Trainspotting [DVD] [1996]

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They all go to a pub to celebrate, all of them friendlier and happier than they usually are, and discuss their plans to spend their share of the money. Someone with a key is eventually unearthed, and once inside, Boyle explains the set-up to everybody. On Shallow Grave we hired lots of props, but on Trainspotting about 98 per cent is cheap junk we bought.

Trainspotting: The Definitive Edition [DTS] [DVD] [1996]

A rough cut is screened for the first time to a favourable response - to Channel 4 drama head David Aukin, the man with his finger on the green light of the company's film production. Concluding that Begbie and Sick Boy are unpredictable and dangerous, Renton quietly steals the bag of money and leaves the following morning. Ewan McGregor was cast after impressing Boyle and Macdonald with his work on their previous film, Shallow Grave.They bought it before they'd seen it, thinking they couldn't lose and even if they did, it would still be worth it for the relationship they could have with us - and get us to do an Elmore Leonard novel or whatever it is they want us to do there. The likelihood of Renton, Spud and/or Sick Boy leading Tommy astray are higher than the other way around as problems in Tommy's life resulting in him wanting to use are more likely than any of Renton, Spud or Sick Boy having a reason to follow Tommy's clean example. Courtrooms tend to be reluctant to let film crews in because, I don't know, Taggart misbehaved or something. Trying to do a sequel for any of them is going to be a pointless exercise, you could never do one that holds a candle to the original. Now clean but bored and devoid of meaning in his life, Renton visits Tommy, who is now severely addicted to heroin and is HIV-positive.

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Boyle's savvy use of wide angles, bright colours, attractively clean compositions and a dynamic pop score".

Trainspotting was the highest-grossing British film of 1996, and at the time it was the fourth highest grossing British film in history. McGregor considered injecting heroin to better understand the character, but eventually decided against it. Lash, Scott; Lury Celia (2007) Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things, Polity, ISBN 978-0-7456-2482-2, p. The script's ending is still up in the air, with MacDonald, now ensconced in Glasgow, and Hodge, in London, in constant phone contact.