Lion King and Pocahontas. The only two Disney movies that can still make this 21 year old college student tear up with joy as if i am 5 years old again
Yea those two are my top two of my top 5 favorite Disney movies. Pocahontas was probably my first animated crush as a boy... what can I say, she's gorgeous. That and the love of John and Pocahontas was beautiful.
So proud to be an indigenous Native American!! Whether you are Alaskan Native, Canadian Native, American "indian", Aztec, Mayan.. we are all Native of the America's. Don't EVER forget that.
Your a Mestizo mix of Spaniard and Native, you're not a real native unless you're one of the 5 million natives living in the US, you know the PURE NATIVES
What's pretty cool is, Disney does focus a lot on the voice actors for inspiration of what the character will look like! I'm not sure if this stands true anymore, but it was common!
rkgk1517 I know this is really old but I got really shaky and had to yell SHE WAS!! haha, She was the model and the speaking voice for Pocahontas. She is perfect.
That sad moment when you find out Irene Bedard was physically abused by her husband for almost 20 years and she escaped, but couldn't bring her son with her. I feel terrible hearing about this all the time. She always hid the trauma and abuse effects with a smile and a positive attitude.
This movie has such beautiful music... not trying to sound dramatic, but whenever I hear the Farewell score, my heart leaps and I feel like I'm going somewhere.
Chloe Walker that's why it was worth an Academy Award. After Pocahontas, Alan Menken is now getting nominations for his music score but he is still the best. A legend. Always love his music.
This film is a MASTERPIECE. One of my ALL time favorites. Just beautifully beautifully done. Music is incredible. The romance. The animation is breathtaking. I don’t care what nobody say this is a classic!!
This movie is so aesthetically breathtaking with gluttonous amounts of beautiful music to match. This is my first favorite Disney movie, tied with the Little Mermaid.
I love Pocahontas and the story everything about the movie, but the second film really ruined everything for me. They should have just left it at the first movie.
Maddi Hampton well then you should know the real story. Pocahontas was kidnapped and used as ransom to get more land from her people. Then raped and brainwashed. In England she married her captor John Rolfe and got her son Pepsi before her death. Disney left out the genocide, of not just a tribe or federation, but a whole continent. The US was founded on the biggest genocide in world history and slavery.
Maddi Hampton i so agree with you! like, all that happend in the first movie -the romance, the sacrifices went all to nothing because in the end it wasn't John Smith that she ended up with anyway. nonetheless, it's based on a true story so people with sentiments like ours cant really do anything to change that fact cause disney just did what theyre supposed to. 😢
Agreed, I think his role as John Smith is probably his second best role in animation, after all nothing could trump his role as Rocky the Rooster in Aardman's "Chicken Run".
Irene Bedard as Pocahontas speaking voice looks like her own main character of the story and Russell Means used to had the perfect role as Powhatan since he was a Native American Indian and his voiced will always be remembered. =)
Oh my gosh I live in Alaska and my friends aunt is actually friends with Irene Bedard she actually got to meet her. She said that she had beautiful hair and her voice was beautiful :)
I fell in love with this film in 95 when I was 4 years old, & had a great love for native Americans. I was obsessed & my mum had me a dress made exactly like Pocahontas. ❤ I think I still have it placed on a memory box.
i am 34, i still remember Pocahontas from the cinema my dad took me to watch and it is still my favorite disney movie❤️ i still remember all the songs (in slovak, slovak dubbing)
Pocahontas was my 12th-great grandmother, through her son, Thomas Rolfe. In addition to me, she has many, many descendants including U.S. First Ladies Edith Wilson and Nancy Reagan, Admiral Byrd, and astronomer Percival Lowell.
Omg I can't I love this movie!! I don't know why people get so mad that its inaccurate, I mean all Disney movies are fairy tales, and this is just loosely based on the true story. Just enjoy the beautiful story and movie!
Oh god! I always loved Pocahontas, I think that she was my favorite Princess as a little girl.. I mean, heck i even went dressed up as her to school when I was in preschool! My dad would tell me to wear a jacket since it was cold, but I had said no and walked merrily to school as Pocahontas :)
Pocahontas and the Lion King were made at the same time. On Pocahontas worked A-team because everyone thought it would be more successful than the Lion King
My favorite tale of my childhood! I received it as a gift for Christmas at a VHS cassette bought at the market, where both English, Polish (I'm from Poland) and Russian, because it was copied totally illegally. And you had to really listen to hear the voice of the Polish lector! But since then, I've spent hundreds of hours playing with my sister in the fields that we are Native Americans!
