Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma Professor Foust Daisy Aguilar It is said that there are many different versions to a story. There is one persons story‚ then there is an other person’s story‚ and then‚ there is the truth. “Our memories change each time they are recalled. What we recall is only a facsimile of things gone by.” Dobrin‚ Arthur. "Your Memory Isn’t What You Think It Is." (online magazine). Psychology Today. July 16‚ 2013. http://www.psychologytoday.com
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Film Analysis: Pocahontas The animated Walt Disney movie Pocahontas is based on a true life story of a young Powhatan Indian girl named Pocahontas who falls in love with John Smith. In the making of the movie‚ Walt Disney‚ attempts to relate to the early 17th Century historic event of Europeans settling in Jamestown; however‚ Disney did not portrait the true story. Disney rewrote the story by making it a beautifully romantic and animated love story like a Cinderella fairytale. In the Walt Disney
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I’ve known about Pocahontas ever since I was a little girl. I used to sit in front of the TV and watch it over and over again until I finally got bored. I think the directors‚ Eric Goldberg and Mike Gabriel‚ did a wonderful job on putting this movie together. Pocahontas is a Disney animated film about romance between a young American Indian woman‚ Pocahontas‚ (Irene Bedard) and Capt. John Smith (Mel Gibson)‚ who journeyed to the New World with other settlers to begin fresh lives. Her father‚ Chief
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One of the many speculations of Townsend that I believed in is her theory that one of the possible reasons why Powhatan sent Pocahontas to Jamestown to try to secure Namontack’s release‚ an Indian who were held in captive by John Smith and his people‚ was because Pocahontas was probably the best translator available. Pocahontas was probably able to know the basics of the English’s language growing up since the English has been coming to their town way before she was born. She also learned more from
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Pocahontas was more than just a Disney princess. Although the film made about her captured some events from her life‚ the events portrayed in the classic were not all accurate to how she really lived. Pocahontas arrived at Virginia on a ship (Hoose 14). She lived with her family in a village named Werowocomoco. Since Pocahontas’ father‚ Powhatan‚ was such a powerful ruler‚ Pocahontas had many events in her life that made her into the woman she was at the end of her life. Pocahontas’ early life
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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
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The story of Pocahontas is about a young Native American women who had a very big impact in history. Pocahontas was not the average Native American girl you’d hear about in history‚ she was different. Pocahontas who was the daughter of the native chief Powhatan was one of the first Native Americans known in history that had a connection with a European who is known as John Rolfe. The Europeans who had come to the New World and in this case Jamestown‚ Virginia where Pocahontas was because they wanted
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The story of Pocahontas and John Smith is a story that has been told time and time again. Disney even made a movie about their story‚ teaching the importance of taking care of the earth. The real story is a firsthand account from John Smith. He says that in 1607‚ he was captured by an Indian tribe‚ at some point he meets Pocahontas and she feels sympathy for him and begs her father not to execute him‚ thus saving his life. There has always been questions bought up about this though‚ many question
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seems to be a lot of disconnect between the Disney version of the Pocahontas/Smith relationship vs. what we know about the “real” Pocahontas because of numerous protests that procured when the Disney movie came out. The Disney version of the story puts the relationship in good light and doesn’t seem to depict some of the brutality that was going on between the two groups. I have reason to believe that the relationship between Pocahontas and Captain Smith was not any where near as “romantic” as what
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The issue in Disney’s Pocahontas Movie is that there are arguments of whether the movie is responsible‚ accurate‚ and respectful or not. In my opinion I have different point of views in this argument. I think the movie made the storyline different for the entertainment of younger viewers. I also believe that the movie isn’t accurate or respectful‚ but I do believe it is fair. I also think that the movie exaggerated too much and there was several information that wasn’t true. There is as well some
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