Trainspotting Context & Ideology by Laura Barbey https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4 Made with magic en-us 2019-01-21 12:44:37 UTC 2025-09-29 20:35:13 UTC hello@padlet.com Noel Gallagher on life https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322666923 "Some people live their life...they worry about the destination. They worry about where they're going. I enjoy the trip. Wherever you're going is where you'll end up. Don't worry about that. Enjoy the scenery on the way.]]> 2019-01-21 12:53:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322666923 Britpop https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322667016 Britpop was a cultural movement in the mid 90s in which it emphasised on Britishness. 
Many bands such as Blur, Oasis, Pulp, Arctic Monkeys and Coldplay can be classified as being Britpop bands.]]> 2019-01-21 12:53:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322667016 Noel Gallagher on the 90's https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322667160 "The 90s was not the beginning of something - it was the end of something. It was the end of the music business as we knew it. We were the last rock stars."]]> 2019-01-21 12:54:33 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322667160 Socialism VS Conservatism - t https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322667314 the government going against the working class population. different political groups presented in the friend group as Renton is constantly alone and independent. ]]> 2019-01-21 12:55:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322667314 renton https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322667327 "whos needs reasons when you have heroin?"]]> 2019-01-21 12:55:24 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322667327 Dianne https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322667565 "the world is changing, music is changing, drugs are changing"]]> 2019-01-21 12:56:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322667565 Danny Boyle https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322667722 It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations]]> 2019-01-21 12:57:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322667722 Sick boy https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322667759 personality ,thats what counts right? thats what keeps a relationship going through the years. Like heroin, i mean heroins got a great fucking personality.]]> 2019-01-21 12:57:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322667759 Laddism https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322667818 "A new model of masculinity emerged in 1990s British culture"
"A new lad is a post-feminist model of masculinity"

-We would now call it 'toxic masculinity' Laura]]> 2019-01-21 12:57:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322667818 https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322667864 Clair Monk suggests that Trainspotting owed some of it's success to new lad appeal ]]> 2019-01-21 12:58:10 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322667864 Danny Boyle https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322668102 "we wanted to make a pleasurable film out of unwatchable subject matter" ]]> 2019-01-21 12:59:20 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322668102 Stevie Nicks on individuality https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322668175 Being in a group of five really does keep your ego in place.]]> 2019-01-21 12:59:43 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322668175 Damon Albarn https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322668208 "The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie."]]> 2019-01-21 12:59:54 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322668208 John Major https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322668295 Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.]]> 2019-01-21 13:00:23 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322668295 Renton (football) https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322668342 " I haven't felt that good since Archie Gemmill scored against Holland in 1978"]]> 2019-01-21 13:00:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322668342 John Major https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322668468 Recovery begins from the darkest moment]]> 2019-01-21 13:01:09 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322668468 Jonny lee miller https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322668574 The script for trainspotting was amazing,and it was very different from the book]]> 2019-01-21 13:01:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322668574 Damon Albarn https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322668639 "I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics."]]> 2019-01-21 13:01:58 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322668639 Drug Use https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322668668 "Rather than blanket, condemnation of all illegal drug use, the need for rational debate on this issue began to be acknowledged."]]> 2019-01-21 13:02:10 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322668668 John Major https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322668679 Only in Britain it could be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are stupid by three quarters.]]> 2019-01-21 13:02:15 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322668679 Renton https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322668695 "1,000 years from now there will be no guys and no girls, just wankers. Sounds great to me."]]> 2019-01-21 13:02:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322668695 John Major https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322668749 If we want to deliver opportunity to all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future]]> 2019-01-21 13:02:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322668749 danny boyle https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322668993 I want the audience to feel the rush

]]> 2019-01-21 13:04:00 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322668993 Renton (Gender) https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322669072 " One thousand years from now there will be no guys and no girls."]]> 2019-01-21 13:04:24 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322669072 jonny lee miller https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322669184 i believe in danny boyle i really do i know that he not going to pull the trigger on something if its not right ]]> 2019-01-21 13:04:57 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322669184 robert carlyse https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322669202 begbie is homosexual

