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I notice that they had Pocahontas's tribal husband in the movie. But they took him out of context an made him an antagonist in a way.-- Matt DeMarr | I notice that they had Pocahontas's tribal husband in the movie. But they took him out of context an made him an antagonist in a way.-- Matt DeMarr | ||
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| + | I agree with Whitney's comment about the sexy Pocahontas body. I believe that the one thing about this movie that can go with out criticism is the moral message it is trying to send to its child audience. I still look at the highly fictionalized representation of Pocahontas and see an amazing role model for girls. Someone who is strong, free-spirited, independent, loving, dutiful, wise, willed, and more. It is a proud figure representing Native American women. It is ashamed that she had to be portrayed as a stacked, leatherskin attired swimsuit model. A young girls would have even better related to an image of another young girl. Was Disney trying to attract older male viewers or something? The suggestion alone seems all wrong! But on the topic of morals and messages, Disney does do a good job at getting across the follies of hate and ignorance to children with these obvious lyrics alla Alan Menken, "They're different than us. That means they can't be trusted. We must sound the drums of war!" and the other message of respecting other cultures and mother nature and all that good stuff with the show stopper "Colors of the Wind" is great too. Disney, I haven't given up on you yet! -- Jackie Reed | ||
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| + | That said, I shame Disney on so many points as far as historical accuracy goes. Many of my points have already been made above so I will keep it at this. Even if all you've got is 90 minutes Disney, could you try to preserve some sense of realistic time? The movie's time span from ship's sail to ship's sail appears to only last a month at most! Here or there a character mentions that a few days have gone by! A few days? Sure there was a lot of miscommunication in the Jamestown settlement due to a language barrier, and sure this is a very big problem for movie makers when trying to devise a plot. But having some crazy, New World mysticism suddenly give Pocahontas the power to understand John Smith? I ain't buyin' the overpriced merchandize that your selling Disney! Sure, some things can be expressed without words, (like I want to jump your bones you sexy, Aussie John Smith!) but not everything that they were saying. There are lots of movies that force a viewer to suspend their disbelief, it can even be fun for the viewer to do this, but Disney's attempt at this was laughable. I guess it just required a little too much of their creativity to try to work around a more believable language barrier. -- Jackie Reed | ||
