Filmmaker/Actor … hopefully
the emoji movie gives me
such confidence in my screenplays
being made
spud FUCK OFF quit making me cry.
20 years later and these characters still present what troubled them all those decades ago. Begbie, although still a fuckwit, is angered by his past, unable to let go of the betrayal that was presented to him. Sick Boy, or rather matured now to Simon, is more or less still living in that past, bleaching his hair and depending on copious amounts of hard drugs to simply
make a day pass by. Spud…
growing up in suburban Australia, the depraved world that Danny Boyle presents is something extremely foreign to me.
With this, to the needle drop of Lust for Life by Iggy Pop, the fast paced, fucked up world of Endinburgh, Scotland is introduced with characters Mark Renton and his lanky, kermit the frog built mate Spud running from a chase.
It’s ironic that Renton is introduced to us through running from something, as the entire films runtime he spends it running…
“We’ll I’m the only one here”
Scorsese’s classic thriller tells an amazing narrative on the virus that is loneliness, and how self-persuasion and justification are the only vices in such a state. The performances from De Niro and Foster really bring home what the film is putting forward, and for a little under 50 years, the film has not aged a day.