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Okay, okay, aside from tearing apart this movie because it makes me want to be my head against the wall from a historical standpoint, I think Pocahontas does something very important for the mid-1990s: it puts Native Americans on screen in a substantial, legitimate way. Yes, it's Disney, and it's a cartoon, but it's aimed at kids, so that makes sense. There are very few examples of Native Americans in lead roles of movies, animated or otherwise, and even fewer that show Native Americans as just as civilized and varied in their behavior as, in this case, the English. It's pretty fake, and it's pretty cheesy, but it's representation that is otherwise really hard to come by. Making the decision to broaden the ethnic focus of their human main characters says a lot about Disney's ideals at the time. - Cilla | Okay, okay, aside from tearing apart this movie because it makes me want to be my head against the wall from a historical standpoint, I think Pocahontas does something very important for the mid-1990s: it puts Native Americans on screen in a substantial, legitimate way. Yes, it's Disney, and it's a cartoon, but it's aimed at kids, so that makes sense. There are very few examples of Native Americans in lead roles of movies, animated or otherwise, and even fewer that show Native Americans as just as civilized and varied in their behavior as, in this case, the English. It's pretty fake, and it's pretty cheesy, but it's representation that is otherwise really hard to come by. Making the decision to broaden the ethnic focus of their human main characters says a lot about Disney's ideals at the time. - Cilla | ||
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| + | I think that Cilla put it perfectly in her last sentence. The fact that this film is (loosely) based on actual historic events shows that Disney was trying to tell a legitimate story. They decided to show this part of America's past to their extremely huge audience, and that says something about their integrity as storytellers. I'm sure that it got a whole generation of children interested - if only superficially or temporarily interested - in learning more about this story. If the film encouraged kids to learn more, it can't be completely without value. - Celia | ||
== General comments for Pocahontas == | == General comments for Pocahontas == | ||
