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The New
World |
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Colin
Farrell, Christopher Plummer, Wes
Studi, August Schellenberg, Raoul Trujillo,
Michael Greyeyes, Q'Orianka Kilcher,
Christian
Bale, David Thewlis, Noah Taylor |
| Producer |
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Sarah Green |
| Director |
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Terrence Malick |
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Historical, Romance, Period |
| Duration |
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150 mins |
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In the early years of the 17th
century, North America is much as it has been for
the previous five thousand years-a vast land of
seemingly endless primeval wilderness populated
by an intricate network of tribal cultures. Although
these nations live in graceful harmony with their
environment, their relations with each other are
a bit more uneasy. All it will take to upset the
balance is an intrusion from the outside.
On a spring day in April of 1607, three diminutive
ships bearing 103 men sail into this world from
their distant home, the island kingdom of England,
three thousand miles to the east across a vast ocean.
On behalf of their sponsor, the royally chartered
Virginia Company, they are seeking to establish
a cultural, religious, and economic foothold on
the coast of what they regard as the New World.
The lead ship of the tiny flotilla is called the
Susan Constant. Shackled below decks in her brig
is a rebellious 27 years 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 woman who at first seems to be more
woodland sprite than human being.
A willful and impetuous young woman whose family
and friends affectionately call her "Pocahontas"
or "playfulone",
she is the favorite of Powhatan's children. Before
long a bond develops between Smith and Pocahontas,
a bond so powerful that it transcends friendship
or even romance. |
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