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Pocahontas (I) (1995)

John Smith: Pocahontas.

Pocahontas: [hugs him] I'm so sorry.

John Smith: For what? This? I've gotten out of worse scrapes than this. Can't think of anything right at present, but.

Pocahontas: [tearfully] It would've been better if nosotros never met. None of this would've happened.

John Smith: Pocahontas, wait at me. I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you.

Nakoma: Pocahontas?

Pocahontas: I can't go out you.

John Smith: Y'all never will. No matter what happens to me, I'll ever exist with you, forever.

Pocahontas: [sadly leaves]

Pocahontas: [as she throws herself over John Smith, who is almost to be executed] No!

[silence]

Pocahontas: If you lot kill him, you'll have to kill me, besides.

Powhatan: Girl, stand back.

Pocahontas: I won't! I love him, Father.

[silence]

Pocahontas: Await around y'all. This is where the path of hatred has brought united states.

[brief silence]

Pocahontas: This is the path I choose, Father. What will yours be?

Powhatan: My daughter speaks with the wisdom beyond her years. We've all come hither with anger in our hearts, but she comes with courage and understanding. From this day forward, if there is to be more killing, information technology volition not start with me.

John Smith: We've improved the lives of savages all over the world.

Pocahontas: Savages?

John Smith: Uh, non that you're a savage.

Pocahontas: Simply my people!

John Smith: No. Listen. That'south not what I meant. Let me explicate.

Pocahontas: Allow become!

John Smith: No, I'm non letting you lot leave.

Pocahontas: [jumps out of her canoe and climbs upwards into a tree]

John Smith: Expect, don't practice this. Savage is just a word, uh, yous know. A term for people who are uncivilized.

Pocahontas: Like me.

John Smith: Well, when I say uncivilized, what I hateful is, is.

[he grabs a co-operative, only the co-operative is not stiff enough to hold his weight, and John falls dorsum to the footing. Pocahontas jumps down after him]

Pocahontas: What you mean is, non similar you.

John Smith: [nearly Meeko eating his hardtacks] Is this bottomless pit a friend of yours?

Governor Ratcliffe: Wiggins, why do you think those insolent heathens attacked u.s.a.?

Wiggins: Considering we invaded their land and cut down their trees and dug upwards their earth?

Governor Ratcliffe: It'south the gilt! They accept it and they don't desire us to take it from them. Well, I'll just have to take it by forcefulness then, won't I?

[singing]

Powhatan: This is what we feared. The paleface is a demon / The only thing they experience at all is greed.

Kekata: Below that milky hide, there's emptiness within.

Warriors: I wonder if they even bleed.

Warriors: [all] They're savages, savages, barely fifty-fifty human. Savages, savages

Powhatan: Killers at the core.

Kekata: They're unlike from us, which means they tin can't exist trusted.

Powhatan: We must sound the drums of war!

Grandmother Willow: Now then, there'due south something I want to evidence you. Expect.

[dips her vine in the water in which glowing ripples brainstorm to form]

Pocahontas: The ripples.

John Smith: What about them?

Grandmother Willow: So small at first, then look how they grow. Only someone has to first them.

John Smith: They're not gonna mind to united states of america.

Grandmother Willow: Immature human, sometimes the right path is not the easiest i. Don't you see? Only when the fighting stops, can you exist together.

[Pocahontas smiles]

John Smith: Alright, let's go talk to your father.

[Pocahontas and John hug each other]

Pocahontas: [singing] Y'all recall I'm an ignorant vicious and you've been so many places/I guess information technology must exist so, but nevertheless I cannot come across if the savage ane is me/ How tin at that place be so much that y'all don't know?/Y'all don't know.

Governor Ratcliffe: [taken away in chains, deadened] How dare you lot! Untie me at once! I'll accept your heads for this!

Wiggins: [tearfully] And he came and then highly recommended.

[sighs sadly]

Pocahontas: Lately, I've been having this dream and I call up it'south.

Grandmother Willow: Oh, a dream! Let's hear all about it!

[animals begin to chatter excitedly]

Grandmother Willow: Tranquility!

