Les Choristes

Clément Mathieu:
What are you doing?

Pépinot enfant:
I'm waiting for Saturday. My father is coming to collect me.

Clément Mathieu:
But it's not Saturday today.

Chabert:
Action. Reaction.

Clément Mathieu:
You see evil everywhere.

Chabert:
Here? Yes.

Clément Mathieu:
What are you doing?

Chabert:
He stole my watch. From my room.

Clément Mathieu:
Where are you taking him?

Chabert:
Dungeon.

Clément Mathieu:
Wait!

Chabert:
Why?

Clément Mathieu:
He's my only baritone.

Pépinot enfant:
I don't know any songs.

Clément Mathieu:
Well, I'll teach you some. For the moment, I'll name you assistant choir master.

Pierre Morhange:
What about the solo?

Clément Mathieu:
Which solo?

Pierre Morhange:
My solo.

Clément Mathieu:
Oh. Your solo. No, there's no solo. You don't have a bad voice but no-one's indispensible.

[Arriving at the school, Mathieu sees a small boy waiting by the gate]

Cl?ment Mathieu:
What are you doing?

P?pinot enfant:
I'm waiting for Saturday. My father is coming to collect me.

Cl?ment Mathieu:
But it's not Saturday today.

Chabert:
Action. Reaction.

Cl?ment Mathieu:
You see evil everywhere.

Chabert:
Here? Yes.

[Chabert is dragging a boy off for punishment]

Cl?ment Mathieu:
What are you doing?

Chabert:
He stole my watch. From my room.

Cl?ment Mathieu:
Where are you taking him?

Chabert:
Dungeon.

Cl?ment Mathieu:
Wait!

Chabert:
Why? [Chabert and the boy disappear into the school]

Cl?ment Mathieu:
He's my only baritone.

P?pinot enfant:
I don't know any songs.

Cl?ment Mathieu:
Well, I'll teach you some. For the moment, I'll name you assistant choir master.

Pierre Morhange:
What about the solo?

Cl?ment Mathieu:
Which solo?

Pierre Morhange:
My solo.

Cl?ment Mathieu:
Oh. Your solo. No, there's no solo. You don't have a bad voice but no-one's indispensible.

[Morhange's mother has come to visit him]

Cl?ment Mathieu:
[quietly] I didn't tell her last time that you were in detention, I told her you had a toothache and went to the dentist. Don't tell her I lied.

Violette Morhange:
Do you have children?

Cl?ment Mathieu:
No. Well, yes, I have 60.

Cl?ment Mathieu:
[they've found the stolen money and a harmonica] You know Mondain was expelled because they thought he'd stolen the money.

Corbin:
No, sir.

Cl?ment Mathieu:
No, that's right you didn't. But now I've told you. So what were you going to do with this money?

Corbin:
If I tell you, do you promise not to tell anyone?

Cl?ment Mathieu:
Promise.

Corbin:
I was going to use it to buy...

Cl?ment Mathieu:
To buy what?

Corbin:
My Montgolfier balloon.

Cl?ment Mathieu:
[Mathieu finds P?pinot sitting on the stairs] What are you doing down here?

P?pinot enfant:
I don't have the right to go upstairs.

Cl?ment Mathieu:
What do you mean you don't have the right?

P?pinot enfant:
I don't have any money.

Cl?ment Mathieu:
What?

P?pinot enfant:
I'm not allowed to go upstairs unless I have some money.

Cl?ment Mathieu:
Says who?

P?pinot enfant:
Mondain.

Cl?ment Mathieu:
[some of the boys are hitting Morhange] Hey, why are you hitting him?

P?pinot enfant:
Because Morhange threw an ink bomb at you.

Rachin:
[firing Mathieu] Go to the devil!

Cl?ment Mathieu:
No. I'm leaving him behind!

Pierre Morhange adulte:
Pepinot was right all along. Clement Mathieu was fired on a Saturday.

Cl?ment Mathieu:
[talking to Mondain] Sing!

Mondain:
You won't like it.

Cl?ment Mathieu:
I don't care sing!

Mondain:
Okay...

[singing]

Mondain:
One Summer, I took out my nob, and gave myself a nice handjob...

[inhales as if to sing another line]

Cl?ment Mathieu:
[interrupting] Enough!

Mondain:
[smiles and chuckles] Hmph!

Cl?ment Mathieu:
Baritone.

Mondain:
What?

[gives Mathieu a look of surprise and confusion]

Cl?ment Mathieu:
I'm not making fun of you, you are a baritone...

[Mondain still confused]

Cl?ment Mathieu:
...it means you sing in a low voice.

[subtitled version]

[the students are writing an examination]

P?pinot enfant:
Leclerc!

Leclerc:
What?

P?pinot enfant:
Are we still friends?

Leclerc:
Sure, why?

P?pinot enfant:
How much is 5 plus 3?

Leclerc:
53.

P?pinot enfant:
You sure?

Leclerc:
Yeah.

P?pinot enfant:
[excitedly] Thanks.

Cl?ment Mathieu:
Never say never. Something's always worth trying.