I wasn't expecting Cameron to write anything very original so borrowing from other story lines was not off the table. I think his objective was to create an extravaganza production to make beaucoup bucks and to try to push 3D even more (which may not work). There are probably dozens or more storylines one could relate "Avatar" to. "War is a Racket" stood out to a point that it suggests Cameron may have read it or at least heard about it though one could argue even Butler wasn't that original with the idea but just related it to his own experience.
If anything I hope it discourages young kids for signing up to the military for our imperialist wars. Mike Dixon wrote: > Hey Bhairitu, did you also pick up on the scenes stolen from Last of the > Mohicans? The scene in which they kill a deer and offer the prayer to release > the soul and also the scene in which the Huron make the unwelcome guest run > the gauntlet. Of course you have the story of Custer trying to drive the NA > out of the Black Hills to steal gold and of course the battle of Little Big > Horn. Come to think about it, was there anything original in that flick? Of > course the cloning of human and Navi comes from Jurasic Park. The scene in > which the Na'vi are gathered around the sacred tree chanting, I think, was a > rip off from the Star Wars film in which the *teddy bears* worshipped > something or someone. > > ________________________________ > From: Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Tue, January 5, 2010 9:24:17 AM > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Avatar' arouses conservatives' ire > > > Vaj wrote: > >> On Jan 5, 2010, at 8:30 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: >> >> >>> Shemp will HATE AVATAR. He'll be sitting there in >>> the theater trying to admire the film for *nothing >>> more meaningful than making a shitload of money* >>> and find himself sitting there watching the glori- >>> fication of everything he most hates in life. And >>> the presentation of most of the things he loves in >>> life as the Neanderthal Thinking they really are. >>> >> I think Shemp will not only hate it, he'll spew a number of hate mails >> on it, like he does to those who are pro-environment. Deep inside it >> will work on his cognitive dissonance with his latent "Vedic" >> programming. So much of what the N'Avi are into is Maharishi Vedic >> living. And he despises that too. >> > > There's also a bit of "tantra" in the film too. I saw it as sort of a > space age "Dances With Wolves" with a bit of General Smedley Butler's > "War is a Racket" mixed in. Of course there will be one conservative > who loves the film: Rupert Murdoch. > > > > > > >