Danny Boyle's 1996 film Trainspotting. There is not just one, but TWO full-frontal scenes in this film! Join us while we chat about Danny Boyle, his career, and as we breakdown our favorite scenes from this amazing film.
Trainspotting (1996) wasn't Ewan McGregor's first foray into full-frontal, and certainly not his last. Join us as we breakdown this film, along with the early works of Danny Boyle.
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I was just wondering, like, what was you and McGregor first full frontal movie? You know?
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Was it this, uh, Phantom Menace? I was like, George, I don't need a lightsaber. I've got one right here. And he's like, put it away.
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He's like, just stop. We understand. You don't have to keep doing this.
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Quit it, quit it, quit it. Um.
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Well, hello there, Ryan.
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Usually I don't say anything until it's like I'm my co host, Ryan, and I'm like, hello.
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I'm genuinely forgetting even what I say, right? Oh, I remember now. We've only done this like eight times.
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Oh, my God. Sort of out hen. Okay, you did. Come on.
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Hello there. Welcome to On The Bitte, the podcast that uncovers fullfrontal male nudity in cinema. I am Laura and I am joined by my co host, Ryan.
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Hi.
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Hey.
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Hello.
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Welcome to our talk today about the 1996 comedy drama. Uh, yes, train spotting.
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Yeah, I would say it was a comedy drama.
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Dark comedy.
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Yeah. I guess we'll get more into the comedy and stuff like that, but it feels to me quintessentially of a Scottish attitude. So I don't have too many qualms with people calling it a comedy because there are certain aspects of it that are funny.
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Oh, it's very funny.
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There are certain aspects of it that you should not be laughing at. And I will have slightly slanted eye at you if you are laughing at those particular parts. But fair enough, for the most part, yes. You are dealing with some quite unique characters here, so you will crack a smile at some point.
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Yeah. This is directed by Danny Boyle.
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Yes.
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And this is kind of early days, Danny Boyle, but I know you will tell me a little bit more about that.
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Danny Boyle, we know him best as the British film director. He's, uh, worked in TV. He's also worked on the stage predominantly. He got his start on the stage and, um, he directed theater all the way through the 1980s and then eventually moved into working in TV, one, uh, of which is his most notable. And I'm only kind of bringing it up because it's something that I actually quite like. But in 1987, he produced a TV film, Elephant for Alan Clark. Um, you know how much I like Allen Clarke.
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Okay. I didn't know that.
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Yeah. It's got some very interesting cinematography and it's based on The Troubles. And, um, it was a short film for BBC, uh, north and Ireland, so. Yeah, very kind of topical piece. I say to anybody who's never seen any of Alan Clark's stuff, I say, check it out.
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Right. Yeah.
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He is also the director of, uh, Maiden, Britain at Tim Roth movie.
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Certainly.
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Yes. And also probably best well known for that movie called Scum with Free Winston based on The Boys Borstell. So, a little bit more about Danny Boyle. Let's, uh, see later on, we kind of know more about Danny Boyle. He, uh, directed the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony.
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Yeah, that's so interesting.
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Well, he's a man of theater and he still does theater to this day. True, he's very much a Sam Mendes in that respect. But it was called The Isle of Wonder. Oh, yeah. I remember it being very interesting. It was one of the few things I remember from that time where I was like, I'm going to sit and watch this. And it was certainly during a time where we had a, uh, fairly villainous Tory government in power at the time and there were certain work going around that they were going to dismantle the NHS and all this other. And I quite like what you did with that, as it was just seemingly like a massive middle finger to the establishment. And I was just like, yeah, I was like, good on you. Um, he was also. This is another reason why I quite like him as well. He was offered a knighthood, but he declined, uh, it, oh, shit into his film career. Um, and we won't have too much to say because The Train Spotting is his second film. So he broke out with Shallow Grave in 95, which is phenomenal. Love that movie. And then Train Spotting comes in 96. And I only mentioned this because it's, um, his last film of the 90s, technically. And it's a life, uh, less ordinary in, uh, 97. I think the only other thing to kind of note during this time is that he turned down making, uh, Alien Four. Right now, obviously, the story behind Alien Four is there's tons of people involved in, uh, the making of that movie. And the movie eventually goes to Jean Pierre's of Amelie and City of Lost Children Fame. The French director.
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I feel like after Aliens, that whole franchise gets. Well, the whole franchise, but certainly the whole franchise.
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Yeah.
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Like Alien Three and Four have.
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There's only two films of Alien franchise as far as I'm cool.
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I liked the fast Bender ones.
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He catches himself, whatever. So let's get on to Train spawning because, uh, that's what we are here for. So basically the same team that worked on Shallow Grave is behind Train Spotting. So it's writer John Hodge, it's producer Andrew McDonald's and Danny Boyle's also bringing in, uh, the same cinematographer, but it's definitely the same editor.
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Okay.
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So basically there's a familiarity to the crew side of things.
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Best friends, basically.
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Um, and certainly the dropping of Irvin Welsh's book on the lap of these guys seemed very certain that as much as we kind of know about Train Spotting, the book at this time, because I think about the time they got, uh, a hold of Train Spotting, they were doing press for Shallow Grave. I think that's why it's so quickly picked up and it's so quickly turned around.
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Yeah. Because his book was only published in 93. Yes.
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And it served in Welsh's first book. Definitely so all it will kind of say about this is that the book is very different from what the film ends up becoming, that the film stands on its own.
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Yeah.
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But this is the thing, and I think even the makers of Train Spotting, fully recognized as well, is that this is very much an Irvin Welsh creation. And I see any of his film adaptions or Ervin Wells creation. So certainly there's no sense of like, there is one man behind the driving force behind this film in particular, I feel like this project kind of lives and breathes basically on the words of Urban Welsh.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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And today it's still the best film adaption of any of his work that's ever been made.
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I feel like, personally struggling to think of any others other than Filth.
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Yeah.
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And obviously T Two not so much.
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No. Well, T Two is a bit, uh, of a mess as far as I'm concerned, but, uh, Philosophy is good.
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Other adaptations.
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Yeah. I generally enjoyed Filth when I first saw it, but I think, um, if we're talking about, like, we didn't say true adaptions, but I would definitely say, like, capturing a kind of heart and soul of his work. And I kind of feel like it's his first novel. And then obviously, this is the first film adaption. I think it sets its own benchmark. And certainly the tone of Watts to follow with the film adaptions as well.
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Right.
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Because this definitely skirts a very fine line between entertainment and offense, basically. And it certainly skirts a very fine line culturally. Um, for certainly what they're trying to go for here is something that has a relatively mainstream appeal. The problem is the appeal has to come from following a group of individuals who are, for better or worse, drug addicts.
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Yeah.
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And certainly this is a film I studied when I was in school, so this was like, I was 15 years old when I studied this film in high school.
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Oh, boy.
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And we did it alongside Braveheart, and it was about Scottish representation in cinema. I went into it so hard that I couldn't watch transporting for at least eight years.
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Oh, my goodness.
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There's no way. It's like you spent the entire time prepping and reading and watching a film over and over again. Apparently this is not a film that's probably suitable for a 15 or 14 year old, potentially.
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Um, yeah, but certainly.
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Like, growing up in Scotland myself, uh, there's a weird nostalgia factor to this film, but there's also kind of like there's a kindred relationship I have to it, as much as I don't agree with any of it, that are horribly parts of the film, and certainly the people they meet and the people they talk to and the characters and stuff like that that I find somewhat relatable. And I can definitely find myself getting lost a bit in the cultural aspects of this film. Effectively nails head on.