[a squirrel crawls over her confront, which she blows abroad; the animals continue to chatter]

Grandmother Willow: Quiet!

[all falls silent; a frog croaks, Grandmother Willow glares at information technology, making it gulp and hibernate under its lily pad]

John Smith: [about Percy and Meeko] Yous meet what I mean? One time two sides wanna fight, nothing tin stop them.

Pocahontas: [Percy and Meeko circling around her] Come up here, both of you!

John Smith: It's all right, He'southward a friend. Bad! Bad dog! Sit!

[Flit laughs, then Meeko snatches him and straightens his neb to be sharp like a sword. He begins to debate off Percy]

Pocahontas: What are you doing? Meeko!

John Smith: Percy, get back here! What are yous doing? Stop that!

Grandmother Willow: All correct! That's enough!

[Percy stiffens up and faints into the river. Grandmother Willow lifts him back to the stump with one of her branches]

Grandmother Willow: It's enough to make your sap boil.

John Smith: Await, nosotros don't have to fight them.

Thomas: John, what's gotten into yous?

John Smith: I met one of them.

Ben: You lot what?

Thomas: A barbarous!

John Smith: They're non savages, they can help united states. They know the country, they know how to navigate the rivers.

[Meeko pulls out an ear of corn and gives it to John]

John Smith: And look, it'south food.

Lon: What is information technology?

John Smith: It'south better than hardtack and gruel, that's for sure.

Wiggins: I like gruel.

Governor Ratcliffe: [takes the corn and throws it on the ground] They don't want to feed u.s.a., you ninnies! They want to kill usa! All of united states of america! They've got our aureate, and they'll practice annihilation to keep it!

John Smith: Just there is no gilt!

Ben: No gold?

Governor Ratcliffe: [sarcastically] And I suppose your footling Indian friend told you this.

John Smith: Yes.

Governor Ratcliffe: Lies! Lies, all of it! Murderous thieves. There'due south non room for their kind of civilized order!

John Smith: But this is their land!

Governor Ratcliffe: This is my land! I make the laws here! And I say anyone who so much equally expect at an Indian without killing him on sight, volition exist tried for treason and hanged!

Thomas: [looking at Kocoum's body after shooting him] Is he?

Pocahontas: You killed him.

Thomas: I thought that.

Pocahontas: [Angrily rushes at Thomas] Get abroad from him!

John Smith: [holds her dorsum] Pocahontas, it wont assist! He was only.

Pocahontas: [shouts] He killed him!

John Smith: [they hear other Indians budgeted] Thomas! Get out of here!

[Thomas hesitates]

John Smith: [yells] Go out of here!

Lon: This place gives me the creeps. Savages could be hiding anywhere.

Ben: Yeah, well if you lot spot one, don't ask questions, just shoot.

Lon,Ben: [they pass Grandmother Willow who trips them with her root] Whoa!

Ben: Picket your feet, you big oaf!

Lon: It wasn't me, it was the tree.

Ben: [sarcastically] Oh, of form, the tree just felt similar lifting its roots. And.

[Ben and Lon see that Grandmother Willow moved her roots downward]

Ben: [afraid] Let's go out of here.

Lon,Ben: [Grandmother Willow whips them both with her vines] Ow!

Ben: Run!

[they rush away]

Lon: But what about Smith?

Ben: He's a big lad. He can take care of himself.

Pocahontas: You think I'thousand an ignorant savage, and you've been then many places / I guess it must be and so / Simply still I cannot encounter, if the savage 1 is me / How can there exist so much that you don't know? You don't know...

Pocahontas: You recall you own any land you land on, the Earth is but a dead thing you can claim / Only I know every rock and tree and creature has a life, has a spirit, has a proper name / You lot think the only people who are people are the people who look and think like yous / But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll acquire things you never knew, y'all never knew...

Pocahontas: Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the bluish corn moon, or asked the smile bobcat why he grinned? / Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? Can yous paint with all the colors of the wind? Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?

