Historical Inaccuracies In The Disney Movie Davy Crockett

In order to meet the demand of film creation and cater to the market, Disney has announced more and more real-life adaptation projects, such as the upcoming Mulan, Miss and Tramp and Sword in the Stone, but not all films involving foreign cultures have a good response, sometimes they even lead to criticism. The Davy Crockett is such a film, because the film does not meet the historical facts.

The movie is a legend(and myths) from the life of famed American frontiersman Davy Crockett are depicted in the feature film edited from television episodes. Crockett and his friend George Russell fight in the Greek Indian war. Then Crockett is elected to congress and brings his rough-hewn ways to the House of Representatives. Finally, Crockett and Russell journey to Texas and partake in the last stand at the Alamo.

Within days of the release of the first edition of The Davy Crockett, The Davy Crockett, representative of the House, fight in the Creek Indian war for Westward movement. Because the background of the story is set in the period of American Westward movement, the Davy Crockett fight with the Indians, although they won finally. Indians should have been completely liberated at this time. However, the Davy Crockett in the film still appears as an army. Moreover, the relationship between the Davy Crockett and the Indians in the movie is unpleasant. Indians are too misery to live happily. It’s not what real Indians was in history, therefore, the film focused on how the Davy Crockett pull the Indians out their earth. And the Davy Crockett is too cruel to deal with problems with Indians and the congress.

Besides, there’s scenes that are considered to be a huge westward movement. In one tale told by history, the Davy Crockett is so concerned about the Indians. And he refused against the president Andrew Jackson. After he was tired without partaking in the army, he competed in the congress and serve to local citizens. He is so wisdom and helped people out lots of difficulties. But he is criticized by representatives. And he wrote a famous book to influence people and go on. He is a politician and hero.

In order to show the huge Westward movement, Disney repeatedly stressed that the plot of the Davy Crocket in the film is the truly cruel of the original novel. And in the poster, the original story set Indians is listed with the name of Walt Disney, trying to divert attention. However, in the end, the Davy Crocket was asked to be completely off government and fight for the liberated Mexico. Up to now, no country is allowed to release any audio-visual products of the Davy Crocket, which is widely regarded as the most failed work of Disney.

The problem of the film isn’t the story it tells, but the way it represents it. The Davy Crocket stories, which the film is based on, were set in releasing of owing the USA after the Westward movement, however, the film adaptation didn’t give clear indication of the era context. According to the information released on Wikipedia, we can know that the Davy Crocket and his friends are too kind. Since few people are cruel to be for the fighting in the Westward movement.

People wouldn’t expect a serious meditation on racial identity in a Disney children’s film, in order to make their films more acceptable to a mainstream of audience, the company usually strip any sense of politics, history, or ideology out of this setting. Most Disney movies are set in an idealized past, and it’s logical and acceptable when they are making a movie about a princess who lives in a magic kingdom. But when it comes to a movie with the historical setting of Georgia in the 1800s, it would make the problem complicated. The words “slave” and “slavery” are never mentioned, and the specifics of the economic relationship between the blacks and whites (Master and slave, Employer and servant) are left deliberately vague.

By stripping out any concrete details of time and place, Disney essentially turned the plantation system into a ludicrous utopia where blacks and whites live in harmony — a harmony where the only thing that’s clear is that the blacks are inferior and servile to the whites, but are content to work the fields anyway. It can be said that Disney's failure lies in the neglect of the reality. Disney's original intention may be to avoid historical issues, but it touches the sensitive points of history.