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Well, I think you can thank everyone that picked up this film to make it for that, you know what I mean? Because it brings so much heart and so much relatability.
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Yeah.
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And I think that's why it helps make it so widely appreciated, because even though it is quite a niche culture, in a way, it's somehow relatable across the world.
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Yeah. And I guess, like, I think this is maybe the main thing I have against it is that it's sad that I can sit here and be like, well, the lives of drug addicts and heroin and stuff like that feels quintessentially part of culture.
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Yeah.
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And that's the saddest thing I find about it. But I feel like I think that's more an issue with Western capitalist society, not just Scotland, just on its own. So I? Mhm kind of feel like that's kind of where it is. And that is effectively as you look at it, as you examine it, and as you kind of see all these characters, some that kind of contradict themselves against others. And to that I wouldn't inject heroin into my body, but I'll quite happily drink and I'll quite happily smoke. So there are people who contradict themselves by using more socially accepted forms of addiction.
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Absolutely. So this movie stars you and McGregor, and I only kind of put him at the top, and I feel like everyone else is kind of like an assembly in a way. I don't know if you agree with me.
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Well, he's like the main character. He's the face and the voice that we follow through the story, even though that's not the case in the book.
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Yes. Because the book is a compilation of stories. Right. So you kind of follow the different characters through the book.
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Follow each of them, basically.
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Um, yeah. The makers of the film thought that Renton, you and McGregor kind of had the voice that they wanted to follow through the tail because.
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Put it this way, it's like a 400 page book and they've crammed the story into 90 minutes. There is not a wasted second.
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No, certainly not.
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It's like. Yeah, it's banging from start to finish.
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It sure is.
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Yeah.
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Also, um, starring Ewan Bremner? S Spudge, Johnny Lee Miller, sick boy. Robert Carlyle is Begbie.
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Yes.
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Kevin McKid is Tommy. And we've got Kelly McDonald, who plays Diane.
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Yes.
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Sweet Diane.
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So pretty much like everyone in this cast list. I mean, there's tons like James Cosmos in this movie.
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Yeah.
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I mean, Dale Winton makes a small appearance. Irving Welsh also makes an appearance. Peter Mullins, uh, also in this movie, Shirley Henderson is also in this movie.
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Huge cast. Uh, list.
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Yeah. They're all kind of very much like staples of Scott's films. Um, I guess if we were to kind of think about what this film, what this film represents is shallow grave and transport and are kind of seen at the time of the 90s to revitalize the British cinema, basically.
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Yeah.
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Part of the pun bass there will be the injection of creativity that these films kind of bring in to the fore. I don't fully agree with that, but I can see why. It's one of the greatest British films ever made.
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And I feel like at the time there was either what we have going on here or we have this kind of historical fictional dramas that were happening at the time.
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Yeah.
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I was going to say Emma, but that's obviously later. But you're Jane Austin type films that are going on that are just these romanticized English countryside and things like this. And then you have these type of movies like Train Spotting that are coming out a little bit later. That's just kind of changing the landscape of how you kind of see these.
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I would say in terms of British cinema comes in ebbs and flows. We've already got our Mike Lee, we've already got our Steven Freeers and stuff like that. We've already had our Saturday Night Sunday Morning, like a Richard Burton saw his stuff back in the 60s. So we have had British cinema itself has had it plenty to drop on.
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Did you know that you and McGregor dropped like, two stone? How much is the stone? £11.
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Uh, £12 really? Or 13, I think maybe.
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We've dropped like almost £20 for this role.
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I think basically he read the script and I don't think they let them read it basically because they were all quite close after Shallow Grave. They let him read it and basically state, this is not an offer.
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By the way, but even though they knew they definitely wanted him.
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They were his number on choice, but they couldn't see him doing it. He had the longer hair and he obviously had a bit more weight on him and stuff like that. So by the time you see him as Renting, he's like, stick thin and he shaved his head.
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Yes. And I think he did that just to show them like, I can do this. Let me do this. I want this. He's like, this is one of the few times in my life where I read a script and I'm like, this is it.
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End of the day. This is his quintessential role. Other than, say, like, Obiwan Kenobi, uh, that comes later. This is his quintessential role. This is the thing that will propel them absolutely Rockets them out of there. Obscurity.
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Uh, this was his first full rental. Well, let me read you the letterbox synopsis.
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Yeah.
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Let's get right into this one sentence.
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Okay. Jeez.
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Mark Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
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Okay. Yeah, that's fine.
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Tagline, can you guess?
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It sounds like choose life or something. Yes.
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Choose life.
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Yeah.
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I want you to sum it up for me because you have a relationship with this film. I've seen this movie a few times, but I'm obviously 50, 60 times. I'm not as familiar.
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Yeah. I hate to say it's an easy watch, but I find it like I find some level of comfort watching it. And I love this dark humor, but it's something that I've always kind of related to. Yeah, certainly, uh, I don't know, as a Scotsman or Scott's person, when shit gets real, when shit's like really fucking crap, you tend to just combat it with humor for the most part.
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I don't know what it is with me and why. I've always really liked dark humor or like British humor. Scott's humor, like Australian or whatever. I always have connected with it in a way and I don't know why, but I always find a kinship with people who can understand that type of really dark humor.
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There's an inherent darkness and all that stuff. All the stuff that I know that you like. There's an inherent darkness within it to kind of sum this movie up. Yeah. Uh, we focus on a group of guys, group of friends who've known each other since they were at school and they are pretty much knee deep with their own addictions.
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Basically correct.
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Most evidently is obviously Renting and Sick Boy and Spud who have heroin addictions and mhm. It consumes their daily lives. And, um, on the flip side to that, you have Tommy, who's more straight laced. You'll have the odd drink, he'll smoke a cigarette, but, you know, he works out, keeps fit, you know, it does all that stuff. And then there's Begbay, who is the quintessential Scott's Hard man.
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He's so scary.
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He's terrifying. Absolutely terrifying.
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He's the scariest person I think you've seen in a film.
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Begbie reminds me of several people, uh, I've met over the course of my life in Scotland. And the best way you deal with them and it's the way that they deal with him in this film as a friends group is that they continue to be his friend because he's a fucking psycho.
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Well, because they're too afraid. It's worse to not be his friend because then you're an enemy.
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You'll check them.
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Either way, you're going to get stabbed no matter what.
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It's all the international audiences member. You're probably going to hear me talking a lot of Scott slang, but certainly Chip, um, means stab. Eggby always has a knife on him and he's always ready to square go, as in start a fight. Uh, and we follow their respected day to day lives and their musings and stuff. What? Um, we kind of delve into and it feels a lot more softly in terms of like. It's like, wow, they're all taking drugs and having a laugh.
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It certainly starts off energetic. Um, well, the whole movie is incredibly energetic, but it's like fun. It's fun. And you're watching them and they're talking about their hit.
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It's like, I wouldn't go so much as to say it's fun, but their lives are shown with such a visceral energy that it becomes infectious.
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I shouldn't say it's fun because it's certainly not.
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What you see is this spiral of the behaviors and the lengths that they'll go to in order to get their head.
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Yeah.
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And as someone who's been on the receiving end of stuff like that before, okay.
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The victim of an addictive.
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Someone else family member. It's a horrible recurring spiral that you find yourself in. And I guess the film starts off somewhere on top.
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Yes.
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And it slowly descends into hell for the most part. And certainly.
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Yeah. Up to a point. Absolutely.
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It's told with such a level, like, with such a level of energy. And there's, uh, certainly a lot of comedy. And because it's obviously fueled a lot by pop culture and because of all the musings and the interactions and stuff like that are pretty much pop culture filled, very disarming. When horrible things do occur and when they do happen, they're fucking horrible. They're the worst thing.
