Trainspotting: Difference between revisions

* [[Byronic Hero]]: Both Renton and Sick Boy qualify, though Sick Boy is more towards the villainy end of the [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|spectrum]].

* [[The Can Kicked Him]]: Nobody dies in them, but toilets provide the setting for some of the movie's nastiest scenes, and at one point Begbie beats a man in a pub toilet until his blood mixes with the urine.

* [[Character Development]]: the first time around, both book- and movie-wise, Dianne is portrayed as a sex-crazed, club-hopping teenager; by the time ''Porno'' comes up she's toned her recreational drug use down and she matured into a pretty well-adjusted university student, working on her thesis and being more than capable to hold her own in a conversation. She still loves to party, though.

* [[Character Filibuster]]: Renton's "Choose life" rant.

'''Renton''' That's hardly a substitute. }}

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: In the book, Begbie gets some last-minute characterization as it's explained that his father essentially abandoned him as a child. Paralleling this is the fashion in which Begbie treats his own children.

** In the film, a scene set in a club uses a more realistic audio balance of club music and the characters talking, and as such features subtitles included to let the audience know what they're saying.

** Also, if you watch the movie with the subtitle track, certain lines of dialogue have been changed to sound somewhat cynical. The best example is "the worst place in London" being subtitled as "one of London's most desirable properties".

* [[Single-Issue Psychology]]: Subverted: when Mark is undergoing rehab he sees a succession of psychologists and counselors, each of whom try to attribute his heroin addiction to a single event in his life or facet of his personality (guilt over his brother Davie's death, his refusal to integrate himself into society). Mark, to his credit, doesn't believe a word of it.

* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" plays as Renton has a near-fatal heroin overdose, though the song is probably about Lou Reed's heroin addiction.

* [[Two Scenes, One Dialogue]]

* [[Unconventional Formatting]]: In the novel, slightly unusual textual layouts when Renton is hallucinating because of withdrawal.

* [[Violent Glaswegian]]: Begbie, and plenty more besides.

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Renton and Sick Boy. In the book, Renton notes that the insults which began as jokes are becoming more and more deeply meant.

* [[Where Did We Go Wrong?]]: Renton's parents had this basic reaction towards his addiction.

* [[With Friends Like These...]]: Everyone is terrified by Begbie, and they all understand that he could turn on them at the drop of a hat. In the book, Renton elaborates that Begbie's friends have to pretend to believe several myths about him to keep in his good graces.