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Trainspotting
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Book: Trainspotting (1993)
Movie: Trainspotting (1996)
Premise
movie:
"A wild, freeform, Rabelaisian trip through the
darkest recesses of Edinburgh low-life, focusing on Mark Renton and
his attempt to give up his heroin habit, and how the latter affects
his relationship with family and friends: Sean Connery wannabe Sick
Boy, dimbulb Spud, psycho Begbie, 14-year-old girlfriend Diane, and
clean-cut athlete Tommy, who's never touched drugs but can't help
being curious about them..."
from:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117951/plotsummary
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Premise
book:
"Irvine Welsh's controversial first novel, set on the
heroin-addicted fringe of working-class youth in Edinburgh, is yet
another exploration of the dark side of Scottishness. The main
character, Mark Renton, is at the center of a clique of nihilistic
slacker junkies with no hopes and no possibilities, and only "mind-numbing and spirit-crushing" alternatives in the straight world they
despise. This particular slice of humanity has nothing left but the
blackest of humor and a sharpness of wit. American readers can use
the glossary in the back to translate the slang and
dialect--essential, since the dialogue makes the book. This is a bleak vision
sung as musical comedy."
from:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393314804/
104-9976733-1508767?v=glance
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Author:
" Irvine Welsh was born in Edinburgh in 1958. He lived in
London after leaving school, but returned to his native city where
he worked in the Council's housing department. He gained a degree in
computer science and studied for an MBA at Heriot Watt University.
His first novel, Trainspotting (1993), a blackly comic portrait of a
group of young heroin users living in Edinburgh in the 1980s, was
adapted as a film directed by Danny Boyle, starring Ewan McGregor
and Robert Carlyle, in 1996. The Acid House, a collection of short
stories, was published in 1994 and was followed by Welsh's second
novel, Marabou Stork Nightmares (1995), a harrowing stream-of-consciousness narrated by football hooligan Roy
Strang. Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance, a collection of three novellas, was
published in 1996, and a third novel, Filth, a vivid account of the
violent adventures of a bigoted, racist and corrupt Scottish
policeman, was published in 1998. Glue (2001), is the story of four
boys growing up in an Edinburgh housing estate. Porno, a sequel to
Trainspotting, was published in 2002.
Welsh is also the author of two plays, Headstate (1994) and You'll
Have Had Your Hole (1998). 4 Play, an omnibus edition of four stage
adaptations of Welsh's fiction by Harry Gibson and Keith Wyatt, was
published in 2001. His screenplay of The Acid House was directed for
Channel 4 Films by Paul McGuigan (1998).
His journalism includes a column for Loaded magazine and occasional
articles for The Guardian. He is also a DJ and has recorded a single
with rock group Primal Scream. In February 2003 Irvine Welsh began
writing a Monday column for the Daily Telegraph.
Irvine Welsh lives in Edinburgh."
from:
http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth120
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Director: Danny Boyle
Cast:
Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremmer, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin
McKidd, Robert Carlyle, Kelly MacDonald.
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Famous
quotes
"Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a starter home. Choose dental
insurance, leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose your future.
But why would anyone want to do a thing like that?"
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