Avatar = Pocahontas

Originally Posted By mawnck

I believe this got brought up in one of the Avatar topics, but it deserves a wider audience (than Avatar?). It's been making the rounds .....

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Originally Posted By mawnck

Or better yet ...
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Originally Posted By skinnerbox

Don't forget 'Call Me Joe' by Poul Anderson.

All the great filmmakers 'borrow' from literature and earlier films, sooner or later.

Look at Disney and Pixar films:

Bug's Life = Seven Samurai

Cars = Doc Hollywood

Bolt = Incredible Journey & Truman Show


Everybody does it.

 

Originally Posted By mawnck

And everybody is entitled to make fun of them for it. ;-)

 

Originally Posted By skinnerbox

Absolutely!

8^D

 

Originally Posted By skinnerbox

The real biggie for me, is Call Me Joe. My sister, big SF junkie, was a fan of Poul Anderson, so I have vague memories of this story. Anyway, Avatar is as much taken from Call Me Joe as Cars is from Doc Hollywood. Makes me wonder if Cameron was a fan of Anderson's stories, growing up.

 

Originally Posted By SFH

Every story is about someone wanting something and having trouble getting it. It is nearly impossible to find an original story. However, we're always coming up with new ways of telling it.

 

Originally Posted By DAR

What's the old saying there's seven plots and five jokes?

 

Originally Posted By WilliamK99

So Avatar = Pocohontas?

That's stretching it a bit, it's like saying P&TF = Beauty & the Beast....

or Alvin & the Chipmunks = Garfield...


I mean come on, how nitpicky do we need to get?

 

Originally Posted By mawnck

Geez, we got some humor-impaired people on this board!

 

Originally Posted By WilliamK99

Geez, we got some humor-impaired people on this board!<<

Reading stupid comments online is not funny. If it's stupid I am going to call the person that posted it out...

 

Originally Posted By Sara Tonin

Is so!

 

Originally Posted By Dabob2

Actually, it's pretty amazing that you can take the plot from Pocahontas and just change the person and place names and pretty much get Avatar.

Try looking at the initial link again and changing the place and person names to Beauty and the Beast. Doesn't work.

 

Originally Posted By WilliamK99

So Pocahontas had a group of men go to another planet, and the man who crossed over became an Indian?

The plot is nowhere near the same, but whatever, I have to expect Disney fans to try to reach out there and make stuff up considering Disney movies have been lacking lately...

 

Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan

>>So Pocahontas had a group of men go to another planet<<

That was in the direct to video sequel Pocahontas 3: John Smith Can't Take a Joke.

 

Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan

Hey, try that Pocahontas thing with Disney's Atlantis. It works!

 

Originally Posted By WilliamK99

Hey, try that Pocahontas thing with Disney's Atlantis. It works!<<

I tried it with Debbie Does Dallas and it worked too....

 

Originally Posted By mawnck

>>I tried it with Debbie Does Dallas and it worked too....<<

Link please?

 

Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan

That's what she said.

 

Originally Posted By mawnck

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