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Post by marcy on Sept 11, 2009 18:40:15 GMT -5
Wow, you go to a cool school. I wish I had go to schools like that.
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Post by loozy on May 2, 2010 7:47:17 GMT -5
I read the book when it first came out, under the dubious eyes of my parents who believed me to be too young *and maybe I was* and when the film came out, I started a campaign to watch it with one of them, but failed due to age restrictions; when it was released on VHS, my parents rented it for me, and I was allowed to watch it after explaining to them that after the gore and explicity of the book, the film couldn't be much worse... Hm... I wasn't wrong, I fell in love with the film instantly, and laughed my bottom off when I saw Tommy in his briefs *and also applauded the actor for having the guts to wear something so hideous* and I cried when Tommy died, just as I did when reading book... Excellent film, excellent cast... Book and film made it into the top 10 on my lists and haven't left them since then
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Post by duchovlet on Dec 7, 2010 3:35:42 GMT -5
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Post by kaz on Dec 8, 2010 18:31:10 GMT -5
This movie was on cable again the other night and I was reminded of how much I love it and how much it reminds me of my late teens. I was a bit obsessed with all things Irvine Welsh at the time, because they were gritty and controversial, and a huge fan of this movie.
I'd love to find the time to sit down and have a re-read of the book. It was definitely a tough slog because of the fact that it's written in the Scottish vernacular and basically reads the way it would sound if a Scot was talking, but you feel a sense of achievement once you get through it having understood what the heck they were trying to say!
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Post by cl3me on Dec 8, 2010 19:05:08 GMT -5
Here's some trivial pursuit for you.... What is "Trainspotting?" As KMK fans we all know it is a movie, but what is the meaning of the term trainspotting? Believe it or not, trainspotting is a popular hobby in the UK. Similar to bird-watching, railfans will record spottings of locomotives or rail cars with either photos or recording in a log book. for more info check out: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trainspotting_(hobby)#Trainspotting
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Post by Leanne on Dec 9, 2010 6:54:11 GMT -5
Nice one Cl3me it is quite a past time in the UK I was very surprise to learn about then I lived there and you see folk doing it Im not sure how the movie got its name tho that would be interesting to follow up because there was certainly no trainspotting in the movie
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Post by MarryMeOwen on Dec 9, 2010 13:05:01 GMT -5
My students in my cult film class knew Kevin only as "that guy from Rome" until I showed them Trainspotting LOL
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Post by Leanne on Jan 27, 2011 11:42:26 GMT -5
All aboard for a special screening of Trainspotting Premium Article ! Your account has been frozen. For your available options click the below button. Options Published Date: 27 January 2011 By LIAM RUDDEN Arts and Entertainment editor CHOOSE life! By introducing cinema audiences to Renton, Spud, Sick Boy, Tommy, Begbie and Diane, Trainspotting showcased the talents of Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Johnny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle and Kelly Macdonald, making them international stars in the process. That was 15 years ago, and on Wednesday that milestone will be celebrated with a special one-off screening of the cult Edinburgh-set movie at the Royal Scottish Academy, which features in the background of the unforgettable opening chase scene in which Renton, played by McGregor, runs down Princes Street. On the off chance that you have managed to avoid Trainspotting for the last decade and a half, the action centres around the exploits of heroin addict Mark Renton. Deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, he decides to clean up, kick his smack habit and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends who are quite happy to just party. It's an escape that finds Renton mixed up in drug deals, armed robbery and prostitution as he battles to get straight. Directed by Danny Boyle, of Slumdog Millionaire fame, and based on the Irvine Welsh (pictured) novel of the same name, Trainspotting was ranked tenth by the British Film Institute in its list of Top 100 British films of all time. Exposing the underbelly of an 80s Edinburgh regarded by many as the 'heroin capital of Europe,' the film not only launched its young cast on the road to stardom but made Welsh a household name, thanks in no small part to the controversy that surrounded its release. Wednesday's screening is the third free event in Volkswagen's See Film Differently series. The event is free but ticketed, with tickets available through an on-line draw. For the chance to win you need to log on to www.seefilmdifferently.com now. Tickets will be available until midday tomorrow, after which winners will be informed. The event follows original location screenings of An American Werewolf In London, which was held inside London Zoo, and gangster classic Get Carter, shown at Newcastle Racecourse, both notable locations featured in the films. Turning the camera on the locations featured in Trainspotting offers movie fans an immersive cinema experience designed to provide a behind the scenes-style insight into the BAFTA award winning favourite. After the screening, viewers will be invited to follow Renton's route to Calton Road, where the opening chase ended with McGregor being hit by a car. There, the Ingleby Gallery will host an exclusive exhibition featuring rare Trainspotting stills, original promotional material and photography, along with a live DJ set featuring music from the movie. And just in case you are wondering why there are no references to train spotting in the movie, well, here's your answer. The title is taken from a scene from the novel in which Begbie and Renton meet a drunken dosser who turns out to be Begbie's estranged father, in the long-closed Leith Central railway station (now the site of Waterworld and Tesco), at the foot of Leith Walk – the drunk asks them if they are trainspotting. 15th Anniversary Screening of Trainspotting, Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, free but ticketed - tickets courtesy of Volkswagen. For the chance to win visit www.seefilmdifferently.com before midday tomorrow, after which winners will be informed news.scotsman.com/theguide/All-aboard-for-a-special.6704277.jpso I guess on the 2nd Feb Ill have to do a rewatch ;D
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Post by oldounce on Feb 4, 2011 6:31:31 GMT -5
Where's this pix from? Pls, it looks awesome. From a movie or a show? Or magazine?
