Stereotypes of Native Americans within Disney’s Pocahontas and A New World both have differences and similarities alike. Firstly, in Disney’s Pocahontas, Native Americans are portrayed as stupid and barbaric. From the beginning of the movie, it is evident to a strong degree of what the colonials think of Native Americans; for example, when Pocahontas has her first encounter with John Smith, he expresses his thoughts of how incompetent he thinks her and her tribe in a conversation by stating “‘We’ve improved the lives of savages all over the world’ ‘What’s a savage?’ ‘Savage… Is a term for people who are uncivilized’” (http://pop-chaos.blogspot.ca/2012/03/savage-devils-native-american.html). From this quote it is evident that the colonials
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In Disney’s film, Pocahontas was portrayed as a young adult near her twenties with an amazing figure who wore a leather mini dress with a shoulder strap, for example, ([See image] http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Pocahontas_(character)) This portrayal of Pocahontas is incredibly stereotyped, sexualized and wrong as when Pocahontas was first seen by John, she was only about ten or eleven years old, with no defined body parts and wore clothing that suited the environment and age which meant the body would be covered with clothing that had detailed drawings of animals on it. A New World is different to an extent compared with Disney’s Pocahontas. In the film, Matoaka also wears a small dress that is on par with Disney’s film, but the difference between the films is that they made the main character, Matoaka, to be a young girl, near the age of twelve which is exactly what the real age of Pocahontas was in her time of meeting the Colonials and John Smith. For example, ([See image] http://www.grouchoreviews.com/content/interviews/135/1.jpg). The location setting between the two films had a lot of similarities as well. In Disney’s Pocahontas, the locations include the Virginia forests, the Powhatan village, as well as Jamestown. Although there are some distinct differences due to one film made for children and the other made from an older audience, Disney’s film incorporates correct settings into the film, that respect both the tribe villages and how they lived, as well as how Jamestown was in the beginning – A barren land with no colour. A New World on the other hand was praised by many critiques of how the settings of the film were beautifully done, and how accurate they were. The village of the Powhatans was accurately created with the help of Native Americans, Jamestown’s early times were shown clearly, a new town that had no life to it, a barren land, as
In Disney’s film, Pocahontas was portrayed as a young adult near her twenties with an amazing figure who wore a leather mini dress with a shoulder strap, for example, ([See image] http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Pocahontas_(character)) This portrayal of Pocahontas is incredibly stereotyped, sexualized and wrong as when Pocahontas was first seen by John, she was only about ten or eleven years old, with no defined body parts and wore clothing that suited the environment and age which meant the body would be covered with clothing that had detailed drawings of animals on it. A New World is different to an extent compared with Disney’s Pocahontas. In the film, Matoaka also wears a small dress that is on par with Disney’s film, but the difference between the films is that they made the main character, Matoaka, to be a young girl, near the age of twelve which is exactly what the real age of Pocahontas was in her time of meeting the Colonials and John Smith. For example, ([See image] http://www.grouchoreviews.com/content/interviews/135/1.jpg). The location setting between the two films had a lot of similarities as well. In Disney’s Pocahontas, the locations include the Virginia forests, the Powhatan village, as well as Jamestown. Although there are some distinct differences due to one film made for children and the other made from an older audience, Disney’s film incorporates correct settings into the film, that respect both the tribe villages and how they lived, as well as how Jamestown was in the beginning – A barren land with no colour. A New World on the other hand was praised by many critiques of how the settings of the film were beautifully done, and how accurate they were. The village of the Powhatans was accurately created with the help of Native Americans, Jamestown’s early times were shown clearly, a new town that had no life to it, a barren land, as