Well, he was about 22 and she was about 12, so there was a tweleve year difference. But John Smith always thought of Pocahontas as his mother, see when she saved him in the Powhatan culture, she adopted him. So, it was a family relationship. Over the years it was turned into a bit of a Romeo and Juliet story, but it wasn't like that in real life.
UmbrellaFish wrote:Smith was certainly young by the time he met Pocahontas. And did have a beard, I don't know if he already had a beard when he met Pocahontas, but I've seen portraits with him having a beard and even early concept art of Disney's Pocahontas depicts him with a beard.
Yes! And red hair as well.
Oh, and Umbrellafish, just have to respond to your post: he was 27, not 22. and he regarded Pocahontas as a sort of daughter, I've read.
As far as Fantasia, Hercules, and Hunchback of Notre Dame go it's obvious that they'll release them at some point in time. I don't know why people seem to freak out about their release when it's completely obvious that they will be released again.
Fantasia is in the Platinum line, I would assume that it'll be released after Pinocchio actually. I think it'd be a perfect title for the fall because it's a film that appeals to many different people, which would make a nice Special Edition realease of it ideal for the holiday season.
Hercules and Hunchback fall into a special catigory of film that I believe Disney notices and takes advantage of... and that is the "not good enough for a platinum, but too good for a silly named release" films. These are the films that make the company a good amount of money and are recognized by a lot of people, but just don't cut it as far as the platinums go. I think that the company is saving these films to help support the switch to Blu-ray. They are both very visually appealing and have great soundtracks. They would also be a lot easier to remaster into the Blu-ray format because they are so "young" and are for the most part ready for the jump. I also wouldn't be surprised if we got a new release of Lilo & Stitch soon, for the same reasons.
This really is all my opinion, but I'm pretty confident in the fact that Disney doesn't really want to screw us all over. I think they really are buying time by releasing nothing that exciting so that people have the incentive to upgrade to Blu-ray. To be honest, I think this is really the only reason why Sleeping Beauty is being released at this time.
you know i thinking about why they dont bring hercules and hunch out is
maybe they deal with a touchy subject that is religon songs like hell fire
shows sum 1 who runs a church is bad a lady at the disney store said she would not let her child watch it Hercules there are multi gods adults think that there child will think there is more than 1 a father would not let his child watch cuz he thought it showed more than 1 god did like it showed pagan religon
I wonder why Hercules hasn't got released yet and why people are saying that he's underrated,he's overrated a lot in Kingdom Hearts and House Of Mouse (From what I see),maybe Hunchback is underrated but still,Hercules was sucessful? I think he might be a Platinum Edition.