Pocahontas Movie Analysis

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The first film that was viewed in class is Disney’s Pocahontas. Pocahontas is supposed to be based off of history, but Disney fails horribly. They had the money and the resources that they needed to invent the film closer to the actual recreation of history. It was the drive of greed which made them produce Pocahontas in reel history instead of real history. If Pocahontas is full of inaccuracies, even though, the film is trying to recreate what happened, why do people still love it?
In the film Pocahontas, there are numerousness inaccuracies, but there is also some truth. The first inaccuracy of the film is how Pocahontas and John Smith fell in love. Accounts of the real history show that Pocahontas and John Smith did not have any romantic …show more content…

Pocahontas is a brave young woman who is free-spirited and follows what she feels is right. She follows her heart, speaks her mind, and speaks words of wisdom that stops a war. When her father tells her that Kocoum asked for her hand in marriage, she is not afraid to tell her father that Kocoum is too serious. The film also shows an interracial relationship between Pocahontas and John Smith, and how they help each other. There are also other hidden messages in the film that Disney has created for viewers to interrupt anyway that they want to. I have always been interested in the way that Disney adds their secret messages and how they pull it off. The way they choose to convey their information also sparks my interest. I also wonder why they did not try to incorporate more accurate information considering they had the resources and the money to achieve it. Disney had the chance to create the film Pocahontas closer to the true history, but they didn’t. I don’t know if they were trying to form their version of Pocahontas and John Smith greater than the real life version, and if they were they failed. The real life John Smith and Pocahontas happen to be just as important as the Disney characters. I feel awful for the actors who voiced the characters and all the criticism that was thrown their way. It could not have been easy for them, but the actors who portrayed Pocahontas and John Smith did a wonderful job. If the actors had more information on the historical figures that they were portraying and the film was more accurate I feel like they could have

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