The Disney Movie - Pocahontas

Shruti Potdar

The Disney movie Pocahontas was released in 1995. Ever since then, many people know of Pocahontas from the Disney movie. The movie depicts the romance of Pocahontas, daughter of a Native American tribe chief and English soldier, John Smith when English colonists invade Virginia in 16th century. However, there are many factual errors throughout the movie that mislead the audience. Pocahontas was a real story with real people. By Disney taking that film and putting their own twist on it, they lead an entire generation of kids away from what’s true. Scaled from one to ten, the Disney movie Pocahontas is damaging to young people on a measure of eight.

Disney altered the look of Native Americans and the English settlers. For one thing, Pocahontas was not a young woman when she met John Smith, she met him at the age of twelve, and he was a twenty- eighty years old. Disney not only clouded the story but they even portrayed her looks wrong. She was shown as a beautiful woman, with long black hair and different facial structures.