Genre Study 2
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Genre Study 2 MA Musical Theatre 22133489 I-Chun Chen Essay question Discuss the possibilities of turning the animated cartoon musical, Pocahontas, into a stage musical. Assertive and free spirited, Pocahontas follows her dreams and obeys no one. Brave and athletic, she scales mountains, climbs trees, and steers a canoe better than a man, like Women Who Run With Wolves. She does what she wants to do and does it well. Lively and vigorous, the place that later will be called, Jamestown, is full of energies of native American and forms a great universe before Englishmen settled in the place to bring destruction. The American racoon and bird, both facetious and cute, are fictionalised in the form of animated cartoon characters. This is what The Walt Disney Company presents in the animated cartoon musical, Pocahontas (1995), which was a challenging attempt to present the beautiful spirits of the native American woman, Pocahontas, and her people - that of...

