The Trainspotting sequel is official happening and it's coming out next year.
Plus, just earlier this month, Trainspotting had its 20th anniversary.
Well, the 20th anniversary of the U.S. wide release to be specific.
But sure this movie is kind of old now, but we love it as much as ever.
So it is now time to drop some things.
Here are seven things you didn't know about Trainspotting.
Probably.
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When it comes to iconic scenes, Trainspotting is full of them.
But the toilet scene is for sure up there with the best.
What most people don't know is the scene is partially inspired by
A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Namely the part where Nancy gets sucked down into the bathtub.
Of course, it's a lot trickier to make someone disappear into a toilet.
Especially when you're making a low-budget movie in 1995 and
digital effects are still kind of crap.
So they did it just by cutting the toilet in half and then hiding a chute behind it.
A poop chute, if you will, and I'm sure you will.
Ewan McGregor Just slid down it and twisted his feet on the way down to make
it look like he was going through the bend in the toilet.
Thanks to some clever positioning this relatively simple effect didn't turn out
looking like total (Bleep) Moving on.
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Speaking of (Bleep), let's talk about them turds.
The worst toilet in Scotland definitely looks like it is in fact
the worst toilet in Scotland.
(Sound) So you might be surprised to find out that it actually smelled pretty
delicious in there because all that poop Is actually chocolate and chocolate sauce.
It's pretty commonplace for movies to have chocolate double for doo doo butter.
Still, looking at that bathroom and knowing now that all that (Bleep) is
really chocolate, it may have just made me quit chocolate permanently.
too.
(Bleep) by the way.
Boy here that turned into a. >> The accents in Trainspotting do
create a bit of a language barrier for
audiences from, well, pretty much anywhere other than Scotland.
But this scene in particular was so hard to understand that they had Robert Carlyle
and the other actors re-record their lines in ADR to help make it a bit more
clear for American audiences, To be honest, I'm not sure it worked.
Even after watching this movie countless times, I'm still not exactly
sure what the hell Begbie is saying when he's telling the story in the pub.
Just don't tell him I said that because he'd probably stab me and
then kick me in the balls.
(Sound) >> Under what pleasure?
My pleasure and other people's pleasure. >> It must have been a bit
confusing to have two guys named Ewen on set, even if they do spell it differently.
Well it gets even more confusing once you find out that both Ewens played Renton.
See, Ewen Bremner played Renton in the stage adaptation
of Trainspotting before the movie.
So when Danny Boyle, John Hodge, and the rest of the team started to adapt the book
for the film, they wanted to have Bremner in the mix.
The problem was they also knew they didn't want him in the mix as Renton.
From day one, they knew they wanted Ewan McGregor for
Renton after working with him on Shallow Grave.
Thus they gave Ewan Bremner the role of Spud.
>> You're serious?
>> If I were I him,
I probably would have been kind of butt-hurt about the whole thing.
Then again, Bremner is so perfect as Spud,
it's hard to imagine the character any other way.
He's moved on and so should we.
(Sound) >> What are you two talking about?
>> Football!
>> Football is a recurring topic
throughout the film,
starting from the very beginning when our guys are playing a game.
You probably didn't know that the team they're playing in this scene is
the Calton Athletic Football Club, which is made up of dudes who really have lived
as addicts and recovered to live again as, you know, like civilians and junk.
The Calton guys were actually really instrumental in helping to translate their
real-life experiences to the film.
Which, based on the way the movie turned out,
must have been some pretty (Bleep) up experiences.
(Sound) Even with the help of the Calton football club,
the primary source material for Trainspotting was Irvine Welsh's book.
But a lot of people don't know that Welsh is actually in the movie.
He plays Mikey Forrester, the dealer who gives Renton the opium suppositories.
It's fleur de lys.
Bring it in gradually.
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>> And then of course we see him again later in the film.
And since we're talking about Train Spotting's writers, the screenwriter,
John Hodge, is also in the film.
He's the policeman in the front there chasing Renton's butt.
And that my friends is boom, a bonus thing you didn't know.
FYI, the first bonus thing is always free.
(Noise) >> Well,
I'll come back with you if you like, but
I'm not promising anything, you know? >> You may remember the Volcano bar where
Renton first meets Diane.
Well, some Scots took a bit of exception to it being in Edinburgh in the film since
it was actually in Glasgow in real life.
Sadly, the Volcano closed down years ago, so it doesn't exist anywhere anymore.
Now that was just a bonus thing.
The second bonus thing we've given you by the way.
And those go for $100 a gram so pay up in the comments.
Anyway the real thing for
this thing is that the club's interior references a clockwork orange.
See all that writing on the walls?
Those are straight up lifted from the milk bar in a clockwork orange.
And the song that's being played in this scene.
You know, the one we can't play right now, because we'll get a copyright claim.
The song is Temptation which is by Heaven 17,
an 80s band that took their name from the made-up band Heaven 17 in the book
A Clockwork Orange, and that little tidbit brings us up to three bonus things now.
So you owe us a lot of money.
Hired goons are on the way.
That was seven of the purest high-quality raw things you can get, plus bonus things.
Let us know in the comments if you're excited for T2, Trainspotting 2,
not Judgement Day.
Or if you think there's no way it'll able to match the original.
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(Sound) >> I'm feeling.
>> For all the good they've done me,
I might as well have stuck them up my ass.