Battle of the Year Page #6

I'm scared. I'm gay.

Yeah, he's a mama's boy.

Say all you want

about me,

but say one more word

about my mother...

We all good in here?

Yeah, we good, Coach.

Lil Adonis?

We all good?

Good, Coach.

Man, these cuts

are getting crazy.

Not bad.

You need to let

go of your ego.

Something wrong

with your watch, Rebel?

Uh... No, Coach,

it's good.

Then what was so important

to make the rest of us wait?

We battle Russia's top crew

in less than two weeks.

We'd rather not say.

I said,

why were we late?

We'd really

rather not say.

I said,

why were we late?

We had to take a sh*t.

(ALL LAUGH)

FRANKLYN:
Getting harder

to pick them, huh?

God, each one of these guys

has the moves down.

It isn't about the moves

anymore, Franklyn.

It's about chemistry.

Like which dudes

are getting along?

Not about that, either.

Record books are filled with

teams that never got along,

championship teams, too.

So, what, then?

Those teams had

something else.

The players pushed

each other to greatness.

Tell Intricate

I need to see him.

Okay-

All right, gentlemen, tomorrow's

the day we've been waiting for.

The Russians are disciplined,

synchronized, precise.

Remember, the only way to win

this is going there as a team.

Get some sleep.

Tomorrow's the big day.

(AUDIENCE CHEERING) EMCEE:

Tonight's battle features

Russia's Top 9

versus America's Dream Team!

Let's go! Come on!

All right.

Yeah!

Come on!

Let's get 'em, Rebel!

All you, kid, all you.

Come on, Rebel.

Yeah.

Yeah!

Let's go, Kid! Come on!

Pow!

Come on.

What is this sh*t?

God damn it!

Go, go, go. Come on.

Chief, chief, go, go.

All right, let's go!

What's he doing?

BLAKE:
Where's your team?

Rooster, get out there!

Act like a team!

Damn it!

Where's your team?

Get off the floor!

Get off the floor!

You see what you did?

(AUDIENCE CHEERING)

Get 'em outside

right now!

Oh, sh*t.

Blake!

Are you gonna

talk to them?

I got nothing to say to them

I haven't already said.

Can't believe Coach didn't say a

word to us the whole way back.

It's 'cause you blew it.

What?

All of y'all blew it.

Call yourself the Dream Team?

More like the Dreamgirls.

Look, are you serious?

Yeah, I'm serious!

Anis, tell 'em!

Back me up!

It was your fault, Rooster.

What'd you say?

You heard me! We lost tonight

because of you, man!

Because of me? If anything, I tried to

rescue everybody! Yo, I'm over this!

I've heard that same

tired sh*t for years!

Anything happens, it's always

somebody else's fault!

Yo, why you coming

at me like this?

'Cause my feet hurt, I'm tired,

and it's your fault, man!

Yo, what the hell is your problem?

Listen to your boy, Rooster.

No, you shut up, too!

You're as bad as him!

What, you against the whole

world now, Frenchie?

No, just you two a**holes!

Ever since I walked in

these doors,

I gave everything

I got in this team!

Everything!

But Coach was right,

this team isn't going nowhere

if you two don't get

together right now!

Look around you!

Look at these guys!

We got everything we

need to win, right here!

To be the best there is!

And you're too goddamn

ignorant to see that!

You need to check your boy!

Shut up!

Guys like you and Rooster,

you might get other chances,

but for someone like me,

this sh*t is it, man.

I'm never gonna get another

shot at this, ever!

So I'm taking it,

even if I gotta punch you in the

face or dog my oldest friend!

I want this, man,

more than anything in my life!

Question is what the hell

do you two a**holes want?

(HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING)

Independent now

Sans label

Rooster! Rooster!

I Haters gonna ruin it S

(TURNS MUSIC OFF)

We need to talk.

There's been too much talk already.

Move. (TURNS MUSIC ON)

(TURNS MUSIC OFF)

Why you gotta be

such an a**hole?

You want to fight?

I'm tired of your sh*t!

I'm trying to tell

you your boy is right.

Yeah, I know,

I'm an ass. I got it.

No, I'm as much

to blame as you are.

Do you know how

talented you are?

You try a move once,

barn, you get that sh*t.

Me? I got to practice and practice my

ass off just to come close to you!

I've always been

jealous of that.

But that's what got me here.

You got me here.

Without that,

I don't even make this team.

Yo, where you

going with this, man?

I want to win!

I want to win.

We put aside all our old

bullshit, we can win this.

They need us.

What about Lauren?

(LAUGHS)

I broke that off two months

before you guys even hooked up.

Really?

Really.

So why you been

acting all crazy?

'Cause it pisses you off!

But I want to

squash this right now.

Come on.

Let's be partners again.

Just play my music, man.

Hey, give me a hug, bro.

A hug?

Yeah!

Give me a hug.

Come on, man. All right.

(TURNS MUSIC ON)

Coach!

Yo, Coach! Wake up, man.

You're late.

It's after 6:
00,

we gotta train right now.

Get out.

There's no practice today.

Come on. Get up, man.

Get out of my damn room!

We aren't going anywhere.

"We. " You don't know

sh*t about "we," son.

We get it. We screwed up.

Come on, let's go.

You don't tell me sh*t.

We're not telling

you what to do, Coach.

We're asking.

Come on, Coach,

please.

Come on, man.

Training room,

10 minutes.

Told you.

We want to win, we need

to change how we think.

Sound familiar?

Success is a choice.

Every true champion knows

mental game is the key.

It's our greatest power.

Most people never touch that power.

Don't even know they have it.

Go around,

doing the same old sh*t,

thinking the same

old thoughts every damn day.

It's why those people will tell

you, "Same sh*t, different day. "

Truth is the only thing permanent

in this universe is change.

Instead of griping

about these drills,

choose to say, "We're giving

these drills, our team,

"our country,

every ounce of ourselves. "

Choose to see ourselves

as champions.

Walk, talk, eat, drink,

think like champions,

we become unstoppable.

We become champions

in everything we do.

All right, it's looking good.

I can see progress.

Holy...

I know you're tired,

but it's the fourth quarter, gentlemen.

Suck it up. Deep breath.

Let's run it again.

Tomorrow's Friday.

Last man standing.

Can't think of it as

cutting the last man.

Gotta think of it as

choosing our final team.

Yeah?

Does that make it

any easier?

No, not really.

Hey, Coach.

Hey.

WOMAN:
Hey, baby.

All right, see ya.

See ya.

Are you really

this stupid?

Coach, look...

The rules are very simple.

(BABY CRYING)

Come in.

It's okay, baby,

Daddy's here.

This is Aleena.

It's okay, baby.

Mama's gonna be back soon.

She's beautiful.

Thank you.

It's okay.

You ever hear

of the Four S's?

What's that? Swaddle,

side, shimmy, shush.

May I?

It's okay, baby.

See, swaddling soothes them.

Tight, but not too tight.

Then you turn her on

her side like this.

Then you shimmy

back and forth.

It's not gonna work.

It will, quiet.

Shushing.

(QUIETING DOWN)

How'd you do that?

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