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Post by ruralstar on Feb 7, 2011 13:11:34 GMT -5
Where's this pix from? Pls, it looks awesome. From a movie or a show? Or magazine? It's from a photoshoot Oldounce. Published last year. More from the same shoot can be found here.mckiddonline.fotopic.net/c1901048.html
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Post by betinad on Feb 8, 2011 20:54:56 GMT -5
www.timeout.com/london/feature/881/the-100-best-british-films-introductionWhat are the greatest British movies ever made? ‘The Third Man’? ‘Kes’? ‘Trainspotting’? ‘Carry On at Your Convenience’? This week Time Out launches a major new project: ‘The 100 Best British Films’ – as voted by the film industry itself.#10: Trainspotting Trainspotting (1996) Dir Danny Boyle (Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller) Choose life, etc At the planning stage of this survey, not a single member of the Time Out Film team would’ve expected Danny Boyle’s eye-wateringly hip, epoch-defining second feature to make much of a dent, let alone break in to the top ten. Yet here we are, and it seems that ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ (which didn’t place) was not enough to make us overlook the ambition, charisma and sheer, blood, sweat and crap-soaked brio of this 1996 Irvine Welsh adaptation which gave Ewan McGregor a role that – if we’re being honest – he has never bettered. The film – which now bizarrely makes the mid-1990s Britpop fad appear to have been the cultural highlight of modern times – told of happy-go-lucky junkie Mark Renton (McGregor) and the band of mischievous associates he would occasionally call friends, including Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Tommy (Kevin McKidd) and Begbie (Robert Carlyle). It’s still a lively watch, especially in the way its meandering, episodic first half emphasises the highs of pub fights, drugs scores, casual sex and a sub-aqua, Eno-scored mission down the world’s most disgusting lavatory bowl, only for the second half to condemn the drug culture that so many claimed it was glamourising. Director Danny Boyle had already shown with his previous film, ‘Shallow Grave’ (1994), that he could reel off a juicy, character-driven yarn which had depth and ambiguity, but what makes ‘Trainspotting’ stand above the crowd is the industrious way in which he uses editing and camera movement to convey time, activity, violence, love, ecstasy and pain. Plus, is this the greatest opening five minutes ever? DJ
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Post by MarryMeOwen on Feb 8, 2011 22:24:43 GMT -5
Toopsy Turvy was #64 too
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Post by betinad on Feb 11, 2011 14:24:26 GMT -5
See Film Differently: TRAINSPOTTING Event In Edinburgh!It has been 15 years since Danny Boyle’s seminal movie Trainspotting, based on Irvine Welsh’s book, was released and last week I attended a special screening of the film in Edinburgh put together by VW’s ‘See Film Differently’ project. In the past few months they have also arranged screenings of An American Werewolf in London in London Zoo and Get Carter in a Newcastle Racecourse, both locations memorably featured in their individual films. The Trainspotting screening was held at the Royal Scottish Academy, a gallery in the city centre that can be spotted in the background of one shot in the movie. There was something slightly perverse about watching a movie like Trainspotting in an art gallery, it being the type of place that would turn away some or all of the characters from the movie at the door. Furthermore while the famous opening scene was filmed on Edinburgh’s Princes Street (notice how everyone in the background is standing watching them filming)… … the majority of the movie was filmed in Glasgow. I was about to point this out to someone when I saw the free food and refreshments stand. Beer; Irn Bru; fish supper (‘supper’ is Scottish for ‘and chips’); haggis, neeps and tatties. This, along with the cheerful atmosphere in the screening room, negated any sense of elitism associated with such a location; the audience, most of whom had probably seen the movie several times, was determined to have a good time. I’ve seen the movie many times, being Scottish and just young enough when it came out both to want to see it and to know that it was definitely not suitable for me (a friend got hold of a copy on video). It was almost certainly the most explicit movie I had seen to that point, in its language (‘that lassie got glassed, and no thingy leaves here till we find out what thingy did it’), sexual frankness and representation of drugs. The movie is still accused of glamorising drugs, although to me it’s never made heroin look anything but a nightmare; the tragedy and horrors involved are all right there (the overdose, withdrawal, Tommy’s death, and most disturbing of all, the scenes involving the baby). It’s just that Boyle doesn’t feel the need to sentimentalise these moments or over-dramatise the tragedy. Having never seen the movie projected before I was struck again by the energy that Boyle brought to the project, particularly in its first half-hour. The use of music and editing here are superb, from the opening scene (which was moved from the middle to the front to allow the movie literally to hit the ground running) to the hilarious/hideous morning-after sequence. It also underlines its irreverent attitude, with shots like the famous image of protagonist Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) climbing out of ‘the worst toilet in Scotland’ after diving in to fish out his opium suppositories. The movie can, broadly and probably unnecessarily, be split roughly into three acts, the first introducing us to the day-to-day lives of the volatile characters, the second exploring the darker side of addiction (the withdrawal scene still ranks with Boyle’s best work), and the third concerning Renton’s attempts to get away and ‘choose life.’ I’ve always felt that the movie loses some of its momentum when it gets to London, in the last section, although the energy of the first hour was always going to be difficult to sustain. Another standout feature is how well cast the picture is. Ewan McGregor is probably too handsome for Renton as described in the book, but he had both the right gaunt figure and cockiness for the part; when he and Spud (Ewen Bremner) are both arrested he gets the lighter sentence; one suspects he generally gets by, or tries to, on his charm. Kelly McDonald, who is these days working with the likes of the Coens and Scorsese, was young and unknown enough to pass as a young teenager who could pass as a young adult; she’s the only person who can stump Renton. Bremner and Robert Carlyle, as borderline psycho Begbie, are perfect. They made their roles totally their own while representing archetypes; it’s not too difficult to find a Begbie or a Spud in Glasgow or Edinburgh. Jonny Lee Miller, the only non-Scot, holds his own with the nationals, making Sick Boy even cockier and more opinionated than Renton. Finally Kevin McKidd has the right kind of vulnerable honesty as Tommy, who starts out as the most straight-laced of the gang. If McKidd did less well out the movie than the others, I wonder if this isn’t a direct result of the fact that he wasn’t on the poster (he was on holiday when it was made). After the screening, we were invited to a special exhibition of stills and publicity material at the Ingleby Gallery (just on the left through the tunnel glimpsed at the start of the movie, allowing us to recreate Renton’s run down the steps). There I was reminded how good the marketing campaign for the movie was: its poster, along with Pulp Fiction” must rank as one of the most iconic of the ’90s, and the way it focussed on introducing the characters, rather than the plot, helped fix them in people’s minds. 15 years on the movie still feels fresh; I don’t think a movie as good has been made in Scotland since. It’s firmly a product of the ’90s, of course, but that doesn’t take away anything, and the (defiantly non-touristy) glimpses of Edinburgh (and Glasgow) both show what’s changed (the John Menzies Renton robs at the start is long gone, as is the club where he picks up Diane) and what has remained (Pilton in Edinburgh is still referred to sometimes in English papers as ‘the Trainspotting suburb of Edinburgh’). The problems associated with heroin – Edinburgh has a history with the drug going back to the 19th century – and other hard drugs are still vividly present, although I’m told that many younger people are put off heroin because they’ve seen what it did to the generation before them: the so-called ‘Trainspotting generation’ of addicts who are now entering middle-age and are, according to an excellent 2009 Guardian piece, still dying off, including many who gave up the drug. I suspect part of the reason the movie has lasted is because it doesn’t patronise; it doesn’t need to keep telling us that heroin can ruin your life. Even when I saw it as a kid I knew that. What it did do was have the balls to show heroin addicts that young people in the audience could identify with. source: www.obsessedwithfilm.com/features/see-film-differently-trainspotting-event-in-edinburgh.php#ixzz1DgDcUrTR
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Post by Leanne on Feb 23, 2011 1:07:22 GMT -5
I get recognised in Miami... as the bloke who sold drugs to Ewan McGregor TRAINSPOTTING creator Irvine Welsh had no idea today was the 15th anniversary of the cult drugs movie's release. And the author admits he doesn't keep up with the cast - who were catapulted to stardom on the back of the gritty film of his best-selling junkie novel set in Edinburgh's tough Pilton scheme. Trainspotting has made superstars of Ewan McGregor, Kelly Macdonald, Robert Carlyle and Kevin McKidd. Fans 4,000 miles away in Miami even recognise WELSH for his tiny cameo role as drug dealer Mikey Forrester. But the flick's global success - taking a whopping £100million at the box office - is still a surprise to him. Train gang ... Jonny, Ewan, Kevin and Ewen in famous scene Train gang ... Jonny, Ewan, Kevin and Ewen in famous scene He said: "I'm not really a curator of stuff like that. Once a book or a film is done, it's gone. "It's nice that people are still reading them and watching them, but you're always focused on the next thing or the thing you're currently doing." These days, the Edinburgh-born writer divides his time between Miami and Chicago, where he lives with American wife Elizabeth. He's just finished filming his latest drugs film Ecstasy in Canada and Edinburgh and another Welsh book - Filth - will also be adapted for the big screen. He said: "You never really know how a release like Trainspotting will go but you get an inkling with some more than others. "I had a sense that Trainspotting might do something, but I thought it would