So I'm watching Pocahontas on ABC...

[DarkAngel]

Couple questions:

1) Why is Pocahontas speaking English?

2) Why is John Rolfe not in this movie? He was the husband of Pocahontas, after all.

[Zuni]

1. fuck all that

Me aqnd pocohantas are gettin hitched tommorow

[jobycom]

2. Well

She listened with her heart and learned English, and she marries John Rolfe in Pocohantas II.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. Does she die of smallpox at age 22 in Pocahontas II

as she did in real life?

[jobycom]

9. No. Interestingly

The movie skips her pregnancies and the illness, and most of her life in America before going to England. Now that I think about it, I don't think she actually marries him in the film. It ends with her and Rolfe sailing down the Thames to return to America. Of course, that part is true, but she dies before the ship leaves the Thames (IIRC) in real life. In the movie she sails into the sunset.

Neither film is great, and of course, neither is meant to appeal to adults as much as children. It was one of Eisner's attempts to introduce children to multi-culturalism and environmentalism (something Eisner seems big on). It has its problems, but then again, my oldest daughter was so attracted to the Pocahontas character that she chose her for a report in fourth grade, and did a lot of research on the real person. I doubt she would have cared if Disney had portrayed her as a fourteen year old, John Smith as a 50 year old, and the whole land in its grubby reality.

[skygazer]

3. 3. Why does Pocahontas look like a WASP with a deep tan?

4. Why are you watching such crap?

[DarkAngel]

4. She looks like Naomi Campbell

nt

[Lone_Wolf_Moderate]

5. Because, it's a Disney movie.

[Maddy McCall]

7. Don't use Disney to teach you history.

The whole Disney movie is fucked up and has little to do with history.

[Tom Kitten]

8. Are there talking and singing animals?

None of the histories written of Jamestown mention them, but I suppose they could have been there...