One of my favorite film adaptations would be Avatar which, to me, was an adaptation of the Disney movie Pocahontas. The bases of Pocahontas was settlers invading a land, and one settler in specific learning to understand and protect the natives of that land through a love interest he has with a female native. The settler learns the importance and establishes an appreciation for the land through Pocahontas as well.
Avatar changed one major thing in their adaptation of Pocahontas, which was the fact that it took place in the future on another planet with aliens being the native species. They kept the main concept of one man learning to appreciate the native land through a love interest. Planning to or not, the makers of avatar presented a sense of very little change with human interaction to something new. Either in the past, present, or future. The first time I saw Avatar I knew there was a resemblance to Pocahontas in the storyline and this showed me the importance of watching a text with its context in mind.
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