be a local thing. "The fact it went global is incredible. I've heard people talking about it in Miami and that's crazy. "People of a certain generation have got the posters on their wall and recognise me as the guy who sold drugs to Ewan McGregor. That's quite weird." Star turn ... Welsh is still recognised for his cameo in Trainspotting Star turn ... Welsh is still recognised for his cameo in Trainspotting The low-budget flick starred McGregor as Renton, with Carlyle as psycho Begbie, and Jonny Lee Miller as Sick Boy. It was also the launchpad for McKidd (Tommy), Ewen Bremner (Spud) and Macdonald (Diane). Oscar-winner Danny Boyle directed the movie that's now regarded as one of Scotland's best ever. But Welsh would change it ALL if he could go back in time. He said: "The thing about a book is that it's never really finished. "I never get to the point of being happy with them. "I get to the point where I can't stand having them in my house or in my life. I would change loads of it." The reformed heroin addict admits he never bumps into the cast and added: "We don't really speak or see each other. "An actor's life is a strange one because they are on set all the time. They live in a different place, really. "The only time I see them is maybe at a party for a film magazine or a film festival. Hit ... Irvine Welsh's book Hit ... Irvine Welsh's book "But it's always nice and fun when we do see each other." Welsh published his follow-up book Porno - which revisits the Trainspotting characters a decade later - in 2002. There have been rumours of a movie version ever since. But Welsh reckons that demand will disappear once people see Filth - a film he's written and produced. It centres on a bipolar, bigoted junkie cop who manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter. Plans for the £10million flick will be announced at the Cannes Film Festival in May. He said: "Watch this space because after Cannes, when we make an announcement, people will be talking a lot about Filth. "They won't be thinking too much about Porno for a bit. "People will be going absolutely crazy when they find out what's happening with Filth." Filming wrapped last week on Ecstasy - starring Adam Sinclair, Smallville beauty Kristin Kreuk and Lord Of The Rings hobbit Billy Boyd. The rom-com - which turns the spotlight on Edinburgh's drug-filled 90s rave scene - is due for release in October. Welsh said: "Ecstasy was a social thing - you went out, you danced, you partied, you enjoyed the company of other people. "With heroin you basically just stared at walls. "It's very hard to get off the couch and get out of bed unless you're trying to get the drug. "Ecstasy is much more of a recreational thing, it's more energising. "With any drug there are pitfalls, and, with ecstasy, some people overdid it. Advertisement Click here "Some people would take drugs to come down from the highs of it. "I didn't see any point in that myself - just stay high for as long as you can and when you get tired, go to your bed." He added: "Doing the film was a nice trip down memory lane. "I'd been in the heroin scene so I was very straight as a result of that. "I came out of that saying I'd never touch drugs again and would never get involved in any drug scenes of any kind at all again. "I was very reticent at first when it came along. "But I got into it and it was such a big, energising scene for me. "I probably wouldn't have written Trainspotting if I hadn't reflected back on that." Read more: www.thesun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/scotlandfeatures/3427547/Trainspotting-15-years-on.html#ixzz1El9JFpYkWhere are they now? TRAINSPOTTING produced the most famous poster in British film history. Kevin McKidd (Tommy) missed the photoshoot because he was on holiday. He has gone on to star in sword-and-sandals epic Rome and plays hunky doc Owen Hunt in Grey's Anatomy. MARC DEANIE looks at how the others have fared... Robert Carlyle FRANCIS 'FRANCO' BEGBIE: Carlyle, 49, has gone on to a string of hits. He appeared in The Full Monty, James Bond flick The World Is Not Enough, The Beach and 28 Weeks Later. He also played Dr Nicholas Rush in sci-fi show Stargate Universe and starred alongside Kiefer Sutherland in hit Sky1 show 24. Kelly MacDonald DIANE COULTSON: Kelly is earning rave reviews in legendary director Martin Scorsese's new TV drama Boardwalk Empire. The 34-year-old - who is married to Travis bass player Dougie Payne - also starred in Nanny McPhee. She bagged an Oscar in No Country For Old Men and an EMMY for Girl In The Cafe. Jonny Lee Miller SIMON 'SICK BOY' WILLIAMSON: Miller, 38, never reached the heights of playing Sick Boy again. A stream of films followed for Angelina Jolie's ex-hubby, but few were any good. A rare highlight was his portrayal of cycling hero Graeme Obree in The Flying Scotsman. He was last seen on hit US show Dexter. Ewen Bremner DANIEL 'SPUD' MURPHY: Bremner has hardly been out of work since playing speed addict Spud. There were blockbusters like Pearl Harbour and Black Hawk Down and he will appear in thriller Perfect Sense this year. He's been in BBC shows Dive, Spooks and One Night In Emergency. Ewan McGregor MARK 'RENT BOY' RENTON: McGregor has become a Hollywood star. The 39-year-old shined in the Star Wars prequels, Black Hawk Down, Moulin Rouge and The Da Vinci Code sequel Angels & Demons. But he does need a hit after recent flops I Love You Phillip Morris and The Men Who Stare At Goats.
