"Pocahontas" is Disney's first attempt to find the subject matter of an animated feature film from a real historical event, and received mixed reviews. Compared with the problem of the film itself, the singing and dancing scenes continue to win the favor of the audience. Especially when the finishing touch theme song "The Color of Wind" appeared, the colorful pictures, creative painting style, and beautiful and magnificent tone were matched with Disney's unique singing voice with a strong Broadway musical atmosphere. The film The soundtrack made an audio-visual monument.
Disney chose the Indian princess originally for innovation, but when it touched sensitive colonial history and racial issues, criticism was inevitable. Some viewers believe that Pocahontas has the face of an Asian princess but a white figure. She is just an exotic and idealized beauty based on the aesthetics of white men. Others think that "Pocahontas" has obscured the cruel colonial history of the Indians.
"Pocahontas" is Disney's first princess film based on real characters. Based on the North American customs in the colonial era, the director used animation to show the historical features, geographical landscape, and majesty of nature from different angles, so that the aboriginal culture was truly presented in front of the audience.
