Hopefully, it won't be more of the same "John Smith romance" nonsense. Can't wait to watch and see. :)

This is only slightly off the subject (historical females who haven't gotten their fair due), but did anyone besides me actually watch Night at the Museum? It was silly and sort of stupid (and sort of funny).

But the love interest (extremely low-key romance subplot) is doing her disseration on Sacajawea, who was the guide for Lewis and Clark. Anyway, she gets long portions of screen time to wax poetic about how great and heroic this woman was, which you don't often see. The character of Sacajawea herself actually gets less screen time.

Still, it's nice to see an educated women in a movie rhapsodizing about a strong woman in history who made a huge difference, and having it treated as the truth without question.

Maybe more of our foremothers will start to get this type of treatment on film?

I just had to say that "Brave New World" is indeed awful. I actually dozed off in the theatre while watching it and I never, ever have done that before. Don't rent it, don't even put it on your NetFlix queue.

Actually, I really loved Brave New World, it was more about the way it was filmed with all natural light and focused more on nature then about the actually story, thats what made it so slow moving and boring for some people. But if you actually watch it it's a really beautiful movie. If you get bored by artsy and slow moving movies though you will hate it like most people I know who have seen it. Hopefully the thing on tonight will actually be semi-good and factual.

Actually, I really loved Brave New World, it was more about the way it was filmed with all natural light and focused more on nature than about the actually story, thats what made it so slow moving and boring for some people. But if you actually watch it it's a really beautiful movie. If you get bored by artsy and slow moving movies though you will hate it like most people I know who have seen it. Hopefully the thing on tonight will actually be semi-good and factual.

sorry about the double posts my computer sucks tonight.

I think Brave New World is the Aldous Huxley novel, Terence Malick's latest was called "The New World." You just have to get a Malick frame of mind to see his flicks (including Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line), which generally involves Quaaludes.

A bit of trivia when looking up the young actress who played Pocahontas in the movie: she's a second cousin to the singer Jewel (both have the last name Kilcher).

the PBS documentary on pocahontas was a good show. among other things, I learned that:

"pocahontas" was actually a nickname given to her by her father (powhatan), and it meant something along the lines of "spoiled little brat." awesome.

pocahontas, it theorized, may have been romantically involved with john smith, as many women were (either voluntarily or unvoluntarily) involved with the english men. however, it is more likely that, as a princess in the tribe (and a likely successor to her father), she "saved" john smith's life as part of an elaborate adoption play-act. quite often, when outsiders were adopted into the tribe, they were treated poorly and given "one last chance" to willingly convert, and something similar to the pocahontas-john smith situation often happened.

which means I'm burning my disney DVD of 'pocahontas' tonight. :)

and it could've been worse. we could've been watching the hooters dream girl challenge on mynetwork. gross.

Racism and historically diminishing romance stories aside, the real question is: will this shed any light on the mystery of why everyone and their mother claims to be descended from Pocahontas?

Racism and historically diminishing romance stories aside, the real question is: will this shed any light on the mystery of why everyone and their mother claims to be descended from Pocahontas?

Um, just a note to shyest violet...if the relationship was "involuntary", it's not possible for it to be a "romantic" interaction.