Pocahontas: Come run the hidden pine trails of the woods, come gustatory modality the lord's day-sweetness berries of the Earth / Come curlicue in all the riches all around yous, and for in one case, never wonder what they're worth / The rainstorm and the river are my brothers / The heron and the otter are my friends / And we are all continued to each other / In a circle, in a hoop that never ends!

Pocahontas: How high does the sycamore grow? / If you lot cut it down, then you'll never know! / And you'll never hear the wolf weep to the blue corn moon, for whether we are white or copper skinned / We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains, we need to pigment with all the colors of the wind...

Pocahontas: Yous can own the Earth and notwithstanding all you'll own is Earth, until you can pigment with all the colors of the wind...

Wiggins: Do you call back nosotros'll see some savages?

Governor Ratcliffe: If we do, we shall exist certain to requite them a proper English greeting.

Wiggins: [holds up baskets of vino and cheese] Ooh, gift baskets!

Governor Ratcliffe: [groans] And he came so highly recommended.

Governor Ratcliffe: I've never been a popular human.

Wiggins: I similar you.

Governor Ratcliffe: And don't call back I don't know what those back stabbers at court say well-nigh me.

Wiggins: Oh, yes, all that talk about being a pathetic social climber who'southward failed at everything he's tried.

Governor Ratcliffe: I'm very well enlightened that this is my last chance for glory. But marking my words, Wiggins. When King James sees the gold these peasants unearth, success volition be mine at concluding.

Wiggins: [has what looks like an arrow through his head] I-I.

[takes off arrow]

Wiggins: I made it myself.

Ben: [Captain John Smith has simply jumped off the send during a storm to save Thomas] Smith! Are you lot crazy?

Grandmother Willow: That'southward the strangest animal I've always seen.

[on Percy, who is running effectually with his head stuck in a tree trunk]

John Smith: [singing] If I never knew yous/If I never felt this love/I would take no inking of/How precious life can be/And if I never held y'all/I would never have a clue/How at last I'd detect in you/The missing role of me/In this world so full of fright/Full of rage and lies/I can come across the truth then articulate/In your eyes/Then dry your eyes/And I'thousand and so grateful to you lot/I'd have lived my whole life through/Lost forever/If I never knew you lot

Pocahontas: [singing] I thought our dearest would be so beautiful/Somehow we'd brand the whole world bright/I never knew that fright and detest could be then strong/All they'd get out us were these whispers in the night/Only nevertheless my heart is saying we were right/For if I never knew you

John Smith: [singing] There'south no moment I regret

Pocahontas: [singing] If I never knew this beloved

John Smith: [singing] Since the moment that we met

Pocahontas: [singing] I would have no inking of

John Smith: [singing] If our time has gone also fast

Pocahontas: [singing] How precious life can exist

John Smith: [singing] I've lived at final

Nakoma: Pocahontas.

Pocahontas: [spoken] I can't go out you.

John Smith: [spoken] You never will. No affair what happens to me, I'll always exist with you. Forever.

[singing]

John Smith: And I'm so grateful to you/I'd have lived my whole life through/Empty every bit the heaven/

Pocahontas: [singing] Never knowing why/

John Smith: [singing] Lost forever/If I never knew you

Pocahontas: [singing] Lost forever/If I never knew you

Governor Ratcliffe: [singing] This will be the twenty-four hour period

[spoken]

Governor Ratcliffe: Let'south become, men!

Powhatan: [singing] This will exist the forenoon

[spoken]

Powhatan: Bring out the prisoner!

Warriors: [singing] We will see them dying in the dust

Pocahontas: [singing] I don't know what I can do/Still I know I've got to attempt

Warriors: [singing] At present nosotros make them pay

Pocahontas: [singing] Eagle, help my feet to wing

Warriors: [singing] Now, without a alarm

Pocahontas: [singing] Mountain, help my heart be bully

Warriors: [singing] Now we get out them blood and os and rust

Pocahontas: [singing] Spirits of the Earth and sky

Warriors: [singing] It'southward them or u.s.

Pocahontas: [singing] Please don't let it be too late

Warriors: [singing] They're just a bunch of filthy, stinking savages

[spoken]

Warriors: Savages! Demons! Devils!