Kudos to the provider for the titular character's spoken voice for not only hosting this particular event, but also for reprising her role for the Disney Princess crossover in Ralph Breaks the Internet! In fact, since Pocahontas was lucky enough to have been released right on my seventh birthday, that means that I was lucky enough to have actually been BORN right around the time Who Framed Roger Rabbit? was released!
When I first saw this behind-the-scenes featurette when the film was released, I thought Irene Bedard was incredibly beautiful. It’s no wonder she was one of People Magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People.
"Although we have taken some liberties on it." Taken some liberties on the story? Basically, they wrote a completely new story, using a few historical names.
It is such a touching film with incredible animation, voice acting and music that makes your heart soar every single time. Watching it was the "bread and butter" of my childhood. However, it does need to be said that I wish they had either structured the story to fit with the known historical records, or thought up a wholly fictional alternative. Of course a Disney film could never show the cold hard facts, in fact no film could.
But why not at least base the main story points in the correct order? Have Captain John Smith captured early on in the film. Pocahontas and Smith meet when she saves his life. What an icebreaker. And she did not just save him because she loved him. She would have saved him just for the sake of saving a human life. Which would add volumes to her character. From there on it is decreed by Powhatan that if Smith lives, Pocahontas and Smith must learn from each other. Build the rest of the Disney romance story from there. That would have been better.
I love this movie. I got the soundtrack on cassette and listened to it every day. I also used to crack up a little when people would go on rants concerning the geography in the film. 1- its a Disney movie so of course it's exaggerated and 2- being native to Virginia, the landscape they depict does, in fact, exist. There is a bluff overlooking the James near my house that could be the model for the one she stood on watching Smith leave. The only thing they went a little crazy with was John Smith somehow managing to go from Jamestown to the Blue Ridge in the course of one song lol
Totally not blaming you, just surprised is all, for all the crap we did to their people you'd think american schools would spend more time giving importance to Native americans especially one so already popular with children like Pocahontas.
I know your not blaming me but I find it sad that I wasn't taught that stuff in school you would think that they would make an attempt but they never did
I was able to go to JamesTown last summer with my dad and stepmom. Sadly, the day after we arrived it was pouring down rain, but we were able to see quite a bit the day we arrived. The only thing I wished I could've seen while we were there was the statue of Pocahontas and and John Smith. I did get on board the ship though, it was awesome! I do hope to go back there again at some point when the weather is nicer lol :) Though while we were there, it was hard for me to not think about Pocahontas :)
meraviglioso video, i miei complimenti! Dopo aver conosciuto questo splendido cartone Disney, ho sin da subito capito che era un capolavoro immenso, tra la storia, la colonna sonora, i personaggi. Tutto stupendo, trovare finalmente un video che racconta precisamente come è andato tutto il film d'Animazione è qualcosa di straordinario. Grazie!
Even me at first when I went to back to watch this after so long when I was little I was surprised to know that that’s Mel Gibson’s voice, I was little back then and it didn’t know anything it happen to every kid, or at least I think or maybe not
I am Jamaican 🇯🇲from my dad’s side and I am Cherokee Indian from both sides of my parents💞 My great grandmother Ora on my mom’s side was Cherokee Indian and my Grandpa on my dad’s side is Cherokee Indian💞
I may not look it but, Im part Blackfoot Native and honestly it's the part of me I love the most. Natives are so free spirited I love it, that's probably the reason for me. :)
I AM 31 YEARS OLD AND AM ONLY JUST REALIZING JOHN SMITH THE ENGLISHMAN IS VOCIED WITH AN AMERICAN ACCENT. It's crazy how films we saw so young kinda stay packed up in our brains and seen through the eyes of our kid self even when watching it many years beyond.
Linda Hunt as Grandmother Willow. First got to know who she was thanks to Kindergarten Cop as the school principal. Glen Keane? Those names mentioned over what characters he drew, can’t believe they left out Ariel! She’s just as significant as his follow-up drawings!
