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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.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmast...rge-lucas/649/

Speaking of STAR WARS, Lucas said, “There was no modern mythology to give kids a sense of values, to give them a strong mythological fantasy life. Westerns were the last of that genre for Americans. Nothing was being done for young people with real psychological underpinnings.” In the writing of anthropologist Joseph Campbell, Lucas had learned about the myths that pervade many disparate cultures, and it is this mythology that gives Lucas’s space age epic its timeless resonance. Both of the sequels and the one prequel continued in the same vein and with equally successful.