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Originally Posted by Frosstbyte
Remaking Pocahontas+Dances with Wolves+Ferngully was, in my opinion, trite, lazy and boring.
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The film
Pocahontas (1995) was based on a real historic figure, while
Dances with Wolves (1990) and
FernGully (1992) were based on books of the same titles (published in 1986 and 1991, respectively). None of those films had original plots. A question: why are these films the only creations that should be able to tell these stories? Do we have to keep going back 15 to 20 years and watch a Kevin Costner film and two animated productions to get these stories? Should we read the books?
Even Shakespeare overtly retold stories in his plays by rehashing them. It is well known that medieval audiences were keen on hearing stories they were familiar with told in new ways.
You might not like it; you might prefer novelty or something derivative beyond recognition. Fine. But obviously there are many who
do like it.