Pocahontas Theme Statement

Pocahontas The 1995 movie Pocahontas has sparked a lot of controversy over the years among audiences and fans. There have been questions of how the events were developed and if the producers, knew what they were marketing. Thomas Schumacher, the vice-president of Disney Studios, states,” It (Pocahontas) is a story that is fundamentally about racism and intolerance… It’s also about having respect for each other’s cultures.” This statement is contrasted by Pete Schneider, president of Disney studios, when he states, “The challenge was how to do a movie with such themes and make it interesting, romantic, and fun.” These conflicting statements show how the forces behind the movie, were unaware of the story they were trying to portray. The company wanted to simply try jump into the inclusivity bandwagon of the nineties by creating a Disney film starring a woman of color based off of historical
The movie Pocahontas by Walt Disney Pictures is a tale of romance between a twenty-year-old Native American Woman and Captain John Smith. The two fall in love but her father disapproves. All the while smith’s Englishmen plans to ransack and rob the natives. Disney Picture Pocahontas as a love story that subtly talks about environmentalism. However, Pocahontas was around the age of eleven and John Smith twenty-seven, when these events transpired. Smith is said to have kidnapped and sexually assaulted Pocahontas for years. However one of the most visual misrepresentations during the movement was the how the characters looked like, although the characters had tan complexions their facial features were not comparable to what Native Americans actually look like. Disney started out basing Pocahontas on a painting of her historical counterpart, then eventually began straying away until they reached a white female model. That of which they primarily based the Pocahontas off