Top 10 Trainspotting scenes
After Danny Boyle confirmed plans for Trainspotting 2 this week, we look back at ten of the best scenes from the original
Begbie starts a bar brawl
Begbie showcased the film's wider exploration of the darker side of human nature, paralleling addiction with the inclination for violence: "Begbie didn't do drugs either, he just did people." In this scene Robert Carlyle fully established Begbie as a cult figure, venting a master class in swearing that makes Malcolm Tucker look genteel.
Renton overdoses
The construction of this scene is so on-point. The high class heroin restaurant dialogue retaining a comic edge, the cinematography as Renton sinks six feet under and the camera embodies his drugged perspective, the misdirection of the ambulance siren before he's bundled haphazardly into a taxi, the juxtaposition of the uplifting Lou Reed soundtrack, and Renton's naughty school boy body language hunched between his parents at the end. It's stylish without glorifying the events onscreen.
