Sunday, April 03, 2005

bored so here goes...

POCAHONTAS 1995

aaaahhh Disney's Pocahontas,a beautiful tale of a native american woman who saved the handsome colonialist John Smith from a pasting hands of her tribe.Roy Disney proudly boasted "Responsible,accurate and respectful" but the Powhatan Nation feels otherwise."The film distorts history beyond recognition",claimed Chief Roy Crazy Horse."Our offers to assists Disney with cultural and historical accuracy were rejected.Pocahontas(actually called Matoaka) was only 10 years old when the alleged attack took place,far from falling in love she was actually kidnapped by the Brits and married off to John Rolfe,a widower twice her age.In 1614,she was moved to England and paraded around the high society before her death of smallpox in March 1617.Smith then concocted the story of the assault, before returning to America with Rolfeto disperse the Powhatan and seize their land.The premiere also drew picketsfrom fist-shaking femeniststo Matoaka's transformation from abused young girl into a buxom wench."This is a completely distorted view of American history in which the molestation and abuse of a young girl is called "romantic",stormed the angry ladies.Nevertheless, it was the film-makers who enjoyed the last laugh with a whopping 29.5 million on its first weekend of general release.And Pocahontas is not a man,I made that up!LOL...heheeee

2 comments:

michelle said...

just browsing through and stumbled on your blog..so you like movies huh? me too!!

sharkpitt said...

yup!i do enjoy movies.thank you for you comment