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Yeah. There are parts of this film that I've never forgotten, and I'll never forget that are, um, so horrible.
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Yes.
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And then there are parts that are so funny that I'll never forget. It's very interesting.
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Yeah. I guess. I think it skirts this light. I think it's an incredibly well conceived script that shot with a very kind of distinct energy and style about it. It's mostly shot in wide angle lenses. Danny, uh, Boyle put on record that his biggest influence for shooting this film was Kubrick.
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Right.
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And that I can fully understand.
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Uh, because there's a lot from that.
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Yes. Some very direct knowledge to like a cockroach Orange and stuff like that. Like that club scene that pushes in.
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Oh, yeah.
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And you see all the stuff on the walls and things like that. It's basically just that same shot when they're in the milk bar.
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I'm glad they're just not drinking glasses of milk.
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Yeah. So I guess it's not difficult to summarize this movie because I think we see the horrible spiraling circle of all of these characters.
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Get out. Well, not everyone struggled to get out.
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No. Well, I think it's like they're all struggling to get a foothold in their own ways in society. And for the most part, they're fairly abhorrent individuals.
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What about Spud?
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Well, Spud is just a little bit misunderstood. I feel like he's been in a group of friends who've always kind of been like this for a while, and he's just been kind of caught up with it. Unfortunately, Tommy suffers the same fate as well when things get him down, which is also the main thing I have with the film, as well as that whenever things get you down, there's always drugs that you can depend on. And that is unfortunately just kind of the way it goes sometimes. But effectively, it's all about these people trying to escape and trying to do something with themselves. And again, it's very much a kind of criminal element. And then they all come together again. And obviously Renting is our eyes and ears and our voice through the course of the film.
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I found it really interesting to find out that the football team, uh, that they were playing against in the very beginning of the movie.
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Colton Athletic.
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Yeah, yeah. They're like a recovery, uh, a drug recovery group who kind of threw themselves into football and stuff and they're just recovering heroin addicts. And I think they gave a lot of stories and a lot of background and a lot of kind of tidbits on life that really helped influence the film, which I thought they was really interesting.
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Yeah, I think there's definitely a lot of because again, I think you've got the Irving Wells perspective as well because he was a drug addict as well. So you have that and then you have John Hodge, who used to be a doctor. So he's dealt with people like this and he knows plenty of stories of people on the suffering end of that. And yeah, I mean it does a very good job of tapping into that culture. The film doesn't waste, uh, a single moment like the minute it starts. What we're presented to like that opening segment anyway, at least until you feel like the first scene kind of starts. I guess it's like the end of the choose live speech is when the mhm film effectively starts.
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Right.
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So you have like an opening section cut to Iggy Pots Lost for Life, uh, and one of the most iconic opening sequences to any film ever. They're running down Princess Street.
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Do you know when they were filming that scene and they were filming down Princess Street, they have this kind of like four Wheeler device that they have the camera on and apparently it ran over you and Bremner.
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We see Carlton Athletic. They, uh, play a football game against them.
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Yes.
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We meet a whole bunch of other kinds of characters as well. And there's a lot of title cards as well. So we see the first the main four pretty much, yes. So you got your renting spot, Tommy and Begby mhm. And this is kind of like your introductory kind of section, I guess, because a lot of this stuff is repeated and revisited within the middle of the film as well. Like the same scenes, I guess.
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Yeah.
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Uh, so this kind of jumps about as an opening segment anyway, just to kind of introduce everybody effectively, that whole title sequence or let's say introductory sequence starts and it ends at the beginning of Mother Superior's drug Den.
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Yeah.
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And we meet Swannie and the rest of them. And then obviously we meet the girl that you spoke about earlier on as well, who has the bear as the baby.
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But when you first meet the baby, it's just like a little bouncy, fat, chunky little baby. And like, they were saying that it's hard to have a baby in a film because you need to find someone that will give you the baby. And then it's even harder because of what's going to happen to the baby in the film.
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Yes. Yes. I think it was either the production company or if it was whoever was funding the film.
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Okay.
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They said if you go down the route of having what happens to the baby in the film continues to be in the film. The budget is reduced and you're limiting its appeal.
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And I think that they just took that anyway. They're like that it has to happen.
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But the thing is, it's a pivotal moment in the film, and it happens.
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I feel like it's so horrible for me to even say it now, but it made me laugh when I was listening to the commentary. I think Danny Boyle was like, all the babies were so plump and healthy that they had to put makeup on them to make them look like they were like a heroin baby.
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Oh, gosh.
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They have white makeup on the baby to make it look less sick. It didn't really work or make it more sick.
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We have the opening. We meet Mother Superior, and Renting is just like, well, this is it. I'm getting off the fucking SCAG this time because, um, obviously he's tried this many times.
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Yeah, I'm going to do it. The Stickboy method.
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Yeah, that worked for him, didn't it?
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He's lying on the floor and heroin and dude, stupid.
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Renton just turns back and he goes, well, he's lacking in moral fiber.
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Do you need one more for the road? And he's like, no, no.
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So he leaves. The main title card comes up. Main title card comes up. And what we see is Renting is preparing for his cold Turkey sessions.
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Ten cans.
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Ten cans of tomato soup.
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Ten cans of cream and mushroom soup.
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Okay. With vanilla ice cream. Lucas milk, amnesia.
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One bottle of.
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One bottle of. And then, like, paracetamol porno. Three buckets.
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Three buckets of porno.
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No, three buckets for pissed shite and vomitas and a tally mineral water. Yeah. I like this scene because there's a shot in the mirror and his voiceover is running all the way through it. So we're getting kind of how he's working in his head, and he just kind of looks in the mirror and he goes, no, I need something.
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He needs a little hit to get him through it. Yeah, he's already won last hit.
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Boarded himself in to this apartment, and the next thing, he has all the wedding boards on the floor, and he's on the phone. And Mikey Forrester, who is I've been Wells with Captain. He's a drug dealer.
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Yes. Oh, he cracks me up.
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Yeah.
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He looks, uh, like such a goober. He looks like such a goober and a very distinctive creep. I love it.
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It's so funny what we see is he goes to the Mikey Forest or gets a couple of suppositories.
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A little smile.
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Yeah, he does.
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So funny.
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Rent him, leaves, gets diarrhea.
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Well, he puts him up his booty.
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Yeah, he does.
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He puts him up his butt. And then he realizes because the heroine makes him constipated, the heroines left his system. He's got to take a massive dump. Um, Where's he going to go, Ryan?
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Well, he goes to a bookies and what is labeled as the worst toilet in Scotland. So this is the toilet scene that's also maybe one of the most famous scenes wildly talked about ever. Yeah, it takes a dump. And we hear every single exchange.
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Um, fowl it is visceral. That toilet is foul. And I love how when they talk about how they set up that toilet, they're like, it actually smelled, uh, really nice because it's covered in chocolate. Yes, but it doesn't fucking matter. Like, it's disgusting. And Ewan McGregor makes it look so real. And he's just like.
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Well, if you're going to go, you got to go. You know what I mean? I've seen some horrible shutters in my time. I remember one's walking into a toilet, and all the walls were caked with shit.
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I've told you about when I worked at Hollywood Video, and I was the manager, and I walked in there once and someone had shot and it looked like. And maybe I'll draw a diagram and I'll put it on the social medias, but it looks like they had their butthole pointed towards the back of the toilet, like the wall. And then it just like, it popped a balloon, and then it just like diarrhea balloon, and it just popped not only over the walls, in the back of the toilet and all over the toilet paper, but the ceiling.
