Pocahontas (I) (1995)
Irene Bedard: Pocahontas
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Quotes
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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 now, but...
Pocahontas : [tearfully] It would've been better if we never met. None of this would've happened.
John Smith : Pocahontas, look at me. I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you.
Nakoma : Pocahontas.
Pocahontas : I can't leave you.
John Smith : You never will. No matter what happens to me, I'll always be with you. Forever.
Pocahontas : [sadly leaves]
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Pocahontas : [as she throws herself over John Smith, who is about to be executed] No!
[silence]
Pocahontas : If you kill him, you'll have to kill me, too.
Powhatan : Daughter, stand back.
Pocahontas : I won't! I love him, Father.
[silence]
Pocahontas : Look around you. This is where the path of hatred has brought us.
[brief silence]
Pocahontas : This is the path I choose, Father. What will yours be?
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John Smith : We've improved the lives of savages all over the world.
Pocahontas : Savages?
John Smith : Uh, not that you're a savage.
Pocahontas : Just my people.
John Smith : No. Listen. That's not what I meant. Let me explain, uh...
Pocahontas : Let go!
John Smith : No, I'm not letting you leave.
Pocahontas : [jumps out of her canoe and climbs up into a tree]
John Smith : Look, don't do this. Savage is just a word, uh, you know. A term for people who are uncivilized.
Pocahontas : Like me.
John Smith : Well, when I say uncivilized, what I mean is, is...
[he grabs a branch, but the branch is not strong enough to hold his weight, and John falls back to the ground. Pocahontas jumps down after him]
Pocahontas : What you mean is, not like you.
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Grandmother Willow : Come closer, John Smith.
[she inspects him]
Grandmother Willow : He has a good soul. And he's handsome, too.
John Smith : Oh, I like her.
Pocahontas : I knew you would.
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John Smith : Pocahontas, that tree is talking to me.
Pocahontas : Then you should talk back.
Grandmother Willow : Don't be frightened, young man. My bark is worse than my bite.
Pocahontas : Say something.
John Smith : What do you say to a tree?
Pocahontas : Anything you want.
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Grandmother Willow : Now then, there's something I want to show you. Look.
[dips her vine in the water in which glowing ripples begin to form]
Pocahontas : The ripples.
John Smith : What about them?
Grandmother Willow : So small at first, then look how they grow. But someone has to start them.
John Smith : They're not going to listen to us.
Grandmother Willow : Young man, sometimes the right path is not the easiest one. Don't you see? Only when the fighting stops can you be together.
[Pocahontas smiles]
John Smith : All right. Let's go talk to your father.
[Pocahontas and John hug each other]
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Pocahontas : [singing] You think I'm an ignorant savage and you've been so many places/I guess it must be so/but still I cannot see if the savage one is me/ How can there be so much that you don't know?/You don't know
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John Smith : It's just a handshake. Here, let me show you.
John Smith : [holds out hand]
Pocahontas : Nothing's happening.
John Smith : Uh, no, no. I need your hand first.
[they shake hands]
John Smith : It's how we say hello.
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John Smith : You have the most unusual names here. Chechomony, Kuyukanhoic, Pocahontas.
Pocahontas : You have a most unusual name too. John Smith.
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Nakoma : Pocahontas!
Pocahontas : Nakoma!
Nakoma : Don't go out there. I lied for you once. Don't ask me to do it again.
Pocahontas : I have to do this.
Nakoma : He's one of them!
Pocahontas : You don't know him.
Nakoma : If you go out there, you'll be turning your back on your own people.
Pocahontas : I'm trying to help my people.
Nakoma : Pocahontas, please. You're my best 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]
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Pocahontas : But lately, I've been having this dream and I think it's...
Grandmother Willow : Oh, a dream! Let's hear all about it.
[animals begin to chatter excitedly]
Grandmother Willow : Quiet!
[a squirrel crawls over her face, which she blows away; the animals continue to chatter]
Grandmother Willow : Quiet!
[all falls silent; a frog croaks, she glares at it, making it gulp and hide under its lily pad]
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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 away from him!
John Smith : [holds her back] Pocahontas, it wont help! He was only...
