Avatar stole the Pocahontas script?

SpidermanWins

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#1 Edited By SpidermanWins

I found this uncanny image on the interwebs and it really got me thinking... is Avatar a special effect rip off of Pocahontas? Then I realized it; THEY BASICALLY THE SAME MOVIE! I mean think about it. Really think about and this is all the script for Avatar really was. I don't know for sure but let me know what you all think. Are they the same thing? Did James Cameron's decade-in-the-making movie actually just fool us with false genius and special effects? Is it really the masterpiece that people claim it to be? You tell me.

12 years ago

castleking

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#2 Edited By castleking

now that you mention it, it does look familiar. hmm...

12 years ago

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#3 Edited By Izaiah

It's also kind of similar to Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

12 years ago

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#4 Edited By Shadowdoggy

he also....um..."borrowed" a few monsters from FF12
those weird horse things, the jaguars with the plant heads, the dragons with he crazy face flaps, not to mention the whole part about a tree of life that telepathically connects its people to their native soil
James Cameron is a biter
but I thought everyone knew that already with all the people who claimed he stole the ideas from their books and novellas

12 years ago

sesquipedalophobe

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#5 Edited By sesquipedalophobe

They didn't call it Spacecahontas for nothing.

12 years ago

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#6 Edited By nick_hero22

I knew it ;P

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SC

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#7 Edited By SC Moderator

Pocahontas ripped off FernGully which was a rip off of uhm.. Conan.

12 years ago

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#8 Edited By Deranged Midget

You noticed this now?

12 years ago

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#9 Edited By cyberninja

Pfft more like Dancing With The Wolves, but nice try pilgrim!

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#10 Edited By JCJQLB

@nick_hero22 said:

I knew it ;P

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#11 Edited By jubilee042

now that you mentioned it ,it is

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sesquipedalophobe

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#12 Edited By sesquipedalophobe

Star Wars is based on a lot of the histories and cultures of earth, but the similarities were slightly blurred by blasters, lightsabers and Admiral Ackbar. Cameron didn't even try.

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#13 Edited By Magian

A lot had noticed the similarities.

12 years ago

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#14 Edited By Billy Batson

Pretty obvious.
BB

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#15 Edited By .Mistress Redhead.

wow.. old news much lol

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#16 Edited By Kal'smahboi

A lot of movies have this theme. It's the classic "Native American metaphor vs the US military metaphor."

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#17 Edited By Samimista

@Billy Batson said:

Pretty obvious.
BB

Quoted for the truth

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#18 Edited By GundamHeavyarms

@cyberninja: I thought it was a rip on Dances with Wolves too.

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#19 Edited By TheGoldenOne

@Billy Batson said:

Pretty obvious.
BB

12 years ago

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#20 Edited By RedheadedAtrocitus

In all honesty I knew just what the story was gonna be just by looking at the teasers that came out as late as the end of '08. It wasn't that hard to figure out what kind of symbolism was being pursued here. Does it mean I like Avatar any less? Of course not.

12 years ago

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#21 Edited By Pacperson

More like they stole the story of dances with wolves...

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#22 Edited By DarkShadows

Really? He stole the idea?
I heard he started the script in 1994...

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#23 Edited By Renee

I remember that lol.

12 years ago

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#24 Edited By difficlus

@Billy Batson said:

Pretty obvious.
BB

12 years ago

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#25 Edited By ssejllenrad

Dune in the Woods
Dances with Wolves in Space
Pocahontas in Space
Last Samurai in Space
District 9 in the Future

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#26 Edited By Osiris1428

@ssejllenrad said:

Dune in the Woods Dances with Wolves in Space Pocahontas in Space Last Samurai in Space District 9 in the Future

Any movie where white people come in ##@^#! everything up. Then one of them learns their lesson and saves the day for the simple natives. The 'white messiah genre'. It's just more white guilt fantasy. I wonder why they keep making these kinds of films...?

This song is just choke full of *spoilers*