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Post by Leanne on Jul 22, 2011 3:44:05 GMT -5
This Week in Movie History: 'Trainspotting' Smacks Moviegoers By Gary Susman (Subscribe to Gary Susman's posts) Posted Jul 21st 2011 6:30PM Movie: 'Trainspotting' Release Date: July 19, 1996 How It Got Made: Reading Irvine Welsh's 1993 literary sensation about the highs and lows of a group of Scottish junkies, director Danny Boyle and producer Andrew Macdonald believed they could invent a visual equivalent to the vibrant, urgent, shot-in-the-arm prose of Welsh's debut novel. "This has got to be the most energetic film you've ever seen," Boyle later told Entertainment Weekly, "about something that ultimately ends up in purgatory or worse." Boyle's team secured the rights by convincing Welsh that they weren't going to try for gritty realism, like most movies about drug addiction; rather, they planned to make a movie as surreal, dreamlike, juiced-up, nightmarish, heartbreaking and funny as the novel. They succeeded, creating a movie generally regarded now as the best Scottish movie ever made, a picture that made stars out of Boyle, Ewan McGregor and the rest of the cast. It proved vastly influential even beyond the walls of the cinema; out on the presidential campaign trail, it reignited debate over whether the portrayal of drug use glamorizes addiction. Following the success of their debut feature, the creepy crime-thriller 'Shallow Grave,' Boyle, Macdonald and screenwriter John Hodge reteamed with 'Grave' star McGregor, casting him as Mark Renton, the addict who decides to clean up his act and tries to resist letting heroin and his drug pals draw him back into his old life. One of those pals, the foul-tempered Begbie, was played by Robert Carlyle; another, Sean Connery–fan Sick Boy, was 'Hackers' star Jonny Lee Miller. The rest of the cast were relative unknowns, many of them making their film debuts. 'Trainspotting': Baby-on-the-Ceiling Scene McGregor shaved his head and lost 26 pounds to play the emaciated Renton. He even considered shooting heroin, just for research purposes, before deciding against it. Not that realism and accuracy were important to the film -- two of the film's most celebrated sequences were its most surreal. In one, a detoxing Renton hallucinates seeing a friend's baby (which had died of neglect during its mother's drug stupor) crawling on the ceiling. In another, Renton dives into the murky depths of "the worst toilet in Scotland" to retrieve opium suppositories. (In fact, the brown fecal muck Boyle had smeared all over the bowl was actually fresh chocolate mousse. Sort of the opposite of what happened during the making of 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,' where the delicious-looking chocolate river that Augustus Gloop falls into was actually made of rancid melted ice cream.) 'Trainspotting': The-Worst-Toilet-in-Scotland Scene (Contains NSFW Language and Images) The filmmakers made a virtue of their budget constraints (the film cost just $2.5 million). To maintain the film's manic energy, Boyle shot it in just seven weeks, often using the first take and refusing to shoot a second take as a safe backup. Most scenes were shot in an abandoned Glasgow cigarette factory that the crew turned into a soundstage. Special effects were makeshift, like the trap door used to make Renton sink into the floor when he collapses after an overdose. For the film's American release, Boyle had the actors redub the first 20 minutes of the movie in less thick brogues. He also trimmed two scenes (one of a needle in an arm, one of a sex scene) to keep the film from being rated NC-17. How It Was Received: 'Trainspotting' played out of competition at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival but was an audience favorite there. It arrived in the U.S. that July on waves of hype, touted by Miramax as the British 'Pulp Fiction.' (Which was not entirely inaccurate. Both films seemed plugged into direct currents of sex, drugs, rock n' roll, crime, violence and the kinetic joy of rule-breaking filmmaking.) Opening on just eight screens in North America, it earned an impressive $263,000 ($33,000 per screen) its first weekend, toward an eventual total of $16 million domestic and $72 million worldwide. Critics embraced the film on both sides of the Atlantic, and Hodge's screenplay earned him an Oscar nomination. With its evocative use of both classic alt-rock tracks by the likes of Iggy Pop and Lou Reed, and up-to-the-moment techno/rave cuts, 'Trainspotting' spawned two popular soundtrack albums. Iggy Pop enjoyed a brief resurgence, thanks to a new Boyle-directed video for his 1976 song 'Lust for Life,' used so memorably in the film's opening sequence. 