Pocahontas (1995)
And now we look at one last film from the Disney Renaissance, Pocahontas. The Movie: Pocahontas is the 33rd movie in the Disney Animated Canon and the 6th movie of the Disney Renaissance. The film was in development at the same time as The Lion King and was seen by many at the studio to be the more prestigious product, with then studio head Jeffery Katenzberg envisioning a movie that could even do what Beauty and the Beast couldn't, win the Oscar for Best Picture. However the resulting movie was one that met with mixed reviews and much criticism from historians and many Native American groups. Although the film did fairly well at the box-office, Disney considered it a disappointment coming off the heels of The Lion King. Pocahontas is very loosely based on the historical figure, deriving more from the legend as later told by John Smith. In Disney's version, Pocahontas is a young woman (rather than the 10-12 year-old she was in real life at the time) who ...