Or David Bowie, or Lou Reed Mark "Rent-boy" Renton : Some of his solo stuff's not bad. Sick Boy : No, it's not bad, but it's not great either. And in your heart you kind of know that although it sounds all right, it's actually just shite. Mark "Rent-boy" Renton : So who else? Sick Boy : All I'm trying to do is help you understand that The Name of The Rose is merely a blip on an otherwise uninterrupted downward trajectory.
Sick Boy : I don't rate that at all. Sick Boy : That means fuck all. Its a sympathy vote. Mark "Rent-boy" Renton : Right. So we all get old and then we can't hack it anymore. Is that it? Sick Boy : Yeah. Mark "Rent-boy" Renton : That's your theory? Beautifully fucking illustrated.
Mark "Rent-boy" Renton : I don't feel the sickness yet, but it's in the post. That's for sure. I'm in the junkie limbo at the moment. Too ill to sleep. Too tired to stay awake, but the sickness is on its way. Sweat, chills, nausea. Pain and craving. A need like nothing else I've ever known will soon take hold of me. It's on its way. Mark "Rent-boy" Renton : I fantasize about a massive pristine convenience. Brilliant gold taps, virginal white marble, a seat carved from ebony, a cistern full of Chanel no.
But under the circumstances I'll settle for anywhere. Mark "Rent-boy" Renton : It seems, however, I really am the luckiest guy in the world. Several years of addiction right in the middle of an epidemic, surrounded by the living dead.
But not me. I'm negative. It's official. And once the pain goes away, that's when the real battle starts. Depression, boredom You feel so fucking low, you want to fucking top yourself. Mark "Rent-boy" Renton : You see if you ask me we're heterosexual by default, not by decision. It's just a question of who you fancy. It's all about aesthetics and it's fuck all to do with morality.
But you try telling Begbie that. Mark "Rent-boy" Renton : I quite enjoyed the sound of it all. Profit, loss, margins, takeovers, lending, letting, subletting, subdividing, cheating, scamming, fragmenting, breaking away.
There was no such thing as society and even if there was, I most certainly had nothing to do with it. For the first time in my adult life I was almost content.
Gavin : Tommy knew he'd caught the virus, but he never knew he'd gone full-blown. Mark "Rent-boy" Renton : What was it, pneumonia or cancer? Gavin : No, toxoplasmosis. Sort of like a stroke. How's that? Gavin : He wanted to see Lizzy again. Lizzy wouldn't let him near the house. So he bought a present for her, bought her a kitten. Mark "Rent-boy" Renton : But Lizzy told him where to fucking stick it. Gavin : Exactly. So there's Tommy stuck with this kitten. You can imagine what happened.
The thing was neglected Tommy's lying about fucked out of his eyeballs He never knew you could get toxoplasmosis from cat shit. Mark "Rent-boy" Renton : Neither did l. What is it? Gavin : Fucking horrible. It's like an abscess on your brain.
Mark "Rent-boy" Renton : Fucking hell. Then what happened? Gavin : He starts getting these headaches. So he just uses more smack, you know, for the pain.
And then he has a stroke. A fucking stroke, just like that. Gets home from the hospital and dies three weeks later.
He'd been dead for ages before the neighbors complained about the smell and got the police to break down the door. Tommy was lying facedown in a pool of vomit. Gavin : The kitten was fine. Mark "Rent-boy" Renton : What the fuck are these? Mark "Rent-boy" Renton : [narrating] In the normal run of things, I would have nothing to do with the cunt. But this was not the normal run of things. Mikey Forrester : Opium suppositories.
Ideal for your purposes. Slow release. Bring you down gradual. Custom fucking designed for your needs. Mark "Rent-boy" Renton : I want a fucking hit! Mikey Forrester : That's all I've got, matey, take it or leave it. Mikey Forrester : Aye, you feel better the now right?
Mark "Rent-boy" Renton : Oh, yeah, for all the good they've done me, I might as well have stuck them up my arse! Mark "Rent-boy" Renton : Thank you, your honor.
With God's help I'll conquer this terrible affliction. Mark "Rent-boy" Renton : Phew! I haven't felt that good since Archie Gemmill scored against Holland in ! Mark "Rent-boy" Renton : Heroin had robbed Renton of his sex drive, but now it returned with a vengeance. And as the impotence of those days faded into memory, grim desperation took hold of his sex-crazed mind. His post-junk libido, fuelled by alcohol and amphetamine, taunted him remorselessly with his own unsatisfied desire. Mark "Rent-boy" Renton : Living like this is a full-time business.
Sick Boy : Good chips! Mark "Rent-boy" Renton I can't believe you did that Sick Boy : I got a good price for it! Rents I need the money! Sick Boy : Well, Christ. If I knew you were going to get so humpty about it, I wouldn't have bothered! Fucking rented anyway Sick Boy : You gonna eat that? Sick Boy Have you got a passport? Mark "Rent-boy" Renton : Why? Sick Boy : I met this bloke, runs a hotel Does a nice side-line of punting British passports to foreigners I could get you a good price It was just an idea Mark "Rent-boy" Renton : You could always get the truth from Tommy.
That was one of his major weaknesses. He never told lies, he never took drugs, and he never cheated on anyone. Sick Boy : Say something Mark. Sick Boy : Fucking say something, huh? Mark "Rent-boy" Renton : I'm cooking up. Mark "Rent-boy" Renton : [narrating] Heroin makes you constipated. The heroin from my last hit was fading, and the suppositories had yet to melt. Mark "Rent-boy" Renton : I'm no longer constipated.
Mark "Rent-boy" Renton : Swanney taught us to adore and respect the national health service. For it was the source of much of our gear. Kevin McKidd Tommy missed the photo shoot for the promos because he was on holiday, and is the only lead cast member not to be in any of the promotional posters or even the video cover.