]]> 2019-01-21 13:05:03 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322669202 John Major https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322669251 What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?]]> 2019-01-21 13:05:20 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322669251 Jonny lee miller https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322669469 you dont sign up to trainspotting expecting glamour.]]> 2019-01-21 13:06:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322669469 Boyle https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322669547 "The past is alive in all of us really. It's in a telescope, and depending on which end of the telescope you look at, it's either there or it's gone, it's distant, and it preoccupies you more and more in life."- while being interviewed on the second film]]> 2019-01-21 13:07:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322669547 John Major https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322669579 Lets turn British inventions into British industries. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars, marks or yen for others]]> 2019-01-21 13:07:17 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322669579 Renton https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322669583 "It's SHITE being Scottish! We're the lowest of the low. The scum of the fucking Earth!"]]> 2019-01-21 13:07:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322669583 Robert Carlyle https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322669788 "it's a horrible word now, but in that Britpop moment, the film was right in the centre of everything. we all felt that when it came out. politically, you felt it too. change was coming" ]]> 2019-01-21 13:08:09 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322669788 Iggy Pop https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322669826 Diane: "Iggy Pop? I mean the guy’s dead anyway."

Renton: "He’s not dead! He toured last year, Tommy went to see him!"

]]> 2019-01-21 13:08:20 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322669826 Kurt Cobain https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322669868 The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.]]> 2019-01-21 13:08:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322669868 boyle https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322670013 "we were helped by a general climate of change. that thatcher period was swept away in a tide of increasingly ludicrous sex stories, financial misdoings and footballers getting done for bungs in service stations. i always believe that popular culture will eventually say 'fuck this' and create an energy to sweep it away. we got it in house music,britpop, you could sense it in the commercial success that greeted something as non-mainstream as trainspotting. ]]> 2019-01-21 13:09:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322670013 Robert Carlyle https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322670094 "i took out two teeth and suddenly Begbie came back to life" ]]> 2019-01-21 13:09:46 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322670094 Kurt Cobain https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322670170 Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all. 

]]> 2019-01-21 13:10:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322670170 Ewen Bremner https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322670281 "in the first film there was an exhilaration, jubilation, a lust for life

