Trainspotting
Short description
Trainspotting follows Mark Renton, a young heroin addict living in Edinburgh in the 1990s. His days revolve around scoring drugs and drifting through a circle of friends who are variously unreliable, desperate and dangerous, among them the volatile Begbie, the hapless Spud and the womanising Sick Boy. Renton tries repeatedly to get clean, and when he moves to London he hopes to leave that world behind, but the people and habits he has walked away from keep finding him.
Danny Boyle directed the film, his second feature after Shallow Grave and before A Life Less Ordinary, from a screenplay by John Hodge and produced by Andrew Macdonald. Ewan McGregor plays Renton, with Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle and Kelly Macdonald among the cast.
Made for about four million dollars, it took roughly seventy-two million worldwide, a large return on its budget. On IMDb it holds 8 out of 10 from over ten thousand votes, while a critics' rating of 8.4 out of 10 from ninety reviews places it slightly above that audience score.
What's left behind the scenes
- To play a person who is on drugs, Ewan McGregor had to follow a diet that excluded all alcohol and dairy products. It took him two months to lose weight.
- Sick Boy is obsessed with James Bond. The actor who played him, Jonny Lee Miller, is the grandson of Bernard Lee, who played M in the Bond series until 1979.
- Renton is reading a book about Hollywood star Montgomery Clift, who suffered from an addiction to all kinds of drugs.
- The film is based on Irvine Welsh's debut novel 'Trainspotting' (1993).
- Although the film is set in Edinburgh, most of the scenes were shot in Glasgow.
- Australia recorded a peculiar record – 'Trainspotting' became the film most often stolen from video stores.
- In America, the first 20 minutes of the film were dubbed because audiences couldn't understand the Scottish accent.
- The final scene where Spud retrieves money from the locker is reminiscent of a similar scene in 'Once Upon a Time in America' (1983).
- Irvine Welsh made a small appearance as a drug dealer.
- The murals on the wall of the 'Volkan' club are similar to those on the walls of the 'Milk Bar' from Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange' (1971).
- Among the drawings, you can also spot Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster in Martin Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver' (1976).
- Initially, Irvine Welsh's book was adapted into a stage play. Ewan Bremner played Renton in the play, and portrayed Spud in the film.
- The security guard in the store at the beginning of the film is John Hodge, the screenwriter.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
Кастинги в Україні