Governor Ratcliffe: [spoken] Kill them!

Warriors: [singing] Savages, savages

Governor Ratcliffe: [singing] What are nosotros waiting for? Destroy their evil race/Until there'south not a trace left

Warriors: [singing] We will sound the drums of war

Pocahontas: [singing] How loud are the drums of war?

Warriors: [singing] Now we encounter what comes of trying to be chums

Pocahontas: [singing] Is the decease of all I beloved carried in the drumming of

Warriors: [singing] War?

Pocahontas: [spoken] No!

Lon: [Lon and Thomas are gazing at the new earth for the kickoff time] Information technology'south incredible!

Thomas: And it's all ours. I've never seen anything like it!

Ben: [approaching] It could wait like Ratcliffe'due south knickers for all I care, so long as we become off the stinking boat!

Governor Ratcliffe: Yous there, where's Captain Smith?

Lon: Well, he'due south gone.

Ben: [knowingly] Yeah, your singing must've scared him off!

Governor Ratcliffe: Well, then get get him, for heaven's sake!

Lon: What if we meet the Indians?

Governor Ratcliffe: That'southward what guns are for. Now arm yourselves and go moving!

John Smith: You have the almost unusual names hither. Chechomony, Kuyukanhoic, Pocahontas.

Pocahontas: You have a most unusual proper noun also. John Smith.

Nakoma: Pocahontas!

Pocahontas: Nakoma!

Nakoma: Don't go out there. I lied for you one time. Don't ask me to do information technology over again.

Pocahontas: I take to practise this.

Nakoma: He's one of them!

Pocahontas: Yous don't know him.

Nakoma: If yous go out there, yous'll exist turning your back on your ain people.

Pocahontas: I'm trying to help my people.

Nakoma: Pocahontas, please. You're my all-time friend. I don't want you to get hurt.

Pocahontas: I won't. I know what I'm doing.

Nakoma: Pocahontas, no!

[Pocahontas runs off]

Governor Ratcliffe: Don't lose your center, men. It won't be long before we reach the New World. And retrieve what awaits us there. Freedom. Prosperity. The take chances of our lives. You're the finest coiffure England has to offer and nothing, not current of air nor a 1000 bloody savages shall stand in our way. Carry on, men!

Wiggins: A stirring oration, sir. I'thou sure the men were nearly exhilarated.

Governor Ratcliffe: Let's hope and then.

[quietly to Percy]

Governor Ratcliffe: I'll need those witless peasants to dig up my gold, won't I?

Percy: [growls in understanding]

Governor Ratcliffe: Gentlemen, to work! Yous men, go the ship unloaded. You men, build the fort. The residual of you, break up the shovels. Information technology's time to start digging.

Ben,Lon: [both] Digging?

Governor Ratcliffe: Why, of grade. Let'due south not forget what the Spanish found when they came to the New World. Gold! Mountains of it. Why, for years they've been ravaging the New World of its most precious resources. But now it's our turn.

Thomas: What practise you lot suppose the New World will wait like?

John Smith: Like all the others, I suppose. I've seen hundreds of new worlds, Thomas. What could possibly be different about this one?

Kocoum: Nakoma, where is Pocahontas?

Nakoma: I-I haven't seen her.

Kocoum: Pocahontas can't proceed running off. It's dangerous out at that place. Tell her that. She listens to you.

Nakoma: [sarcastically to herself] Huh. Sure she does.

Lon: [singing] We shot ourselves an injun, or peradventure 2 or iii.

Ben: [kicks him] Alright, you howling nutter! Get to work!

Lon: Come on, Ben, it'due south only a niggling fun.

Ben: [sarcastically] Oh, sure, we're having loads of fun. Correct, look at us. No aureate, no nutrient, while Ratcliffe sits up in his tent all day happy as a clam.

Governor Ratcliffe: [in his tent] I'1000 doomed! I should be wallowing in riches right now, and I haven't found every bit much as a speck!

John Smith: [to Thomas] Keep both eyes open when you shoot. You see twice as well.

