August Rush (2007)

Freddie Highmore: August Rush

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• August Rush : [opening voice-over]  Listen. Can you hear it? The music. I can hear it everywhere. In the wind... in the air... in the light. It's all around us. All you have to do is open yourself up. All you have to do... is listen.

• August Rush : [in voiceover]  But I believe in music... The way that some people believe in fairy tales.

• August Rush : The music is all around US, all you have to do is listen.

• August Rush : Sometimes the world tries ot knock it out of you. But I believe in music the way that some people believe in fairy tales. I like to imagine that what I hear came from my mother and father. Maybe the notes I hear, are the same ones they heard, the night they met. Maybe that's how they found each other. Maybe that's how they'll find me. I believe that once upon a time, long ago, they heard the music and followed it.

• Richard Jeffries : How long have you been here?

  August Rush : Eleven years and sixteen days.

  [Jeffries stares at August] 

  August Rush : I've been counting.

• Wizard : What do you want to be in the world? I mean the whole world. What do you want to be? Close your eyes and think about that.

  August Rush : Found.

  Wizard : [pauses]  Doesn't have enough yin. little more yang, ya know?

  August Rush : yeah

• Louis Connelly : Great sounds kid. Gibson J200?

  [August nods] 

  Louis Connelly : It's beautiful. Can I see her?

  [August looks uncertainly over at Wizard who is talking on the phone] 

  Louis Connelly : Hey, it's okay. I'm a musician too.

  [August and Louis swap guitars] 

  Louis Connelly : Oh yeah!

  [Louis plays some cord] 

  Louis Connelly : Nice action.

  August Rush : Your pretty good.

  Louis Connelly : Thanks. Let's see what you can do on mine.

  [They both start improvising "Bari Improv"] 

• Wizard : Hola music lovers! While the cat's away-

  [He sees the pizza box on the ground] 

  Wizard : oh. who likes pizza?

  [Arthur tries to sneak away] 

  Wizard : Arthur.

  [gestures for Arthur to come here] 

  Wizard : What is he?

  Backbeat : He's a damn fool!

  Wizard : What are you Arthur?

  Arthur : I'm a real piece of work, Wizard.

  Wizard : [Wizard points his switch blade at Arthur]  You're on thin ice.

  Arthur : I didn't take no family money. He bought it

  [points to August] 

  Arthur : [August stares at Wizard] 

  Wizard : What?

  August Rush : You look crazy.

  Wizard : I am crazy! RAAAHHH!

  [August flinches] 

  Wizard : [smugly]  See? Come here. C'mon. NOW!

  [August walks over nervously] 

  Wizard : What are you doing here?

  August Rush : I followed the music.

  Wizard : [Wizard looks at him for a second then cracks up]  Where'd you get this one Arthur? Belevieu?

  Wizard : [Wizard looks at August's hands]  You never played a note in your life. You know what music is? It's God's little reminder that there's something else in this universe besides us. Harmonic connection between everything, even the stars.

  August Rush : Is this a school?

  Arthur : Yeah, the school of "Screw You and Take All Your Damn Money"!

  Backbeat : Yeah, we're top of the class!

  Wizard : NOT! It's a business. POCKETS!

• Wizard : Can't you see it? Wizard productions presents the number one heat wave: AUGUST RUSH!

  August Rush : Yeah! Me! That's me!

• Hope : [as August enters the room]  You the one slept under my bed?

  August Rush : [watches her as she plays the piano]  Do you live here?

  Hope : Me and my grandma do till our boat comes in. Do you like music?

  August Rush : More than food.

  Hope : [looks at him strangely, then continues]  Do you know your notes?

  August Rush : I've never seen them like that before.

  Hope : See here: "Every Good Boy Does Fine" on the lines. And "F-A-C-E" in between. And "Great Big Dogs Fight Animals". And "All Cars Eat Gas". Get it?

  August Rush : You're like an angel.

  Hope : [thinks August is weird]  Okay. I gotta go.

• Arthur : [August puts a dollar in Arthur's guitar case]  Okay citizen, you paid, any requests?

  August Rush : No.

  Arthur : Alrighty then!

• Arthur : What?

  August Rush : I don't have a place to stay

  Arthur : Do I look like a real estate tycoon to you?

  [August shrugs] 

  Arthur : How many dead presidents you got?

  [August looks at him blankly] 

  Arthur : Nuggets? Shorts? Show me the money!

  [August takes out a wad of cash] 

  Arthur : Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

  August Rush : No, I'm thinking something else

• Wizard : Deal's off.

  August Rush : But Wizard, I have to play! I have to let them hear!

  Wizard : [Grabs August and throws him against the fence]  You play when I say play. You breathe when I say breathe! You got that boy? You forget about your parents! They were pretty quick to forget about you!

  Wizard : [Wizard calms down a bit then continues]  You do not know how precious your gift is. You're just a kid, you don't know. I do, August