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Okay, that's clever.
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It was everywhere. And I walked in there and I put a do not come in here sign on the toilet for a week. A whole week. Because I was like, I'm, uh, not prepared.
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Oh, dear.
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Anyway, go on.
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I think the worst one I ever saw was someone did a poop. Not only did they not get all the poop in the toilet, it fell on the floor. But not only was it on the floor, they also stood in it while it was on the floor and then dragged it out, uh, into the locker room at work.
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Oh, my God, you told me about this and it was at your work.
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Yeah. So this toilet scene, he effectively he goes for a dump. He's like, fuck, this depositories didn't dissolve. So they're, like, in the bottom of the toilet bowl. So he goes fishing around in there for it while he's gagging.
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I love. Well, there's a shot that's, like, up through the toilet bowl up into Renton's face.
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It's like, probably one of my favorite shots in the whole film. It was really clever.
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It does. And he said that that shot was the closest that he's ever been to a cinematographer.
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Wow.
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Right up his Buckley. Oh, wait, you know what? Before we even get there, I need to say that not only was I disgusted by the whole toilet, but the little poo bit. The poo bits on his hands. When he goes digging, I don't care. Like, it's just good for them.
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That's a really slimy poop, though, on your hands.
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Well, he had diarrhea. Diarrhea bets. I don't even know what I'm saying this, but I've never dug around my own diarrhea, but I don't know what it looks like on my hands. Thank God. I've never lived that life.
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I do that in Scotland all the time.
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And I wish that there was photographic evidence of what the pool slide looks like.
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Okay. The poos light, because they had.
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Like, a half toilet. So it's like a stunt.
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It's a stunt toilet.
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Stunt toilet. So you've got half toilet and the other ends slide that he's jumping into.
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You can tell that there's more hole to this toilet than there is when he goes down. I mean, it's not like the right angle. Like, it's perfectly straight and right on the toilet. You never see the lip. None of that. And the toilet doesn't really move that much either. It's really cool.
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They did the little slide. So when he dives in to the toilet, he goes down. And then I guess it was his own idea to, like, when he goes and his legs go in, he does a little flip as if he's flipping around the bend of the toilet himself with a little twist.
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Yeah. Into the pond. And he picks up these oversized suppositories from the bottom path. He's a mine.
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He does pass.
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A mine path is a sea mine.
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Do you know that there's a bunch of inactive mines from the war? You told me that around Scotland and, like, England and stuff.
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Yeah. It doesn't surprise me.
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They have to be monitored, and sometimes they have to be blown up in these controlled explosions.
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Yeah.
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A lot of archeologists that are constantly watching these mines.
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We don't any of those fucking you boats coming over to our soil, do we? That's it that we were looking for.
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Just dropping bombs and leaving them there. Bombs just like you and McGregor.
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He gets them back. He's like, oh, you fucking dancer says that underwater. That's like one of my favorite bits in the movie. He screams underwater and he leaves. I like the fact that obviously this is like a surreal kind of dream moment for him. It's very metaphorical. Then when he obviously gets out of the toilet and he's like, massively out of breath and stuff, the next shot we see is him, like, squelching through to his flat, and he's, like, soaking wet.
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Yeah, he's so wet. I love that, too.
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What? Uh, you kind of find and this is the way that I kind of see this with the film. Like, the location is meant to be set in Edinburgh.
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Yeah, it sure is. And I forgot because I hadn't seen it since, like, I moved.
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Yeah.
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And so when I watched it again after having lived there, and I was like, this is in Edinburgh. This is Glasgow.
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It's 100% whole movie.
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And I'm like, that's a shame.
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It kind of is. And it isn't, I guess because of the way Edinburgh was changing.
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But it always looks the same. Like it's a medieval city. It's a Georgian city.
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The thing is, though, and I don't know what it was for whatever reason, but obviously they were looking for just the rougher parts. Glasgow got a lot of that. Glasgow got a lot of those rough schemes and those, like, Council houses and stuff like that.
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Reputation for sure, reputation.
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And certainly Edinburgh, you kind of see it as you've got your city center and it's all pristine and clean and stuff like that. And then, uh, it tends to.
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Or so it seems.
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Well, I mean, they tend to have, like, a good, clean city center, and then they push all the rest of the shite to the outskirts of the city, basically. And it's always been that way.
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Do you remember when I told you that that chick was peeing outside my flat stair middle of the day?
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I've lived there for over 20 years.
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I just like telling that story again and again because it makes me laugh because I couldn't get into the stairs, because she was standing straight up, just going and just peeing. Uh, I had to walk over her puddle of pea to get upstairs.
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I mean, where you were staying. And I'm not going to say where you were staying, but that was like when I heard that's where you lived when we first, uh, met. I'm like, that is prime real estate for junkies and stuff. And it fucking was like, what we found out is drug dealers and junkies were living in the top flats. And basically that made that whole stair incredibly dangerous.
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The people that lived in the stair love to stop, uh, us and tell us these stories for some reason.
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To try and make you feel better.
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Always interesting.
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Yeah. And again, it's all they do with drugs and fucking nonsense and all that.
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I love living there. I loved it. And it's not because of all of these weird things. It's just everything.
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But, yeah, there's bad stuff everywhere, I guess because I lived there for such a long time. Certainly, like, you want a friendly face, you go to Glasgow, you fucking hang around. Andrew is just a fucking shadow of its former self. You know what I mean? That's one of the issues I have, like, when we watch Train Spotting is that I remember when Embry used to have some fucking character, and now it's just like a corporate mass piece. Glasgow is the place to be, but I guess there's a lot more location, like Variety in Glasgow than there was in Edinburgh. Uh, and I guess maybe for whatever reason, they just weren't able to get the sort of locations they were wanting for the aesthetic of the film as well.
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Because there's that scene also, um, that's, uh, in the park. Boy and Renton. That's in Glasgow.
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Yeah. That's no one in the park, either Glasgow Green or Kelvin Grove or something.
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I don't even know if it's one of those. It's another park that I hadn't been to that I hadn't heard of. But do you know when they went out to film that day? I guess you and McGregor and Johnny Lee Miller had been out, like, on a binge night, like, went out heavy drinking. And so when they showed up the day to shoot that scene, they were hammered.
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Wow.
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They were, like, still totally hammered.
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Yeah, you can't tell.
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No. Well, they're drinking then too. It probably helps.
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Yeah.
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Method actors.
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They're talking about life, society. Because for the most part, Sick Boy is just a big talker. And also he's gone through a whole, like, James Bond. He loves James Bond trivia and stuff like that. Certainly. Obviously, Sean Connery is the greatest Bond that ever was.
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Absolutely 100% yes.
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Shoot the dog. The dog attacks the skin head.
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That poor Bull terrier. That Bull terrier is so cute. The dog attacks the owner.
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Yeah.
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Hot for a vegetarian.
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Speed is just a ticket. Yeah. Spot takes some speed and then he does the interview because he wants to, uh, stay on the Gyro.
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Yeah. He doesn't want the job.
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Yeah. That's. That fantastic scene where it's just him talking to these other people, this leisure club, basically. And it's like My pleasure in other people's Leisure. It's played at age really well. This film is remarkably well edied.
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Yeah, definitely.
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It's like, you see it from the minute the film starts. There's some beautiful cuts in this film. You put them up mhm over that 2001 cut, um, from the Bone to the space station.
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I think it's funny that they had to redub Eggby's speech for American audiences, but then that still wasn't enough. But I caught pretty much everything he was saying, because what we have is not the American cut.