Oasis were asked to contribute to the soundtrack, but Noel Gallagher declined, as he thought the film was actually about trainspotters. However, he would later attend the launch party.
Danny Boyle had his actors prepare by making them watch older movies about rebellious youths like The Hustler , The Exorcist and A Clockwork Orange The latter film is directly homaged in the scene set in the Volcano nightclub, which is very similar to that set in the Milk Bar in Stanley Kubrick 's film. Indeed, the track playing in the Volcano club is by Heaven 17 who took their name from A Clockwork Orange One of the reasons why the film proved to be so popular, particularly in its native UK, was its vibrant marketing campaign.
It was actively modeled on the way that Pulp Fiction had been pitched to the public. Filming took place in the height of summer. This was problematic when it came to the night shoots - given it doesn't get dark in Scotland until around 11pm in the summer and the sun's up again by 4. On the plus side, the short nights meant that Danny Boyle and co could cram an awful lot of filming into one day the director was usually on set around 7am and often didn't finish until 8.
The scene where Sick Boy and Renton lie in the park and take potshots with their Westlake. Unfortunately Brian De Palma was setting up the film version of the TV show at the time so getting to the rights to the music simply proved to be too expensive - approximately three times the film's budget.
Both actors were very hungover for the scene in question. Miller is the grandson of Bernard Lee , who played "M" in the Bond series until From the minute the film went into pre-production, Ewan McGregor was always first choice for the part of Renton. Danny Boyle credits the Spike Jonze -directed music video for "Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys as a major influence on the opening sequence of the film.
Before he took up screenwriting, John Hodge was a doctor and had to frequently deal with heroin addicts. Some of his experiences have been worked into the script.
One such example is the junkies stealing a television set from an old folks' home. Of the main cast, only Jonny Lee Miller is not a Scot. Danny Boyle was excited by the story's potential to be the "most energetic film you've ever seen - about something that ultimately ends up in purgatory or worse. Created much controversy when it was released in the USA for its content.
Senator Bob Dole charged the film with glorifying drug use, but later admitted he hadn't seen the film. Jonny Lee Miller retained the Scottish accent he used for Sick Boy throughout principal photography, even when he wasn't filming.
It wasn't until after the wrap party that he reverted to his native English accent, much to the surprise of his co-stars. Renton is a vegetarian. In the novel, his reasoning is that meat makes him sick. The "Choose Life" monologue was originally planned for the middle of the film. Danny Boyle and his writer John Hodge were struggling to find a suitable opening when they hit on the idea of moving the monologue to the beginning, creating an iconic moment by a simple act.
In T2 Trainspotting it's revealed by Renton Ewan McGregor to Veronika Anjela Nedyalkova that "Choose Life" was part of a campaign against the drugs in the 80s, and that he and his friends played with the title adding things, making a speech to remember the opening of this movie. In one scene in London, while Renton is "visited" by Begbie, he's reading a book about actor Montgomery Clift who had lots of experiences with drugs and medication of all kinds.
Kelly Macdonald recalled that she almost wrecked her screen debut by getting drunk: "I think it was my first day filming - a whole day and night shoot. All the boys were quite naughty and were drinking, so I was drinking. I'd been in the pub for hours with various people who weren't filming scenes, and Shirley Henderson [who played Gail] said, 'You might want to stop drinking'. She was totally right. I think I was actually hungover by the time I did the scene. I was so young.
I was flipping between the excitement of these boys I was hanging around with because they were all so cool and charismatic and had lots of stories and then being a nervous wreck and hiding in the toilets.
According to the liner notes from the second volume of the soundtrack, David Bowie 's "Golden Years" was supposed to be what Diane sings to Renton during the withdrawal scene. Instead she sings New Order 's "Temptation.
The football team pictured in the opening credits is the Calton Athletic Club, who are actually drug addiction counselors and were the primary consultants for the film. Christopher Eccleston was offered the role of Begbie, because he resembled how Danny Boyle imagined the character in the book. This movie was Kelly Macdonald 's film debut. The biggest grossing British film of The scene where Renton is hit by a car took two hours and twenty takes to film, complete with a whole lot of intervention from the on-set nurse.
The toilet-diving scene is a reference to Thomas Pynchon 's novel "Gravity's Rainbow". Begbie's moustache was based on Liverpool striker Ian Rush. Ewan McGregor shaved his head and lost 2 stone 28 lbs - Many of the book's stories and characters were dropped in order to create a cohesive movie script of adequate length. Danny Boyle says that the reason Oasis didn't want to contribute to the soundtrack was because they didn't want their music used in a movie about trainspotters.
He was however delighted that the band were at the movie's premiere party because of the huge publicity it generated. Although set in Edinburgh, most interiors, and some of the exteriors, were shot in Glasgow. A notable exception is the chase down Princes Street.
Danny Boyle convinced Irvine Welsh to let Andrew Macdonald option the rights to his book by writing him a letter stating that they were "the two most important Scotsmen since Kenny Dalglish and Alex Ferguson ". Welsh remembered that originally the people wanting to option his book "wanted to make a po-faced piece of social realism like Christiane F. They shoot heroin, listen to Iggy Pop and seem stuck in Edinburgh.
The young teenager, with her finger on the cultural pulse, shows how out-of-date their pastimes are: "Times are changing, music is changing, even drugs are changing," she lectures. In Irvine Welsh's novel, and Danny Boyle's film, the women, it seems, are more than happy to oblige. Trainspotting: Diane. Wise beyond her years, especially when it comes to men. Paul Clarke. Trainspotting Trainspotting: Begbie.
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