hydraulic dragon that conveys Vermithrax as old, dirty and hateful.

3. The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
Ray Harryhausen spent decades as the mastermind of cinema’s stop-animation monsters, including dinosaurs and such dragon-like creations as the seven-headed hydra of Jason and the Argonauts. You couldn’t ask for a more classic take on a dragon than green, ridged beast from The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, which provides a fire-breathing obstacle for the hero, engages in a battle royal with a giant Cyclops and, in the film’s final moments, can only be stopped with a gargantuan crossbow. Harryhausen’s energetic behemoth has more personality than virtually any of the CGI dragons of recent years.

2. How To Train Your Dragon (2010)
Culture includes a long tradition of cute monsters, from “Puff, The Magic Dragon” toPete’s Dragon to kiddie show “Dragon Tales.” How To Train Your Dragon manages to have creatures that are both adorable and formidable. Arguably the best film produced to date from DreamWorks Animation, this loose adaptation of Cressida Cowell’s series features imaginatively designed, amusing creatures that still seem unquestionably dangerous, like the Gronkle, a chubby, wide-mouthed beast that hovers like a bumble bee. The feature film includes a bloated, Leviathan-sized horror called The Red Death, but possibly the franchise’s scariest creation is “The Boneknapper” from the sequel short of the same name. This massive marauder dresses itself in the skeletons of its victims, so pleasant dreams, kids!

1. Spirited Away (2002)
Japan’s Studio Ghibli took a stab at Ursula LeGuin’s literary dragons, to mixed results, with 2011’s Tales of Earthsea, directed by Goro Miyazaki. The young filmmaker’s father, the brilliant Hayao Miyazaki, crafted a fascinating dragon character five years earlier with his Oscar-winning Spirited Away. When contemporary girl Chihiro becomes drawn into a supernatural realm, a dashing young prince-type named Haku comes to her aid. It turns out that Haku can transform into a dragon, with a long, sinuous neck, white fur and a lupine face, who takes Chihiro for a spectacular flight in one of Miyazaki’s signature air travel scenes. Chihiro proves to be Haku’s savior, helping him with stand a flock of deadly paper attackers and helping to restore his identity as a river spirit. Haku would be an interesting character even if he wasn’t a dragon: his non-human guise is gravy.

10個最佳電影龍
由柯特·霍爾曼
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古代的地圖製作者用於指定神秘或危險的地理與傳說“這裡有怪物。”在今天的流行文化中，最期待已久的龍是不是在這裡，只是還沒有。在霍比特人：意外的旅程，導演彼得·傑克遜只得到史矛革，托爾金的古代，貪婪的爬行動物的簡單一瞥。兩部分的霍比特人三部曲，副標題史矛革的蒼涼（由於在劇院2013年12月13日）應為文學最著名的怪獸之一展示，以“夏洛特的網”篤坎伯巴奇提供語音和動作捕捉運動的拉安迪·瑟金斯“咕嚕。此外，在HBO的“權力的遊戲”Danaerys“三位年輕的小龍至今只是被可愛的小蜥蜴，但如果該系列繼續跟踪喬治RR馬丁的書，他們將獲得更大，更危險的表演回報後，其3月31日，跨文化的可怕生物的第三個賽季，小龍已經取得了真人高調亮相和動畫電影多年：

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10。Dragonheart（1996年），
羅伯·科恩的奇幻史詩起著部分像一個不匹配的哥們喜劇，只是不願意合作夥伴變成是一個怪物，殺死騎士（丹尼斯·奎德）團隊最後剩下的爬蟲類怪物打一個年輕的暴君誰（大衛Thewliss）。電影巧妙地蒙上肖恩·康納利的脾氣古怪卻不失莊重的生物和電影功能的一些偶然的靈感突發喜劇：在一個點上的兩個主角有一個對峙，與騎士拿著一把劍，而裡面的龍的嘴。本片通過命名龍“德拉科，”這聽起來像龍名的“約翰·史密斯”失去了一些信貸。

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9。哈利·波特與死亡聖器，第二部分（2011年）
的神話野獸經常巡查的哈利·波特系列。第一部電影，哈利·波特與魔法石，建立羅比Coltrane的海格作為龍迷，並引入名為諾伯特一個可愛的幼體。火焰杯提供了哈利和林立的“匈牙利樹蜂”之間的花花公子戰鬥場景為三部分-wizard比賽。最好的龍，然而，發生在哈利和他的夥伴們試圖從嚮導銀行古靈閣的一款搶劫，並發現了一個失明的白化龍作為地下後衛。既是威脅的生物和可憐的，龍傳達了豐富的個性在短暫的屏幕時間，並提供了英雄一個壯觀的度假勝地。

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8。統治火（2002）
在電影的奇特後世界末日的情景之一，噴火的育雛小龍孵出當代倫敦，繼續奠定浪費地球，直到英語倖存者（包括克里斯蒂安·貝爾和烏合之眾組杰拉德·巴特勒）和一些美國突擊隊員（由一名鬍子馬修·麥康納）組隊戰鬥他們在諾森伯蘭郡。黑暗，喜怒無常的語氣和人類之間的爭吵讓這部電影被盡可能多的樂趣，因為它是應該的，但小龍提供一個愉快的一堆老派的怪物誰威脅到人類就像魔鬼的瘟疫。影片的最酷 ​​的形象，龍焚燒倫敦的下議院的，更好的海報比實際電影拍攝的。