'Trainspotting': Opening (Contains NSFW Language) Long-Term Impact: Boyle and McGregor instantly became hot properties in Hollywood. They reteamed with Macdonald and Hodge again for the lovers-on-the-lam comedy 'A Life Less Ordinary' before McGregor graduated to such blockbusters as the 'Star Wars' prequels. Boyle went on to direct such cult favorites as '28 Days Later' and '127 Hours, as well as worldwide smash 'Slumdog Millionaire,' which won Oscars for Boyle and for Best Picture. Carlyle jumped from 'Trainspotting' to the biggest role of his career, the lead in 'The Full Monty.' The film also marked the career launch pad for first-time film actors Kevin McKidd (who went on to TV's 'Rome' and 'Grey's Anatomy') and Kelly Macdonald (whose career highlights include 'Gosford Park,' 'No Country for Old Men' and TV's 'Boardwalk Empire'). Other filmmakers took notice. The movie's combination of quick-cut visuals and a pulsing techno/alt-rock soundtrack became the default way to depict the highs and lows of drug use (see 'Requiem for a Dream') or even general antisocial behavior ('Fight Club'). 'Trainspotting' Poster The design and fashion worlds took notice as well. Ad campaigns began to copy the 'Trainspotting' poster's graphics, with its black-and-white photos of aggressive-looking characters and its plain orange-and-white typography. Also, the movie played into what was then called "heroin chic," the trend of using ultra-thin models (like Kate Moss) in seedy locations and with dazed facial expressions in fashion campaigns. Criticism of this trend went all the way to the White House. On the campaign trail that fall, Republican candidate Bob Dole criticized 'Trainspotting' for showing the "romance of heroin," though his aides admitted he hadn't seen the movie. Dole lost the election, but President Clinton made a similar complaint a few months later, saying, "This is not about art. It's about life and death. And glorifying death is not good for any society." It's true that the movie's attitude toward heroine was more complicated than Dole's slogan, "Just Don't Do It." After all, the first third of the movie makes the junkie life look like fun, though the last two thirds show the grim flip side. As producer Macdonald told Entertainment Weekly, "People criticize it because it dares to show the truth: that people take drugs because they are pleasurable. But we also show that if you take too much of them, there's a serious chance that they'll f--- you up." One unlikely result of the film: Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life" suddenly began turning up everywhere - in other movies, even in commercials. As used by Boyle at the beginning of 'Trainspotting,' the song, with its propulsive Motown-style drumbeat and cheerful chorus, became the soundtrack for fun. It showed up as far afield as the kids' movie 'Rugrats Go Wild' and in Carnival cruise line ads; in both places, Pop's risqué lyrics about trying to kick drug addiction were omitted or rewritten. Danny BoyleHow It Plays Today: Aside from the music that dates it to the mid-'90s, 'Trainspotting' appears as fresh, inventive, and energetic as ever. Renton remains one of the most memorable characters McGregor has ever played; in March, the UK Sun quoted him as saying, "It's still the main thing people ask me about when they come up to me in the street." McGregor also said he'd be open to doing a sequel, but only if the script improves on 'Porno,' the sequel novel written by Welsh, which takes place a decade after 'Trainspotting.' "I don't like being the guy that's making it not happen, especially when all the other guys want to make it," the Sun quotes McGregor as saying. "But I wouldn't want to do a sequel to 'Trainspotting' if it was just for the sake of it and, if I'm honest about it, I wasn't that blown away by the book." Talking to Cinematical last December, Boyle said he shared McGregor's apprehensions about 'Porno,' but he seemed confident that the book could be worked into a sequel. "We have been doing some work on it, and it's got potential, yeah, for sure," Boyle said. "And when the moment's right, I think we will approach it." Recalling the original film, Boyle said of the cast of then-newbies, "They were brilliant, and it's quite rare when you get a cast that's that different. They're so different and yet they kind of jell together like they're all in the same film." It's the love for those characters and those actors that would make the sequel worthwhile, he suggested. "This is an imaginative thing to look at these guys, who you kind of fell in love with and a whole generation fell in love with in a certain kind of way, and then you see them again and they've aged, just like we all do," Boyle said. "And then it becomes about that, and I think that would be really nice." well worth checking out the article it has a few videos for you to watch blog.moviefone.com/2011/07/21/this-week-in-movie-history-trainspotting-smacks-moviegoers/
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Post by Leanne on Aug 23, 2011 2:20:54 GMT -5
