Disney's Influence On American Culture

Disney is known for creating many movies representing many other cultures that many adults and children enjoy watching, but when Disney makes movies about other cultures are they fully representing them in a way that does the culture justice. Well in Disney’s latest project, “Coco”, which is about the Mexican Tradition, Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead), I do not think that DIsney will represent the holiday and the culture in a way that is fun to watch but also informative on the culture and the meaning behind the holiday in a way that does it justice. My reasoning behind this statement is that Disney has made movies like Moana and Pocahontas. Let’s start with some background on the movie, “Coco” is about a boy named Miguel who is desperate to become a musician despite his family’s music ban, and along the way finds himself in the beautiful Land of the Dead where he finds a friend named Hector, and Hector and Miguel go through the Land of the Dead uncovering Miguel’s family’s history. In 2012, when Disney Pixar announced the making of the movie they tried to trademark the phrase, Dia De Los Muertos, for

Now Disney’s version of Pocahontas is that the English come to Virginia and are captured by the Indians and Pocahontas and Captain John Smith fall in love and their love story is what could save the Indians from getting robbed by the English. This is another example of Disney misrepresenting the Indian Culture and messing up the story. The real story of Pocahontas is the English came to Virginia and were captured by the Indians and the story, not believed by all historians, is that Captain John Smith and Pocahontas became really good friends and that she saved him and many other Englishmen from starving to death. The way that Disney made the movie and made the movie isn’t 100% accurate in the way the story is supposed to be told. Disney told some of the story but not all of