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History vs. Hollywood. Pocahontas. What the movie tells us. Pocahontas is a young beautiful woman who is the princess in her father’s Powhatan tribe along the coast of New England She is asked to marry another member of the tribe, Kocoum, although she does not want to
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What the movie tells us • Pocahontas is a young beautiful woman who is the princess in her father’s Powhatan tribe along the coast of New England • She is asked to marry another member of the tribe, Kocoum, although she does not want to • She finds John Smith, a young handsome English captain and they fall in love despite their differences
Kocoum stumbles upon the two kissing, becomes enraged, and attacks Smith. He is then killed by Smith’s friend, Thomas. • Because of this Smith is sentenced to die • Pocahontas saves his life but he is then shot by the governor Ratcliffe and is sent back to England
What really happened • When Pocahontas and John Smith met she was 11 and he was 28 • John Smith wrote about her in his journal saying she was a “naked child who pestered everyone.” • Pocahontas did actually save John Smith’s life, but the reason behind this action is widely disputed.
Kocoum never died, but Pocahontas was engaged to him. • She eventually met John Rolfe who would become her husband. • John Smith was never shot by Governor Ratcliffe because in the early years of the colony there was no governor.
What the movie tells us • Anastasia (8) was the youngest daughter of the Royal Romanov family • She and her family are forced to leave the palace because a sorcerer named Rasputin places a curse on the royal family and starts a revolution in Russia. • Only Anastasia and Marie, her grandmother, are able to escape with their lives thanks to the help of a boy named Dimitri. • While escaping Anastasia is separated from her grandmother because she falls, therefore losing her memory.
Next, we are told that Anastasia, now called Anya, is living in an orphanage at about the age of 18. She leaves due to her age and goes to St. Petersburg. • She encounters Dimitri and Vladimir, who are impressed by her resemblance to the Grand Duchess and recruit her as the “fake” Anastasia. • They go to Paris to present her to her grandmother to collect a reward for finding the missing heir. • Rasputin, now a corpse, finds out that she is alive and he restores his powers and sets out to kill her.
They arrive in Paris only to find out that Marie has called off the search for the lost duchess. • When Anya recalls Dimitri opening the secret passageway, that helped them escape, he realizes that he and Vladimir have found the missing Grand Duchess • Unfortunately, Marie refuses to see the “fake” Anastasia until Dimitri convinces her to see Anya. • They meet and realize that she is indeed the real Anastasia and she will now be placed back onto the throne • With one final attempt Rasputin tries to kill Anastasia but Dimitri saves her and they elope.
What really happened • Anastasia was the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II of Russia. • Her father was losing loyalty and favor with the people of Russia and was forced to abdicate the thrown. • Rasputin was a monk who was a close advisor to the czar and had close relationships with the whole family. He was a close friend until his murder in 1916. • At the rise of the Russian revolution in 1905 the royal family was forced to go into exile and remain there secretly to avoid execution. • In 1917 when Anastasia was 17 she and her family were brutally murdered by the new secret police in Russia.
sources • http://pocahontas.morenus.org/ • http://pharaoh30.tripod.com/
