Pocahontas
United States
1995
81 Min
Color
1.66:1
English
Synopsis
Capt. John Smith leads a rag-tag band of English sailors & soldiers to the New World to plunder its riches for England (or, more precisely, for Governor Ratcliffe, who comes along for the ride). Meanwhile, in this “New World,” Chief Powhatan has pledged his daughter, Pocahontas, to be married to the village’s greatest warrior. Pocahontas, however, has other ideas. She has seen a vision of a spinning arrow, a vision she believes tells her change is coming. Her life does indeed change 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. —IMDb
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Mike Gabriel
Mike Gabriel is an American animator and film director, best known for his work at Walt Disney Animation Studios and as co-director of the Disney films The Rescuers Down Under (1990) and Pocahontas (1995). He was born in Long Beach, CA although he grew up in various small towns like Salina, Kansas while moving around due to his father’s Air Force job.
Gabriel was very inspired with animation after watching Sleeping beauty(1959) at the age of five. Soon after, he started drawing and practicing it for six hours every day to meet his goal as an Animation Director. It was in 1979 when he got his first chance to make his debut. Gabriel studied in the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts. He began his career as a Disney animator on the 1982 animated short Fun with Mr. Future. He was mentored under Eric Larson’s training program, and went on to work on the 1985 feature The Black Cauldron. He also served as an animator on The Great Mouse Detective (1986… read more
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Ciprian David
19Jan13
Makes Terrence Malick seem like a copycat. Loved it, how it really took time to explain some concepts, so that my daughter really understood what it was about. Once again I got this feeling, a lot of cinema at its peaks often does nothing more than basic Disney.
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Disney being average
By Conner Rainwater on June 3, 2010
Just an average animated Disney movie. It has the normal blend of singing/romance/comedy. There was some interesting voice casting, but aside from that it was nothing special. The historical inaccuracies… read review
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