Pocahontas : [shouts] He killed him!
John Smith : [they hear other Indians approaching] Thomas, get out of here!
[Thomas hesitates]
John Smith : [yells] Get out of here!
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John Smith : [about Percy and Meeko] You see what I mean? Once two sides wanna fight, nothing can stop them.
Pocahontas : [Percy and Meeko circling around her] Come-- Come here, both of you!
John Smith : It's all right! It's all right! He's a friend! Bad! Bad dog! Sit!
[Flit laughs, then Meeko snatches him and straightens his beak to be sharp like a sword. He begins to fence off Percy]
Pocahontas : What are you doing? Meeko!
John Smith : Percy, get back here! What are you doing? Stop that!
Grandmother Willow : All right, 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.
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Pocahontas : You think I'm an ignorant savage, and you've been so many places / I guess it must be so / But still I cannot see, if the savage one is me / How can there be so much that you don't know? You don't know...
Pocahontas : You think you own whatever land you land on, the Earth is just a dead thing you can claim / But I know every rock and tree and creature has a life, has a spirit, has a name / You think the only people who are people are the people who look and think like you / But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew, you never knew...
Pocahontas : Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon, or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned? / Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? Can you 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 forest, come taste the sun-sweet berries of the Earth / Come roll in all the riches all around you, and for once, 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 connected to each other / In a circle, in a hoop that never ends!
Pocahontas : How high does the sycamore grow? / If you cut it down, then you'll never know! / And you'll never hear the wolf cry 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 paint with all the colors of the wind...
Pocahontas : You can own the Earth and still all you'll own is Earth, until you can paint with all the colors of the wind...
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John Smith : [singing] If I never knew you/If I never felt this love/I would have no inking of/How precious life can be/And if I never held you/I would never have a clue/How at last I'd find in you/The missing part of me/In this world so full of fear/Full of rage and lies/I can see the truth so clear/In your eyes/So dry your eyes/And I'm so grateful to you/I'd have lived my whole life through/Lost forever/If I never knew you
Pocahontas : [singing] I thought our love would be so beautiful/Somehow we'd make the whole world bright/I never knew that fear and hate could be so strong/All they'd leave us were these whispers in the night/But still my heart is saying we were right/For if I never knew you
John Smith : [singing] There's no moment I regret
Pocahontas : [singing] If I never knew this love
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 too fast
Pocahontas : [singing] How precious life can be
John Smith : [singing] I've lived at last
Nakoma : Pocahontas.
Pocahontas : [spoken] I can't leave you.
John Smith : [spoken] You never will. No matter what happens to me, I'll always be with you. Forever.
[singing]
John Smith : And I'm so grateful to you/I'd have lived my whole life through/Empty as the sky/
Pocahontas : [singing] Never knowing why/
John Smith : [singing] Lost forever/If I never knew you
Pocahontas : [singing] Lost forever/If I never knew you
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Governor Ratcliffe : [singing] This will be the day
[spoken]
Governor Ratcliffe : Let's go, men!
Powhatan : [singing] This will be the morning
[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 try
Warriors : [singing] Now we make them pay
Pocahontas : [singing] Eagle, help my feet to fly
Warriors : [singing] Now, without a warning
Pocahontas : [singing] Mountain, help my heart be great
Warriors : [singing] Now we leave them blood and bone and rust
Pocahontas : [singing] Spirits of the Earth and sky
Warriors : [singing] It's them or us
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 we waiting for?/Destroy their evil race/Until there's 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 see what comes of trying to be chums
Pocahontas : [singing] Is the death of all I love carried in the drumming of
Warriors : [singing] War
Pocahontas : [spoken] No!
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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 always changing, always flowing/But people, I guess, can't live like that/We all must pay a price/To be safe, we lose our chance of ever knowing/What's around the riverbend/Waiting just around the riverbend/I look once more/Just around the riverbend/Beyond the shore/Where the gulls fly free/Don't know what for/What I dream the day might send/Just around the riverbend/For me/Coming for me/I feel it there beyond those trees or right behind those watefalls/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?/Just around the riverbend/Just around the riverbend/I look once more/Just around the riverbend/Beyond the shore/Somewhere past the sea/Don't know what for/Why do all my dreams extend just around the riverbend?/Just around the riverbend/Should I choose the smoothest course steady as the beating drum?/Should I marry Kocoum?/Is all my dreaming at an end?/Or do you still wait for me, Dream Giver, Just around the riverbend?
