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Pocahontas
Nov. 2nd, 2020 09:51 am“They went so hard in this movie,” Julie commented, after we surfaced for air from a rewatch of Disney’s Pocahontas. “The color scheme, the storyboarding, the animation layouts, the music, the lyrics… If only they had gone a quarter as hard on the cultural sensitivity.”
This is, I think, a pretty good summation of the movie. It’s visually arresting and musically glorious (the two qualities come together in the iconic “Paint with All the Colors of the Wind” sequence, which brings together everything Disney learned about animating nature in Fantasia, Bambi, and The Fox and the Hound in a glorious feast), but man, maybe Pocahantas was just not the best choice for their first Native American princess story, maybe focusing that movie on a first-contact-with-white-people story was, in itself, an idea they should have backed away from.
On a more “oh, fandom” note, I looked at the Pocahontas page on Wikipedia (I wanted to see if anyone had written Meeko/Percy fic DON’T JUDGE ME) and I found out that the fandom’s second-most-popular pairing is Kocuom/Thomas. Because of course it is. Nothing says “Ship this!” like a spot of murder!
This is, I think, a pretty good summation of the movie. It’s visually arresting and musically glorious (the two qualities come together in the iconic “Paint with All the Colors of the Wind” sequence, which brings together everything Disney learned about animating nature in Fantasia, Bambi, and The Fox and the Hound in a glorious feast), but man, maybe Pocahantas was just not the best choice for their first Native American princess story, maybe focusing that movie on a first-contact-with-white-people story was, in itself, an idea they should have backed away from.
On a more “oh, fandom” note, I looked at the Pocahontas page on Wikipedia (I wanted to see if anyone had written Meeko/Percy fic DON’T JUDGE ME) and I found out that the fandom’s second-most-popular pairing is Kocuom/Thomas. Because of course it is. Nothing says “Ship this!” like a spot of murder!
