- The film was re-dubbed 20 minutes before it was released in the United States so that the audience could understand the strong Scottish accent.
- There are many shots in the film that are related to the Beatles. When the four friends watch the train passing by, their poses are the same as the poses of the Beatles on the back cover of the album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". The scene where they cross the road into the hotel is a parody of the album cover of "Abbey Road".
- The role played by Johnny Lee Miller, Sick Boy, is a 007 fan, and Miller is the grandson of Bernard Lee. Bernard Lee played Dr. M in the 007 film series until 1979.
- The film begins to catch up with Mark and Spud, the store security guard is one of the film's screenwriters, John Hodge. The author of the original novel, Irvine Welsh, plays a drug dealer who sells opium to the protagonists.
- The scene of swimming in the toilet refers to Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel "The Rainbow of Gravity."
- In order to play the skinny, heroin addicted Renton, Ivan McQuieger listed himself a weight loss diet without alcohol and dairy products. It took him 2 months to reach the director's request.
- Scud: When the thief ran out of the famous record store on Princes Street, Edinburgh, and the camera went from the store security chasing him back to the thief, he was already on Leith Walk in the east of the city, and the distance between the two places was approximately 1 mile away.
- Suddenly appearing mirror: Renton and the others came to London and stayed there. There was no mirror in the sink in the room. After Renton used up the sink, he began to think about the problem in the mirror that suddenly appeared on the wall.
- New pants: The pair of pants he wore before when Renton and Diane did it was different from the one he was wearing when he followed Diane to school the next morning.
- Off-site bus: The background setting of the story is Edinburgh, but because some scenes were shot in Glasgow, there will be such scenes: for example, the bus is orange instead of Edinburgh's maroon and creamy white bus. Some sights that belong only to Glasgow are looming.
Trainspotting behind the scenes gags
2021-10-18 09:27
Extended Reading
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Ward 2022-03-25 09:01:05
This movie has been dripping in front of my eyes 15 years ago, and countless literary and artistic youths recommended this movie to me. Today I finally made up my mind to watch it. I always feel a sense of reputation. Watching it today is a typical independent film, but it is neither the most radical nor the most elegant. Maybe it does cater to many people's imaginations of marginality. In fact, the best part of this film is that there are a lot of British cynicism in it.
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Keyshawn 2021-10-20 18:59:14
The accent is too strong, beg to recycle ten times, brainwashing, and from then on the trendiest Scottish country accent
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Tommy: Useless motherfucker, that's what she called me. I told her, I'm sorry, but these things happen. Let's put it behind us.
Spud: That's fair enough.
Tommy: Yes, but then she finds out I've bought a ticket for Iggy Pop the same night.
Spud: Went ballistic?
Tommy: Big time. Absolutely fucking radge. 'It's me or Iggy Pop, time to decide.'
Spud: So what's it going to be?
Tommy: Well, I've paid for the ticket.
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Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: [considering the heroin deal after Tommy's funeral] Two kilos. What's that, about ten years? Mikey Forrester, Russian sailors, what the fuck are you boys on, eh?
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this is the truth
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The world is changing, music is changing, and drugs are changing. You can’t escape from heroin for too long.
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"If it's illegal to take vitamins, then I'll take them" — an epidemic called youth.
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Don't take drugs~~Every psychedelic train in life
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The same youth in thousands of different tragedies