Was it misunderstood? Should they have used original names instead of historical ones? I feel like that could have avoided some controversy.
>you and pocahontas will never paint with all the colors of the wind
POCahontas
Brody Russell
Nolan Murphy
Hey Zoomer, Pocahontas wasn't controversial when it came out because people didn't give a shit about identity politics they way they do now. The greatest controversy about Pocahontas was that it was boring.
Eli White
She should've been a blue 10ft cat alien.
Jeremiah Peterson
We know how the real story went changing a bunch of names wouldn't solve anything they shouldn't have made it they are fucking retarded for making it and anyone who defends this movie is a brain dead chud
Jacob Jones
>Pocahontas wasn't controversial when it came out
Wrong many historians pointed out that this movie was basically a puff piece for colonizers
Luis Thomas
nice try zoom-zoom
>We know how the real story went
thats my point, not making it based on the real story at all
Zachary Parker
It was a terrible idea to make a movie based on real people
The animation, compared to The Lion King and Toy Story was dull and lifeliess as well.
The weird thing is that I loved Pocahontas when I saw it in theatres as a kid. I got it on DVD recently but couldn't even finish it.
Samuel Diaz
Well yeah James Cameron did it and faced little to no backlash but wtf was Disney thinking making this movie
Matthew Sullivan
Not “the real story” as in “the real story of John Smith and Pocahontas,” but meaning “the real story of the natives and the colonialists.” It was a poor choice to make a fairy tale about an Indian princess and a European explorer set in the 15/1600s. They should have just adapted a native fairy tale
Samuel Rodriguez
Jordan Cox
Yeah, there were definitely some people complaining, but he's right that most people didn't care to any serious degree
Christopher Thompson
yeah i believe there was a shift in management at disney at the time
the flow of the story is weird too, but the "Savages" song is kino, im about to watch the sequel just because of that
David Lewis
>The greatest controversy about Pocahontas was that it was boring.
Was that they didn't use Native Americans as their models for Pocahontas or her friend. They used Thai models.
Angel Parker
>Wrong many historians pointed out that this movie was basically a puff piece for colonizers
Years after the film originally debuted. Find me a single review that came out within a year of its release that mentions anything about it being a "colonial fluff piece"
Jack Clark
that would be nice too, any examples they could adapt?
Ayden Flores
This movie was made by hippies advocating a message of unity, anti-prejudice, and Shakespeare's cross-class romance. It's just unfortunately set in an awkward time period where this thinking didn't really work out 1:1 in reality. The colonizers already won long before 1990, there is no anti-foreigner movement in the US today in any meaningful way.
Nathan Brown
>a-akshually sociopolitics were the exact same back then! nothing changed at all woke and SJW were things people said!
Drink bleach you communist gaslighter
Brandon Ramirez
>They should have just adapted a native fairy tale
That would've been cool, now I'm sad.
>we will never get another shot from Disney at Native American or Scottish stories because they're not hip right now
Austin Bell
Unpopular opinion probably but huge CGI eyes look so uncanny at this point
Benjamin Diaz
Why is OP trying to politicize our childhood?
Jason Young
>muh sociopolitics and SJWs
nobody asked
Mason Gray
I like it when people talk about the mistreatment of Indians because it raises the revel of consciousness of real nationalism, race, and the hypocrisy of Americans. Stop caring about black criminals, and start caring Indians instead.
Josiah Watson
They have nothing else going for them in life so they may as well make a mountain out of a hole.