ABSTRACT

There is a quality that is part of the appeal but is strikingly different. It is personality. It is difficult to put a personality in words but you can sense it immediately. There is some strange magnetism working. Jack Hannah directed many Donald Duck cartoons for Disney, then, when Disney ceased short film production, left for Walter Lantz. He asked himself why actors like Clark Gable or John Wayne became stars and said that it was not necessarily their great acting. It was their personality that made the difference. Jeffrey Katzenberg belongs to those who strongly believe in character. In the Western world, dragons are regarded as monsters, too. They aren't in Asia. And they are not in DreamWorks' How to Train Your Dragon (2010) and the animated TV series based on the film's success simply titled DreamWorks Dragons (started in 2012).