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Plot of Disney’s Pocahontas or James Cameron’s Avatar?  Oh wait, it’s BOTH:

A man from Western society arrives in a new land after a very long journey.  This new land is very different from where they came – filled with wondrous flora and fauna, some of it very dangerous.  The Western Man, who is initially prejudiced against this new land’s native people, meets the daughter of the leader of the native people’s tribe.  She is tall and beautiful and is good with a bow and arrow.  More importantly, this Native Woman, like the rest of her tribe, has a great respect for nature, a respect she tries to impart to this new man.  Part of these teachings includes a visit to a special tree that only the Natives can communicate with.  (The Western Man will eventually call on this special tree for help and will receive it.)  Although teaching him is difficult and frustrating, sparks begin to fly between the Man and the Native Woman, even though she is set to be betrothed to a native warrior with a mohawk.  (When the Mohawk Warrior discovers this later on, he attacks the man in front of the rest of the tribe.)  The Western man tries to convince the people that sent him there that the natives are people, too, and that they shouldn’t attack them.  However, he is cast aside and ignored.  When the Western Man returns to the natives and tries to warn them, he is instead blamed and tied up and prepared for execution.  In the end, however, he is freed and able to save the Native people – those who supported them are allowed to stay, while everyone else goes back to the Western society they came from.

James Cameron, in this month’s issue of Playboy

(Source: Filmdrunk via Cinematical)