Pocahontas

Assignment 2 - Movie Review

 Introduction & Storyline
• This is the Disney animated tale of the romance between a young American Indian woman
named Pocahontas and Capt. John Smith, who journeyed to the New World with other settlers
to begin fresh lives. Her strong father, Chief Powhatan, disagrees of their relationship and
wants her to marry a native warrior. Meanwhile, Smith's fellow Englishmen hope to rob the
Native Americans of their gold. Capt. John Smith leads a rag-tag band of English sailors &
soldiers to the New World to plunder its riches for England (for Governor Ratcliffe).
Meanwhile, in this "New World," Chief Powhatan has pledged his daughter, Pocahontas, to
marry the village's greatest warrior. Pocahontas, on the other hand, has some other ideas.
She has seen a vision of a spinning arrow, a vision she believes tells her change is coming.
Her life does indeed turn around when the English ship lands near her village. Between
Ratcliffe, who believes the "savages" are hiding the gold he expected to be plentiful, and
Powhatan, who believes these pale newcomers will destroy their land, Smith and Pocahontas
have a difficult time preventing all-out war, and saving their love for each other.
 Characters
Pocahontas Grandmother Willow Kekata Meeko

Governor RatCliffe
Kocoum Nakoma

Nakoma
Captain John Smith