Pocahontas - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Pocahontas or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Pocahontas

[brent]

Irene Bedard's favorite song in this movie is "Listen With Your Heart".

[beth]

The guns the Europeans use are matchlock muskets.

[nora]

Released the same year as Batman Forever. Christian Bale (Voice of Thomas) would eventually be cast as Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batman Begins released 10 years later.

[gabriel]

This movie reunited Mel Gibson and Linda Hunt, following their collaboration on The Year of Living Dangerously (1982). For the movie, Hunt received universal acclaim for her performance, and won many awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

[nicholas]

Irene Bedard had to come in for one additional recording session to re-record one sentence. Filmmakers felt that Pocahontas had said the word "path" too much, and so they had Irene re-record the sentence so that she said "way" instead.

[jessica]

The first animated Disney movie to have an interracial romance.

[cameron]

The opening song indicates the English are sailing to America "for Glory, God, and gold." This was actually the motivation of the Spanish conquistadors, who were at the time enemies of England.

[dustin]

Gordon Tootoosis (Kekata), Sir Billy Connolly (Ben), and Danny Mann (Percy) worked together on Open Season (2006).

[amber]

Jess Harnell provided additional of 20% of John Smith's singing voice, when Mel Gibson had some trouble with some of the lyrics during one of the songs in the film.

[fred]

The song "If I Never Knew You", heard over the ending credits, was cut after children in test audiences found it boring. Ironically, the adults in test audiences felt the song was too depressing. At the time, it was almost fully animated, with the exception of color. The unfinished sequence was shown in ABC's 1997 airing of this movie. For the 10th Anniversary DVD release, the animation was completed and the song inserted back into this movie, as well as a short reprise in the final scene.

[eli]

Governor Ratcliffe (David Ogden Stiers) is one of the only two main antagonists in a movie of the Renaissance to not die at the end of the movie. The other being Hades (James Woods) from Hercules (1997), assuming he survived his defeat at the end of the movie, due to his immortality.

[marc]

John Pomeroy was the supervising animator for Captain John Smith, and watched several Errol Flynn movies as reference for the movements of the character. Once the look of Smith was finalized, fourteen other animators were drafted in to make him come to life.

[francisco]

During pre-production, according to the behind-the-scenes section in the July 1995 issue of Disney Adventures Magazine promoting this movie, there was a title card that featured an early version of the Disney heroine who looked a lot like Disney's Tiger Lily from Peter Pan (1953). It showed her head held up high, eyes closed, arms folded, and surrounded by a few forest animals. Therefore, it seemed it's actually this same Tiger Lily, and not just someone who resembled her, but under a different name. And this gave the indication that she might have been considered in the eponymous lead role at one point early on. The title card is what convinced the Disney executives to proceed with this movie.

[amber]

In rea llife, Pocahontas would have been more likely to be topless and likely covered in tribal tattoos, even her face.

[mathew]

Pocahontas' design, as well as much of the human characters, were very much based on Glen Keane's true drawing style. Keane was the supervising animator and a story artist on this movie.