[Pontiac]

“Original ideas are rare in mainstream filmmaking,” lamented Cameron to the American Cinematheque crowd. It’s no coincidence he’s in early prep on multiple sequels to Avatar, the biggest and most successful gamble of his career.

Really, they are implying that Avatar was an original idea?

Avatar IMO is nothing more than “FernGully: The Last Rainforest” repackaged as Sci-Fi which was nothing but an animated screed against industry and capitalism designed to indoctrinate children into Green Socialism.

And as Hollyweird movies go that is the real formula for all movies isn’t it; Anti-Capitalism, anti-business and pro-Liberalism. .

[dfwgator]

Really, they are implying that Avatar was an original idea?

[Borges]

Avatar was pretty much an unaccredited adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1972 novella “The Word for World Is Forest”, which was about a benevolent race of alien beings who happily inhabit dense forests while living in harmony with nature until they are attacked and slaughtered by invading human soldiers.

[Rodamala]

Really, they are implying that Avatar was an original idea?

In 3 words:

Pocahontas. In. Space.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

Avatar IMO is nothing more than “FernGully: The Last Rainforest” repackaged as Sci-Fi which was nothing but an animated screed against industry and capitalism designed to indoctrinate children into Green Socialism.

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You’re too kind. In my little writers’ group, we call “Avatar” “Dances with Smurfs.” ;)