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Pocahontas was The Walt Disney Company's 33rd animated feature film. The film was first released on June 16, 1995. Image File history File links Official DVD art for Pocahontas: 10th Anniversary Edition, deemed This work is copyrighted. ...
Image File history File links Official DVD art for Pocahontas: 10th Anniversary Edition, deemed This work is copyrighted. ...
The Walt Disney Company (most commonly known as Disney) NYSE: DIS is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. ...
Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result. ...
June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining. ...
1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
It is based loosely on the encounter between the colonists of Jamestown, Virginia with the native Powhatan tribe, and in particular presents a highly romanticized account of the meeting between Pocahontas and John Smith. It is a musical; the songs have music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. Jamestown was a village by the James River in Virginia, about 45 miles (70 kilometers) southeast of where Richmond, Virginia, is now. ...
The Powhatan (also spelled Powatan and Powhaten) were a very powerful confederacy of Native American tribes, speaking an Algonquian language, who lived in what is now Virginia at the time of the first English-Native encounters. ...
A 1616 engraving of Pocahontas by Simon van de Passe, the only portrait of Pocahontas made within her lifetime. ...
Captain John Smith John Smith (1580-1631) was an English soldier and sailor, now chiefly remembered for his role in establishing the first permanent English settlement in North America, and his brief association with the Native American princess Pocahontas. ...
The musical film is a film genre that features songs, sung by the actors, interwoven into the narrative. ...
Alan Menken Alanis Menken (born July 22, 1949) is an American Broadway and film music composer. ...
Stephen Schwartz Stephen Schwartz (born March 6, 1948) is an American musical theater lyricist and composer. ...
The film starred the voice acting of Mel Gibson as John Smith, Irene Bedard and Judy Kuhn as Pocahontas (speaking voice and singing voice, respectively), and David Ogden Stiers as John Ratcliffe as well as his footman Wiggins. Before his death, comedian John Candy had recorded a large amount of material for a turkey character, named Redfeather, who was to be Pocahontas's sidekick. Percy, too, was supposed to talk as well. Executives perceived the character to lighten the tone of the film excessively, and the turkey was replaced with the characters Meeko the raccoon and Flit the hummingbird. Mel Gibson. ...
Irene Bedard (22 July 1967) is an actress best known for her portrayal of Native American characters in a variety of films. ...
Judy Kuhn is an American actress and singer. ...
David Ogden Stiers in his most famous role, as Charles Emerson Winchester III David Ogden Stiers (b. ...
John Ratcliffe (died September 1609) was captain of the Discovery, one of three boats that sailed from England on December 19, 1606 to Virginia, to found a colony, arriving May 14, 1607. ...
John Candy in the motion picture Brewsters Millions John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian comedian and actor. ...
Many at Disney had high hopes for the movie while it was in production. Then-studio head Jeffrey Katzenberg regarded Pocahontas as a more prestigious project than The Lion King, and even believed that it had a chance of earning an Academy Award nomination for "Best Picture", as Beauty and the Beast had. Jeffrey Katzenberg (born December 21, 1950 in New York City) is a film producer and co-founder of DreamWorks SKG. He is most famous for producing the movie Shrek (2001). ...
The Lion King is the 32nd film in the Disney animated feature canon, and the highest-grossing traditionally animated feature film ever released in the United States. ...
Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...
Beauty and the Beast is the thirtieth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. ...
Criticisms
Upon release, however, Pocahontas was criticized by many for presenting stereotypical images of Native Americans, and by others for presenting a ludicrously distorted version of the historical events on which it was based. Some felt, for example, that Pocahontas looked more like the model Naomi Campbell than a Native American. Also, many Native Americans disliked the film because the warrior Kocoum was given a hateful frown and over-excessive warrior attitude, not to mention ill treatment of his future wife, Pocahontas. Given the quality and popularity of the films which preceded it – The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and especially The Lion King – it is perhaps inevitable that Pocahontas would be found wanting, both critically and commercially. With hindsight, the film can be seen as marking the end of the late-80s-to-mid-90s "renaissance" of Disney animation. Native Americans is a term which has several different common meanings and scope, according to regional use and context. ...
Naomi Campbell on the cover of Vogue magazine. ...
The Little Mermaid is a Disney animated feature adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Little Mermaid. ...
Beauty and the Beast is the thirtieth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. ...
Aladdin is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation that was released on November 25, 1992 by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution. ...
The Lion King is the 32nd film in the Disney animated feature canon, and the highest-grossing traditionally animated feature film ever released in the United States. ...
It was followed by a direct-to-video sequel, Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World in 1998. A sequel is a work of fiction in literature, film, and other creative works that is produced after a completed work, and is set in the same universe but at a later time. ...
1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
Real historical figures who appear in the film A 1616 engraving of Pocahontas by Simon van de Passe, the only portrait of Pocahontas made within her lifetime. ...
Chief Powhatan, whose proper name was Wahunsunacock, was the leader of the Powhatan (also spelled Powatan and Powhaten), a very powerful tribe of Native Americans, speaking an Algonquian language, who lived in Tenakomakah, what is now Virginia at the time of the first English-Native encounters. ...
Captain John Smith John Smith (1580-1631) was an English soldier and sailor, now chiefly remembered for his role in establishing the first permanent English settlement in North America, and his brief association with the Native American princess Pocahontas. ...
John Ratcliffe (died September 1609) was captain of the Discovery, one of three boats that sailed from England on December 19, 1606 to Virginia, to found a colony, arriving May 14, 1607. ...
James VI of Scots and James I of England and Ireland (Charles James) (19 June 1566–27 March 1625) ruled England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. ...
Fictional figures from the film -
 Kocoum Kocoum (voiced by James Apaumut Fall) is Pocahontas' potential husband and one of her father's bravest warriors. This noble warrior's suit is supported by her father, who sees him as a fine heir to chiefhood, but does not see his seriousness nor does not know (much less care) that Pocahontas really hates him. In the deleted song, "Dancing to the Wedding Drum", he promises to protect her from any danger and love her for who she was (also, he smiled at her, placed his hands on her shoulders, and finished building their house); in the final version of the film, however, he never tells her this in person and it is left to Powhatan to say them for him. He very rarely smiles (which offended many Native American people; see above), never actually talks to Pocahontas, and he is too serious-minded for the playful Pocahontas (although he shows subtle concern for her throughout the movie). During his confrontation with John Smith in a later part of the film, Kocoum pushes Pocahontas out of his way, making her fall to the ground with little to no injuries to her body. He is accidentally killed by Thomas, which enrages Powhatan. There is some evidence that the historical Pocohontas was betrothed to someone called Kocoum before her baptism. - Nakoma (voiced by Michelle St. John) is Pocahontas' best friend. Upon overhearing Chief Powhatan's warning about the Jamestown settlers she does not want Pocahontas to get hurt or killed. She is one of the few Native American women who does not have long, flowing hair in the film. She instead has her hair tied into a makeshift bun, with the rest of her hair coming out from it. She has bangs, too, that hide most of her forehead. There is no historical basis for this character.
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Image File history File links Nakoma2. ...
Bangs is the plural form of the noun bang, as well as a conjugation of the verb bang. If either of these is what you were looking for, see bang. ...
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The Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB) is an online database of information about animated cartoons, animated movies, animated television shows and cartoon shorts. ...
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