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Perhaps one of the greatest discrepancies that I noticed between the film and Smith's accounts (as well as our lecture) was the lack of disease plaguing the Jamestown settlers during the film. Whereas in actuality they were camping and building rough houses in a virtual swampland and the majority of the men died of dysentery and malaria, these conditions were mysteriously absent in the film. Disney has included a lot of clever references in many other films, so I was a little disappointed at how healthy all of the colonists remained, as well as the natives (who should have been getting smallpox). -Meagan P. | Perhaps one of the greatest discrepancies that I noticed between the film and Smith's accounts (as well as our lecture) was the lack of disease plaguing the Jamestown settlers during the film. Whereas in actuality they were camping and building rough houses in a virtual swampland and the majority of the men died of dysentery and malaria, these conditions were mysteriously absent in the film. Disney has included a lot of clever references in many other films, so I was a little disappointed at how healthy all of the colonists remained, as well as the natives (who should have been getting smallpox). -Meagan P. | ||
| − | To be snarky, Disney makes me hate animals. It is always painful watching random, unnecessary animal interactions. Also the film is very harsh to Kocoum; just because she didn't marry him doesn't mean you have to haul off and shoot him, clearly over dramatic. The above entries cover the rest of the problems in the film very well, but I suppose one has to wonder how characters instantly fall in love, especially after a conversation about "savages". Going along with the first post here by Caryn, I had to shake my head when the film implies the colonists all took off without leaving a settlement there. It's an improbable ending...As a side note. The film could easily focus on Pocahontas's hair for a shampoo commercial. The Koreans managed to make a movie/shampoo [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um9KsrH377A commercial]just replace the girl with Pocahontas and you've got the movie. | + | To be snarky, Disney makes me hate animals. It is always painful watching random, unnecessary animal interactions. Also the film is very harsh to Kocoum; just because she didn't marry him doesn't mean you have to haul off and shoot him, clearly over dramatic. The above entries cover the rest of the problems in the film very well, but I suppose one has to wonder how characters instantly fall in love, especially after a conversation about "savages". Going along with the first post here by Caryn, I had to shake my head when the film implies the colonists all took off without leaving a settlement there. It's an improbable ending...As a side note. The film could easily focus on Pocahontas's hair for a shampoo commercial. The Koreans managed to make a movie/shampoo [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um9KsrH377A commercial]just replace the girl with Pocahontas and you've got the movie.--[[User:Bakhtinjali|Bakhtinjali]] 22:31, 1 September 2010 (MDT) |
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