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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Just for fun because this movie is unique and awesome...
The Complete List of Sources Avatar is Accused of Ripping Off
Cultural interpretation of the story also varies across the world. For many cultures, Avatar has very different meanings. For Chinese audiences (who have never heard of Dances with Wolves or Pocahontas or Fern Gully), the military contractors destroying the tree was symbolic of the Chinese government bulldozing villages and forcing people out of their ancestral homes. |
Only problem is that list fails to mention all the stories and art that
those stories and art have ripped off.
Pretty much all literature, art and film rips off somebody else or in the very least are influenced, often heavily, by other ideas which in some way are rip offs of other ideas, which are influenced by other previous ideas etc.
Reminds me of that ######ed pic posted earlier of how Avatar is just a rip off of Disney's Pocahontas but fails to recognize that Disney ripped their story off from others.
While Octothorp has a point that there are original stories left, it doesn't change the fact that no ideas are free of influence. (which in a way does make them not original)