Donât bother, Iâm pretty sure it already is a lazy Minnesota joke. Riley's emotions -- led by Joy (Amy Poehler) -- try to guide her through this difficult, life-changing event. JOY: The point is, -Yeah! Can you die from moving? JOY: And that was just the beginning. at someone and wonder... Would you look at that? Whee! This place is a DUMP! but these are called Core Memories. Family Island us amazing! Joy is confused. powers a different aspect And... we're out! -JOY: This is Disgust. You're right! Okay, this place is pretty damn big, but surely we know our way around well enough to find the entrance to the control room. -Thank you. When he’s not watching movies, he’s writing them or writing about them. We are introduced to her EMOTIONS, which apparently look like RADIOACTIVE MUPPETS. I know, letâs plug in a happy gold memory ball to cheer Kaitlyn up! Scene 1: The Andersen family's house/the dining room. Of course, if weâre suggesting that the figments of Kaitlynâs imagination have meaningful existences in the first place, that means that earlier I outright murdered a sentient cloud, so maybe Iâm not such a great guy after. -Brain freeze! Like, permanently, it was just obliterated. Joy is determined to fix things, no matter how improbable that may be. Anyway, these are Riley's Memories ANGER: Great. He currently lives in Los Angeles.
Fear is dismayed. No, guys, I get it finally. But - thereâs gonna be some kind of vague hint of hope or a silver lining, right? -(ALL SCREAMING) Oh GODDAMN THIS MOVIE and its simplistic habit of just making the ground collapse under the protagonistâs feet every time they look like theyâve made a fucking inch of progress! -BOTH: Whew!
Disgust simply walks away. NOPE NOPE NOPE. We love our girl. We're going to get rabies! Let's get those memories We know that Riley is trying as hard as she can to make the best of this situation, based on the way she perks up when the idea of pizza comes into her mind.
Nice job, everybody! Why don't we just live in this smelly car? It was dumped down here hours ago, and even though I started disappearing Marty McFly-style the second I landed, itâs still conveniently fine! © 2020 The Script Lab. At the 2016 Academy Awards, Inside Out unsurprisingly took home the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. -(CARS HONKING) I can feel it. Friendship Island is pretty good too. more crowded from there. She's good, we're good. The story of a girl whose family moves to an unfamiliar place, forcing her to make friends at a new school and leave behind her old life, might sound comparatively small next to what we’re used to seeing on the big screen. Think about how all of this unfolds. Hopefully at some point weâll stumble across a guide by sheer accident. Thanks. I think that's one of the many things we're not supposed to be giving too much thought. Joy sees sadness wanting to take over after this happens, and reminds Riley she is hungry. Yucky! JOY: It was amazing. But letâs not let the audience think too hard about that, or they might start to apply that same reasoning to a consciousness built from an endless succession of momentary electro-chemical states, and suddenly weâve bred an entire generation of existential nihilists. -Yeah. Keep in mind you're talking to the person whose job is to constantly obsess about being miserable. EXT. Letâs switch Nolan references. Synopsis. Hey, there's no harm in getting good and miserable every now and then. ANGER: We're supposed to live here? Screenwriting Advice from Every 21st Century Oscar Winner. This is just great. And hey, in this scene we get to see what OUR emotions are up to!
DISGUST: Oh, Joy, for the last time, After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school. Guys, you're overreacting. That was so amazing! you'll notice. of Riley's personality. Shame that half the audience just took a bathroom break because they already saw the entire thing several times when it was used as a trailer. Huh, I suppose so. Look out! Uh, of course we immediately thought of that thing that we've seen every single day of our lives!
-What... Welcome to your new home, kiddo! No family movie copout, Iâm afraid. They bring in a PSYCHOTIC CLOWN. Look, if we included an entire suite of emotions weâd have like fifty characters with a single character trait each, and suddenly weâre The Smurfs. Whereâs Jealousy? They just turned this into a buddy movie, and in the process turned the three of us into the other toys from Toy Story! Very nice!
