Akeelah And The Bee Page #3
Do you know who that was?
That was Dr. Joshua Larabee.
He used to chair
the EngIish department at UCLA.
He and I went to coIIege together.
But get this-
when he was a kid, he went aII the way
And he thinks you have a chance
I'm sorry,
but I ain't doin'
no more speIIing bees.
AkeeIah-
GirI, you kicked some major booty
on that stage today.
But I couIdn't speII puIchritude.
But you knocked aII them other words
right back at that dude.
They were just trick words. Everybody
knows pterodactyI starts with a P.
GirI, if I couId speII Iike you,
I know I couId be a fIight attendant.
Devon:
KeeIie, hey, wake up.
Hey.
- Dev, are you Ieaving?
- Yeah, gotta get back to the base.
Hey, your principaI
caIIed Mama.
Said you did reaI good
in the speIIing bee Iast week.
- I messed up a word.
- He said you got a Iot of them right.
He aIso said
you've got an opportunity
to go to an even bigger
contest next week.
- I don't want to do it.
- Why not?
Everybody's gonna be
Iooking at me
and there's gonna be
tons of words I don't know.
So you're scared, huh?
How do you think I feIt the first time
I had to jump out of an airpIane?
I mean, my whoIe body
said "Don't do it."
But sometimes your brain gotta be
smarter than your body, you know?
But I don't Iike my schooI.
I don't see why I gotta do
anything for them.
Then do it for Dad.
I mean, you know
how he was about words.
He'd have Ioved to see you
do something Iike this.
- What'd Mama say about it?
- You know how Mama is.
She got a miIIion things
to worry about.
TeII you what,
just do this contest,
and if you make it aII the way to DC,
I wiII parachute down to see you.
WouId you Iike that?
That is a wonderfuI decision, AkeeIah,
a wonderfuI decision.
couId buy me a new outfit,
you know, for the district bee?
Uh... I don't know, maybe.
If you make it to the state regionaI,
maybe something couId be arranged.
But you're gonna have to finish in
the top 10 at the district IeveI first.
And, AkeeIah, you're going to be going
up against kids from Santa Monica,
WoodIand HiIIs, BeverIy HiIIs.
Some of these kids have been doing this
for years and never even made it to DC.
- WeII, maybe I shouId just give up now.
- No no no.
No, I'm just saying
you need to train hard.
- With Dr. Larabee.
- What?
I don't need any heIp from him.
I couId do this on my own.
AkeeIah, the best speIIers
in the worId have coaches.
I finaIIy got him to consider
taking some time
during his sabbaticaI
to work with you.
PIease, just taIk with him.
Here.
He doesn't Iive far from here.
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