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Thursday February 16th 2012

Avatar’s Not-So-Original Storyline

I saw James Cameron’s science fiction movie Avatar in 3-D and it was truly and awesome experience. But while watching it I had the unsettling feeling that I had seen the story before. Kind of a deja vu felling. Many parts of the movie, like the montage sequences when Neytir was teaching Jake Sully the way of the Na’vi people, reminded me of a  Disney animation. Well now I know why.

Some bright fellow at failblog.org figured out where the Avatar story came from. no it is not from an ancient folk tale. Check out the source of the Avatar plot:

Marked up treatment of Disney's Pocohontas

Yep, it is the Pocohontas story in a different setting.

Read the article on failblog.org: Avatar Plot Fail or Observation Win? and post your own comment!

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