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I believe the movie got everything right, but I will take a stab at some possible miscalculations anyway. I found some things that Disney portrayed incorrectly and one interesting thing was that Percy, Ratcliffe’s dog in the movie was actually George Percy, who was a colonist who followed Smith. Percy actually wrote two books about his time in the new world, and Disney chose this name, quite cleverly for the dog. Another interesting thing I discovered was that in the movie, Smith was portrayed as somewhat as a hopeless romantic and an adventurer. However, in reality, when the ship actually landed, Smith was in chains and was not released until about a month after landing at Jamestown. After he was released he did plenty of exploring and mapped out the area extensively, but he did not jump right off the boat and start looking around. -afrisk | I believe the movie got everything right, but I will take a stab at some possible miscalculations anyway. I found some things that Disney portrayed incorrectly and one interesting thing was that Percy, Ratcliffe’s dog in the movie was actually George Percy, who was a colonist who followed Smith. Percy actually wrote two books about his time in the new world, and Disney chose this name, quite cleverly for the dog. Another interesting thing I discovered was that in the movie, Smith was portrayed as somewhat as a hopeless romantic and an adventurer. However, in reality, when the ship actually landed, Smith was in chains and was not released until about a month after landing at Jamestown. After he was released he did plenty of exploring and mapped out the area extensively, but he did not jump right off the boat and start looking around. -afrisk | ||
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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. | ||
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