FernGully to Avatar
There are major spoilers in this blog, so if you want to see Avatar do not read this blog.
Have you recently seen a movie with such enchanting creatures that the ground beneath there feet leaves a glowing footprint? Did they enter a world unknown to themselves and change so that they would blend in to their background? A tree binds the creatures together and they feel the pain of their home. Seeds glow and float like magic. A woman interprets the signs. Then mankind rears an ugly head and threatens the very nature of their civilization. They must fight for their home. In the end the human will know that there is more to the forest than trees. If you have, then what were you doing watching FernGully when you could have been watching Avatar.
If there is not a lawsuit coming up then I will be very surprised considering the fact that the script for Avatar was stolen from FernGully. For those of you who are unfamiliar with FernGully, FernGully: The Last Rainforest was released in 1992. It is an Australian animated feature produced by Kroyer Films, about a fairy’s world and humankind. I watched Ferngully a lot as a kid and recognized these facts immediately. As I attempted to locate a plot line for Avatar, I discovered that James Cameron is being accused of plagiarizing from multiple different movies, and could not locate a real plot line. It is hard to begin to name the similarities between FernGully and Avatar because there is such an excessive amount. So I will start at the beginning and work my way down the end in a list formation.
- Used to have a relationship with humans, but that relationship was destroyed.
Well in FernGully the fairies used to live amongst the humans in harmony until a hideous creature made out of vile black smoke drove the humans out of the forest.
In Avatar the humans used to have a relationship with the Na’vi, blue creatures, until the army got involved. The army did not care about the Na’vi. The US Army shot first and asked questions later, driving a stake between human and creature.
- Human originally doesn’t understand the other civilization and was originally employed to help destroy their world.
Ferngully: Zak, the human, worked marking trees of the fairies forest with red Xs. Every tree with a red X, was a tree that would be destroyed. When Zak was welcomed into the fairies big tree, he neglected to tell the fairies what he was really doing in the forest.
Avatar: Jake Sully, the main human, worked in the army and his mission was to figure out how to get the Na’vi to leave their home tree so that the Army could destroy it and mine for the element Unobtainium (very subtle). When he started caring for the Na’vi people, he too neglected to tell them the role that he played in destroying them.
- Shrinking as opposed to growing.
FernGully: Zak shrinks down to the size of a fairy.
Avatar: Jake goes into a chamber and becomes a huge blue Na’vi.
- Both worlds were very big.
Enough said.
In FernGully, everything lights up and glows when it is touched. As they walk and run the floor lights up to reveal a footprint. What a surprise that the same exact thing, the same exact way happened in Avatar.
The only difference between FernGully’s seeds and Avatar’s seeds was shape. The seed in Ferngully looked like your average small seed from a fruit. The seed in Avatar looked more like a dandelion seed.
- Creatures are connected to the forest and the trees.
Avatar: The relationship is as simple as that.
FernGully: The fairies can feel the pain of the forest and the trees. Both communicate with the trees.
- The creatures all gather together and their powers are greater, but that is true in most movies.
- The guy, who was already the heroine’s boyfriend equivalent, automatically hates the human intruder. This guy later has to accept that the human is trying to help and that the human knows what he is doing. But again this is a recurring theme in many movies.
- Flying on the bugs/dragons.
FernGully: In FernGully the little creatures that were not able to fly, rode on flying bugs. They were the weirdest part of the movie.
Avatar: The Na’vi can connect and control dragons and a creature that is the equivalent of a horse.
- Big magic tree, and they all live in a tree.
- Mother figure/Woman who interprets everything.
- Falling unconscious, the heroine has to drag the human out of harm.
- Machine knocking down trees, human in disguise waving fiercely to stop the machine.
- Trying to destroy the machine.
- Blowing up of the tree.
- Human redeems himself.
Despite this rip-off, Avatar could not have been better. It was amazingly scripted, even though the plot line came from another movie. I advise those that have not seen it to go out immediately and see it, and those who have already seen it, go again. The world was enchanting, mysterious, and dangerous. If you are into high-quality movies, this is the movie for you. Avatar had a 400 million dollar budget and you can bet that a lot of that money went into the pocket of James Cameron. However, the money also went into this great movie that people say will revolutionize the way that we make movies.
Sources: http://www.chacha.com/question/how-much-money-was-spent-on-the-movie-avatar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferngully
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_%282009_film%29
As I looked up USB on Google images I came across an interesting discovery and was introduced to the new world of USB. Apparently the food world of USB is pretty big. USB is short for Universal Serial Bus and is also known as a flash drive or jump drive. USB’s have become very popular in every day use, whether it is used for transporting work files or personal files. Some USBs are simply used as software backups. However, not only memory space can be varied. Throughout the last several years the world of flash drive has gotten extremely creative.
ould have so many USBs if they were not simply collecting them. The cheapest USBs sell for around five dollars and the price goes up based on storage space. The creative 2GB post-it USB costs a total of $49.99, while an ordinary 2GB USB costs about $15.00. There is of course a price for creativity, but that is over a 300% price difference. For the price of creativity a person could get three USBs and still have some cash left over. Overall, it sounds too pricey to be a collection item. I know that if I had one of these crazy USBs I would use it, rather than display it as decoration.
TV show? The other USBs reflected an aspect of a persons life and what they like. For example, the Lego piece USB might belong to someone who likes Legos. The grenade/army USB might belong to a soldier or someone very found of action war movies and guns. I personally hope that food is not a hobby, but let me know how you feel on the issue.
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