#disney's pocahontas

[elvisqueso]

Pocahontas (1995)

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Please don't send asks/messages about whether or not it's okay for you to enjoy Disney's Pocahontas. It's not. Make peace with that or don't. I'd rather you put more energy into talking about the actual harm the film did as opposed to how "important" it was to you.

[disneyfemslash]

Nita x Nakoma 2: They get married.

[iamthecutestofborg]

After all this time I finally realized who Trump reminds me of

[quesoarts]

:)

[coneygoil]

Here's a random take on Disney's Pocahontas 2 that nobody asked for...Pocahontas is a stronger figure in the sequel.

-She's the only person keeping peace between her people and the settlers.

-She saves a man from getting trampled by a horse (said man is ungrateful).

-She volunteers to travel over the ocean to a foreign land and society very different than hers.

-She doesn't give up trying to convince King James to listen to her, even though she keeps facing opposition.

-She is open and eager to learning all the rules and how to act in a foreign society.

-She physically disarms the jester from stabbing a captive bear then proceeds to reprimand the entire company at the King's hunt ball.

-She goes to jail to await her fate of execution.

-She decides her own fate instead of listening to the men who were arguing over what she should do.

-She sneaks into the royal palace and CONFRONTS the king; doing all this to save her people from slaughter and putting her own life in danger.

King James: Why do you speak out when so many doubt you, even when it could mean your life?

Pocahontas: Because I speak the truth.

-She's saves her people...again!

-She realizes her and John Smith aren't following the same path anymore and tells him she doesn't want what he wants anymore.

That concludes my take on Pocahontas being a stronger figure in the sequel.

[faline-cat444]

I think all the symbols in the background are serving for the princesses who did not make the cut for this bag design

[theanimationalley]

[lennythereviewer]

Came to the realization today that Disney's version of Pocahontas technically qualifies as a Manic Pixie Dream Girl

[thedetectivesteve]

Detective Reviews #56 - Pocahontas 2: Journey to a New World

I plug this post in the video, but just to make it easier - How Do You Solve a Problem Like Pocahontas? - a neat breakdown and retooling of the film’s story.

[weaselbeaselpants]

If any indigenous people seriously don't want me hating on Disney's Pocahontas on their behalf (see last rb), be my guest and dm me telling me so. I'm trying to do the responsible thing and echo back what the native bloggers I do follow have said and feel. I get it.

I'll try not to be dismissive, though understand that a major part of what irks me about that movie isn't just the white guilt, it is the inaccuracies. Wolfwalkers and Iron Giant can send Oliver Cromwell off a cliff and end Coldwar with hugs because they're well written; the writers are making speculative alt history which is the point. Where I think media, especially children's media, is actually harmful is when it isn't set in a time period but about real figures in history, as that trains kids idealize these people as fictional characters.

And you know?

Since we're on this "ruining ur childhood by pointing out that the original stories are disturbing"-tanget, why doesn't any one of these clickbait sites talk about the rest of the Jamestown story? No one gonna even make a joke about how the guy Governer Ratcliffe is based on was apparently skinned alive? Or how the Starving Time included the colonists eating eat other?

[elvisqueso]

— Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?

Pocahontas (1995)

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An annual reminder that Disney knew that Pocahontas was a CHILD when she met John Smith and decided to age her up and go with a love story because they thought it would win them an Oscar.

Glen Keane insisted in an interview that "she has to be sexy."

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[geekysteven]

[ID: scene from Pocahontas with the chief saying "These white men are dangerous"]

[quesoarts]

quick kllimt reference