Avatar (2009 film) and Boris Strugatsky, which are set in the 22nd century on a forested world called Pandora with a sentient indigenous species called the Nave. Various reviews have compared "Avatar" to the films "", "Pocahontas" and "The Last Samurai." NPR's "Morning Edition" has compared the film to a montage of tropes, with one commentator stating that "Avatar" was made by "mixing a bunch of film scripts in a blender". Gary Westfahl wrote that "the science fiction story that most closely resembles "Avatar" has to be Ursula Le Guin's novella "The Word for World Is Forest" (1972), another epic about a benevolent
Avatar (2009 film) on "Avatar"s gross; it estimated, on , 2010, that "Avatar" had sold approximately tickets in North American theatres, more than any other film since 1999's "". On a worldwide basis, when "Avatar"s gross stood at $2 billion just 35 days into its run, "The Daily Telegraph" estimated its gross was surpassed by only "Gone with the Wind" ($3.0 billion), "Titanic" ($2.9 billion) and "Star Wars" ($2.2 billion) after adjusting for inflation to 2010 prices, with "Avatar" ultimately winding up with $2.8 billion by the end of its run in 2010. Reuters even placed it ahead of "Titanic" after adjusting the