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Avatar is Pocahontas repainted. Fight me.
by ErroneousBosh 11mo ago
Avatar is Pocahontas repainted. Fight me.
- redwall_hp 11mo agoI believe the comment I saw, back when the first one came out, was "PocaHalo." The second one developed its own story much better.
- LargeWu 11mo agoI mean, Avatar is a pretty on-the-nose allegory for the decimation of American Indian tribes and western colonization. I don't think this is at all a controversial take.
- adrian_b 11mo agoActually, when I saw the first Avatar, I thought that it was much closer to the "Treasure of Silver Lake" ("Der Schatz im Silbersee") by Karl May, combined with many scenes from the earlier novels of Karl May. Many characters of that series of Karl May novels have a direct mapping, e.g.: Old Shatterhand => Jake Sully Winnetou => Neytiri (gender swapped) tamed mustang => tamed flying dragon and many others.
- an0malous 11mo agoAnd Pocahontas is Fern Gully repainted
- btown 11mo agoThis was an incredibly mainstream meme, back in the day! https://mattbateman.net/writing/avatar-pocahontas.php https://mattbateman.net/writing/avatar-pocahontas.php describes his contribution to the comparison.
- grehbies 11mo agoSmurfcat planetary immune response.
- zdragnar 11mo agoNah, Avatar is Dances With Wolves
- shawn_w 11mo agoDances With Smurfs was a common comparison at the time.
- MathMonkeyMan 11mo agoDancing with Smurfs is a breed of blueberries.
- jimbokun 11mo agoOr Lawrence of Arabia or…
- neogodless 11mo agoFern Gully was 1992, three years before Pocahontas.