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James Cameron named the adventure novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, alongside H. Rider Haggard and the science fiction of his childhood, as the source of Avatar: a man transported to an alien world who goes native among its warrior people.

Princess Mononoke influenced the ecosystem of Pandora, and Cameron grouped it with The Emerald Forest and At Play in the Fields of the Lord as films about a clash between an industrial culture and a forest one.

Cameron named Lawrence of Arabia among the films about an outsider who joins an indigenous or foreign culture that inspired Avatar.

A Wikipedia reading: Avatar shares themes with The Emerald Forest, At Play in the Fields of the Lord and Princess Mononoke, films about a clash between cultures.

Cameron said he learned the term "avatar", for a body a mind operates remotely, from William Gibson's Neuromancer (and Bruce Sterling's Islands in the Net).

FernGully is listed among the films about outsiders in a native or foreign culture that inspired Cameron, with Lawrence of Arabia and The Jungle Book.

Cameron listed Disney's The Jungle Book among the outsider-in-another-culture films that inspired Avatar, with Lawrence of Arabia and FernGully.

Cameron intended Jake and Neytiri as star-crossed lovers in the tradition of Romeo and Juliet.

Humans come to Pandora to mine it and drive the Na'vi from their land, a story of colonial conquest.