Trainspotting: Reliving the Raw Brilliance of a 90s Masterpiece
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- In 1993, author Irvine Welsh released his first novel Trainspotting into the world. The novel centered around the lives of heroin users Renton, Spud, Sickboy and their friends Begbie and Tommy. It was met with universal success and eventually adapted into a film. Trainspotting was directed by the mastermind Danny Boyle and has been captivating audiences for over two decades!
Released in the United Kingdom in 1995, and later released to America in 1996, the movie would also depict heroin addicts in Edinburgh, Scotland as they deal with life, drugs and their consequences as well as their various exploits. This wasn’t just some run of the mill movie adaptation…this is Trainspotting we’re talking about! Join us on Revisited as we look back on one of the best movies the 90’s had to offer.
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I've always hated to hear people like Eric Clapton saying Trainspotting glorified drug use (usually conservatives). Trainspotting is the most terrifying, sickening anti-drug movie I've ever seen. Renton going through withdrawal in bed with the baby on the ceiling should be used instead of the condecending D.A.R.E.-type anti-drug content.
Trainspotting is a depressing, scary, very uplifting and life-affirming movie. I'll have to watch it again now.
Well said!
And the worst toilet in Scotland. That scene has always stuck with me just as much as the baby on the ceiling.
Glorify? After watching that freaking baby crawling on the ceiling I couldn't even drop an aspirine for half an year.
Based! After I watched this movie in high school I could never force myself even to have a cigarette, let alone to use substances.
A great movie to watch while high, though. The same goes with Reefer Madness.
Trainspotting just really summed up Britain in the 90's amazingly well, and it spoke to a certain generation because, whilst not heroin addicts, it did reflect life for a lot of British generation X.
Trainspotting in my view is the greatest British film ever made.
I lived it mate Rave Culture at its height. English Football changing, Euro 96 what a decade to live through. I was 19 when this came out. PARTY DECADE for me
Cool Britannia movement or no
@@lukedaley17 Well, there are a few Kubrick films contending for the title, but it certainly is there at the top five.
@@lukedaley17 All thoughts of Trainspottng being the "the greatest British film ever made" is very subjective. For you yes, personally, I would suggest Lawrence of Arabia would rank up there, though my personal favourite would be the film Time Bandits.
Trainspotting and Requiem for a Dream is the perfect double feature if you want to quit doing drugs.
Start with Requiem to feel super depressed, then Trainspotting for the happy ending. 😉
Make your kids watch em
Those 2 movies will scare anyone away from taking drugs intravenously.
LOL, my mate came out of rehab and went to see Requiem for a Dream....Said he nearly went back for a week...
Danny Boyle said it’s more of an ecstasy movie than heroin. It was the mid 90s after all….
The ending speech is still one of the most powerful and importants moments in cinema
Changed my life in a heartbeat from negative to positive.
The soundtrack is so cool.
The opening scene with Renton and Spud sprinting down the road to Iggy's "Lust For Life", is one of the most exciting I've ever seen. A fantastic film.
Iggy, a former junkie said of heroin: "Stay away from that crappy drug." He should know, it eventually put him in a psychiatric hospital. Only David Bowie came to visit him.
I was in my mid-twenties and was lucky enough to see it in a limited run in the theatre. My friend and I were so captivated by it we ran into the lobby and bought another ticket for the next showing. It still ranks as my favorite film of all time.
As a Scot who was going through addiction just after this movie came out i can totally relate to it. Still gets my stomach in knots when i watch it to this day.
I never stuck a needle in my arm but after years of pills and heroin use I found that I was physically addicted to the stuff. Talk about a waking nightmare. It's difficult to understand pain and misery until you're four days into it, you're sweating like you just ran a marathon, you're hot an cold at the same time, every cell in your body is screaming in pain, you haven't eaten or drank anything because it's not going to stay down anyways and maybe the worst for me is that it is impossible to sleep, so there's zero you can do to get away from it. For a long time user you're looking at all that for a week at minimum, and that's just when it starts to get a little bit less terrible. Maybe you can drink some juice and get a thirty minute nap on day 8. The movie hits way different when you've actually been through it, especially the scene where he gets locked in his room to detox. I'm a big advocate for adults doing what they want to do if they're not harming anyone, but I will say avoid this stuff on a recteational level because you'll find it more neccesary to get than food if you play with it long enough. I thought withdrawals were a myth or just weak minded people since I'd walked away from the stuff many times with no consequences, but I guess I went one time too many because it's very real and I can't imagine literal hell being any worse.
