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Compare And Contrast Pocahontas Vs The New World

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POCAHONTAS VS. THE NEW WORLD

The Jamestown settlement was the first settlement in the new world. Pocahontas and John Smith were two important people in the making of Jamestown. And to show their role in history, two movies have been made. The first movie “Walt Disney’s Pocahontas” and the second movie is “The New World”. Both showed the journey of the colonists and the epic love story of Pocahontas and John Smith. But the New World did just a little better of a job at being more historically accurate.

To begin with, the plots were very different in both of the movies but “The New World” is more accurate. In “Pocahontas” it showed her falling in love with John Smith and then saving him from dying. In the end however, he returned back to England due to his injuries. On the other hand, in the movie “The New World” it showed John Smith and Pocahontas falling in love and they faced many difficulties but in the end he was injured… causing him to go back home to England. …show more content…

In the first scene in “The New World”, it shows John Smith arriving as a prisoner which according to the history channel did happen due to him rebelling and his attempt of mutiny. But in “Pocahontas” he arrived as a captain. Both of the movies showed the building of the famous Jamestown Fort but in Pocahontas, the building happened more in a cartoony and musical way. Whereas in “The New World”, it showed how they struggled and how many people died from disease and lack of food. Another thing that was very different was how the hero and his lover met. In history, they met when John Smith came to the chief of Powhatan (Pocahontas father) to trade marbles with food which was shown exactly in “The New World”. But in “Pocahontas” they met at the waterfall which is not historically accurate. So all the points together prove that the movie “The New World” is more

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