A Native American Indian woman falls in love with an English colonist, and overcoming differences, she helps to end the dispute between the two peoples over the territory of the tribe: this is the plot presented in ‘Pocahontas’, animated film by disney released in 1995, which is inspired by the true story of ammonute (also known as Matoaka), a young woman born in 1596 who was the daughter of the Powhatan leader.
Although it presents many points faithful to the trajectory of ammonute, as it is a production that adapts a real event to the big screen, there are some differences that can be found between what really happened and the plot of the animation. Therefore, we have listed below 5 differences between the real story and the Pocahontas movie. Check out!
1. How Pocahontas and John Smith met
The feature film Eric Goldberg It is Mike Gabriel shows that Pocahontas and John Smith meet when the settlers reach the shore, finding themselves next to a waterfall. In contrast, the story of ammonute reveals that she is Smith they met months after the arrival of the settlers, when the girl ends up saving his life, since Smith he had been captured and taken to the village, where he would be killed by the girl’s father.
2. The ages
In the Disney film, Pocahontas was 18 and John Smith 20 years old. Outside of fiction, the girl was around 10 to 12 years old, while Smith was around 27 years old when they met. Furthermore, she has not had any romantic relationship between the two in real life.
3. The relationship with Jamestown
Contrary to what is presented in the animation, Pocahontas was not an unwanted visitor in Jamestown. In fact, as verified by Screenrant, the girl went to the place quite frequently, taking food to the settlers, in addition to being an important figure for diplomacy and peace between the two peoples.
4. Relationship with Kocoum
Out of animation, ammonute actually married Kocoum. Still, little is known about the man and the relationship lived between the two, although, according to information released by Time, she lived next to him before meeting John RolfeBriton with whom she officiated her marriage in 1614, being the first marriage between a Native American and a European ever recorded.
5. Living with John Smith
despite of John Smith appearing as a gentle figure in animation, in real life, courtesy was left aside at times. According to Screenrant, when hunger hit, the settlers did not measure violence, and distributed looting and burning of villages, increasing the hostile climate between the settlers and the Powhatan people.
Source: Recreio
