Pocahontas is my Favorite Disney Movie. Hands Down.

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OK, so I'm biased. Also I am not a Powhatan so I'm not entitled to any sort well-placed anti-Disney rage at their impossibly racist/inaccurate history with their animation.

But here's the proof to substantiate my claim:

• This is the only Disney animated movie inspired by fact.
• The film's premiere was a huge event in Central Park. With over 100,000 people attending, it holds the record for the largest movie premiere.
• The Europeans using matchlock muskets was a nice touch. This is exactly what mariners would be using at the time, as the wheellock was too delicate and expensive and the snaphaunce (forerunner of the flintlock) was still too new and unreliable for general use (especially at sea).
• Animators working on the film regarded "Pocahontas" as being one of the hardest films ever produced by the studio. The complex color schemes, angular shapes and facial expressions meant that the film was in production for 5 years. The hard work paid off, however. Pocahontas herself is now frequently cited as being one of the most beautifully and realistically animated characters in the Disney canon, her fluid movements mainly being attributed to rotoscoping.
• Lastly... and most importantly....Kocoum was crazy hot.

I always cry like a baby when Thomas nails him in the chest. Just, one of the many sad, sad, side-effects of colonialism.