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No, mine is the full blown UK version. Just my thing. There's a bunch of slang and there's a bunch of lingo and stuff like that. And if you're in amongst it for decades of your life and stuff like that, there's things that you'll pick up and certainly there's a bunch of that in train spotting and things and things that you just don't get. And there'll be something. I've not heard that in, um, years.
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That's how the book's written as well. It's in dialect.
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So when he's talking and he's saying all this stuff, it does make sense.
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Of course.
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I remember the first time seeing Ken Loaches Sweet 16. And that was completely subtitled from start to fucking.
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Oh, my God.
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Whatever version I saw this was on the telly, and I was watching it at home, and I'm like, Why are you subtitling this?
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Yeah, it made me laugh. I don't know. I caught it and we were watching kind of, I don't know, behind the scenes type things. And they were talking about that, how they had to redub it. And I'm like, what?
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Yeah.
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You know, I had a hard time reading the book personally, but then watching the film, I'm like, this is fine. But that particular speech in particular, I think, was difficult for some people.
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The thing is, it's so funny, though, there's varying ranges of the characters that we get that are kind of archetypes within Scottish culture. So, yeah, he goes through this tirade, like, telling the story from his perspective, and it's all total shite. And then he just, like, finishes his paint and then slings it over the top of this.
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He just wants to fight somebody. And then he runs that stairs.
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Yeah. That's his thing, though. That's his thing.
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We're not leaving here until we find out what cut through that glass.
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Let's put it this way. I mean, that was close. That was close to it.
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What did you say?
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Like, naked leaves till we find out which can't did it.
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Okay.
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But which is what can't. So, like, before the whole scrap kind of thing. And this is the thing about it as well, is that he says that to the group. And then this English guy goes, who the fuck are you? And he just goes, start screaming. And then he's, like.
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Kicking in the ball.
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He's like, perfect. It's like the perfect storm. And they just kick this English boy in the nut again.
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He is the scariest person I've ever seen in the film.
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Yeah. But the thing is, he's not addicted to anything. And he has this kind of. He has this moralistic stance where he's like, I won't put any of that shit in my body. And it's like, but you'll quite easily stab someone and smoke 100 cigarettes.
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He's so ready with that knife. He's so at the ready with that knife every single time we end up in Tommy's house or renting in Tommy's house.
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Like, fiddling about his videotapes and stuff while Tommy's lifting weights and Tommy tells recites the story. So this is all basically played for last. And, like, Tommy mhm tells the exact opposite. And he's, like, begged, playing, like, absolute gash. And then it ends with, like, begged fucking smashing a poke over some boy's back because he was eating.
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Like.
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Christmas, making too much noise.
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Because the original story that he was telling at the pub before he throws the glass over the balcony was about what happened at the pool hall.
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But then, by the way.
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But the story that he tells is different than the one that Tommy tells, obviously.
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Yeah. It's played for last, but effectively, it's one of the key moments that characterizes who Begby is. And what kind of character is a piece of shit. What you find is Renting, like, fiddling through his video tapes while he's telling the story and ends up swapping. Ends up swapping there. I don't know why I had it labeled. They had it fucking labeled, Tommy.
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You want to make sure you know which one is your sex tape and you put away.
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Hide it. Put in a locker somewhere. Put on your bed somewhere.
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We need it really close to the VCR. Pop it in when you're ready to pop a boner. Ready to go.
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I was like, far too trusting. Far too trusting in these pals.
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Yeah.
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I've had pals like that before. Can I trust them? Can't trust them at all.
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Taking your sex tapes.
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Taking my sex tapes. I don't have a sex tape.
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I'm just making sure.
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No, I'm like, show me. Wobbling around. Fucking bumping about.
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Yes.
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Renting swaps out Tommy sex tape with top ten goals of all time or whatever. Top 100.
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Top 100 goals of all time.
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Yeah. And just before the club scene starts is when they're watching it.
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Yeah, he's watching it. Renton's watching it with Sick Boy, and they're so bored. I love that they all go out to a club together. And I think this is after the Volcano Club. Yeah. Which isn't there anymore.
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No, it's gone.
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And this is after Renton has gotten clean. Right. So he has zero libido clean for the 100th time, I'm sure. And I think he was saying in that scene that it was like the first time he's gotten his libido back after being on heroin. Right.
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I think that's torned up.
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Yeah. He's like tiny clean.
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Yeah.
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And, uh, that's when he's like, all right, everyone else is making out with people. I'm ready to find someone.
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You're standing against a Travis Bickle mural.
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Oh, okay.
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Uh, what's in this club scene? And it's kind of like what goes into, effectively what the deck scene is as well. And it's kind of like the opening to the film as well. It just keeps on going.
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Oh, yeah.
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And obviously we're looking at four different perspectives with their respective other half, and obviously we're Renting out. He's kind of out in the house. Yeah, pretty much. But you have that fantastic conversation between Tommy and Spud about having an argument. But it's one of the only few occasions I remember a club scene being done right.
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Yes.
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The only other time I can remember is from Social Network where you feel like they are shouting over mhm music.
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Yeah. Not just speaking normally. Music turned really loud.
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And it's like that's where they subtitle it because it's funny.
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Yes.
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And then they do the subtitles for comedic effect as well, where it's not even that. Right. And they'll take it you won't put in swear words or certain slang words and stuff like that. Because it's funnier that way.
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Well, in that scene, they actually had the music turned up really loud. It wasn't one of those situations where they turned the music down and then have everyone yelled, that's incredibly awkward. But they were like, turn the music up and just had them yell to each other. It was a little bit more real.
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Yeah, it was pretty clever. I wonder how they kind of timed that with the music and stuff, because it's the trying to remember the song Temptation. Uh, and that plays pretty much, uh, up until the point where we first see Diane and then Blonde's Atomic starts.
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Yeah.
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Mhm, that's the beautiful thing about this film. And it's the one thing that I feel like propels it a lot further than, uh, it should be. It's just. It's choice of soundtrack. The soundtrack is amazing. It doesn't have a score, it's just tracks.
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Yeah. Danny Boyle is so good at that. So good at music.
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And it's mostly dance music for the most part, other than obviously, these quite specific tracks. And, uh, I mean, a lot of the tracks are chosen purely on the basis that the songs were made by artists who were known for dabbling in drugs or have died as a result of no way infection or drugs. Yeah, silly. That's another thing about the film as well, is that it goes over a couple of different times on like decades. So it goes from into the 80s into the 90s, basically. But, yeah, mhm, we have this club scene. We meet Diane and she's a fiery one.
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Yeah. Played by Kelly MacDonald. And this is her very first acting gig and she just had kind of a normal job in Glasgow. And then a friend of hers told her about this opportunity and it was just like a flyer at a club.
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Yeah. It sounded like the worst flyer ever.
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It did. Yeah. I think it said an opportunity from the director of Shallow Grave. Do you want to be the next Kate Moss or Patricia Arquette? And she's like, what?
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Yeah, the fuck.
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So she went and I think Danny Boyle said there was like 900 girls that showed up.
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Wow.
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To this audition.
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I remember the time he did train spotting too. And they were, um, used to be calves. It used to be the Cavendish, the club scene there. And I think the Facebook event was maybe 2000, 3000 people.
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Holy.
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That's not the capacity of that club.
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No.
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And certainly the only way I would have gotten into that club is if I were getting in there for free.
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Is that the one that had the carpet? Yeah, the carpet.
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It was called Ignite. Uh, yeah. He tries to sauce it up and he's not very good at it, obviously. And she goes into this very intelligent rant about how their night and how their time together is probably going to go.
