Trainspotting (1996)
So I went to see Trainspotting at my local art cinema today. When they
introduced the film they said the title is an example of a useless activity! -- jhk |
Trainspotting (1996)
On 2017\02\23 19:51, Jarle Hammen Knudsen wrote:
So I went to see Trainspotting at my local art cinema today. When they introduced the film they said the title is an example of a useless activity! They're not wrong. However, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leith_...ailway_station ... "In the 1980s the derelict station was a haven for drug addicts, this being alluded to in Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh. In one scene, the character Begbie sees his alcoholic father living in the station. The macabre joke is that the people who are there are all train-spotting, despite the fact of it being abandoned since the early 1970s. This is where the title of the book comes from" |
Trainspotting (1996)
On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 20:21:25 +0000, Basil Jet
wrote: On 2017\02\23 19:51, Jarle Hammen Knudsen wrote: So I went to see Trainspotting at my local art cinema today. When they introduced the film they said the title is an example of a useless activity! They're not wrong. However, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leith_...ailway_station ... "In the 1980s the derelict station was a haven for drug addicts, this being alluded to in Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh. In one scene, the character Begbie sees his alcoholic father living in the station. The macabre joke is that the people who are there are all train-spotting, despite the fact of it being abandoned since the early 1970s. This is where the title of the book comes from" It was filmed, but didn't make it to the final cut. -- jhk |
Trainspotting (1996)
Jarle Hammen Knudsen wrote on 23 Feb 2017 at 21:03 ...
On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 20:21:25 +0000, Basil Jet wrote: On 2017\02\23 19:51, Jarle Hammen Knudsen wrote: So I went to see Trainspotting at my local art cinema today. When they introduced the film they said the title is an example of a useless activity! They're not wrong. However, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leith_...ailway_station ... "In the 1980s the derelict station was a haven for drug addicts, this being alluded to in Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh. In one scene, the character Begbie sees his alcoholic father living in the station. The macabre joke is that the people who are there are all train-spotting, despite the fact of it being abandoned since the early 1970s. This is where the title of the book comes from" It was filmed, but didn't make it to the final cut. .... which made it a useless activity about a useless activity. And we're discussing this on usenet which is a ... ;-) -- Richard J. (to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address) |
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