Legendary Lovers

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Shackled below decks in the brig of the Susan Constant is a rebellious 27-year-old named John Smith, destined to be hanged for insubordination as soon as the ship reaches land. A veteran of countless European wars, Smith is a soldier of fortune. He is too talented and popular to have his neck stretched by his own people, and is freed by Captain Christopher Newport soon after the Susan Constant drops anchor. As Captain Newport knows--and the colonists will soon discover--surviving in this unknown wilderness will require the services of every able-bodied man--particularly one of Smith's abilities. Though they don't realize it at the time, Newport and his band of British settlers have landed in the midst of a sophisticated Native American empire ruled by the powerful chieftain Powhatan. To the colonists, it may be a new world, but to Powhatan and his people, it's an ancient world--and the only one they have ever known. The English struggle from the beginning, unable--or, in some cases, stubbornly unwilling--to fend for themselves. Smith, searching for assistance from the local tribesmen, chances upon a young girl who at first seems to be more woodland sprite than human being. A willful and impetuous young girl whose family and friends affectionately call her "Pocahontas" or "playful one"--she is the favorite of Powhatan's children. Before long a bond develops between Smith and Pocahontas, a bond so powerful that it transcends into friendship and love.

John Smith's intense romance with the Indian princess is halted when he's returned to Jamestown and made president of the colony. They later reunite once during the winter when she and her people bring food to the starving men of Jamestown, both of them undeniably still pining for each other. They reunite again in the spring with Smith internally struggling to choose between living with his love in the wild or going back the colony. After Powhatan learns that the settlers don't intend to leave he prepares to attack them, but Pocahontas warns her lover ahead time which leads her to be banished. The English settlers eventually learn of a way to stop the brutal attacks by the Indians--make Pocahontas a captive in the fort. John Smith is strongly against this, but when the others learn of his relationship with the girl, they mutiny and he is stripped of his power as president of Jamestown. After Pocahontas is brought into the fort she is angry with him, believing he betrayed her by making a prisoner in the colony, but quickly finds out that John Smith had nothing to do with her capture. Their relationship is reconciled until Smith learns from Captain Newport, who has come back from England after being away for several months, that the king has ordered him to take on another expedition. Not wanting Pocahontas to wait for him forever, he convinces a friend to tell Pocahontas two months after his departure that he drowned at sea. John Smith is not seen again until he reunites with Pocahontas one last time in England, who is now married to John Rolfe and decides to stay with her husband. Smith is clearly upset by this, but accepts Pocahontas' decision and they say one last friendly goodbye to each other before he leaves her family's home.

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Pocahontas, the youngest of Chief Powhatan's children, is a young and playful Indian princess who comes in contact with the English settlers when they arrive in early 1607. She meets Captain John Smith one day in a meadow shortly after he arrives on the shores and sparks of chemistry fly between them instantly. She feels for Smith who has been captured by her people and is being tortured in an Indian ritual until she saves him by throwing herself on top of his body and pleading with her father to spare his life. Her father does spare his life, but only so Pocahontas can learn what the English settlers intentions are and expects them to leave in the spring when their leader Captain Newport returns from England.

Pocahontas and John Smith quickly form a close bond of friendship, learning about each other's cultures and languages, which eventually leads the two begin an innocent, yet passionate romance. John Smith is later returned to the colony before the winter season and the two lovers reunite shortly in the spring. Pocahontas shows who her loyalty lies with when she warns John Smith of a surprise attack on the fort her people are planning for not leaving like they promised. As a result, Powhatan banishes his daughter for her betrayal to his brother's village. In assurance of not being attacked by the settlers anymore, the naturals decide to sell Pocahontas for a copper kettle and she comes to live in the fort. Thinking John Smith betrayed her by holding her captive to save the fort, she doesn't allow him to touch her until she sees he "didn't want to harm her" and realizes he was actually against it. Their relationship runs smoothly again until Captain Newport returns to Jamestown with news from the king of England that he wants Smith to set off on another expedition. Unaware that her lover will probably never return to Virginia again, Pocahontas is later told that he died at sea.

Pocahontas is heartbroken by the news of John Smith's "death," but eventually meets John Rolfe, a wealthy tobacco farmer who takes her under his wing and falls in love with her. They marry, even though she doesn't seem to love him at first because her heart still belongs to her first love, and they have a son named Tomas. A couple of years later, Pocahontas is surprised to learn that Smith is alive and living in London, and becomes torn between the two men in her life. After her audience with the King and Queen of England, Pocahontas and John Smith see each other one last time, and she decides to stay with her family. Soon after this meeting Pocahontas takes ill and the young princess' short life comes to a sudden end, but her myth lives on.

John Rolfe, a wealthy tobacco farmer, arrives at Jamestown shortly after John Smith's "death." He is entranced by Pocahontas from the first time he lays his eyes on her. He falls in love with her as he teaches her to be an European lady, however seems to understands her loss because he lost his wife and son before coming the New World. Rolfe proposes to Pocahontas, and even although her heart clearly still belongs to John Smith, she accepts and they get married. Pocahontas slowly falls in love with her husband and they have a son, which they name Tomas. A few years later, Pocahontas upsets John Rolfe when she informs him that she's learned John Smith is still alive and living in London. Rolfe and his family travel across the Atlantic so Pocahontas can see the Old World and meets the King and Queen of England. Later, John Smith comes to their estate in London and John Rolfe tells his wife that she'll never move on from her love with Smith until she sees him again. Pocahontas is surprised by this, but finally realizes that her husband is "the man she thought he was and more." When the Indian princess decides to stay with her family after seeing that her first love isn't the same man she fell in love with, Rolfe finally has the happy family he's always wanted with Pocahontas until her unfortunate death before they return to Virginia.