Oh and the whole "dead baby hallucination" scene? Yeah hallucinations weren't ever part of it for me but I can say that when Ewin is screaming "Stop!"...yeah I've done that exact same scream, but just from the unreal amounts of torment withdrawals bring.
100% mate... It's horrific to go through those withdrawals.. you'll do anything to make the pain stop. I too know the misery from experience. Good luck on your journey
I must ask: did you use the Sick Boy method to kick the habit?
On a serious note, opiate withdrawal is no joke, been there as well.
@@mikitz methadone... Another crippling addiction...liquid handcuffs. Trick is don't stay on it for long or it becomes difficult to withdraw from as well. Take care friend
@@TheMisguidedTroll aye mate it’s brutal I can still remember that shit I just went 100% cold turkey just a bit of weed to help a bit and that was back in 1999 and have never looked back since I was the same as the lad who posted the comment I never used a needle just chased the dragon but either way it’s brutal
I never had heroin myself but I knew an addict growing up who was trying to get off, and have a very vivid memory of her on the floor with the freezer open trying to cover herself in ice as she screamed “EVERYTHING HURTS” over and over. That, along with this movie was enough to push me away from opiates forever.
This movie is the GOAT of British cinema. I was just a baby when it came out. I first started watching trainspotting when The UK had its first COVID lockdown and I have to say it was pretty energetic and a lot of fun.
nah, not even remotely close..great film tho..
At the time, it felt like the Brits had made their own Pulp Fiction. It was a breathtaking film and me and my friends must have gotten stoned and watched it a dozen times back then. It wasn't like anything that was coming out of the UK in the 90s.
Edit: having finished the video, I guess we weren't the only ones back then who felt it was a British Pulp Fiction
Never seen Pulp fiction, but I see what u mean.
@@lukedaley17 never seen Pulp Fiction? WTAF? Watch today, what are you waiting for? You like film, obviously, and haven't seen that? Baffling, mate, baffling!
As a Scot, who was 16 when this came out, it's always fascinating to see how this movie was received outside of the UK.
Trainspotting was massive.
It is just a great fucking movie. Still on of my favorites. I read all of Irvine Welsh's novels and short stories in the original (written scottish accent) and my mother tongue is German.
@@lupo3694 acid house novel and movie are awesome
@@michaelfarquhar9355Coco fucking Bryce,Hibs boy! ✊
@@michaelfarquhar9355 My mate Gary Maccormac was in that as Larry, folk are still shit scared of him!
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The guy in 'soft touch' who moves up stairs lol? Or the baldy uncle at the party? That character in a sofa touch tho! He was so realistic I actually wanted to kill him! Dancin to T rex in scud lol too funny
When I was in art school in 2003 I took a Theatre & Film class, and one of the papers we had to write was comparing and contrasting an actor's performances for two very different characters. And I mean EVERYTHING including speech patterns, posture, mannerisms, _everything._
I wrote about Ewan McGregor in Trainspotting and Moulin Rouge. Easiest paper I ever wrote just because there was such a wealth of material to pick apart!
I’m a Gen Z kid and to be honest, the 80s, 90s and 2000s were the best decade for film
70s to me.
Bruh you listed 3 decades. Pick one.
@@MutantsInDisguise 70s had the best Oscar winners and nominees, but it also had a whole lot of junk shot on 16mm with bad lighting and worse sound made by drugged up hippies. Now we have people with great, cheap equipment and knowledge but no imagination making fan fiction. 90s had the right balance.
I'm a Millennial. I think 80s and 90s had the best horror films imo. The Thing, IT, and 90s and early 2000s were best for action adventure. Harry potter, LOTR, Matrix, Saving private Ryan, Fast and Furious, Training Day.
Tarantino made a interesting observation in an interview with Marc Marron on his podcast. The creative essentials of the 70s didn’t fade away till the 2000s or so (paraphrasing) and right now we are in an oppressive phase similar to McCarthyism that proceeded the 60s and 70s.
I've seen this movie so many times and it never gets old
I was 20 and a pseudo intellectual bohemian in Seattle when this came out. Such a phenomenon! To this day, the scene where Begbie tosses the mug over his shoulder off the balcony in the pub has stayed with me.