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Yes.
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And he gets very confused and it's effectively enough to be like, yeah, we get in a car together. This is what begins the three way perspective. Sex Fest is what I call it.
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And I want to say that Diane is the coolest. And we'll soon find out that she's 15 or 16 years old and she's so much cooler, uh, than I'll ever be.
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She has a good head on her shoulders.
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Yeah. This is the three way sex scene between Tommy and his girlfriend, Tommy and Lizzie. Well, I don't know about sex between Spud, and they don't really have sex.
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Tommy and Lizzie. It's Spud. What's his girlfriend's name?
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I don't know.
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Well, Shirley Henderson, anyway, I can't remember her name.
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Yeah. And you guys will know. Shirley Henderson from the Harry Potter franchises. Who was the ghost in the men's toilet.
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Yes. Mostly that's where she plays a young Harrison. Sort of weird.
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I don't know how. It's just her voice.
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Maybe it's her voice.
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She helps Harry with that egg.
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Yeah. Shirley Henderson has been in a bunch of stuff, but Harry Potter.
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I just wanted to throw that up. Yeah.
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You want to keep the people who are interested in that tripe, like, on board.
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And then Diana and, um, Renton. I don't know which one I want to do first. Let's do Tommy and Liz first, maybe.
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Yeah. Because it come to anything.
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No, because they are having sex and she's like, put in the tape. Put in the tape. And he's like, oh, I'm going to go get it. And then he ends up because Rent and switch the tapes. It's the hundred greatest goals of all time.
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So he's, like, frantically going through every single video tape.
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His underwear is bonkers.
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Yeah, I think he's under.
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I don't know what it's, uh, like. I thought it was like a leopard print, but it's not. And they're just these bikini briefs.
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Like, Tommy at this point is someone who's got shit together.
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He sure is.
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You know what I mean?
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He's handsome. He's put together steady. Um, girlfriend.
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Yeah. Unfortunately, this little moment where they can't find the sex tape. He makes a remarkable maybe. I took it back to the video shop and Lizzie literally goes, the video shop. The fucking video shop for me. The video shop. And what's really funny, what kind of get to this is like the next shop. We see them together is them weighing outside a shattered video shop, waiting for it to open so they can try and get this tape back.
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Obviously, Renting, he never fucking owns up to the fact that he stole it. And that sucks.
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Yeah, well, he's like.
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It'S so messed up.
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There's a lot of stuff that Rent and does. His culpability is quite.
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He's a piece of shit.
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Yeah. He's not a good person. So Spud, let's go with the Spud.
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I would love to go to Spud. So, um, he goes home with Shirley Henderson. Yeah, he's hammered and he's totally hammered. And uh, he's passed out and she gets on top of him and she's slapping in the face and she's like, Spud sex. And he's just his eyes are rolled into the back of his head like he's totally out. She goes, well, let's see what I'm missing. And she unzips his trousers and I'm time stamping this for you. God, it's only 27 minutes into the movie.
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It's only an hour and a half, remember?
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Holy Moly. Putting this out there right now. Oh, no, I shouldn't say it. We're going to do, um, this later. Okay. I was going to rate it.
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Okay.
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I'm not doing this now. Hold your horses, everybody. She unzips his trousers and she looks and you get a shot of, um, his Dick. And she goes, well, I'm not missing much. No, but Ryan.
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What?
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He's got a big Dick.
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He's got a Wiener. Yes.
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I'm not saying it's like monster size or anything.
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I think what she's referring to, though, is it's not like. It's not like a wrecked. It's just this sad, flaccid thing he's done. He can do anything. Like he's finished.
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I guess not. But it did make me laugh because you're like, oh, there, uh, it is. And then Danny Boyle or I can't remember if it was Andrew McDonald's or Danny Boyle that was like laughing at the fact that she says that. But they're like, but you and Bremener is kind of pretty big Dick sitting on a style. Yeah. But then it goes back to Renton and Diane.
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Yeah. Let's put it this way that each of these kind of beats and moments that we're saying in these stories are all intercut together.
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Yes.
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So they all kind of run the same gamut together.
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Yeah. It's going back and forth, back and forth. So they're hitting kind of these peaks and troughs at the same time, essentially. But the only one that's really getting a good peak is Diane and Renton.
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Pretty much.
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They're the ones actually that end up having sex.
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Yeah. And it's pretty hard. And it's also intercut. It's also intercut. They are hard writing each other like they're getting it done.
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I think there was a part where Danny Boyle was like, she sounds like she's enjoying, um, it too much.
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Well, I mean, again, that goes on the list of weird shit directors say during sex scenes.
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Fair enough. It is weird.
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Yeah. It's kind of like, all right, calm down. It's like we're getting into freaking territory. It's like, yeah, you're only getting away with it because you're so charming. So stop it.
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Yeah.
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This is like his sex. And their climax is also intercut with the Archie Gemmal goal from 1978.
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Oh, my God.
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And Renting references after he's come because it's the video that Tommy and Lizzie put into the video player.
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Yeah.
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And it's like, yeah, uh, I felt as good as that time Archie Gamble scored against England in 1978. Good lad, buddy.
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Oh, wow. That's 27 minutes and 37 seconds. Where after they finish having sex, where you see, um, Hugh McGregor's penis.
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Yeah. He rolls over out of bed, and then that's where we see it.
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That's where you see it. And it's pretty quick. It's not as much as you and Brevner. It's a lot faster. Just kind of sits up, and then she's like, you got to get out. Get out of here.
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Chuck, uh, him into the hallway, and he's like, Jesus. And then he pulls the rubber off his deck.
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Yeah.
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Now, originally I thought that was the moment we see his deck, because we do see a silhouette. But you sure do see it, but yeah. No, you do see it like rolling on the bed when he gets onto the bed.
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Yeah. There it is.
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Fairly incidental, I guess it's in the same context as we've listed quite a few of these other decks. As in a postsex post quoital.
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Yes, indeed.
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Situation.
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You got one post coil, and then you have another comedy Dick.
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Post coil. Yeah. And you have a pre non coil situation.
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Yeah. Where it was going to be.
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It was going to be.
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Well, after all of these sex scenes happen.
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Yes.
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Spud wakes up in Shirley Henderson's bed.
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Or a bed.
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Yeah, it's her bed.
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She slept on the couch.
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Uh, well, he's in her bed. He's in her bed, and she's not there pretty much. It's a nice single bed. Just like we used to have when we first lived together. The worst. I did not believe that we slept in a single bed together. Nice graciously.
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Tiny. Yeah. We got it done, though. We got it done.
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But when he wakes up, you know something's wrong, because there's just this horrible shadow kind of around his crotch area and these bright pink sheets.
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There's shite everywhere.
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He shit himself. Why am I dancing around?
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He fucking shit himself.
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He did poopoo in the bed.
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Yeah. And he puts his hand down there. He's got a hand covered in place.
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Oh, my God. He bundles up all the sheets to try and get them in the wash before anyone notices. And he walks into the kitchen. And Shirley Henderson and her family, her parents are just having a nice, full Scottish breakfast.
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Yeah.
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Big plate of beans. Spud walks in with his shitty, uh, bed sheets. And the mom's like, oh, I've got these. Yeah, don't worry. And then they have a wrestling match to try and get the sheets out of Bud's arms.
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Let's just say there's shite everywhere. Um, all in their faces, all on the walls.
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Oh, God. It sprays because she wrestles it out and, uh, it just flicks. Wet shit. Oh, my God.
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Unformed poop goes everywhere. It's all incredibly wet.
