INSIDE OUT original story by Pete Docter ... - Daily Script

1 INSIDE OUToriginal story byPete DocterRonnie Del Carmen Screenplay byPete DocterMeg LeFauveJosh ( )Do you ever look at someone and wonder, What is going on INSIDE their head? Well, I know. I know Riley s FADE HOSPITAL - DAYA newborn baby swaddled in a blanket, held by her parents. Push and ZOOM IN TO HER HEADQUARTERSOut of the blackness steps a glowing figure. This is JOY. The room is black except for a bright CONSCIOUSNESS front of Joy is a single large BUTTON. She pushes it. INT. HOSPITAL - CONTINUOUSThe baby gurgles and wiggles ( )And there she HEADQUARTERS - CONTINUOUSON THE CONSCIOUSNESS SCREEN:MOM Hello, look at you.

2 Aren t you a little bundle of joy?A GOLDEN GLOWING SPHERE rolls from behind the screen. It s a MEMORY of what we just saw: Mom and Dad cooing at rolls the memory on its track, illuminating the room. She turns back to the button and pushes it HOSPITAL - CONTINUOUSBaby Riley gurgles ( )It was amazing. Just Riley and me, HEADQUARTERS - CONTINUOUSBaby Riley ( )..for 33 looks to her side. There s a new, droopy, blue character touching the m , hello. I m tries to muscle past Sadness to press the (CONT D)Can I if you I just want to fix that.

3 Two ( )And that was just the beginning. Headquarters only got more crowded from MINNESOTA HOUSE - DAYR iley, now age 3, barrels through the house pulling a HEADQUARTERSON THE SCREEN: Riley s POV as she runs through the house. Fear supervises Joy, who OUT nice. Okay, looks like you got this. Very good, sharp approaches a POWER CORD on the (CONT D)Ahh! Look out!!! No!Fear leaps to the ( )That s Fear. He s really good at keeping Riley MINNESOTA HOUSE - CONTINUOUSR iley stops. She cautiously steps over the power ( ) we re good!

4 We re HEADQUARTERSA fear memory (purple) rolls !/Nice you! Thank you very jumps back into driving we re back!INT. MINNESOTA HOUSE - CONTINUOUSR iley continues her sprint through the house. Suddenly she s picked KITCHEN - CONTINUOUSPLOP into highchair. Bib. Tray. we go. Alright, OUT lifts a spoonful of food to Riley s HEADQUARTERSJOYHmm. This looks you think it s safe?/What is it?ON THE SCREEN: a spoonful of , caution! There is a dangerous smell, people. Hold on, what is that?JOY ( )This is Disgust.

5 She basically keeps Riley from being poisoned, physically and is not brightly colored or shaped like a Hold on It s broccoli!Disgust GAGS and pulls a KITCHEN YOUNG RILEYY ucky!Riley swats the broccoli. It flies into Dad s HEADQUARTERSA disgust memory (green) rolls , I just saved our lives. Yeah. You're OUT KITCHEN DADR iley, if you don t eat your dinner, you re not going to get any HEADQUARTERSANGER looks up from reading his Did he just say we couldn t have dessert?JOY ( )That s Anger.

6 He cares very deeply about things being that s how you want to play it, old man? No dessert? Oh, sure, we ll eat our dinner, right after YOU eat this! GrrrraaaAAHH!!!!Anger takes the controls as FLAMES blast out of his head. An anger memory (red) rolls KITCHENR iley throws a fit. Dad distracts ( flying the spoon)Hey, Riley, Riley, here comes an airplane!INT. HEADQUARTERSA nger stops , airplane. We got an airplane, !/Ahh!INT. KITCHENDad lands the food into Riley s smiling OUT HEADQUARTERSA happy memory (golden) rolls in.

7 The others leave Joy alone at the console with ( )And you ve met Sadness. well, CUTS of Riley crying: broken toy, spilled ice cream, tantrum in the supermarket, wanting out of her car ( )I m not actually sure what she does. And I ve checked, there s no place for her to go, so she s good, we re good. It s all great!Sadness exits. Joy turns to the wall of golden ( )Anyway! These are Riley s memories-- and they re mostly happy, you ll notice, not to inspects one of the golden memories: Riley and her friend MEG (both age 3) going down a slide.

8 She REWINDS it, relishing the happy ( )But the REALLY important ones are over here. I don t want to get too technical, but these are called CORE pops up the CORE MEMORY HOLDER. INSIDE are five intensely bright golden ( )Each one came from a super- important time in Riley s life. Like when she first scored a goal? That was so amazing!EXT. MINNESOTA LAKE, WINTER - DAYTwo-and-a-half-year-old Riley shoots a hockey puck across the ice. She trips and accidentally scores a OUT (cheering)Heeey! Would you look at that?

9 ! We got a future center here!INT. HEADQUARTERSA super-bright CORE MEMORY rolls in. It rolls to the Core Memory Holder. Clicking into position, a LIGHTLINE shoots out. The Emotions follow it to the back window and watch a new ISLAND OF PERSONALITY ( )And each core memory powers a different aspect of Riley s personality. Like Hockey Island!Five ISLANDS OF PERSONALITY float in space, miles from Headquarters, connected by LIGHTLINES -- their power ( )Goofball Island is my personal MINNESOTA LIVING ROOM - NIGHTT oddler Riley runs naked from the bathroom, underpants on her head, laughing wildly.

10 Dad chases her with a back here, you little monkey!INT. HEADQUARTERSG oofball Island activates: lights, movement, MINNESOTA LIVING ROOMN aked Riley does the goofy dance on the HEADQUARTERSJOY ( )Yup, Goofball is the best! Friendship Island is pretty good looks at FRIENDSHIP OUT SIDEWALK - DAYR iley and Meg walk leg over leg, arms linked, laughing. INT. HEADQUARTERSJoy inspects Honesty ( )Oh, I love Honesty Island! And that's the truth!INT. MINNESOTA HOUSE - DAYA guilty Riley stands by a broken plate.