Episode 215: Pocahontas

About this episode

Dan and guest Cliff Jance discuss the Disney film Pocahontas, exploring its themes and issues.

Welcome to New World/New Year Week on Be Kind Rewind: The Disney+ Movie Podcast. As promised, we are back with an all-new episode this week as Dan is joined by iZitNEGood’s Cliff Jance to discuss the next movie in the Disney/Fox pantheon, 1995’s classic film, Pocahontas. Listen as they break down the movie, discuss the problems that they both had with the film, and try to figure out what the governor was using to blow up parts of primitive Jamestown. We will be back with another all-new episode in two weeks, so come back and enjoy the shenanigans. Next Homework: Operation Dumbo Drop You can leave us feedback at bekindrewinddmp@gmail.com and leave a review on whatever streaming service you enjoy this program on. When you write us, we will read your email or review on a future episode of this show. Thank you for listening and come back in two weeks for more Disney movie goodness!

People in this episode

Host: Dan

Guest: Cliff Jance

Topics covered

• Disney movies
• film analysis
• Pocahontas
• movie discussion
• animation
• cultural critique

Keywords

• Pocahontas
• Disney+
• film critique
• Cliff Jance
• animation
• 1995 film
• movie podcast

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Disney+, iZitNEGood

Books & works: Pocahontas, Operation Dumbo Drop

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