Cameron Blatantly Steals For Avatar Plot?

I think it's a little late to shut it down. Plus, this IS an old concept. So much so that no one cares if he "stole" it. It's like if you wrote a story about star crossed lovers. It's not the originality of the concept, it's the execution of the concept that matters.

Oh, and it's called creative borrowing.

Uhm, yeah that is pretty specific.

I meant just the disembodied alien experience. I've read it classic sci-fi, current sci-fi, tv sci-fi, and it's happened to me personally.lol

wow it ripped of a lot of thing this movie

@Tyler- it is a revolution. Its a revolution how much one man can steal ideas and receive such accolades for it!

Intyler@There are Avatar Fanatics?

Poul Anderson is great! If you can check out "The Broken Sword", a pretty dark, epic fantasy story. It has vikings, trolls, lots of Norse mythology and one of my favourite depictions of elves ever. Earl Imric, who is something like the elven ruler of faerie Britain, is a sick bastard and would kick Elronds ass!

The book was first published the same year as "The Fellowship of the Ring", and you can recognize some similar themes and inspirations. But what Anderson created is not so much a heroic story about the battle between good and evil, but more like a Greek tragedy, with vengeful, scheming gods and flawed mortals who cannot escape the impending doom brought upon them by their dark desires, ambitions or simply the misfortune of a certain lineage.

What I really like about it is how big and epic the story feels (and is, actually!), although the book is not even 300 pages long. For me it's a welcome change to all the endless "sagas" some other authors tend to produce. There is little to nothing long-winded about the book, and though it might seem strange that for example one very big and important journey is summarized in merely a few pages, because “that is another story”, I think it works great.

So, if you like fantasy and haven’t read it yet: do it asap!


@topic: Haven’t read this Anderson story, but it does sound very similar to Avatar. Although it’s really not that easy to come up with something entirely original concerning Sci-Fi and fantasy, and even if you haven’t ripped off somebody’s work intentionally you should at least check if your story already exist and if so figure out how to deal with it. Anyways, I’ve not yet decided if I’m going to watch the movie. A huge hype like with Avatar usually tends to scare me off more than to entrain me. But we’ll see…

[frick]! Could it be a coincidence? MMmmm. Its not very likely is it?

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You know, I've read "Call Me Joe" now that I think about it. It's in a book of short sci-fi stories I have. It's not very note worthy. The point of view is mostly from "Joe's" perspective in his paraplegic self. He's like a miner or something. He has an alien body that resides on the surface that he can inhabit mentally and overlooks other organisms created by humans to mine or cultivate, something. Joe is happy doing his job and escaping mentally to the surface of the planet when some guy questions his motivation for his work.

Up to this point Joe didn't realize how trapped he felt in his real body. It's like his inquisitor put the idea in his head and he acted upon it, severing his ties to his real body and killing it in the process. I don't remember his genetically created body being cat-like. But as you can tell I don't remember much of the story at all.

idc if he copies ideas. as long as he makes it his own then why complain? aliens, t2, and titantic are his best films so far. lets hope this movie proves to live to the hype, and not like the blockbuster movies of the summer...

Has imagination plateaued?

Who would have thought, you can copy as many good and invenive ideas as posssible and still somehow make a shit movie.

Look, there is a big difference between using some age old story telling devices, or even "creatively borrowing" and blatantly ripping off specific plot details! I mean lets see, maybe next year Martin Scorsese will release a movie called The God-Uncle, about 3 generations of life in the Irish Mafia. And at the beginning, the God-Uncle will tell his son and heir that he will get him a big job because he is going to make the man standing in his way "an offer he dare not feckin refuse boyo". Now, would that be a "variation on a theme" or would that be stone cold stealing from the Godfather?

so its just like i said, you dont know what your talking about :)

Who gives a [frick]. This movie looks like its going to be cool as hell.

Well let's examine the facts then:

1- This movie looks like shit.
2- They overhyped it up our asses so much that i can taste it.
3- And they COPIED off of too many ideas to freakin' count. A "creatively borrowed" idea here and there isn't much to bitch about but THIS!!!!! Even a blind man would hear reason... uh, wait a minute...

Either way, from the first time i saw the trailer, it looked like shit and since i've got an outhouse full of it, why the hell would i pay through the nose for more???

Good point, betty! But i think that things are coming to a change in our near future. All we need is to boycott the shit they're force feeding us. Like Avatar over here.

Next step in evolution: Stickin' it to the man!!!

Good book about man on Mars is "Man Plus".

but they are tasty heart attack specials betty!