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7。睡美人（1959）
迪斯尼的動畫片吸引 ​​大量來自柴可夫斯基芭蕾，有一個中世紀的掛毯的可愛一部電影，但不是很多敘事一拳。這改變時，在結束菲利普親王來到睡美人的救援和邪惡的女巫Maleficent轉變成出色設計的龍，一記漂亮的黑色，紫色和黃色的配色方案，配合女巫的頭飾角。Maleficent龍被證明是迪士尼的最可怕的大屏幕製作，因為魔鬼Chernabog在“夜禿山”的1940年的部分幻想曲。

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6，貝奧武夫（2007）
羅伯特·贊米基斯“動畫起飛的史詩患有一些相同的詭異谷問題，他以前的”表演捕捉“電影極地特快。諷刺的是，主導影片的最後一幕掠奪者看起來更逼真的比大多數人支持的。被低估的電影值得比它在釋放收到，是因為它由尼爾·蓋曼和羅傑·艾弗里，它提供了對古英語史詩一些巧妙曲折巧妙的劇本更多的關注。我不會破壞資料，但武士出身的王貝奧武夫（雷溫斯頓）原來有合作關係的龍，這將給這個故事的一些悲慘的複雜性樂莫提D'亞瑟。

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5，Ghidorah，三頭怪獸（1964年）
日本的陣容kaiju怪物擁有幾大巨頭，噴火的爬行動物，與哥斯拉和噴火龜卡美拉可以說是有資格成為龍。哥斯拉的頭號剋星，外星人入侵ghidorah國王，特點是可以追溯到最直接昔日龍設計，並設有三個頭與鱷魚的面孔，分叉的尾巴，金色的鱗片，愛搞發射閃電的敵人。出現在一個半機器人的版本在1991年的哥斯拉與Ghidorah國王，Ghidorah可能是致命的猛獸在所有哥斯拉絕殺，並採取對他的所有對手，1968年的消滅所有怪物。

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4 屠龍（1981）
這個悲觀的中世紀冒險的中心生物具有毫無疑問的任何一部電影的龍最好的名子- “Vermithrax貶義” -並得到一個很好的積累。該企業提出的在不祥的洞穴燃燒的湖泊和飼料穩步飲食選擇一個作弊的彩票被腐敗的地方君主犧牲處女。一個命運多舛的鄉村牧師（伊恩·麥克迪爾米德，帕爾帕丁皇帝本人）指責是直線上升撒旦Vermithrax和被活活燒死他的麻煩。這是一個恥辱周圍的怪物並沒有抱在一起更好的用心良苦電影。這顯然靈感來自星球大戰，但是，作為一個魔法師的學徒勇敢，彼得MacNicol證明這樣乳臭未乾，他讓馬克·哈米爾看起來像哈里森·福特。不過，電影講述了一些令人震驚的暴力事件為PG迪斯尼電影，以及無可否認很酷的設計，包括一個40英尺的液壓龍，傳達Vermithrax如舊，臟，可惡。

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3，第七旅辛巴達（1958）
雷-哈里豪森花了幾十年的電影的停止動畫怪獸的主謀，包 ​​括恐龍，如巨龍般的創作為一體的七為首的九頭蛇賈森和阿爾戈英雄。你不能要求一個更經典的大上龍比綠色，脊獸第七辛巴達航海的，它提供了一個噴火障礙的英雄，從事戰鬥王室與一個巨大的獨眼巨人，在電影的最後時刻，只能停了一個龐大的弩。哈里豪森的充滿活力的龐然大物比最近幾年的CGI小龍幾乎任何更多的個性。

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2，如何訓練你的龍（2010）
文化具有悠久的傳統，可愛的怪物，從“泡泡袖，魔術龍”，以皮特的龍以小童節目“龍的傳說。” 如何訓練你的龍設法擁有的生物都可愛和可怕的。可以說，從夢工廠動畫中，克瑞西達考威爾的這一系列寬鬆適應生產的迄今為止最好的電影講述富有想像力的設計，有趣的動物，似乎仍然毫無疑問的危險，像Gronkle，一個胖乎乎的，廣口的野獸徘徊像大黃蜂。功能膜包括臃腫，利維坦大小的恐怖稱為紅死，但可能是球隊的最可怕的是創造“的Boneknapper”的同名續集短。這種大規模的掠奪者禮服本身對受害者的骨架，那麼愉快的夢，孩子們！

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1，千與千尋（2002）
日本吉卜力工作室拍了刺厄秀拉LeGuin的文學小龍，以混合的結果，與2011的地海傳說中，導演宮崎吾朗。這位年輕導演的父親，輝煌宮崎駿，精心設計了一個有趣的龍字五年前與他的奧斯卡獲獎千尋。當現代女孩千尋變得捲入超自然的境界，瀟灑的年輕的王子型命名的哈庫來幫助她。事實證明，哈庫可以變身為龍，有一個長期的，曲折的脖子，白色的皮毛和羽扇豆的臉，誰需要千尋在宮崎的簽名航空旅行的一個場景壯觀的飛行。千尋被證明是哈庫的救星，幫助他站立的致命攻擊紙一群，並幫助恢復他的身份是一條河的精神。哈庫將是即使他不是龍有趣的人物：他非人類的幌子是肉汁。