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Pocahontas is not based on the real woman at all, and the movie was a slap in the face to her and indigenous Americans in general ! John Smith was an old man who was as evil as it comes and she was 12 years old when they met that was not a relationship.
She was stolen from her tribe and forced into a marriage she didn’t want. That is not a love story.
As a kid, I didn’t realise Cruella was so thin (thinking her body filled in that massive fur coat) until the TV show.
Was very confused at first by how thin she was in the show until watching them back to back for it to click 😅
Buddy Hackett is missing! He was the inspiration for the seagull Scuttles.