Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/Disney/reply (2)

Spotting this again reminded me of a point of contention I had with this rant, as amusing as it is in most places. She basically rants about how the movie whitewashes history and simplifies things down, accusing it of reducing the skirmishes and wars during colonisation as just being about gold. But when it comes to the 'Savages' song, and the line "they're not like you and me, so they must be evil" or whatever it is, she says it's silly. By the standards of the film, that's the most profound statement they could possibly make! What other excuse do people tend to have, on a fundamental level, for mistreating others if not "they're not like you and me, so they must be evil". This explains everything, yet is given absolutely no credit. Not that I'm defending it, as I think Pocahontas is by far the worst Disney film on multiple levels from story to acting to music to the piss-poor animation.