Was it a mug? I remember him hoying a pint pot. I haven't watched it in ages though so I could be wrong.
@@MrHarryHewitt1983 I just rewatched it now, it's a mug. The dimpled kind that tapers near the base.They sell mustard that comes in smaller versions. You made me doubt myself for a minute!
I would describe Trainspotting in one word: Raw. Or maybe, brutal. Fantastic classic, also. And an unforgettable and fitting soundtrack to go with it. Thanks Joblo; much appreciated.
Shallow Grave is a FANTASTIC movie. Highly recommended!!
This is one of if not the best film of the 90s. The best the UK produced. It was a cultural phenomenon. Everyone at Uni had the poster on the wall and the soundtrack. You can watch it today and it's still that good. A timeless classic. A perfect storm of actors, story, writing, direction, dark humour and mind numbingly good music. Everyone was top of their game.
I choose life, and I choose re-watching Trainspotting over another CGI-ridden, big-budget, Hollywood franchise cash-grabbing regurgitation any day. Great movie.
I've watched this movie when I was a young boy in Israel. I decided then to visit Scotland. 15 years later, I'm still here. thank you trainspotting
one of the best soundtracks.... ever!
along with colors
I saw the play in Edinburgh with Ewan Bremner, it was great.
The film was shot in Glasgow as the production company was from Glasgow and they couldn’t afford to shoot in Edinburgh. They could afford it for the sequel and it was filmed in several locations and pubs I go to! Those steps in the Simpsons parody are for my local the Black Bull.
I also went to a really grungy college in Edinburgh in the 80’s and there were 3 Begbies in my class alone! Totally authentic character.
By far my favorite movie. In my late teens i watched it probably over 50 times.
Same. The 2 movies I watched the most as an early teen were an outlandish look into the lives of young people in 2 totally different places. Trainspotting and Kids.
I love this film. As a Scotsman, i see this as basically a hilarious documentary.😂
I'll never forget seeing Trainspotting at a cinema in Truro, Cornwall in the UK in 1996. We were all 17 years old and got drunk at an ale house before the movie (nobody asked for ID back then). We filled our pockets with monkey nuts from the pub so we had something to eat and there were peanut shells all over the floor of the cinema! When we left we were running to catch a taxi and I slipped on the pavement and turned my foot so bad my ankle ended up the size of a basketball... Those were the days!
One of my favorite movies ever, up there with SLC punk and the thing.
One of the best films to come out of the UK hands down. Up there with A Clockwork orange imo
Shallow Grave was set in a very posh flat on a Street called Royal Circus in Edinburgh. I was living a few streets away and watched them filming exterior shots one evening on my way to the pub. The interior was not filmed there, I think it was filmed in Glasgow.
Greatest opening to a movie ever
Damn i forgot about shallow grave, thats a great flim as well.
One of the greatest novels ever written, adapted into one of the best films of all time. Thank you for finally covering this!
I remember driving up to Ithaca, NY with my old high school buddy to see this in the theater. What a movie. Btw I thoroughly enjoyed T2 Trainspotting as well.
The dead baby scene was most impactful for me. It really soured my experience with the rest of the movie. 😰
I watched it when I was 13 thinking it was a coming of age comedy. I asked for it for my birthday my mam got it for me on dvd, I watched it and was caught off guard at how great it was. I can downstairs and said I watched it and thought it was great she then said I might watch it. I then warned her a baby dies to which she responded by saying I don’t really want to watch it anymore. I miss you mam
I was in my late Teens when this film was released it was like a Hurricane in the UK. Raves Euro 96 football parties girls WHAT A DECADE to grow up in. Glad I survived it ❤😂😂
T2 really doesn't get enough love. It's the PERFECT sequal
One of my top 10 all time favourite movies ❤❤❤❤❤
Another fun fact that many Americans might not know. The guy who plays the drug dealer in Trainspotting/Shallow Grave is Keith Allen who is the real life father of Alfie Allen who plays Theon/Reek in Game of Thrones and also the pop star Lilly Allen (not sure if she ever made a splash in the states though) And the other drug dealer mickey forster (the guy who gives Renton the suppository)is played by none other than Irvine Welsh who wrote the novel.
