Avatar: an update (spoiler)

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If you read this and/or if you were one of the fortunate/unfortunate ones to have spoken with me recently, you would know of my opinion of how alike Avatar and Pocahontas are. Till last week, only 1 other person (a colleague) thought likewise too, without much prompting from me. Recent, she forwarded this to me:

Avatar_Pocahontas

She suggested that we should do something similar with Lion King and turn it into a blockbuster :)

Comments

Anonymous said…
Aiya..the story been done many times la...all based on the white treatment of native people la....and if want to add love story it is always the chief's daughter *LOL*

-Sis
January 28, 2010 at 11:34 AM
savante said…
Át least we liked Pocahontas!
January 28, 2010 at 12:23 PM
Jaded Jeremy said…
Sis,
But these are popular mah and so the comparison

savante,
Yes, I like Pocahontas but it just that because the story is not that original, I was a tad disappointed in Avatar.
January 28, 2010 at 1:56 PM
Legolas said…
I still haven't got the chance to watch Avatar yet.
January 28, 2010 at 2:26 PM
Little Dove said…
I haven't watch it Avatar too. Do they have a song as nice as "Colours of the wind?"
January 28, 2010 at 9:03 PM
Jaded Jeremy said…
Legolas,
Go watch if it's still on. Worth watching...even without the racoon :P

Little Dove,
I was expecting that not alas, it was not to be :P
January 28, 2010 at 10:04 PM
Elyssa said…
haha...many of my friends did not agree on the similarity with Pocahontas. Well, it is like all sad Korean movies are the same. Fall In Love, Cancer, Dies...
January 28, 2010 at 11:22 PM
Jaded Jeremy said…
Lyssa,
It is not only the general storyline that's similiar: it's some of the details too e.g. the "you don't know the forest", the living old tree, the offering of prayer to animals killed, the chanting - all these on top of the storyline itself. I cannot remember there's another famous movie that is so similar to Pocahontas/Avatar.
January 29, 2010 at 8:06 AM
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