Pocahontas Movie Analysis

The movie “Pocahontas,” was directed by Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg. The film was released in 1995 and is about a young woman named Pocahontas who was an American Indian in Virginia who fell in love with John Smith who was an English settler who came over to the new world to inherit land. The Disney movie “Pocahontas” is historically inaccurate because it twists the love story of Pocahontas and John Smith. There was no peace between the English settlers and the American Indians.
Around 1596 Pocahontas was born. She was originally named Amonute, her private name was Matoaka, and Pocahontas meaning “Playful one.” Pocahontas was eleven when the English arrived in Jamestown, Virginia in May of 1607. In the winter of 1607, Pocahontas met John Smith when her Uncle captured him. Eventually, John Smith was going to be executed by Chief Powhatan (Pocahontas’s father), but …show more content…
In the issue essay, “The Pocahontas Conspiracy” by Lynn Dukette and Dani Frisbie discuss the criticisms that Christians, Feminists, and Native Americans had of this film. Most Christians were disappointed when the film came out because Pocahontas did not show her faith, even though she was the first native in Virginia to come to the Christian faith. Christians walso upset that in the film Pocahontas found her identity with nature. Feminists were discouraged that Pocahontas had a non-realistic body and that she looked like she was in her twenties, in reality she was only twelve . Tratner, Michael. "Translating Values: Mercantilism and the Many "Biographies" of Pocahontas." years old. The Native Americans were upset that the Englishmen were called “savages” which means uncivilized. They were also upset that the film changed the true history of the story of Pocahontas. In “Disney’s ‘Politically Correct’ Pocahontas” the author Jaquelyn Kilpatrick says “History is history. You’re not honoring a nation of people when you change their