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Pocahontas : [singing] And I'm so grateful to you
John Smith : [singing] I'd have lived my whole life through
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John Smith : Come with me?
Powhatan : You must choose your own path.
Pocahontas : [pause] I'm needed here.
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Grandmother Willow : What do you see?
Pocahontas : Clouds. Strange clouds.
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Pocahontas : We don't have to fight them! There must be a better way.
Powhatan : Sometimes our paths are chosen for us.
Pocahontas : But maybe we should try talking to them.
Powhatan : They do not want to talk.
Pocahontas : But if one of them did want to talk, you would listen to him, wouldn't you?
Powhatan : Pocahontas.
Pocahontas : Wouldn't you?
Powhatan : Of course I would. But it is not that simple. Nothing is simple any more.
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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 : [angry] Your weapons are strong, but now are anger is stronger. At sunrise, he will be the first to die.
Pocahontas : But, Father...
Powhatan : [angry] I told you to stay in the village. You disobeyed me. You have shamed your father!
Pocahontas : I was only trying to help.
Powhatan : Because of your foolishness, Kocoum is dead! Take him away!
Pocahontas : [when Nakoma comes out of the crowd and approaches her to confess to sending Kocoum after her] Kocoum was just coming to protect me.
Nakoma : Pocahontas, I sent Kocoum after you. I was worried about you. I thought I was doing the right thing.
Pocahontas : All this happened because of me. And now I'll never see John Smith again.
Nakoma : Come with me.
[to the guards]
Nakoma : Pocahontas wants to look into the eyes of the man who killed Kocoum.
Warriors : Be quick.
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Powhatan : Pocahontas, you and Nakoma should be inside the village.
Pocahontas : We'll be all right.
Nakoma : We're gathering food for when the warriors arrive.
Powhatan : Don't go far. Now is not the time to be running off.
Pocahontas : Yes, Father.
Powhatan : When I see you wear that necklace, you look just like your mother.
Pocahontas : I miss her.
Powhatan : But she is still with us. Whenever the wind moves through the trees, I feel her presence. Our people looked to her for wisdom and strength. Someday, they will look to you as well.
Pocahontas : I would be honored by that.
Powhatan : You shouldn't be out here alone. I'll send for Kocoum.
Nakoma : All right. What is it?
Pocahontas : What?
Nakoma : You're hiding something.
Pocahontas : I'm not hiding anything.
Nakoma : Pocahontas, you can tell me. I promise I won't tell anyone.
[sees John Smith coming]
Nakoma : Pocahontas, look! It's one of them! I'm going to get...
Pocahontas : [thrusts her hand over Nakoma's mouth] What are you doing here?
John Smith : I had to see you again.
Kocoum : Pocahontas. Pocahontas?
Pocahontas : [to Nakoma] Please, don't say anything.
[to John Smith]
Pocahontas : Quick, this way.
Nakoma : But...
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Nakoma : Pocahontas, are you crazy? What were you doing with one of them?
Kocoum : There you are.
Pocahontas : Kocoum.
Kocoum : [to Pocahontas and Nakoma] Look at them. Now we have enough warriors to destroy those white demons.
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John Smith : Pocahontas!
Pocahontas : John!
John Smith : Listen to me. My men are planning to attack your people. You've got to warn them.
Pocahontas : Maybe it's not to late to stop this. You have 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 about this land has them spooked.
[They hear howling in a distant]
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Grandmother Willow : Well, I haven't had this much excitement in 200 years.
Pocahontas : What am I doing? I shouldn't be seeing him again. I mean, I want to see him again.
Grandmother Willow : Who wouldn't? I want to see him again.
Pocahontas : But still, something inside is telling me it's the right thing.
Grandmother Willow : Perhaps it's your dream.
Pocahontas : My dream? Do you think he's the one the spinning arrow was pointing to?
Grandmother Willow : Hmm.
