Episode 46: Trainspotting

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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The LFTS team discusses Trainspotting’s adrenaline-fueled opening sequence, debates the film’s approach to its difficult and gritty subject matter, and dives into the tragicomic character arcs of Renton and his mates.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay.
0:08.7	Today we are talking about Trainspotting, the 1996 film directed by Danny Boyle, screenplay by John
0:15.5	Hodge based on the novel by Irvin Welsh.
0:18.8	I'm joined by the lessons from the Screenplay team, Trisha Aran.
0:22.2	Hello, Brian Bittner. Hello. And Alex Cayeros. Hi. Now, before we jump in, we're going to
0:28.5	match the explicitness of the movie in our podcast, potentially. So there might be swear words ahead.
0:34.3	Be warned. But so we're doing that thing where one of the team members chooses a bunch of movies
0:39.5	that the others haven't seen or maybe you should see again, and we pick it, and then we go watch
0:44.1	it.
0:44.4	So, Brian, train spotting was one of the films on your list that we picked.
0:48.3	Why is train spotting one of your favorite films?
0:50.5	Why do you want to talk about it?
0:52.0	Well, I wanted to talk about it because I thought it'd be funny to make you watch it.
0:55.0	And here we are. And so it was.
1:00.0	No, it had come up before. I know that Tricia loves this movie, and I know that Michael and
1:06.0	Alex, you haven't seen it. So it sort of felt like, okay, I at least have one ally and then
1:10.0	two film people who haven't seen a movie that's sort of felt like, okay, I at least have one ally and then two film
1:11.0	people who haven't seen a movie that's usually considered one of those must-see film-it
1:15.9	kind of movies. So it was always on my mind of something we could talk about. I had thoughts
1:22.0	about doing a video on it at one point. And yeah, we can get into more like my history with the
1:27.3	movie. But that was the
1:28.3	that was the main reason why I thought it would be a good fit for a movie that brands me, I guess,
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