watch Trainspotting on the New Miramax Facebook app Watching movies on Facebook isn’t new—Warner Bros. , Paramount and Universal each are trying variations on the theme. But today, paidContent can report, Miramax is launching the largest-scale Facebook streaming movie venture yet, the latest in a series of moves to mine the most ore possible from its rich catalog. The Miramax eXperience is now will go live first on Facebook with 20 titles for rent in the U.S. and 10 each in UK and Turkey; France and Germany are due in the near future. U.S.: Adventureland, Chicago, Clerks, Cold Mountain, Extract, From Dusk Till Dawn, Gangs of NY, Gone Baby Gone, Good Will Hunting, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Kill Bill 2, No Country for Old Men, Pulp Fiction, Shall We Dance (2004), Sin City, Spy Kids, Swingers, The Switch, Trainspotting U.K.: Chicago, Cold Mountain, From Dusk Till Dawn, Good Will Hunting, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Kill Bill 2, Shall We Dance (2004), Sin City, Spy Kids Turkey: Adventureland, Chicago, Clerks, Cold Mountain, From Dusk Till Dawn,Gone Baby Gone, Good Will Hunting, Jackie Brown, Spy Kids,Swingers paidcontent.org/article/419-miramax-launching-multi-title-facebook-movie-app-in-u.s.-uk-turkey/
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Post by trinity on Feb 22, 2012 9:51:25 GMT -5
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Post by trinity on Mar 18, 2013 8:12:41 GMT -5
Danny Boyle Talks Trainspotting Sequel, Partying at SXSW and ZombiesOscar-winning director Danny Boyle has an almost childlike quality about him. He appears to approach his surroundings with the brimming excitement of a kid who is just about to open a present and the sincerity of someone who hasn't been in this business for over 20 years. The moment people recognized him last night at the Aero Theatre, a swarm of fans gathered around. Boyle was there for "A Conversation with Danny Boyle," which not only served as a Q&A session with Boyle and Josh Trank, director of Chronicle, but to promote Boyle's upcoming film, Trance, a psychological thriller starring James McAvoy, Vincent Cassel and Rosario Dawson. We were lucky enough to sneak in a quickie one-on-one interview with Boyle prior to the event -- our time made even shorter by one particularly nervous and enthusiastic theater worker who followed us into the manager's office for Boyle to autograph a photo of the two of them together from the 2009 Directors Guild Awards (when Boyle won for Slumdog Millionaire). Apparently he predicted correctly that Boyle would win. (He probably wasn't the only one who did so.) Here's the interview, followed by some highlights from the conversation, moderated by L.A. Times writer Mark Olsen. Your films are very different from each other. Is that an intentional choice? Or is there a common thread throughout all your films?
Both, actually... One of the kind of philosophies, if you like, is to try and do something different so that you're setting yourself a different challenge every time. Not just a slightly different story or different characters or different actors, but the genre or the world you're going to move into is different. And the reason for that is because I love that feeling of not feeling innocent, of not really knowing how to do it. Of having to learn by [looking] at the great films and also trying to figure it out yourself... And you're not trying to copy the great genre types -- it's ridiculous to say you're trying to improve them -- but you're trying to refresh them or renew them or see them differently. So there's that [sense of] trying to get back to what you were like when you made your first film. Because there's something about that that is like being the first time you're in love. I mean, it's just like, you don't know what you're doing and you'll never actually do it as well. You'll do it sort of better [but] you'll never do it as wonderfully, in a way. You realize after a few of them...there are things that link them together that you kind of go, "Oh, wow. I didn't realize it's the same movie."...And one of the things I realized that links a lot of the movies that we've made is that there's hugely a character that faces insurmountable odds and somehow overcomes them. So you get that lift, which we all love at the end of the movie -- it's a kind of hero thing, I guess. And the difference in [Trance], I hope, is that...you can't work out which one it is [that] faces insurmountable odds. And if you put it in chronological order, you know. But because we don't, you don't really know until right at the end who faces insurmountable odds. The movie that really put you on the map was Trainspotting, which has become a cult classic. Why do you think audiences gravitated toward that story the way that they did? All the credit really comes from the book. The book is an extraordinary achievement and inspired everyone who worked on it: me, the actors, the screenwriter -- everybody. We were all astonished by the book. But it didn't make you reverential, which great books can sometimes make you frightened to do anything to them. There's a spirit in it that goes, "Do anything," that forces you to adapt it in a way that's almost anarchic. So some of it's not the book -- I mean, bits of it are -- but it has a spirit that tries to capture the book's energy. And it's the insight into people, really: the forgotten people or the dregs of humanity or long lost people. And it just focuses