11/14/2022 0 Comments Pocahontas villain![]() Menken wrote the song with Stephen Schwartz, who was known for writing “Godspell and Pippin.” It basically introduces the entire moral of the story too. Even the writer, Alan Menken said, “It really is one of the most important songs I’ve ever written.” The song confronts John Smith’s Eurocentrism, the belief that the whole world should be more like Western Europe. It is clever, as the song reflects the Native American perspective that the entire earth is alive and that mankind is dependent on nature. “Colors of the Wind” is probably the most famous out of all the songs in Pocahontas. Is that cultural assimilation undertones that I’m sensing? There is something sketchy about these stories where they always show that love is the right way and sticking to their cultural traditions is the wrong way. Like many stories about minority cultures, Pocahontas comes to a decision between what she loves and her culture. Willow’s relationship advice maintains a lot of doubt from me. Maybe the Disney team feared that since they made Kocoum so handsome, that if they gave him any sort of personality, he’d be more likable than John and ruin the direction they wanted to take. It begs to question if he really was interested in Pocahontas since he barely even spoke to her. He says very little throughout the whole film. I mean, look at him! Disney fans were fanning themselves when they saw his character for the first time. If the colonialists saw that walking around, they would’ve jumped back into their ship, sail away, and never return.Ī lot of fans ask why Pocahontas was not attracted to Kocoum. Grandmother Willow leaving the tree and walking the earth like something out of an Eldritch Horror story is what the movie really needed. I’m sorry, my eyes just rolled so hard that they left my face. She makes the dumb joke, “My bark is worse than my bite,” to John Smith. Grandmother sass is always on Disney’s character trait menu. Grandmother Willow is wise, but she is also sassy. ![]() We even saw Pocahontas recently in the new Wreck-it-Ralph trailer along with all the other princesses! So let’s revive this Disney classic some more with these comics! 19 Even though the lesson is important, it can easily be passed over since the theme is explored in tons of other media. The moral is that despite people looking and thinking different, they are still people who deserve respect. It's topics like that which makes Pocahontas a good film to examine though.ĭespite its shortcomings, it arguably had one of the most important Disney lessons that the real world still struggles with: having peace and love between different societies. It’s a very black and white view of a culture and takes upon itself a racist view almost mirroring the concept of benevolent sexism. ![]() It’s the literary concept that idealizes the idea of “uncivilized man,” seeing them as symbols of innate goodness due to not being exposed to the corrupting influences of civilization. ![]() For example, the Pocahontas story is the mother of the “ noble savage” issue in media. Before all others who are discussed like Moana and Princess Tiana, Pocahontas was actually the first woman of color as a lead in a Disney flick.ĭealing with telling a story where Native Americans are the main focus, Disney bit more than it could chew at the time when it came to the discourse of Native Americans roles in stories. Released in 1995, Disney’s animated Pocahontas has been fading in terms of recognition. ![]()
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