Pocahontas: [singing Just Around the Riverbend] What I love most about rivers is/You can't step in the same river twice/The water's ever changing, e'er flowing/Only people, I guess, tin can't alive like that/Nosotros all must pay a price/To exist safe, nosotros lose our chance of ever knowing/What's around the riverbend/Waiting merely around the riverbend/I look once more than/But around the riverbend/Beyond the shore/Where the gulls fly gratis/Don't know what for/What I dream the day might send/Simply around the riverbend/For me/Coming for me/I feel it there beyond those trees or correct backside those watefalls/Tin can I ignore that sound of distant drumming for a handsome sturdy husband who builds handsome sturdy walls and never dreams that something might be coming?/Only around the riverbend/Merely effectually the riverbend/I wait once more than/Just around the riverbend/Across the shore/Somewhere by the body of water/Don't know what for/Why do all my dreams extend only around the riverbend?/Simply around the riverbend/Should I choose the smoothest course steady equally the beating pulsate?/Should I marry Kocoum?/Is all my dreaming at an terminate?/Or do you still await for me, Dream Giver, Merely around the riverbend?

Pocahontas: [singing] And I'one thousand and then grateful to you

John Smith: [singing] I'd accept lived my whole life through

Governor Ratcliffe: [singing] The gold of Cortez, the jewels of Pizarro / Will seem similar mere trinkets by this time tomorrow. / The gold we find hither will dwarf them by far. / Oh, with all you got in you lot, boys / Dig up Virginia, boys.

Pocahontas: We don't have to fight them! At that place must be a better way.

Powhatan: Sometimes our paths are chosen for us.

Pocahontas: But maybe nosotros should try talking to them.

Powhatan: They exercise not want to talk.

Pocahontas: Just if one of them did want to talk, you would heed to him, wouldn't you?

Powhatan: Pocahontas.

Pocahontas: Wouldn't y'all?

Powhatan: Of course I would. But it is not that simple. Naught is uncomplicated anymore.

Thomas: [as a bugle is being played] John, yous better become down here! The governor's coming ashore!

John Smith: [blows an attacking Flit away from his face] All right, all right! I'm leaving.

Wiggins: [to Percy, waving a chicken leg] Who'southward a good doggy, hmm? Who's a skilful doggy?

[Percy rolls his eyes]

Wiggins: [throwing the chicken leg away] Fetch, boy!

Wiggins: [gives Percy a bath] Bustle now, Percy. We must be all squeaky clean for the New Earth.

Thomas: [to Pocahontas, virtually John after being wounded] Going back is his but chance. He'll die if he stays here.

Governor Ratcliffe: [Thomas is staring after John Smith, who has just snuck off to see Pocahontas. Ratcliff appears behind him and pushes him out the fort] Follow him.

Thomas: [continuing to attending] Yes, governor.

Governor Ratcliffe: I desire to know where he'south sneaking off to.

Thomas: Yep, sir.

Governor Ratcliffe: And if y'all see whatsoever Indians

[tossing Thomas a burglarize]

Governor Ratcliffe: shoot them.

[Thomas looks at the rifle uncertainly]

Governor Ratcliffe: Oh, and Thomas you've been a slipshod sailor and a poor excuse for a soldier. Don't disappoint me once more.

Thomas: [walks off, looking hurt]

Thomas: [Thomas aims at Kocoum and closes 1 eye] Both eyes open up.

[he opens both eyes, fires and hits Kocoum in the chest]

Pocahontas: [When Kocoum jumps out and attacks John] Kocoum, no! Kocoum! Get out him lone!

[tries to pull him off of John but Kocoum pushes her away]

Pocahontas: Kocoum, stop!

[pulls him off of John]

Powhatan: [sees Kocoum's body] Who did this?

Warriors: [with John Smith] Pocahontas was out in the woods. Kocoum went to find her and this white man attacked them.

Powhatan: [aroused] Your weapons are strong merely at present are anger is stronger. At sunrise, he will be the first to die!

Pocahontas: But, male parent!

Powhatan: [angry] I told yous to stay in the hamlet! You disobeyed me! You have shamed your father!