so much on them. There's something beautiful about that. It was a great one to make as a second movie [his first was Shallow Grave] because we had a bit of confidence because the first movie had been quite successful... We didn't have a huge amount of money, but we had this novel that was a slap in everybody's face. And you wanted to capture that, really, and I think that we were lucky enough to get enough of that in the film and people recognize that. And he has this gallery of characters... Listen, I've made lots of movies, and I can't even remember the names of the characters in the movies I've made. But everybody remembers their names: Begbie, Spud, Sick Boy, Renton... It's weird to carry character names like that, you know. So, I've heard rumors that there's going to be a Trainspotting sequel... [Boyle crosses his fingers.] It's not just teasing. It's a very, very serious prospect -- and a very serious attempt we're going to try to do something that relates to the fact that it'll be those same actors in those same character parts twenty years older. It'll be like a time lapse. They'll go from how they were when...all the actors were in their mid-twenties -- and not they're mid-forties. And we've all aged. One section of [the] audience will have all aged, but there's another section of audience who caught up with the film because it is regarded as a cult classic. I have to ask. Any chance of Tommy coming back in any form?I know, Kevin McKidd. He was lovely. He was really lovely. It was interesting because we did these posters, which became very iconographic. And he was meant to be on the poster but he was on holiday. And he wouldn't change his holiday... So he didn't get to be on the posters. Maybe this is his chance to get on the poster.Maybe he will come back. Maybe he'll come back and he won't be forty -- unlike the rest of them. He'll still be like, "You see?" It's better to have that eternal youth. Okay, last question. In honor of St. Patrick's Day, which is coming up. Where is your favorite place to grab a pint?
I don't know any drinking holes. I'm not a big drinker. I have spent a very drunken evening in New York, which is, of course, the place to be on St. Patrick's Day. So I can claim that. But I've also, I spent... I'll tell you where we were at...where we came from was Austin for the South by Southwest festival, and I remember about three years ago, four years ago, I spent a weekend in Austin, and I don't remember a single thing about it. And it must've been a great weekend because you just don't remember anything about it. And they say that, isn't it? "If you can remember the party you've been at, it wasn't really a party." blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2013/03/danny_boyle_trance.php
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Post by betinad on Jun 17, 2013 8:43:06 GMT -5
Tourists flock to desolate moor to recreate iconic scene from Danny Boyle's movie Trainspotting A REMOTE restaurant has launched a contest to find fans' best take on the cult film sequence from the 1996 Danny Boyle classic starring Ewan McGregor. TO movie fans, it’s most commonly known as the “it’s s***e being Scottish” scene.
Trainspotting star Ewan McGregor’s rant to junkie pals on a desolate Highland moor remains one of Scotland’s most legendary film clips.
Now one of Scotland’s most remote restaurants has launched a contest to find the best recreation of the scene from the 1996 Danny Boyle classic.
Movie fans from around the world regularly make the three-hour train journey from Glasgow to tiny Corrour station, on Rannoch Moor, where it was shot.
Bosses at the Corrour Station House Restaurant are offering visitors a free luxury dinner for the best photo capturing the bridge scene.
And they’ve been flooded with entries from hikers, campers and cyclists, all with their own take on the hit film.
One group of drunken Belgians even stripped off to their undies to copy the movie.
Lizzie MacKenzie, 23, who runs Corrour restaurant with partner Ollie Bennett, 23, said: “People always ask where the Trainspotting bridge is so we thought it would be good to let visitors do their own version.”
On a jaunt to the country, every film fan’s favourite Edinburgh drug addict comes over all philosophical in Danny Boyle’s movie:
Tommy (Kevin McKidd): “Doesn’t it make you proud to be Scottish?”
Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor): “It’s s***e being Scottish! We’re the lowest of the low. The scum of the f****** Earth!
“The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever s*** into civilization.
“Some hate the English. I don’t. They’re just w*****s. We, on the other hand, are colonised by w*****s. Can’t even find a decent culture to be colonised by. We’re ruled by effete a*******s.
“It’s a s***e state of affairs to be in, Tommy, and all the fresh air in the world won’t make any f****** difference!”
For the gallery and full article : www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/weird-news/tourists-flock-desolate-moor-recreate-1956130
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