Back when Avatar came out, I heard someone call it “Fern Gully with better graphics.”
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RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Ad Astra (2019) is Apocalypse Now (1979) but in space.
Avatar (2009) is Dances with Wolves (1990) but in space.
tuckerm@feddit.online 2 days ago
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 2 days ago
There was a YouTube trend of making Avatar trailers with the audio but then using the graphics for movies like Fern Gully and Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001).
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Avatar is absolutely not Dances with Wolves. It is Pocahontas. Throw in a couple musical numbers and it’s real close to being a shot-for-shot remake of the Disney movie.
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Another example of the ‘gone native’ plot line in the wake of Dances With Wolves. Pocahontas had the advantage of Dances With Wolves coming out first. So it smoothed some of those edges. s/ Maybe it’s more based on Pocahontas than the Best Picture winner /s.
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Where does Tom Cruise’s The Last Samurai fit into this?
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Sure, same general premise, but the structure is very different between them. In Dances with Wolves, Dunbar is basically abandoned by his people and slowly assimilates into the local village. By the time Dunbar’s people return in the third act, they’re no longer his people at all. In Pocahontas and Avatar, Smith and Sully are part of an active and present colonial force, wind up on generally friendly terms with the locals, start dating the chief’s daughter, and wind up with a strong case of conflicting loyalties, having to pick between their people and their lover’s people when the fighting starts.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
‘Apocalypse Now’ is based on Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novella ‘Heart of Darkness’, in which the events happen on the Congo river.
STUNT_GRANNY@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The video game Spec Ops: The Line is essentially both stories, but set in Dubai after a cataclysmic sandstorm.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I remember reading that one of story shooter games had a particularly great mission where the player descends on a city from the surrounding elevation or somesuch. And I’ve heard multiple times recently that ‘The Line’ is quite outstanding with its story and gameplay. Is it the same game, by any chance? I don’t think there’s any elevation near Dubai, so probably not, but just to make sure.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t remember of any particularly great mission descending onto a city, there are some segments that could fot the description, but honestly Spec Ops: The Line is not memorable for its gameplay, it’s just average and it’s meant to be, the point of the game is in the story. Although I think that playing it now might not be as impactful as when it first released and every other game was a third-person shooter, but it still I strongly recommend it.