Comparing And Contrasting The Disney Pocahontas Film

In my essay, I will be comparing and contrasting the Disney Pocahontas movie to the Pocahontas documentary. The topics that I will cover will be the setting, characters, and events. Both movies explain about the story of Pocahontas’s life, although there are some differences between the two movies.
I will discuss how the characters are different in the two movies. In the Pocahontas documentary, the characters are realistic Powhatan, John Smith, and of course Pocahontas. Another real character that is not mentioned in the documentary is Kocoum. In the Disney movie of Pocahontas, the characters are animated John Smith, Pocahontas, Governor Ratcliffe, and Powhatan. Also in the Disney movie, Pocahontas has a friend named Nakoma. A few standby characters are Thomas, John’s friend, Wiggins, Kekata, Ben, and Lon. Some examples that prove the Disney Pocahontas is make-believe are Pocahontas’s animal friend’s, Meeko and Flit, & Pocahontas grandmother that shows up as a willow tree. However, both movies do have Pocahontas, John Smith, and Powhatan as main characters.

In the documentary, the setting takes place in historical sites such as; the old Jamestown, Powhatan's tribe’s location, and Virginia. Also, most of the setting takes place in the Virginia forest where Powhatan’s house was located and many other sites. In the Disney Pocahontas, the setting takes place in the real Jamestown and where Pocahontas was during her entire time in the movie. Some of the places where Pocahontas was are; the waterfall where Smith and her meet, the tribe’s cornfield, the place where the willow tree is located, and the tribe’s location. Unlike the documentary, the Disney movie gives an idea of what Jamestown and Powhatan's tribe looked like before it faded away. However, some of the similarities in the setting would be Jamestown and