Keith Allen also in the great Welsh movie Twin Town (written & directed by his younger brother)
I would love to see you reviewing one of my favourite movies of all time: Spun
I never hear people talking about that movie despite the great cast and awesome soundtrack
Good movie ! Never seen Mena Suvari the same after that 💩 though 😂
@@rabbieburns2501 yo that was WILD😁
A bit off topic but I kinda think Trainspotting 2 has to be a top sequel.
agreed! T2 was VERY good. I had my doubts at first, but im glad i was wrong.
I was 18 when it came out and to say it caught the zeitgeist would be an understatement. I cannot describe the chills that went up my back the first time I saw the T2 trailer. "Not just 20 years older, but 20 years better" was how one reviewer put it.
This was the movie that introduced me to Ewan McGregor and Robert Carlyle who both played several characters that I love.
If I remember correctly, I rented this from blockbuster, and dubbed it on my 2nd VCR. I must have scraped the rust off that tape watching it.
Since then, any role Ewan MacGregor takes on, is just Mark Renton in an alternate timeline.
Seen Bremner had a good stint of films later on as well
Snatch
Pearl Harbour
Black Hawk Down
AVP
Underrated actor in my eyes
Robert Carlyle also
The Full Monty
Ravenous
The World is Not Enough
Can’t forget him sprinting away from infected in 28 Weeks later 🏃♂️
Agreed, Bremner is superb! Under-used actor. Great bit part in 'Naked' with David Thewliss and played a superb Robert Louis Stevenson in a BBC drama of the writer's life
I enjoyed T2 actually. Great thought provoking sequel.
I had no idea they made a sequel to this masterpiece
Was pretty weak
I think it was pretty awesome. A great continuation of part one
This is a defining movie of not just a time and place in my life, but of who I am. I adore this film, it's music, it's characters, stories, and sequel.
I've never done heroin, but I've been an addict to other vices most of my life.
This movie connected with me and holds a very special place in my heart.
Thanks Joblo really appreciate it, mate. I remember I commented on one of your videos asking u to make something about this master piece. Many thanks for your generosity ❤
As a heroin addict (who's sloooowly getting better), I always appreciated the fact that Trainspotting shows smackheads as actual people who aren't just tragic tropes like Requiem but who are actually human beings, with all of the highs and lows that everyone else goes through. Kudos to Irvine Welsh. Read the book and its follow up Porno. Both better than either film (albeit a lot darker).
Sound track to my years at university; it’s so evocative for me and immediately takes me back.
Well researched dude
I’m from the uk and watched this the day it came out I was 16
An all-time classic. The soundtrack too - got me into techno back in the 90s. Sequel was terrible though.
I was in my late Teens Party decade for me.. Never to be forgotten
Nah it was good
I first saw this movie, and was like what the hell are they saying? but still loved it. I even got the soundtrack for it too and here you start talking about it. LOL so awesome!!! I miss the 90's and todays youth, which i say over and over and over again, have no idea what living is!!!!!!
Just to clarify a bit; Danny Boyle not only directed the filmed segment with Daniel Craig and HRH Queen Elizabeth II, he was also the visual director in charge of the entire opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games (That's probably why Underworld were chosen to score it as well...)
Born slippy at the end was iconic
My brother in law was from Scotland and I'm telling you he was just like the crazy guy with the mustache. (Can't remember the actors name). Anyway - great movie.
Yes the classic that would influenced Requiem for a Dream and Lock Stock
Great movie watched it only a few months ago and fell down the rabbit hole. Was looking for videos like this about it that were more recent! Thanks for this
Fantastic film. I always enjoyed doing a double feature of this and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
I went through a period in 2006 or so where I watched this movie every day for a solid week. No regrets.
Truly superb movie we never dreamed the future Obi-wan kenobi was in this film George Lucas saw him and saw a Jedi
From red eye to jedi.
Amazing movie. spud is also great and in so many American movies
Also one greatest dead babys in movie history, up there with 90's pet cemetery and the missing
One of my favorite! 🎬🤌🏻
Thanks JoBlo, we love you!
I saw it when it came out and it was one of those defining films of the 90s. If you like it, I strongly suggest reading the book. The film is very loosely based on it, they both complement each other I would say. With the book, however, you get a better sense that Renton was not a stupid man, he simply “chose” something else. Btw, when ewan mcgregor was cast as obi-wan, at the time i could only see the actor as renton so I thought it was an interesting choice to say the least.
