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  • The tale of native American Pocahontas's love for an English captain in 17th-century Virginia and her journey to England, it made much of innocence versus colonial exploitation, contrasting the lush, wild vegetation of America with the manicured gardens of England.

    Terrence Malick: The return of cinema's invisible man | Profile 2011

  • The tale of native American Pocahontas's love for an English captain in 17th-century Virginia and her journey to England, it made much of innocence versus colonial exploitation, contrasting the lush, wild vegetation of America with the manicured gardens of England.

    Terrence Malick: The return of cinema's invisible man | Profile 2011

  • My take is that, given that Tiana owns the restaurant, I don't think that Pocahontas's or Mulan's presence in Tiana's restaurant would be as much of an issue wrt racial politics of the time, which Disney is notably and understandably eliding, as the fact that Tiana has white princesses working for her.

    yuletide 2009: the reveal post hradzka 2010

  • The film's P.C. prospects are also helped by the exclusion of Pocahontas's potentially, err, problematic later years, in which she was kidnapped by settlers and, after converting to Christianity, married one of her captors.

    No Red Faces, They Hope 2008

  • The effect is powerful because it changes many emphases, and the lengthening makes the story encompass much more than it previously did -- the 135-minute cut basically tells the story of John Smith and Pocahontas's doomed romance; the 172-minute cut tells the story of characters encountering new worlds.

    The New New World 2008

  • The effect is powerful because it changes many emphases, and the lengthening makes the story encompass much more than it previously did -- the 135-minute cut basically tells the story of John Smith and Pocahontas's doomed romance; the 172-minute cut tells the story of characters encountering new worlds.

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

  • Pocahontas's bounty could have saved the settlement from the consequences of misconduct and misrule.

    Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

  • He besought the queen's kindly consideration for the stranger just landed upon her shores, as due to Pocahontas's "great spirit, her desert, birth, want, and simplicity."

    Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

  • Now that she had her child safe again, Pocahontas's kind heart began to speak:

    The Princess Pocahontas Virginia Watson 1904

  • Powhatan manifested no sign of interest in these words; but from the eager look on Pocahontas's face Smith was aware that his Indian speech had at least been comprehended.

    The Princess Pocahontas Virginia Watson 1904

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