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Merlock3497 wrote:

Here's my list: Pocahontas Moana will need to see film Atlantis Tarzan Jungle Book Hunchback of Notre Dame Haunted Mansion, hey Leota was in it why not add more Lion King Black Cauldron I heard it was good never really seen but I should Swan Princess somewhat familiar but need to read Sherlock Holmes Dracula Pirates of Caribbean Pochahontas would probably be super super inapropriate to do. She's not a fairy tale character she's a historic figure who was a 12 y/o girl that was kidnapped by the British colonialists, torn away from her family and sold into slavery in Europe. When the Disney Movie came out it actually caused alot alot of scandal for Disney because of certain racist characterizations, sexualizing the girl and giving her a romance with John Smith (one of her kidnappers). The movie was really just based off one specific event from the story where the young girl stopped her father from executing John Smith by flinging her body in-front of him.

The controversy was so bad that it's the reason Emperor's New Groove (or Kingdom of the Sun as it was originally called) got changed from being a movie in the same vain as Pochahontas but in Ancient Peru, to being a straight-forward comedy.