The Greatest Showman Page #4

see I'm doing fine?

I don't need to see the other side.

Now is this really how you

like to spend your days?

Whiskey and misery,

and parties and plays.

If I were mixed up with you,

I'd be the talk of the town.

Disgraced and disowned,

another one of the clowns.

But you would finally live a

little, finally laugh a little.

Just let me give you the freedom

to dream and it'll wake you up

and cure your aching.

Take your walls and

start 'em breaking.

Now that's a deal that

seems worth taking.

But I guess I'll

leave that up to you.

Well it's intriguing, but

to go would cost me greatly.

So what percentage of the

show would I be taking?

Fair enough, you'd want a

piece of all the action.

I'd give you seven, we could

shake and make it happen.

I wasn't born this morning,

eighteen would be just fine.

Why not just go ahead and

ask for nickels on the dime?

- 15.

- I'm doing eight.

- 12.

- maybe nine

10.

Sir, it looks like you

have yourself a junior partner.

What I have is an

overcompensated apprentice.

Don't you wanna get away to a

whole new part you're gonna play.

'Cause I got what you need, so

come with me and take the ride.

to the other side.

So if you do like I do

So if you do like me.

Forget the cage, 'cause we

know how to make the key.

Oh, damn! Suddenly

we're free to fly.

We're going to the other side.

So if you do like I do.

To the other side.

So if you do like me.

'Cause if we do

we're going to the other side.

Who is that?

Hey. No one is buying hats back here.

Get out front, go.

WD, Anne, I want to introduce my

newest hire, Mr Philip Carlyle.

- It's a pleasure to meet you.

- Yeah, pleasure.

And what is your act, Mr. Carlyle?

I don't have an act.

Everyone has got an act.

- Mr. Barnum.

- Yeah?

You better come see this.

Philip, keep up.

- A bit of nasty element.

- They're always is, isn't it?

Nothing draws a crowd

crying like a crowd.

Go home you freaks.

"Shame of the city".

"The protests amend

Mr. Barnum's reputation..."

"as a previewer of the

offensive and indecent."

"Offensive and indecent."

Mr. Bennett, I'm blushing.

No, I'm blushing.

What do you care what Bennett thinks?

- He's a prick.

- And a snob.

Yeah, all the snobs in the

New York are reading me.

Does their thinking for them.

What ever happened to the

thriving of controversy?

Yeah, well...

Look, hey..

- Do you have any thoughts on this?

- Philip.

- As a matter of fact, I do.

- Helen, come on.

"The master of the Household,

has it in the command of the Queen...

To invite Mr. Phineas Barnum and his theatrical

troop to a reception at

Buckingham Palace."

- The Queen Victoria? Is this real?

- I had to pull a few strings.

If you want society to accept you,

you may as well start

at the very very top.

Are we all invited?

I guess I'll just have to tell

the queen either all of us go

or none of us will.

The Queen of England.

Can't get much better than that.

- Why aren't we in tails?

- We are the entertainment.

I don't see you in a costume.

Your Majesty, Mr Phineas

T Barnum and his...

Oddities from America.

Is that real?

Your Majesty,

may I present Mr Barnum.

The honor is mine, Mr. Barnum.

And I've heard all about

your little colonel

from my friends in America.

General, ma'am.

You are even smaller

than I imagined.

Well, you are not exactly reaching

the top self yourself sweetheart.

Ah, that went well.

- Your Majesty.

- Philip.

Miss Jenny Lind.

She is really luminous.

- Who is that?

- The opera singer.

Singer, huh?

She is the most famous

performer in all of Europe.

She has sold out La Scala

a dozen times.

Not to mention

the French Opera.

Striking.

- What are you doing?

- Following you...

so you can introduce

me to Miss Lind.

- Introduce you?

- Yeah.

I don't know her.

Everybody knows her.

You just said so yourself.

Yeah, exactly. You don't just

walk up to someone right now.

Why not? We are presentable.

She is a person.

Miss Lind.

My name is Phillip Carlyle.

And this extraordinary

gentleman next to me...

Phineas Taylor Barnum.

The pleasure is mine.

Of course, you are the American.

I believe I might have heard of you.

Oh well, If you've heard of

me all the way over here,

I must have been doing

something right.

That, or something very wrong.

In the world of publicity there

is hardly any difference.

I believe those are the words

of a scoundrel, Mr Barnum.

A showman, Miss Lind, just a showman.

The best on my side of the Atlantic.

- If you just say so yourself.

- I do, but I don't have to.

Oh, no, no.

He is one of the best.

That's very kind of you.

Miss Lind, let me get to the point.

I would like to bring you to New York.

And if you agree...

I will make you the most famous singer

not in Europe but in the entire world.

And have you heard me sing?

- Absolutely.

- No, I haven't.

But like mine, your

reputation precedes you...

and well, I trust your reputation

more than my own taste, so...

I have never been to America.

You will sing in the grandest theater...

with the finest orchestra in the

greatest city on earth.

"Jenny Lind".

"One night only." Or maybe two.

And at 20% at the gate, it will

be a queen's ransom for your..

I gave most of my

earnings to charity, Mr Barnum...

to orphans and widows.

"Voice of a nightingale,

Heart of an Angel."

That's brilliant. I mean the press

will go crazy with that story.

That's not a story.

May I ask you something,

Mr. Barnum?

Anything.

Why me?

People come to my show for the

pleasure of being hoodwinked.

Just once, I would love to

give them something real.

Miss Lind.

Everyone is here. Look at this.

Even the Winthrops.

- Are you happy?

- I will be, if this works.

Oh, God, I hope she can sing.

- What's taking her so long?

- They are still taking their seats.

Speaking of which. Tom and Lettie,

the others, they just arrived.

- What?

- Where should I put them? Your box?

- That box? No, that's pretty visible.

- Visible?

The acoustics are actually

better in the standing room.

That's where they should be.

- Miss Lind is ready now.

- OK. Thank you. Thank God.

This is so beautiful.

- Isn't that beautiful?

- Yes.

I love it.

Ladies and gentlemen,

thank you for your patience.

I recently had the privilege of

hearing the most divine voice...

- I've ever heard.

- Suddenly he's a connoisseur.

Now, I know that sounds

like Barnum humbug...

but I have a 100 bottles of

good champagne on ice that says

that this is not just

another sideshow novelty.

May I present, the Swedish Nightingale...

Miss Jenny Lind.

I'm trying to hold to my breath

let it stay that way.

Can't let this moment end.

You set off a dream with me.

Getting louder now.

Can you hear it echoing?

Take my hand.

Will you share this with me?

'Cause darling without you.

All the shine of a thousand spotlights.

All the stars we steal

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