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All, um, in their mouth, their eyes, on their face, on the food is everywhere. They said that the prop, um, Department had to keep making shit because Danny Boyle's like, I want to do this in a winner. I want to do this in one shot. And they're like, no, uh, I can't do this. And he's like, we're going to do it in one. And so they kept doing it over and over. So the prop Department had to keep making poop, fake poop. Oh, wow. And I really mhm love after the poo goes everywhere. And the, um, mom's, like, little lip quiver. It's like a shaky poopy lip.
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Because she got poop in her mouth. She did go pooping poop in her mouth.
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Oh, that's so gross.
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Yeah. Fucking heroin poopies poopy, uh, in her mouth, basically. Like, all the shit's all over, uh, the walls. And then we cut back to Renting, and it's. I don't know, it's kind of like your quintessential, like, New Town flat or your West End Glasgow flat sort of scenario deck on a bike, like, riding up and down the hallways and shit. And you're like, Right. Okay. And then Renting sits down, goes to have some breakfast with what he thinks is Diane's Flatmates. But they're our parents.
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Oh, yeah.
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Because Diana is a band. She's only 15.
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She's so smug about it as well. She's so smug because she's acting like she's older. And then she comes out in her schoolgirl, uh, uniform.
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Yeah, it's rough. Let's put it this way. The age of consent is 16 over there. I don't know if it was 16 back then, but it's 16 now.
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Whatever it was, she was under it.
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She was underage and pretty much rents. Like, we can't see each other again. I'm a pedal. Can I do this? And it's like, you know what they do? The folk like me. They cut your deck off and they flush it down the fucking toilet. Basically, she brides them and tells them like, you better see me again.
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Uh, or I'll call the cops.
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Or I'll go to the Polis. They go for a wee walk. Or at least Tommy's like, let's go for a wee walk. And they get off the train and they start going, and they get to this one little plenty. And they all stop, apart from Tommy. And Tommy's like, why are you not walking? And things like, boy shouts them and be like, you might be getting at home, but then they take out on us, making us come out for a walk.
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Yeah. Because Liz broke up with him.
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And he's like, what's the great stores? And he's like, it's great being Scottish. And then Renting goes into this rant about nationalism and patriotism and stuff like that. I kind of just, um, really hit home where it's just like. It's like a ship being Scottish. Let's just say what follows this is, I would say, the very real side to drug addiction, which is like the thieving and the stealing and stuff like, uh, that. And then, you know, this is where time gets a little bit wibbly wobbly.
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Okay.
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Where they're kind of like in a drugstooper for the most part. And this is when Tommy gets into heroin, and this is where his story starts to, uh, take a horrible turn.
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Yeah. It's so sad that it just takes one thing and it sucks. It's them making fun of Americans. It's hilarious.
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Well, the title comes up saying the first day of the anniversary festival, right?
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So then you've got tourists and stuff, and then they're sitting in a pub, and this American walks in, and he's got a fucking little backpack. This is USA on it. Um, that like, I have seen tourists that do this. I've seen them. They do exist. And he walks in this pub, and he goes, pardon me, may I use your bathroom? Fucking accent. But it's so funny. And then they just beat the ever loving shit out of him and steal his money.
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Yeah.
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They're like tourists. Americans are the worst. And I'm, uh, like, oh, dear.
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Yeah.
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And I'm like, you know what? Here's something I say about American tourists, all right? They're not all terrible. At least they're getting, uh, out there. The worst part is when you have Americans or even people in any country that don't go anywhere, they have the money and they have the means, but they're just like, they don't travel and they don't go anywhere. Get out there. Get out in trouble. Lisa's doing something.
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I remember a story of an American tourist back in Edinburgh, and they asked a serious question of, do you put the Castle away in the winter?
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I remember that story of your friend who was working in Edinburgh Castle. And then there, um, was a tourist that walked in there looking at the Crown jewels and stuff. And then they were watching it on the camera, and someone took a dump in their pants and then shook it out their Pant leg.
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I shook it totally out on her leg. She's there at Mother superiors. They're at Swannies. You have no concept of time when they're there.
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Yeah.
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So for whatever reason, and you can Garner anything you want from it, it's still tragic regardless. But the child could have been lying in that car for weeks, and it's kind of just like everyone's in a drug haze. And when that moment does happen, it just kind of happens. And everyone wakes up and reality bites.
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And it's just because Renton says, cause the mother screaming when she finds out that the baby has died. And she like, she could have been screaming for hours, minutes, or weeks. It happens.
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Yeah, I guess. And I'm going to continue saying this because I don't want to be too celebratory of the film. I think the film does some fantastic things, and I love the way that it does everything, but I'm skirting very closely on what sort of wording I use for it. Uh, it's like it's an energetic opening, but it's fucking horrible when things go wrong. And it's kind of like everything's kind of like a train, right? Let's just put it this way and it's not going to come to stop. It's going to hit a fucking barrier. Like something's going to happen. Like, this train just keeps on going and going and going and going until eventually hits its first roadblock. I guess this is where they go to court. Spud ends up going down for like six months and Renting gets away with it. And he's like, Are you going to go off the sky? And it's like, Listen to Frankel, he's talking. So it's fucking obvious that Gut was going to fuck some can't.
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Well, he ends up having an overdose, Brenton. He's like, oh, before I go, pretty much.
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He can't deal with the guilt of sending Spud to prison.
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It's literally any excuse. It's literally any excuse. It's like, oh, I have to stop doing heroin now. Well, let me do heroin again so that I can deal with not doing heroin again.
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He comes off a wall and he's at Swanny.
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He has his head, he's obviously overdosing, uh, and then he sinks down into the floor in this red carpet.
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Yeah. As if he's at the jaws of death. Basically the carpet grave. Yeah. So it's either seen from the carpet grave because it's always the carpet. The mouth of the grave is the way I do it.
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Yeah, that's good.
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Yes. And obviously he's snapped back into existence from this. They end up back home. He gets back, he's in his room and it's all been made up and it's like his kids room from when he was only 14 years old, just before he left home.
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I love that. I love this scene so much.
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Just like a literal nightmare.
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It's a nightmare, but also looks really cool. Yeah.
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So, like, he's haunted by visions of notably as the dead baby beg me under the bedsheets.
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Oh, my God.
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Yeah.
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That's the last person I want to see under my bed sheets.
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Usually that sheet of your system or I'll kick out. Yeah.
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So scary.
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Which they kind of leads into, like, his father wakes him up and he's like, there's something you've got to do. And he goes, Get these blood drawn.
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Yeah.
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Because he goes to get the AIDS test because they found out Tommy's got AIDS. Renting is like, oh, you wouldn't wish it on your worst enemy and stuff like that. And you're so grateful that you don't have it. But then some blood. Pretty much. That's what he refers to, which I think is very clever. Like, Diane comes over one day, they smoke a bit and then obviously had sex and shit. And then he makes the decision to go to London 10th. It's presented like a London tourist video.
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It's so funny.
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Yeah. So he goes to London, he's working at a real estate and he's, um, basically pitching renting flats and stuff like that. Renting flats, renting flats. He ends up thinking he's going away from me he gets a letter from Diana. And for whatever reason, there's, uh, something said in the letter about Francis Begbie held up a Jewelers and he's now wanted for armed robbery. And then at that moment, we heard the doorbell ring and. Who's there? But Franco turned up. Okay. Get some time to go down in the bookies. I put 16 to one on Big Boy. They go out clubbing. But, hey, baby me Sunday at the race.
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Yeah, he does.
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And go back to a car and he's like, talking about all this stuff. And they were just like, I. But nobody told Eggby. Uh.