I’ve still not seen trainspotting yet but I went to the cinema to see the sequel and I loved how you really didn’t have to have seen it to understand the film
A brilliant movie - one of those rare efforts where everything turns out better than you could hope for. And it could not have been made by Hollywood - being far away from Hollywood is one of the key reasons why it end ended up so good.
OMG what an amazing film, what an amazing cast! A quick little secret... I bought the soundtrack to this movie and listened to it for a full year before finally seeing the movie.. and WOW that film was a gut-punch! Ewan McGregor deserves to be a star, as this film proves he acted his damn heart out, even before he was a "name"!!
Definitely in a class of it's own, top ten movie of my lifetime.
Saw it when I lived in Greece, 1996.
I think the slang implication of the title means like... wasting time, hanging about. The 90s slacker thing was the vibe
One of the greatest British movies ever made
Depressing a.f. but goddam a bloody masterpiece
That soundtrack is incredible and Sunshine is a beautiful movie
I had a poster of Mark and Diane on my dorm room in 96. Kelly MacDonald is the voice of Merida in Brave! "Ma, it s jost muh buow"
I’m 12 years clean and I feel dope sick when I try to watch this,Amazing movie,a little to amazing for me.
I have a Choose Life Poster in my man cave.
This movie hits waaay too close to home… But it’s Danny Boyle’s masterpiece and I effing love it. I love the fact that it was simple not a huge Casp? just for so-called mates trying to deal with their addiction in a rundown 90s Scotland. brilliant.
I was about 17 or 18 when this came out in America. Me n my friends used to experiment with drugs a good bit, and this movie was like a type of (relatable) cultural phenomenon to us!... I'll never forget it! Half of those friends I first watched it with are dead now, and the other half are, well,, I don't know.... But I'll never forget those times! 🤣👍
Do T2 Trainspotting next!
Born Slippy
Everything Everything live
And to think just over 20 years ago they actually made good movies
That edit of the baby rolling into frame at 7:30 😂
Brilliant film, brilliant soundtrack…
…and hilarious that you saw ‘by the director of Trainspotting’ on a 28 Days Later poster and assumed it was about train spotters 😂
My mother assumed the same when she gave me the VHS version one Christmas, chosen from my own wish list.
She was then only introduced to the actual film on Christmas morning, when she entered the room at the start of ‘The Worst Toilet in Scotland’ scene 😵
Needles to say, she was horrified by the scene, and even more horrified that she had bought it for me as a Christmas present! 🙄
When I went to Edinburgh five years ago, it turned out that everyone over the age of two had seen the movie at least twice.
Can't blame them.
Absolutely a great movie, and for sure the sequel is brilliant and fits perfectly. Has to be seen.
Damn, its been over a decade since i last watched this movie... gotta give it a rewatch
A great movie, what a surprise when I watched this one in theaters. You see back then you only had trailers in Movie-Theaters, no youtube ;-)
"No way would I poison my body with that shite"
He says smoking a cigarette and smashes a beer which combined kill way more people than heroin
Oh, you sweet summer child! You can't 'turn on' the subtitles on a VHS-tape. It either has subtitles, or it doesn't.
One of my all time favorites.
Trainspotting and spun 2 masterpieces
Trainspotting is a brilliant movie! The sequel was a disappointment. Everything about this movie was incredible. It was gritty, well written, well acted and had beautiful cinematography. Ewan McGregor gave an outstanding performance as Mark Renton in this film what a fabulous actor he is.
instant like given the creator and the subject of the video. thank god for creators like JoBlo o/
Absolutly within my top 3 films of all time...
Love Sickboy.....Anyone saying this flic glorifies drug use has never used any hard drug.....Full range of emotions when watching this one...great, great movie
Still got !VHS copy I bought in the mid 90s.
Ah Trainspotting* Freaked me out back then, probably still would today..& Yes the music was awesome! 😎
Being from Scotland and in my mid teens when this came out it was so accurate to society at the time whether it was Edinburgh Glasgow or my town paisley heroin was rife tbh I knew a few people like begsby too he was just a typical Scotsman 😂😂😂
One of my faves brings back memories
I said it when i saw this film back in the 90s this film should have been showed in school's....