There are many historical inaccuracies in this story of Pocahontas, however this is (obviously) a highly fictionalized account of her life.
Indians didn't plant corn in rows.
At the beginning of the storm the Union Flag is torn by the storm.
Later in the scene, the flag is restored.
Pocahontas follows a compass to the north, while the sun is rising.
Her shadow is to her right, when it should be to her left.
There are many cliffs visible near Jamestown.
The land in Virginia near Jamestown is flat.
Ratcliffe's maps show the island of Hispaniola (today divided between Haiti and the Dominican Republic) underneath Florida, where Cuba should be.
Although 17th century maps are known to be inaccurate, a mistake this obvious is unlikely given that the Caribbean area was well charted by then.
In some scenes the Union Flag of Great Britain and Ireland is displayed, although this flag was not created until 1801 (nearly 200 years after the movie is set).
In other scenes, St.
Patrick's cross is omitted.
John Smith's helmet disappears and reappears throughout the movie.
When the Native Americans are preparing for the battle, they are surrounding a big fire.
Before they move to start the battle, they are all walking towards the center of the circle.
As they do this everyone's shadow is right in front of them, as if the sun was behind all of them.
This isn't possible since at least half of their shadows would be behind them and not in front of them.
John tells Thomas to aim his musket with "both eyes open" which is actually a bad way to aim a gun as it's hard to line up your sights.
However, firearms did not have rifling along the barrel back then, and even if you did aim perfectly with a smoothbore gun the bullet could still spin off path and easily miss a target less than 20 feet away.
The fact that Thomas hit anything he was aiming at can be attributed only to luck.
At the beginning of the song "If I Never Knew You," both John Smith and Pocahontas are sitting on the ground.
After they sing together with the flashback, they are standing and about to kiss when Nakoma interrupts; then they are suddenly on the ground again.
When Governor Ratcliffe plants the British flag, he claims the New World "in the name of His Majesty King James I.
" The king wouldn't have been referred to as James I until they'd had King James II.
The film depicts Pocahontas as a woman in her twenties or perhaps late teens, thus making a romance with John Smith, who was in his late twenties at the time, more acceptable.
In reality, Pocahontas was a girl of around 12 or 13 when she met John Smith.
The Character, Grandmother Willow, is a Weeping Willow, a species and cultivar of willow that was not introduced to the New World for centuries to come.
I've been rewatching some of the animated disney classics, only the more modern ones, with the little mermaid being the earliest. this might be the worst of them.
Wonderfully animated film, even if they distort history. Too bad the anti-Semite Mel Gibson had to play John Smith.
Pocahontas was meant to be the film that Disney, particularly Jeffery Katzenberg, hoped would earn an animated film a Best Picture Oscar. But it ended up marking the decline of the Disney Renaissance.
First saw it in the cinema 25 yeras ago and I liked it very much.Then I bought it on vidoecassette for my collection.
This film has been said to be the snowflake that caused the avalanche of the Disney movies. LAME WORDS!
The second worst movie of princess Disney. Boring.
Just watched this film on a rainy stay-in Saturday afternoon and it fitted the bill nicely. A romanticised re-telling of the celebrated romance between English soldier John Smith and Indian princess Pocahontas, it entertains in the main even if it occasionally panders a little too much to the pre-teen market with just too many cute animals whose presence you think may, in true JarJar Binks style, have had more to do with spin-off merchandising than enhancing the narrative.
I never saw Pocahontas as a kid - as far I can remember. But after watching it for the first time I can say that I really liked it!
To all the haters who criticize this movie for being inaccurate. If you want the facts, watch the documentary or read history books.
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