January 06, 2010

Avatar/FernGully mashup

Correspondent DMarks and others have noted the similarities between Avatar and Pocahontas, Dances with Wolves, and the little-remembered FernGully:



Comment:  For more on the subject, see Minorities = Children in Avatar and Noble Savages in Avatar.

2 comments:

  1. The first movie that came to my mind was Dances With Wolves. I read some of the reviews and your blog posts before seeing this movie, and was expecting to be outraged by all the negative stuff that I read, but I was absorbed into the movie. I could barely keep my mouth closed from all the excitement. It was an amazing film. The end left me wishing, "Man, wish we could have done that!"

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  2. The major element from Ferngully (not in "Dances" or "Pocahontas") that makes its way in "Avatar" is that the hero ends up transformed into one of the natives.

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