Hier mal zwei längere inhaltsangaben zu beiden werken:
CALL ME JOE
Joe is awakened in his den, when a pack of predators is attacking him. Using his great strength, and weapons made from sculpted ice, he kills the animals and, exultant, bays at the moon above him. A vital component shorts out, and Joe reverts to being a human, Ed Anglesey, wearing a special headset on a space station orbiting Jupiter. Anglesey furiously repairs the equipment to restore the connection.
It transpires that such equipment failures are happening more and more often. All technical attempts at repair have failed, and instead a psionics expert, Cornelius, is brought to the station to determine if Anglesey himself is the problem.
Anglesey is confined to a wheelchair and bad-tempered. He dislikes all his colleagues and is disliked in return. He is allowed to stay on the station only because of his ability to establish a telepathic connection with (and thereby control) Joe, a creature designed to survive the hostile conditions on the Jovian surface. Cornelius conjectures that something in Anglesey's mind rejects or fears Jupiter, and the resulting feedback keeps destroying the delicate equipment.
Eventually Cornelius is allowed to share a session with Anglesey during an important part of the mission. A set of autonomous female Jovians, similar to Joe but lacking a human controller such as Anglesey, has been launched from the satellite and will soon land on Jupiter. Joe, still controlled by Anglesey, is to be the leader, and father, of a new race that will live on the planet. During this session, Cornelius becomes aware of a third mind that of Joe himself. Anglesey's mind has been steadily transforming itself into Joe and shrinking in the process. Cornelius was looking at the problem from the wrong end it was not Anglesey's fear of going to Jupiter and becoming sublimated into Joe's stronger character which was causing the blowouts, but his fear of leaving Jupiter and the freedom Joe's whole and healthy, though non-human, body allows him. Anglesey's existence is poor and constricted compared to Joe's, and the environment has shaped a personality that no longer wants to be human.
Seeing himself from Cornelius's perspective, Joe becomes fully self-aware. He ejects Cornelius from the loop and shuts down what is left of Anglesey.
Cornelius revives on the station next to the hollow shell of Anglesey's body. Far from being dismayed, Cornelius realizes that this is the way of the future. From now on people with diseased bodies and even the aged can be recruited for the Jovian program if they have the necessary talents. Eventually they will leave their bodies behind and become Jovians in the flesh, functioning as the priesthood of the new race.
AVATAR (was man dazu weiß)
The storys protagonist, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), is a former Marine who was wounded and paralyzed from the waist down in combat on Earth. Jake is selected to participate in the Avatar program, which will enable him to walk. Jake travels to Pandora, a lush jungle-covered extraterrestrial moon filled with incredible life forms, some beautiful, many terrifying. Pandora is also home to the Navi, a sentient humanoid race, who are considered primitive, yet are more physically capable than humans. Standing three meters tall (approximately 10 ft), with tails and sparkling blue skin, the Navi live in harmony with their unspoiled world. As humans encroach deeper into Pandora's forests in search of valuable minerals, the Navi unleash their formidable warrior abilities to defend their threatened existence.
Jake has unwittingly been recruited to become part of this encroachment. Since humans are unable to breathe the air on Pandora, they have created genetically-bred human-Navi hybrids known as Avatars. On Pandora, through his Avatar body, Jake can be whole once again. Sent deep into Pandora's jungles as a scout for the soldiers that will follow, Jake encounters many of Pandora's beauties and dangers. There he meets a young Navi female, Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña).
Over time, Jake integrates himself into the Na'vi clan, and begins to fall in love with Neytiri. As a result, Jake finds himself caught between the military-industrial forces of Earth and the Navi, forcing him to choose sides in an epic battle that will decide the fate of an entire world.
Wenn man die Handlungen nicht auf 3 Sätze kondensiert, wie es Jigsaws etwas polemisches Ausgangsposting getan hat, sieht die Sache schon etwas anders aus.
Hier, mal ein Beispiel zu kurzen Inhaltsangaben:
Avatar:
Jack ist ein Soldat, der im Kampf verwundet wird. Wegen seines Heldenmuts schickt man ihn nach Pandora, wo er auf Eingeborene trifft, die als primitiv angesehen werden. Jack freundet sich mit den Eingeborenen an. Und er verliebt sich in Neytiri. Als immer mehr Männer seines Volkes kommen, um den Eingeborenen ihr Eigentum zu nehmen und die Ressourcen auszubeuten, stellt sich Jack auf die Seite der Eingeborenen.
Der mit dem Wolf tanzt:
John Dunbar ist ein Soldat, der im Kampf verwundet wird. Wegen seines Heldenmuts schickt man ihn auf einen Vorposten mitten in der Prärie, wo er auf Eingeborene trifft, die als primitiv angesehen werden. John freundet sich mit den Eingeborenen an. Und er verliebt sich in Steht-mit-einer-Faust. Als immer mehr Männer seines Volkes kommen, um den Eingeborenen ihr Eigentum zu nehmen und die Ressourcen auszubeuten, stellt sich John auf die Seite der Eingeborenen.
Und das ist es, was ich
1. mit kurzen oberflächlichen Inhaltsangaben meine und
2. mit Ähnlichkeiten bei ebensolchen Mini-Synopsen.
Darüber hinaus glaube ich, wenn Cameron diese Anderson-Geschichte gekannt hätte, hätte man die Rechte daran gekauft. Die sind sehr wahrscheinlich für eine fünfstellige Summe zu haben, was beim Avatar-Budget nun wirklich nicht ins Gewicht fällt.