Pocahontas: I was but trying to assist.

Powhatan: Because of your foolishness, Kocoum is dead! Take him away!

Pocahontas: [when Nakoma comes out of the oversupply and approaches her to confess to sending Kocoum after her] Kocoum was just coming to protect me.

Nakoma: Pocahontas... I sent Kocoum later you lot. I was worried nigh you. I thought I was doing the right affair.

Pocahontas: All of this happened because of me... and now, I'll never see John Smith once again.

Nakoma: Come with me.

[to the guards]

Nakoma: Pocahontas wants to wait into the eyes of the homo who killed Kocoum.

Warriors: Exist quick.

Powhatan: Pocahontas, you lot and Nakoma should exist within the village.

Pocahontas: oh, don't worry nigh us, Begetter. Nosotros'll be all right.

Nakoma: Yes! We're gathering food for when the warriors arrive.

Powhatan: Don't get in. Now is non the time to be running off.

Pocahontas: Yeah, Father!

Powhatan: When I encounter you lot wear that necklace, you lot await just like your mother.

Pocahontas: I miss her.

Powhatan: Just she is still with the states. Whenever the wind moves through the copse, I feel her presence. Our people looked to her for wisdom and force. Someday, they volition await to yous equally well.

Pocahontas: I would be honored by that.

Powhatan: You shouldn't be out here lone. I'll ship for Kocoum.

Nakoma: All right. What is information technology?

Pocahontas: What?

Nakoma: You're hiding something.

Pocahontas: I'm not hiding anything.

Nakoma: Pocahontas, you can tell me. I hope I won't tell anyone.

[sees John Smith coming]

Nakoma: Pocahontas look! Information technology's one of them! I'm going to get...

Pocahontas: [thrusts her hand over Nakoma's mouth] What are you doing hither?

John Smith: I had to encounter you lot again.

Kocoum: Pocahontas. Pocahontas?

Pocahontas: [to Nakoma] Please, don't say anything.

[to John Smith]

Pocahontas: Quick, this manner!

Nakoma: Merely...

Nakoma: Pocahontas, are y'all crazy? What were yous doing?

Kocoum: Finally. In that location yous are.

Pocahontas: Kocoum.

Kocoum: [to Pocahontas and Nakoma] Wait at them. At present nosotros have enough warriors to destroy those white demons.

[first lines]

Chorus: [singing] In 16 hundred seven, nosotros sailed the open up bounding main for celebrity, God and gilded and the Virginia Company/for the New Earth is like heaven, and nosotros'll all exist rich and free or so nosotros have been told by the Virginia Visitor/so we have been told past the Virginia Company/For glory, God and gold and the Virginia Company.

John Smith: Pocahontas!

Pocahontas: John!

John Smith: Listen to me, my men are planning to attack your people. Yous've got to warn them.

Pocahontas: Maybe it's not to late to end this, you take to come with me and talk to my father.

John Smith: [stopping Pocahontas] Pocahontas, talking isn't going to do any good. I already tried talking to my men, but everything most this country has been spooked.

[They hear howling in a distant]

Powhatan: These white men are unsafe! No one is to go about them.

Powhatan: As the river cuts his path though the river'due south proud and strong he volition choice the smoothest form. That'due south why rivers live and then long. They're steady as the steady beating drum.

[last lines]

Ben: Skilful luck, lad.

Thomas: Godspeed, John.

Ben: Ratcliffe wouldn't take us halfway beyond the world for nothing.

Lon: Merely what if Smith is right? What if there is no gold?

Leeroy the Settler: If you lot ask me Ratcliffe's been lieing to u.s. since we left London.

Ben: Mind to you you bunch of idiots! Those savages didn't assault us for nothing! They're hiding something!

Leeroy the Settler: If they do have the gold I reckon we'll have to fight them.

Governor Ratcliffe: [after witnessing Thomas' lack of proficiency in using a rifle] Learn to use that thing properly. A man'southward not a human being unless he knows how to shoot.

[Ratcliffe shots Namontack]

Kocoum: Namontack!

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