Mel Gibson credited as playing...
John Smith
- 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]
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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]
- Governor Ratcliffe: [after Powhatan has released John Smith] Now's our chance! Fire!
- Thomas: No!
- Governor Ratcliffe: What?
- Thomas: They let him go.
- Ben: They don't want to fight.
- Governor Ratcliffe: It's a trick! Don't you see? Fire!
- [no-one moves. Ratcliffe grabs someone's gun]
- Governor Ratcliffe: Fine. I'll settle this myself.
- [he aims at Powhatan]
- John Smith: [seeing Ratcliffe] No!
- [he pushes Powhatan away and is shot in the stomach]
- Thomas: John!
- [John falls. Thomas turns on Ratcliffe]
- Thomas: You shot him!
- Governor Ratcliffe: He stepped right--right into it. It's his own fault.
- 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.
- John Smith: You have the most unusual names here. Chechomony, Kuyukanhoic, Pocahontas.
- Pocahontas: You have a most unusual name too. John Smith.
- John Smith: Look, we don't have to fight them.
- Thomas: John, what's gotten into you?
- John Smith: I met one of them.
- Ben: You what?
- Thomas: A savage?
- John Smith: They're not savages. They can help us. They know the land. They know how to navigate the rivers.
- [Meeko pulls out an ear of corn and gives it to John]
- John Smith: And look, it's food.
- Lon: What is it?
- John Smith: It's 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 us, you ninnies! They want to kill us, all of us! They've got our gold, and they'll do anything to keep it!
- John Smith: But there is no gold.
- Ben: No gold?
- Governor Ratcliffe: [sarcastically] And I suppose your little Indian friend told you this?
- John Smith: Yes.
- Governor Ratcliffe: Lies! Lies! All of it! Murderous thieves! There's not room for their kind in civilized society.
- 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 as look at an Indian without killing him on sight will be 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 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!
- 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.
- 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
- Thomas: What do you suppose the New World will look 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?
- Pocahontas: [singing] And I'm so grateful to you
- John Smith: [singing] I'd have lived my whole life through
- John Smith: Come with me?
- Powhatan: You must choose your own path.
- Pocahontas: [pause] I'm needed here.
- Thomas: [as a bugle is being played] John, you better get down here. The governor's coming ashore.
- John Smith: [blows an attacking Flit away from his face] All right. All right. I'm leaving.
- 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...
- 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]