Did she stay or did she go???
The Twinadoes have just discovered that there is a shop in town where you can pay some money and they let you borrow DVDs… to take home… to watch… and ooooooooooh there is sooooooo many to choose from. Previously this distraction had been limited to when they were really sick, so sick that they could do nothing but lie on the couch, so sick that they didn’t ask questions about where the DVDs came from or where they disappeared to. Not any more.
So on the weekend we made a visit. There had been much discussion about which two movies they would choose and which order they would be watched in. They finally agreed on Beauty and the Beast and Pocahontas… two movies they had not seen before, but being princess obsessed they were very keen to check them out.
After some technical difficulties were finally fixed we all sat down to a ‘DVD dinner’ in front of Beauty and the Beast as a very special treat on Sunday night… and then.. because The Baldy Boy was working… and because they are both doing so well with their ballet rehearsals.. and because I am a sucker… we got fish and chips on the way home from ballet and settled in for Pocahontas last night.
I’d never seen Pocahontas either and for a ‘princess’ movie I quite liked it. The girls picked up on various decent messages throughout the story, as well as being totally immersed in the love story and the songs. We were almost at the end, just as the injured John Smith is about to sail away on the boat and he asks Pocahontas to come with him and something terrible happened…
The DVD stopped. It stopped. No amount of fast forwarding or cleaning or re-trying could get it to go any further….It just stops right at that pivotal moment, a frozen close up of her tortured face as she is about to say whether she will stay or go. We are just left hanging… waiting with baited breath, never to find out her fate.
Come on people.. help me out here…. please! Put me out of my misery and give my girls and end to their story. Does Pocahontas sail away with John Smith and live happily ever after or does she stay home with her father and Grandmother Willow??????
[Cut to: Thomas and John.]
THOMAS
The ship’s almost ready. We’d better get you on board. We’ll lose the tide.
JOHN SMITH
No, not yet. She said she’d be here.
THOMAS
Look.
[Pocahontas arrives.]
THOMAS
Going back is his only chance, he’ll die if he stays here.
POCAHONTAS
Here. It’s from Grandmother Willow’s bark. It’ll help with the pain.
JOHN SMITH
What pain? I’ve had worse pain than this. Can’t think of any right now, but…
POWHATAN
You are always welcome among our people. Thank you, my brother.
JOHN SMITH
[To Flit.] I thought you didn’t like strangers.
[Meeko, Percy and Flit present Pocahontas’ fixed necklace.]
POCAHONTAS
My mother’s necklace.
JOHN SMITH
See ya, Percy. [To Pocahontas.] Come with me?
POWHATAN
You must choose your own path.
POCAHONTAS
I’m needed here.
JOHN SMITH
Then I’ll stay with you.
POCAHONTAS
No, you have to go back.
JOHN SMITH
But I can’t leave you.
POCAHONTAS
You never will. No matter what happens, I’ll always be with you. Forever.
And I’m so grateful to you
JOHN SMITH
I’d have lived my whole life through
LON
Good luck, lad.
THOMAS
Godspeed, John.
[The Susan Constant sails off as Pocahontas watches.]
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How frustrating! I’ll have to double check with Guerita when she gets home from school (she’s the expert), but I have a feeling she stays. It’s quite sad from memory – the final scene is her standing on the clifftop watching his ship sail away. The Twinadoes might have been disappointed with that ending so maybe you shouldn’t tell them! :)
It’s a bit sad that I know what happens, isn’t it?
from this
http://www.fanpop.com/external/1998682
Don’t tell. This is the perfect ending Each viewer – ie Zoe, Izzy and of course you can now write your own ending Either of those you indicate are very unsatisfactory How about a blog copmp for the most satisfying ending?????
Hopefully it has put the girls off hired dvds for llife Hee Hee
She stays, but in Pocahontus 2 she travels to England…………..
The real question is do you want to know what really happened?! Pocahontas was about 13, and John Smith was in his 40s. Yes she laid her head over his and saved his life, no there was never anything romantic between them. She did later come to England and married John Rolfe. As I recall she died fairly young of some English disease against which she had no immunity…
I love the songs in the movie, I just really wish they didn’t try to pass it off as history. And the part of her running around half-naked…that bugs me a lot. So we don’t watch that one here. :p
I always wondered …now I know. I wanted to watch the movie for the music too.
pressie for you at my place
in the REAL story…one or both of them die of syphilis (sp??)