American Honey Page #4

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Look at this fountain.

Look at this fountain.

Look at this fountain.

- [QT] Holy sh*t.

- [AUSTIN] That's big.

- [QT] This is a nice-ass neighborhood.

- [COREY] Mission Hills.

It's not like you just get

a couple of magazines...

- [AUSTIN] Give me your money, b*tch!

- [COREY] You rich motherfuckers.

[KALIUM]

These are, like, lawyers and sh*t.

[COREY] Yeah, we're all gonna do

very well today.

[MAN] Yeah. Yeah.

[QT] Let's go to that house first.

[COREY] Dude, that f***ing place is sick.

Oh, yeah, like, I was in Del Rio, Texas.

I was hunting turkey with my stepdad.

That motherf***er was, like,

chasing me for, like, 20 minutes,

like, pecking my ass while

I was running and all that sh*t.

Man, my stepdad had to shoot the

motherf***er off me, like, straight up.

- [COREY] Look at that horse.

- [SEAN] Sh*t, that's tight.

- [QT] Yeah, yeah.

- [COREY] It's badass.

[JAKE] Let me get your number.

Let me get that number.

That is. That's like a ten.

That's like a ten.

[SEAN]

Yeah, it probably cost like a thousand.

Damn, look at that house down there.

[SEAN] The thing about it was, I wasn't

even hunting turkey. I was hunting deer.

I wasn't even trying

to hunt the motherf***er.

You'll see me with

a skate park in the back,

a skate park in the front.

A skate park through the house.

I don't give a f***.

- [KALIUM] I'll be skating all day.

- F*** this place.

- Yeah.

- That's what I got to say.

[JAKE] Hey. All right,

I'm calling out teams now.

We're going backwards from yesterday.

QT and Austin is team one.

Kat and Gay Ray's team two.

[COUGHS] Kal and Riley's three.

Sean and Shaunte again, four.

Pagan, Billy, five.

- Corey, Runt, six.

- Hell, yeah.

Me and new girl.

[JJ] I need my pad case

and my cigarettes and my phone.

- I'm ready for this.

- [KAT LAUGHS]

Let me get out of this car

before I slap the b*tch out of her.

[LAUGHS]

Good luck. Have fun.

- You stay on your own side.

- Yeah, f*ggot ass.

- [JAKE] Hey, you guys got phones?

- Hey, JJ.

- Yeah, I got 'em.

- [JAKE] Sell as many as you can, bro.

- B*tch.

- D*cks.

[JAKE] So it's me and Star next,

and then you're gonna take

Pagan to the church,

- and then we'll just all hook up there.

- [BILLY] All right, cool, yeah.

[JAKE CLEARS THROAT]

All right.

How do I look, Death Star?

Let's see.

Hold up.

- Like a smart-ass power agent.

- You know what I'm saying?

F***, yeah, like a power agent.

[SINGING FANFARE]

Shut the f*** up.

- Wanna see something crazy?

- Yeah.

- Yeah?

- Yeah.

- Pow.

- That better not be real.

- Dude, are you f***ing kidding me?

- You just put that sh*t in my face?

- [LAUGHING]

- You're f***ing laughing.

You just put a real-ass gun in my face?

Yeah, but it wasn't chambered.

It's not like...

What do you need a gun for anyhow?

I don't trust many people, you know?

- What the f***?

- Let me see it.

Come on, give it here.

I got it. I just don't know how to...

[GUN C*CKS]

A**hole.

What did you press?

What did you press?

You really put a f***ing gun in my face,

and you don't even know how to use it?

I know how to use it.

I didn't know how to press the release.

There's nothing in it. Relax.

You read the handbook last night

- about the five sales steps?

- Yeah.

That's a bunch of sh*t, all that.

You don't gotta listen to that.

See, 'cause in Jake's book

there's one f***ing step.

Not five, just one.

It just takes one step.

Once you get this one f***ing step down,

you're the chief of the tribe.

And I'm gonna teach you

that one step today.

You hear what I'm saying?

Basically, as soon as they

open that door and look at you,

that's the critical moment,

that's the make-or-break moment.

'Cause in that second you gotta work them,

you gotta read them, you gotta be able

to scan them and figure them out,

figure what kind of person

that person wants in their life.

Then you gotta be that person. You know?

So, like, a couple of the

other agents are really rigid

about the five sales steps

and all this sh*t.

So they'll pick a spiel that's,

like, some sad sh*t, like...

[SPITS]

"Mama's got cancer"

or, "My f***ing foot is falling off."

"I'm trying to get my life back together."

You know, "I got a little

lost there in my teens,

and now I'm really working

on myself, man," and,

"Oh, you know, my dad, he died in Iraq."

Any sad spiel, and they'll just say it

over and over and over again

until it's meaningless.

This person? This person doesn't

give a f*** about magazines, right?

They want something from me,

so if I'm a G,

I'm gonna figure out what that

something is and I'm gonna work that.

- Yeah?

- And that's a power agent.

All right. Let's go.

You're my good-luck charm. Here we go.

The thing you gotta remember is,

every Jones is different.

Mmm-hmm.

Every sale, right?

Mmm-hmm.

You gotta treat it like it's a game.

You know?

[JAKE SINGING]

- Hi.

- Hi.

No, we've never met. I'd remember

a face like that. What's your name?

- Destiny.

- Destiny, I'm Jake. How are you?

- Nice to meet you.

- This is my younger sister, Star.

- Uh, you want my mom?

- No, but can you do me a favor?

One favor. Can you feel this material?

Just feel it.

What does that material feel like to you?

I don't know about that.

You know what kind of material it is?

- Uh-uh.

- That's boyfriend material.

You know what I'm saying? Look right here.

- Who is it?

- Genuine boyfriend...

- Hi, there.

- Can I help you folks?

Hi, yeah, I was just

explaining to your daughter,

we're part of the Three Cs contest,

which is a collegiate

communications competition.

So we've been going door-to-door,

sort of garner support for our team.

Walking all day. You think

I can get a glass of water from you?

- Where's your accent from?

- I'm from Bakersfield, ma'am.

- California.

- Hmm.

- Yeah.

- [WOMAN] You're a long way from home.

Long way. But you gotta do

what you gotta do, you know.

Um, I'll get you guys a glass of water.

- Thank you.

- Hold fire, Destiny.

Just you go join your friends.

I'll deal with this.

Uh, good day to walk, though.

Really good day to walk.

How long we walked now? Five, six miles?

- Something like that.

- A little dehydrated, ain't you?

Six or seven miles in this is pretty good.

It could be worse, you know?

[DOG BARKING]

- Okay, you can come in.

- Thank you.

- Just for a moment.

- Thank you so much.

Excuse the mess.

Destiny had a birthday sleepover.

I'll just grab you something to drink,

and then you can tell me

about the contest.

[JAKE] Okay.

- This is a beautiful house.

- [WOMAN] Thank you.

[JAKE]

Yeah. Thanks so much for letting us in.

[WOMAN] We have just about everything.

What would you like?

I'll take a beer if you have it.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

- How about you?

- I don't want anything.

I thought you were on your last legs.

Well, I'm not.

Okay, well, look, I don't have much time,

so if you wanna just tell me

about the contest.

Well, so basically I'm working on

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