Virtually everyone knows Trainspotting, the Danny Boyle movie starring Ewan McGreggor in 1996.What not so many people know is that, as on many other occasions, the movie is based on the eponymous book that Irvine Welsh wrote three years before, so let's review the 10 most curious differences between 'Trainspotting', the movie and the book .
- Choose life.
The The movie begins with Renton running away from the police and his mythical monologue with Iggy Pop playing in the background, but in the book we have to advance enough pages until he invites us to choose life.
- The characters : In the movie the protagonists are Mark Renton, Spud, Sick Boy, Begbie and Tommy, however, in the book there are a lot of additional characters such as Matty, Allison, Lizzy, Bill Rent On or Swanney that in the movie have a secondary role or do not appear directly.although in the book he even accompanies the four protagonists on his final trip to London in the movie he goes completely unnoticed.
- The narrator : in the book the stories of each are interspersed of them, with different narrative styles; but in the movie Renton is the only narrator.If you get a better storyline.
- Language : the book is written in scouse , the Leith dialect-the neighborhood of Edinburgh where the characters come from-full of expressions and own words.
Moving that to the cinema is practically impossible.It is also true that the language is more moderate in the movie.
- What does trainspotting mean? : At the end of the book, Welsh reveals that he means trainspotting , a clarification that is not made in the movie.For now, we will keep the unknown.
Alert: spoilers
From here we will talk about key aspects in the book or in the movie, so if you have not read it or want to see the movie , we warn you that you will find several spoilers.
- Mother d e Dawn : little Dawn dies in full swing of the protagonists, but in the book the mother is Lizzie and in the movie is Allison.What does not change is that Sick Boy is the father.
- The colleague who dies : Mark introduces Tommy to the hero, who ends up dying in the movie, but in the book who dies is Matty.After his funeral, Mark visits Tommy and predicts that he will be the next to die.When Mark flees to Amsterdam with the booty he is still alive, although in 'Porno' he does not appear.
- Renton detoxification : along ' Trainspotting 'the Mark and Spud leave the heroine and continually engage again.
In the movie Mark ends up completely rehabilitated, and his last peak is to test the heroine before selling it; but in the book, during the trip to London to sell it is still injected.
- Begbie does not destroy the hotel : the final scene of the movie with Begbie destroying the hotel room and Sick Boy and Spud in the hall, but when the book ends, nobody knows that Mark has fled with the money.
Prequel and sequel
After the success of 'Trainspotting 'In the cinema, in 2002 ' Porno 'was published, the second part, which runs 10 years later with the same characters.After years of rumors, its adaptation to the cinema is expected in 2016, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the first movie.In 2013 Welsh resumed the adventures of Renton and company with 'Skagboys', set two years before 'Trainspotting' .
In the prequel we know the origins of the heroine addiction of the characters, and also in the last pages he explains again the meaning of trainspotting .It is to sit next to the train tracks and write down the model and characteristics of the passing trains, one of the most rare and ridiculed hobbies in the UK.The simile between veins and tracks is more than clear.
Image: Don Merwin, Rodrigo Gianesi
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