INCEPTION - Alternate Ending...
INT. AIRPORT. DAY
Leonardo Di Caprio is dressed in a smart suit, standing next to the baggage conveyer belt, waiting for luggage. Soon after his luggage arrives he takes his bag and heads toward the arrival lounge.
INT. ARRIVAL LOUNGE. AIRPORT. DAY.
As Di Caprio is walking through the arrival lounge, he is greeted by Sir Michael Caine.
CUT TO
INT. HOUSE. DAY.
Sir Michael Caine enters a house, followed by Leo Di Caprio. Sir Caine walks toward the patio door and opens it to reveal the garden. Just at the bottom of the garden we see two little children sat next to each other, a boy and a girl.
SIR MICHAEL CAINE (To Children)
Look who's here.
The children look around and see Leo Di Caprio and become excited.
CHILDREN
Daddy!
Leo Di Caprio is visually happy and before he walks out to embrace his children, he places a spintop on the table. Leo then walks out to the garden and hugs his children.
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Spintop on table.
The spintop is still spinning on the table....(is he still dreaming?)
CUT TO
INT. BEDROOM. DAY
Leonardo Di Caprio is awoken by water splashing on his face.
DI CAPRIO
What the f**k man?!
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT
C'mon man, we're gonna be late for work! Jesus is the TV loud enough for you?
Gordon-Levitt picks up the remote and switches off the TV (the movie playing was The Matrix)
Leo Di Caprio sits up on his bed and ponders for a moment. He has longer hair and a scruffy beard, plus he looks about 14 stone of mainly fat.
DI CAPRIO
Where am I?
GORDON-LEVITT
What do you mean? You're in your bedroom you dick.
DI CAPRIO
Did we do it, did we save Watanabe, did we get Cillian Murphy to change his mind about his business??
GORDON-LEVITT
What the f**k are you talking about man?
DI CAPRIO
I think I'm still under. What is my job?
GORDON-LEVITT
Oh not this again! You're a store manager at McDonalds, remember.
DI CAPRIO
I'm serious!
GORDON-LEVITT
I am being serious! And if you don't get a move on we're gonna be late, again!
DI CAPRIO
No, I know I'm not. I'm an information extractor!
GORDON-LEVITT
A what?
DI CAPRIO
You are too, and Michael Caine, my father, he is too, in fact, he taught me.
GORDON-LEVITT
What? Michael Caine, the actor, is your father?
DI CAPRIO
I know what you're trying to do. You're probably just a projection of someone else mind trying to trick me into thinking I'm insane!
GORSON-LEVITT
Hmm, do you really want me to answer that?
At that moment Di Caprio picks up a blade on his bedside table and holds it over his left wrist.
GORDON-LEVITT
What the f**k are you doing Leo?
DI CAPRIO
If I kill myself in this dream, I'll wake up, wake up in reality.
GORDON-LEVITT
You are in reality you f**king idiot! Now stop this! Please! You've had too much acid, again. And you've woken from a sleep, a deep sleep. This happens every weekend, remember? And we have to go through the same deal over and over again.
DI CAPRIO
What deal? What are you talking about?
GORDON-LEVITT
Every week you get high on drugs and start having hallucinogenic episodes and memory loss and even delusional thoughts.
DI CAPRIO
I'm not delusional, watch.
At that moment Di Caprio begins to cut himself and draws some blood.
DI CAPRIO
Arrrgh! F**k, that hurts. Why haven't I woken up? I must be heavily sedated.
GORSON-LEVITT
You are awake; you just don't know it yet!
DI CAPRIO
No! None of this is real, you, me, this room, this blood. This is not my reality!
GORDON-LEVITT
Ok, I'll tell you what you're reality is. Every week, since Titanic flopped and Kate Winslet turned you down you never made a movie again.
DI CAPRIO (PLACES HANDS OVER EARS)
No, stop it!
GORDON-LEVITT
No I won't stop, I'm sick of this! After that you turned to drugs and alcohol and never made a movie again. Sure you've had your cameos but since Basketball Diaries you've never been involved in anything decent. It's time to accept you're never gonna be an actor!
DI CAPRIO
No! That's not true! I am an intelligent extractor, I can read thoughts!
GORDON-LEVITT
Oh ok, so this week you're a mind reader. Last week, you were a cop set in the fifties investigating a missing person in a mental hospital on some Island! The week before that you were a soldier in some Middle Eastern country on the hunt for a well know terrorist. And you even thought Russel Crowe was your boss!!! And don't get me started on the time when you thought were a sophisticated con man being chased through America and Europe by non-other than Tom Hanks!!!
DI CAPRIO
But wait. Those things did happen!
GORDON-LEVITT
NO, they didn't! Because they're all just f**king Tom Cruise movies. You've been obsessed with him for years. You said so yourself you always wanted to be like him!
DI CAPRIO
Shit! I think I'm starting to remember now. Can I get a bandage?
Gordon-Levitt hands over a bandage to Di Caprio who proceeds to wrap up his wound.
DI CAPRIO
So, I'm not an actor, huh?
GORDON-LEVITT
No. But, you're one of the best God dam burger flippers I ever saw!
DI CAPRIO
Hey, I was taught by the best!
DI CAPRIO AND GORDON -LEVITT share a laugh.
GORDON-LEVITT
C'mon, go shave and a take shower, you wreak of shit man!
Gordon-Levitt stands and helps Di Caprio to his feat and walks him to his bathroom.
DI CAPRIO
Man, what a dream. Yeah, I'm starting to remember now. You're an aspiring actor too right?
GORDON-LEVITT
Yeah, but, I never really did anything since Third Rock. The opportunities just never came. I almost got the part for 500 days of Summer though, remember?
DI CAPRIO
Yeah, I do. But didn't you lose out to Shia Lebeouf.
GORDON-LEVITT
Yeah, I did. He's so awesome though. Transformers are really great movies.
Gordon-Levitt and Di Caprio enter the bathroom.
The camera slowly pans out to reveal a spintop on the table, which continues to spin..............
THE END