Jill: "Good, Riley, now you'll never forget about your school supplies." We're not morons after all, ha ha, ha. Sadness is actually pretty useful! All right, open. FEAR: Easy, easy. Yikes. Step on it, Daddy! With Amy and Phyllis gone, Kaitlyn won't be able to feel anything other than anger, disgust and fear! He cares very deeply While all the other products of her imagination are concentrated in a specific area, I happen to just be out wandering randomly around so I can conveniently assist you. Letâs just hope Bill is the one monitoring her dreams, otherwise sheâll be incapable of feeling fear and this will be a huge waste of time! Very good. Actually, we've never been out here before. Wait. Here it is, here's our new house. Riley goes to get pizza, which ends up being the biggest let down yet. And of course, we also know how she feels about her new surroundings as soon as she sees the foreign, icky pizza they have in San Francisco.
AMY and PHYLLIS are stuck amongst the shelves containing KAITLYN'S MEMORIES, which are naturally situated at THE VERY EDGE OF A GIGANTIC PIT OF OBLIVION. That show was a piece of crap anyway.
Oh hey, it's one of those delivery tubes we use to send memories up to headquarters. Damn, itâs not working. -Airplane. from being poisoned. You gotta help us! For instance, now Kaitlyn's at her first day of school. It's even worse than that! This causes a new CORE MEMORY to be created, but as it's all SAD, AMY tries to stop it being INSTALLED, and in the ensuing kerfuffle AMY and PHYLLIS and ALL THE CORE MEMORIES wind up stumbling into a PIPE and get SUCKED AWAY to LONG-TERM MEMORY STORAGE! Executive override, Iâm boss so I declare weâre happy. (CHUCKLES) Uh, yeah... WOMAN: Are you kidding? (SPLASHING) So your plan is to tightrope walk for half a mile on a slippery curved surface whilst carrying five bowling balls? Now, Kaitlynâs emotional life was stable and me-filled until one day, (reaches into hat full of cliché childhood crises and pulls out:). What messed-up kind of logic is it that Kaitlyn would get depressed about some hokey dinosaur sculpture she saw for five minutes? Good night, kiddo. Seriously, she moves house, has a bit of internal emotional conflict, and next thing you know her whole mind starts coming apart? Okay, how the hell is it even possible for you to be sad? Not aspects of her personality. Well Kaitlyn just lost her train of thought. The writers here are masters of conveying as much information in as little time as possible. Riley is sad her dad has to leave for work. You're welcome. Okay OH MAN I GOTTA GRAB ALL THE CORE MEMORIES AND TURN EVERYTHING SAD FOREVER.
In fact, this whole sequence runs just under a minute. (MUSIC PLAYING)
What’s great about this scene is that none of the characters ever have to come right out and state who they are for us to understand them. It's broccoli! Ever ever ever. -What is it? So shut the fuck up about us ripping off Hermanâs Head. Wait, whereâs everybody else? Well, I know. SHUT UP. Instead of spending long scenes doing world-building and providing backstory, it gives us just enough and then trusts us to feel something based on our own experiences growing up. All right, just a few more blocks. JOY: That's what I'm talking about! Well while we wait for them to get back, here's something to mull over: your emotion guys are all women and mine are all men. down to Long Term. ANGER: That's the one! Character is as much built through small, seemingly disposable interactions like the one in this scene. A story about a young girl named Riley whose emotions run amok when her family moves from the Midwest to San Francisco, it has basically everything you want from the legendary animation studio. JOY: Now we're getting close, It comes with a dragon. Iâd hate to see her if her dog died, sheâd probably throw herself under a bus. MINNESOTA LAKE, WINTER - DAY Two-and-a-half-year-old Riley shoots a hockey puck across the ice.
You canât just keep looking on the bright side and staying chipper through thick and thin; sooner or later you actually have to experience pain or itâll never go away. What! Hey! Well, I know Riley’s head." Not that Iâd actually say anything like that, cause Iâm JOY! Remember that roadside attraction on the trip here? And thematically, Inside Out is Pixar’s richest film yet–maybe their best ever. Now if youâll excuse me, Iâve got to dissipate into nothingness and be dead. -These are my kind of people.