Read more at: https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/film/trainspotting-star-ewen-bremner-on-the-man-behind-spud-1-4465150]]> 2019-01-21 13:10:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322670281 John Major https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322670601 I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community]]> 2019-01-21 13:12:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322670601 Spud https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322670675 “Spud loved company and part of that was social drug-taking and he took it with gusto and could handle that in his twenties, but before he knew it he was completely, hopelessly addicted to heroin and didn’t have the fortitude to escape it. It ravaged his life and his family too.”]]> 2019-01-21 13:12:30 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322670675 Renton https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322671398 "There was no such thing as society and if even there was i most certainly had nothing to do with it]]> 2019-01-21 13:15:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322671398 Empire - Neil Jeffries https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322671518 For a unique, consummately entertaining, and yet utterly harrowing look into the life of heroin addicts, this movie offers open-minded viewers an unforgettable experience.]]> 2019-01-21 13:16:32 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322671518 Empire's Neil Jeffries https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322671535 Emphasized the narrative 'stunning turn around' , it's change in tone after baby Dawn dies]]> 2019-01-21 13:16:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322671535 Roger Ebert https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322671681 There is even a relief: Lies and evasions are unnecessary among friends who share the same needs. “Trainspotting” knows that truth in its very bones.]]> 2019-01-21 13:17:20 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322671681 derek malcolm https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322671711 There have been plenty of films about the drug culture, almost all of them adopting a moral tone that liberals can conveniently call 'responsible'. But there have been none quite like Danny Boyle's Trainspotting, adapted from Irvine Welsh's novel by John Hodge.]]> 2019-01-21 13:17:28 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322671711 Peter Bradshaw https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322671733 Trainspotting is supercharged with sulphurous humour and brutal recklessness]]> 2019-01-21 13:17:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322671733 Roger Ebert https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322671781 "Former alcoholics and drug abusers often report that they don't miss the substances nearly as much as the conditions under which they were used--the camaraderie of the true drinkers' bar."]]> 2019-01-21 13:17:46 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322671781 Roger Ebert https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322671855 "it is simply pragmatic. it knows that addiction leads to an unmanageable, exhausting, intensely uncomfortable daily routine, and it knows that only two things make it bearable: a supply of the drug of choice, and the understanding of fellow addicts." ]]> 2019-01-21 13:18:05 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322671855 Roger Ebert https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322671877 The reason there is a fierce joy in “Trainspotting,” despite the appalling things that happen in it, is that it's basically about friends in need.]]> 2019-01-21 13:18:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322671877 the guardian- Peter Bradshaw https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322671959 "it charges at you like Ewan McGregor’s Renton sprinting from store detectives in the opening sequence."]]> 2019-01-21 13:18:33 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322671959 Neil Jeffries https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322672016 This film does not glorify drugs,it glorifies film.]]> 2019-01-21 13:18:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322672016 Roger Ebert https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322672069  the straight world just doesn't get it, doesn't understand that the disease is life and the treatment is another drink.]]> 2019-01-21 13:19:03 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322672069 The Telegraph- Rupert Hawksley https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322672106 "brave and glorious"]]> 2019-01-21 13:19:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322672106 Roger Ebert https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322672205 "Strange, the cult following “Trainspotting” has generated in the UK, as a book, a play and a movie. It uses a colorful vocabulary, it contains a lot of energy, it elevates its miserable heroes to the status of icons "]]> 2019-01-21 13:19:33 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322672205 Roger Ebert https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322672219 "It elevates its miserable heroes to the status of icons"]]> 2019-01-21 13:19:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322672219 The guardian- Peter Bradshaw https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322672270 "It holds up terrifically well. This movie was the first, maybe the only successful 90s British attempt at answering films like Goodfellas or Pulp Fiction"]]> 2019-01-21 13:19:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322672270 Rupert Hawksley https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322672302 Like a Che Guevara T-shirt, they have come to represent a flat-packed, easy-access ideal of youth rebellion. This defiantly nonconformist message has been greedily swallowed by the mainstream. Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a Trainspotting poster for the wall of your university accommodation.
Watch the film again, however, and one is immediately reminded that Trainspotting is so much more than an easily-quotable opening sequence, so much more than a cloak of phony counterculture for the middle classes. Supported by five effortlessly assured central performances, it is cool without ever having to try, funny but deeply tragic, alluring but faintly terrifying – and it has the finest soundtrack of any film in the last 20 years.
]]> 2019-01-21 13:20:01 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322672302 BBC-Almar Haflidason https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322672631 " Director Danny Boyle directs with glamour and pace, aided by an inspired soundtrack, and produces a movie that shines with unusual ambition despite its British roots."]]> 2019-01-21 13:21:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322672631 Rupert Hawksley https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322672636 Trainspotting was a film that made a whole generation think about their choices in life]]> 2019-01-21 13:21:20 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322672636 Roger Ebert https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322672816  Drug use is not linear but circular. You never get anywhere unless you keep returning to the starting point. But you make fierce friends along the way. Too bad if they die.]]> 2019-01-21 13:21:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322672816 Empire https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322672889 "trainspotting doesn't glorify heroin, it glorifies youth. youth at its worst, mostly, but youth trying to sort out things as only youth can." ]]> 2019-01-21 13:22:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322672889 Neil Jefferies https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322672969 Trainspotting doesn't glorify heroin. It glorifies youth. Youth at its worst, mostly, but youth trying to sort things as only the youth can.]]> 2019-01-21 13:22:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/322672969 https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/417254727 2019-11-27 19:45:15 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/417254727 Jesus https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/1375318622 Love thy neighbour.]]> 2021-04-01 13:29:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lab12/2s20mbhkbgb4/wish/1375318622