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Oh, dear.
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Yeah. And he ended up in the car and he's fondling a dude. A transvestite.
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Yes.
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Sick boy also found himself coming down to London.
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Yes, he has, unfortunately.
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Yeah. Selling his TV and his possessions for some money. It's like, great bit worth. They're like sitting, having their fish taste like, you sold my television. It's like it was a rental. Anyway, you have to worry about.
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Oh, my God.
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He's like, oh, I know this guy who like Sport UK, passwords to foreigners. And you regret, uh, that perfectly. Why would I want to sell my passport? Uh, yeah. A bunch of stuff kind of happens and they do end up going back home to Edinburgh because Tommy's dead.
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Yeah, he's passed away.
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Here's the thing. There's this story that they tell and it's about like, Tommy went to Lizzie's and he's got like a kitten and she's just like, get off my doorstep. So he's stuck with this kitten. This kid is like malnourished and stuff. But for whatever reason, fucking Tommy's dead. He's got like a fucking brain embodiment. He's got like, headaches and he's taking loads of drugs and then he fucking dies a stroke in his house and they don't find them until three weeks later. And the end of the story, I think, was great. It was just like the kitten was fine.
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I don't think kitten was fine.
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This is the last part of the film that we're at now where there's a skag deal and that's what happens.
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And they do it. They get all the money and effectively screws everybody over pretty much.
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I mean, he has been the character we have followed this entire time. And it's the one part, I think that whole sequence up until the point it ends is probably my favorite bit, is that they get the money that at the pub they're drinking, they make jokes about like, what if I just stole the money? And they'll be like, Well, I'd come fucking chase you. Or Baby says, it will be like, I'll fucking kill you.
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Yeah, he did.
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And you do believe it. And Baby ends up in an altercation with one of the punters at the bar.
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Always looking for a fight.
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Basically chins and wear glass. Tears his face open.
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Oh, my God.
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Smashes it against the bar and then kicks him in the face and it's brutal as fuck. It's awful, awful. And amongst the budget gets caught on the palm. Sick boys up there screaming, everything's kind of happening. And there's this really silent moment where, um, baby is like, Rent boy, get me a smoke. He goes down there. Rent hands are like shaking. Gives him a cigarette. He he says, doesn't want to just take a cigarette. He likes a cigarette for him. Puts him in his mouth, take a draw. And then he blows the smoke into Renton's face. And then Born slippy by. Underworld starts. And I just think it's a phenomenal music, uh, cues. They're probably one of my favorite music cues in any film. And Renton just leaves.
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He just walks away.
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Yeah, just walks away with the money smile on his face. And then obviously, Baby destroys the entirety of that hotel room. Yeah, he does, you know, and yeah, Rayden walks away, gives a diatribe about becoming one of us, becoming a member of the capitalist society that he was so against before, because now he has money, because that's how things work. That's how life works now. Uh, and he feeds out into obscurity.
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John Hodge was nominated for an Academy Award for best adapted screenplay.
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Wow.
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But he did not win. Do you know who won?
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Who won?
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Billy Bob Thornton.
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Slingbays wow. Okay.
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Don't like Billy Bob Thornton.
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That was a big hitter that year for Marimax. You see what I mean? Yeah, it was one of those he did win.
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Hodge did win the BAFTA for.
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Uh, adaptive screenplay, though there was no better British film that year.
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No. Irvin Welsh lives in Miami.
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No shit.
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He does fuck. He used to live in Chicago, and a friend of mine used to see him at the Ups store.
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He was only like a hop, skip and jumping away.
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Yeah, we could go see him go.
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Fucking fuck. Darn Welsh.
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Yeah, he's very nice. Apparently. He's a very cool dude.
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He is very much like Sean Corner was a patron of certain cinema locations and stuff like that. Uh, in Edinburgh, Irving Welsh was trying desperately to preserve certain buildings and architecture in Edinburgh.
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I love that.
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The place where we got married, belly fear. Evan Welsh is the patron of that, uh, place.
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Get out.
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That place is beautiful.
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It is beautiful. Uh, traditional treasure.
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Uh, yes, I do like Irving Welsh.
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My God, I'm sure everyone knows the answer to this, but would you recommend this movie?
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Yeah, 100%. I think if you think about the staple of British cinema, just in general, it changed it forever.
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Yeah, it's great.
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And it launched the career, um, of Danny Boyle, and he went on to make some good things.
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Yeah.
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So no, I would wholeheartedly recommend it. But again, if you're a little bit on the sensitive side, it might not be for you.
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It's got some rough stuff. I would recommend this movie as well. I've always loved this movie. It has some hard stuff, but that's the nature of the content. Like, it can't be all bright eyed and bushy tailed because it's fucked up and it's horrible. But luckily, with the content, they were able to make it very energetic. Uh, and as you were saying before, like, kind of strangely relatable in a way.
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They start a really fine line. That's what I kind of appreciate about it.
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But it's people that you weirdly want to follow, even though they're like, despicable. You want to see what happens with them.
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That's just the investor of really good writing, because they say in the commentary, like, Renting is a bit of an antihero, but in a slightly different. In a slightly different sense. I don't feel like there's any coincidence that he's standing in front of a Travis Bickle mural in that club, uh, when we first see him, you know what I mean? Because he's like, that character is lauded in that movie. These are some despicable things.
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It's not like you want them. Uh, there's no one that you're watching that you were like, yeah, I'm really rooting for you. You're just watching them and you're going along for the ride, but you're not. I don't know. I don't know if I want them to succeed, but you may want them to be better.
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I feel like if the group of individuals, though Renting is the only one who's worked, like, at least even the slightest bit redeemable, even the slightest bit spot. Yeah. But I feel like potentially wrong. He didn't do anything wrong, and he's kind of wagging that. But he's just like, unfortunately, he is kind of just collateral damage in new situations. That's what happens. It's a bit sensitive, it's a wee bit soft, and that's just kind of the way it is. Yeah.
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Well, I gave this movie five stars. The film itself.
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Yeah.
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What about you?
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Well, I would agree there's nothing quite like it.
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No. And, uh, for my visibility and context, since we have two, we've got you and Bremner at 27, uh, minutes. I gave that five stars.
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Yes. Right there. Um, yeah.
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This does not shy away, and it's great. It's funny. It works. And for you and McGregor in this one, at 27 minutes, 37, I gave it two stars for visibility and context. Uh, I have no problem with the context. Context is five stars, but it's so fast. It's so fast. If you want to see you and McGregor penis, just ask me or look on the website. There's five watcher film Star Wars.
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Yeah, like a year McGregor, David McKenzie movie. You'd probably see plenty of Dick in that as well.
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Just go. Just search you and McGregor on, onthebeat.com. There's a ton. Uh, there's a movie like later in 1996 where he's just making the whole movie, and that's not a problem. That's fine, because it works for this movie, because it perfectly fits in with the theme and within the context of that scene. So it's fine I'm not knocking it. No, it's fine.
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I hope everybody enjoyed that mhm my rent and like dire tribes about the movie trace buying.
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Well I think if anyone was going to make dire tribes about it it should be you.
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Oh thank you. What does that mean?
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Because you're Scottish.
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Oh that's because I was boring, right?
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Certainly not that's good.
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I'm very interesting or so you tell me.
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Well coming to you from the volcano bar that no longer exists.
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Wow. Yeah.
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It has been my pleasure and everyone's leisure I have been Laura I've been Ryan thank you so much for being here and we will see you next time. Next time.
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Yeah. Fuck you can't.
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Oh shit. I love you. Bye.