As a child I love reading sci-fi novels and mostly love to watch sci-fi movies/tv dramas to see what other people are thinking about future design.
And i will admit, there are a lot of sci-fiction movies that have very basic plotlines and if you read any of Joseph Campbell’s books like power of myth. There is a common theme to all sci-fi – man verses society, man verses nature, man verses technology…….
i mean the leader of the pack of all movies would be the original star wars cause it is a very simple plotline of man verses society, man verse himself, man verses man (father), but what kills me about avatar is that the story is so SO similar to pocahontas!!!!!!!
first watch a new world or disney’s pocahontas. and then watch avatar! the same plotline. Adam smith is lost in the wilds of america, pocahontas finds him and then had to train her ways on him by her father the chief, then Adam returns to tell their ways, but his people wants gold, They want to find their village and distroy it. etc etc etc……
what also kills me is the similars in voices and such to native american design and culture. Note: there is also influence to african culture too, but i am so sure that the chief is a native american voice over….
for positive note: I love the visualization and imagination of the movie. so no hard feeling for those that loves avatar. I loved it too.
but also this guy as a point about white society or I say western society:
“I already know how the Noble Savage works as a pivot point for wrangling my emotions in a film’s narrative round-up. Or — *gasp* — the white man’s burden. To work that angle is tiring as a critique, however topical it might be. To critique it over and over again. And again.
*Sigh* “
read more about what he has to say:
via Near Future Laboratory » Blog Archive » Avatar On Its Face.
