Pocahontas and John Smith get to know each other as they talk about their respective cultures.
John Smith: You have such unusual names here. Chickahominy. Qui-Quiyough-cohannock. Pocahontas. Pocahontas: You have the most unusual name too. John Smith. |
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Meeko steals John's compass, which will be | |
John Smith: There's so much we can teach you. 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— Pocahontas: Let go! John Smith: I'm not letting you leave! | |
John Smith: Don't do this. Savage is just a word. A term for people who are uncivilised. Pocahontas: Like me?John Smith: When I say uncivilised what I mean is— Pocahontas: What you mean is, not like you. And this whole conversation, where John digs a deeper hole and Pocahotas is unimpressed, uses physical contrasts between them: John is a klutz, Pocahontas is perfectly at home in her surroundings. | |
Colours of the Wind. | |
John Smith: I have to see you again. | |
John struck speechless by Pocahontas' spiritual wisdom. | |
Thomas tries to cheer John up, not knowing that he's been irreversibly changed. | |
Wiggins: I... I... I made it myself! | |
Ratcliffe: Wiggins, why do you think those insolent heathens attacked us? Wiggins: Because we invaded their land and cut down their trees and dug up their earth? Oh, snap. |