Does Avatar seem unoriginal?
Avatar, an extremely succesful film, seems all too much like the old disney movie FernGully. Watch both the movies and you'll see the similarity. They both cut down the "scared tree" and you can "feel and hear" the forest speak. They are way too alike, no? The human becomes on of the natives and learns their ways. Magical creatures included.
The scene where the sacred tree is cut seems exactly the same. The fat guy with the trucker hat controlling the destructive machine. Both exactly the same.
And of course the battle. All the natives and the human hero and the creatures of the forest pull together to fight to evil.
Watch some clips.
What do you guys think?
Stolen material?
It was just an observation.
Comments
haha yes, when i was watching i definitely thought about fern gully at one point. james cameron better not think this movie is gonna wake people up on the destruction of humanity that comes from destroying nature. he might a little, but it's really just entertainment and people go back to burger king right after they leave the cinema.
also, i thought the love plot reminded me of Pocahontas.
and the tree explosion scene reminded me of the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
and the whole movie in general reminded me of all kinds of colonization, in particular the above mentioned (Pocahontas) Native Americans being pushed around my European settlers.
i also thought about the French Indian war because there were people from different races fighting on both sides.
Fern Gully, yeah. Definitely a bit like that. Avatar got pretty deep with the tree that let the na'vi speak to their ancestors, i thought the hair thing was pretty excellent in general. oh, and the way they are praying around the tree near the end is a bit reminiscent of thousands of Muslims praying at Mecca after a Hajj. One could read this interpretation in, too: that it's a comment on the dehumanization of foreign cultures for resources (i.e. Middle Eastern and African and Muslim nations for oil is similar to the references in the movie to the need to displace the Na'vi to harvest unobtainium). There are also global warming references, as it is said that the humans killed the Earth mother.
oh, but i don't think it is stolen material. it's way too different. the plot is completely recycled from a million hollywood movies (atleast the love part and good guys win part) but there was quite a bit of originality in it, too. and it has some good messages, as does ferngully. but ferngully is sort of a kids movie, not that i'm saying i'm too old for a kids movie. i'm not
I refused to be certain it. i hit upon it disgusting that they might spend lots funds and not even supply the objective audience a competent tale, quite in this economic equipment. isn't it only Ferngully on steroids?