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princesas de disney Do the historical inaccuracies in Pocahontas make tu like the movie less?
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It's kinda the same thing with Anastasia, the historical elements bother me but I also sorta like the film...And yet for some reason I think I like the film more than Pocahontas. Perhaps because it doesn't take itself too seriously? iDK...
Not a single one of the other DP movies are "correct", so i don´t get why only Pocahontas is judged for that. It´s rather stupid in my opinion.
I wouldn't really mind if this was just a story or a legend, but Pocahontas was a REAL PERSON. John Smith was a real person. We have verified historical documentation on their lives, interactions with Virginia colonists and English citizens, whereabouts through most of their lives, etc.
Most kids are introduced to the story of Pocahontas from this movie, and adding magic spirits and talking trees doesn't really change the fact that they don't portray her, her life, her relationship to John Smith, or her people or the colonists faithfully at all. Do you know how awkward it feels for kids to learn that Pocahontas was 12 when the colonists landed, she and John never got involved romantically, John Smith was a racist ego-maniacal nutball anyway, she converted to Christianity and married John Ralph, and she died from the pollution shortly after arriving in England?
That said, I don't hate the movie. I don't hate Pocahontas or the characters in it for historical inaccuracies per se. I still think it has a very great and much-needed message about racial acceptance and environmentalism, etc.
I just... also can't condone it because I feel very uncomfortable about our contemporary culture feeling it's okay to perpetuate romantic lies and to push comfortable lies onto children.
Anywhom, it doesn't bother me, I separate the movie from its history. Although I can understand why it would bother someone, the inaccuracies are rather insulting.
I think it's a beautiful movie.
I know, I'm a person who likes when movies at least somewhat follow the source material, (or in this case, history) but this movie is an exception.
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