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The story was changed because the filmmakers deemed the true tale too violent and complicated. She was also later forced to travel to Europe as an ambassador/attraction, and died of pneumonia on the voyage back to her homeland. She actually married John Rolfe, not John Smith some historians maintain that marriage was forced upon her after a kidnapping.
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The real Pocahontas was 12 to 13 years old during the period the Disney movie covers, yet she's depicted as 18 to 19, according to supervising animator Glen Keane. Related: Disney's Splash Mountain Ride To Be Remade With Princess & the Frog Theme
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So, already we're starting on fragile ground. history and the colonization of the New World that led to the utter devastation of the Native American population.
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The story is set against the backdrop of early U.S. Pocahontas was Disney's first animated film based on history, and it's in the extremely loose adaptation where it becomes so seriously problematic. Instead, Pocahontas only narrowly defeated Batman Forever (then in its second week) at the box office, and won only two Oscars, for Best Musical or Comedy Score and Best Original Song, for "Colors of the Wind." Animators even turned down work on other Disney projects like The Lion King, thinking Pocahontas would be more prestigious than other movies in production. Studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg predicted that, not only would Pocahontas be a commercial hit, it would earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, like Beauty and the Beast just a few years before it. Before the 1995 release of Pocahontas, Disney executives had high hopes for the film.