Pascual, Bianca Lorraine A.

IV Archdiocese of Ozamis

G - 33

MOVIE ANALYSIS AUGUST RUSH

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Meaning of Title Wizard: Can't you see it? Wizard productions presents the number one heat wave: AUGUST RUSH! August Rush: Yeah! Me! That's me! Performs have their stage names, just to protect their true identity to keep their real names in private; for Evan Taylors the Wizard gave him August Rush. According to the movie, after August performed on the Washington Square Park, Wizard a vagrant musician who teaches homeless children music and employs them as street performers, thinks of a name to hide Augusts true identity at the same time to be able to find a name that can attract citizens. A truck pass by with tarpaulin posted; August Rush at the Beach, it is more of a concert on the sea shore, it totally attracts the Wizard and gave that stage name to Evan. Wizard thinks that every time someone announce the name August rush its like it gives the vibes or chills to the people who are willing to heard a musical piece from August every time he performs.

II.

Major Characters (Role/Contribution) Evan Taylor / August Rush An eleven- year old boy who is the long lost son of Lyla and Louis. He is a remarkable kid how is gifted to have a savant- like ability to hear music wherever he is.

Lyla Novacek A cellist in an orchestra, the lover of Louis and the mother of Evan (August). At first she thought that his son died after meeting an accident while she was pregnant, after knowing that her father secretly puts her son up for adoption and forged her signature, she was convinced to look for his son and also Louis who is the father of her son.

Louis Connelly The lead singer of The Connelly Brothers, an Irish rock band. He left his band on the same night as Lylas accident. After years of thinking and waiting, he was convinced to look for Lyla. Louis meets August, they play together and not knowing their blood relationship to other another.

Maxwell "Wizard" Wallace

A vagrant musician who teaches homeless children music and employs them as street performers. He was the one playing the guitar and harmonica during Louis and Lylas night on the rooftop.

Counselor Richard Jeffries A social worker who wanted to help Evan to find his parents. After knowing that Evan runaway from the orphanage, he continues to look for Evan and accidentally met Evans biological mother, Lyla, who is also looking for him. Hope A young girl who lives at the church and a member of their choir. She introduces to August the piano and the written notes.

Arthur We was the first person that August met in Washington. He helped August in his journey in finding his parents.

III.

Summary/ Plot
In the year 1995, Lyla, a cellist and Louis a singer have a chance meeting on a party, fell in love with each other and sleep together on the rooftop under a full moon, while a man with a harmonica and guitar plays. After a rude awakening by Louis's bandmates, Lyla returns to her angered father in the morning and heads back to Chicago. Louis waits for Lyla as they had agreed, before eventually heading to the hotel Lyla was staying at, but Lyla doesn't acknowledge him. He turns to his music in the hopes she'll hear it and reconnect with him, but becomes discouraged. Meanwhile, Lyla eventually realizes she is pregnant. After an argument with her father regarding the baby and her career as a cellist, Lyla runs out into the street and is struck by a car. She gives birth prematurely, and her father secretly puts her son up for adoption, forging her signature on the paperwork and allowing her to believe that the baby died as a result of the accident. 11 year later, Evan Taylors is living in a boys orphanage outside New York city. Soon he runs away hoping to find his parents, landed in Washington and met Arthur. After that he was discovered by Wizard, he wanted him for his own. Then after the derelict theatre was raided by the police, August landed on the church she was helped by Hope, a young girl who also introduces the piano and written musical notes to August. Later on he was enrolled to Julliards, he composed his own rhapsody and let him to perform his composition at the Central Park. Wizard pulled him out to the school, met Louis and played music together. He was able to escape and was able to perform his rhapsody. In the end, Lyla and Louis met again and August was able to find his true parents.

IV.

Reaction/ Moral Lesson Sometimes the world tries to 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. Evan Taylors/ August Rush --There is also hope for everything, if you have perseverance to search for it cause in the end, you will be rewarded.