#starring Jonny and Ewan McGregor

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Trainspotting 2, 2016

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#Trainspotting #1996 #pοsters

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Trainspotting is a 1996 British black comedy-drama film directed by Danny Boyle, and starring Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle and Kelly Macdonald in her film debut. Based on the 1993 novel of the same title by Irvine Welsh, the film was released in the United Kingdom on 23 February 1996.

The film follows a group of heroin addicts in an economically depressed area of Edinburgh and their passage through life. Beyond drug addiction, other themes in the film include an exploration of the urban poverty and squalor in Edinburgh.

Trainspotting was released to critical acclaim, and is regarded by many critics as one of the best films of the 1990s. The film was ranked tenth by the British Film Institute (BFI) in its list of Top 100 British films of the 20th century. In 2004, the film was voted the best Scottish film of all time in a general public poll. A 2017 poll, which consisted of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine, ranked it the tenth best British film ever. A sequel, T2 Trainspotting, was released in January 2017......

Perfect Day by Lou Reed 🎧

Original Soundtrack

[sneaky-ramen]

I’ve watched 10 films in the past 7 days and now I shall rank them!

1. Taxi Driver (1976) - dir. Martin Scorsese. Starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd

2. Monkey Man (2024) - dir. Dev Patel. Starring Dev Patel, Vipin Sharma, Sikander Kher

3. Challengers (2024) - dir. Luca Guadagnino. Starring Zendaya, John O’Connor, Mike Faist

4. Call Me By Your Name (2017) - dir. Luca Guadagnino. Starring Timothee Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg

5. Sorry To Bother You (2018) - dir. Boots Riley. Starring LaKeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Steven Yeun

6. Goodfellas (1990) - dir. Martin Scorsese. Starring Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Lorraine Bracco

7. Eastern Promises (2007) - dir. David Cronenberg. Starring Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Armin Mueller-Stahl

8. Trainspotting (1996) - dir. Danny Boyle. Starring Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle

9. The Godfather Part II (1974) - dir. Francis Ford Coppola. Starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall

10. Hackers (1995) - dir. Iain Softley. Starring Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Matthew Lillard

[lands-of-fantasy]

Emma

Classic and loose adaptions from 1972, 1995, 1996 (x2), 2009, 2013, 2020

The fourth of Jane Austen’s novels, first published in 1815, has had many adaptions over the years. The ones pictured above are detailed below:

Emma (1972 Miniseries)

6 episodes x 45min Written by Denis Constanduros, directed by John Glenister

Starring Doran Godwin as Emma Woodhouse, John Carson as Mr. George Knightley, Debbie Bowen as Harriet Smith, Timothy Peters as Mr. Philip Elton, Robert East as Frank Churchill,  Ania Marson as Jane Fairfax, among others

Clueless (1995 Film)

Loose adaption set in modern Beverly Hills, USA Written and directed by Amy Heckerling

Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz (Emma), Paul Rudd as Josh Lucas (Knightley), Stacey Dash as Dionne Davenport, Brittany Murphy as Tai Frasier (Harriet), Jeremy Sisto as Elton Tiscia, Justin Walker as Christian Stovitz (Frank), among others

Emma (1996 Film)

Written and directed by Douglas McGrath

Gwyneth Paltrow as Emma Woodhouse, Jeremy Northam as Mr. George Knightley, Toni Collette as Harriet Smith, Alan Cumming as Philip Elton, Ewan McGregor as Frank Churchill, Polly Walker as Jane Fairfax, among others

Emma (1996 TV Film)

Written by Andrew Davies, directed by Diarmuid Lawrence

Kate Beckinsale as Emma Woodhouse, Mark Strong as Mr. George Knightley, Samantha Morton as Harriet Smith, Dominic Rowan as Mr. Philip Elton, Raymond Coulthard as Frank Churchill, Olivia Williams as Jane Fairfax, among others

Emma (2009 Miniseries)

4 episodes x 58min Written by Sandy Welch, directed by Jim O'Hanlon

Starring Romola Garai as Emma Woodhouse, Jonny Lee Miller as Mr. George Knightley, Louise Dylan as Harriet Smith, Michael Gambon as Mr. Henry Woodhouse, Blake Ritson as Mr. Philip Elton, Rupert Evans as Frank Churchill, Laura Pyper as Jane Fairfax, Jefferson Hall as Robert Martin, among others

Emma Approved (2013-14 Webseries)

95 episodes x 4-8min, available on Youtube Loose adaption set in modern US, told in a vlog format

Created by Bernie Su, from Pemberley Digital

Starring Joanna Sotomura as Emma Woodhouse, Brent Bailey as Alex Knightley, Dayeanne Hutton as Harriet Smith, James Brent Isaacs as Bobby Martin, Paul Stuart as James Elton, Stephen A. Chang as Frank Churchill, Tyra Colar as Jane Fairfax, among others

While the series is a follow-up to The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, it stands on its own.

Emma (2020 Film)

Written by Eleanor Catton, directed by Autumn de Wilde

Anya Taylor-Joy as Emma Woodhouse, Johnny Flynn as Mr. George Knightley, Mia Goth as Harriet Smith, Bill Nighy as Mr, Woodhouse, Josh O'Connor as Mr. Philip Elton, Callum Turner as Frank Churchill, Amber Anderson as Jane Fairfax, among others

*****

Personal favorite: 2009 But also: 1996 (Theatrical Film), Emma Approved

P.S.: 2020′s pretty popular, from what I’ve seen. I’ve enjoyed it myself, but it’s not among my favorite.

[somebaconlover]

T2 Trainspotting (2017)

Directed by Danny Boyle

Cinematography by Anthony Dod Mantle

Starring Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle and Kelly Macdonald

“Choose life” was a well-meaning slogan from a 1980s antidrug campaign. And we used to add things to it. So I might say, for example, choose… Designer lingerie in the vain hope of kicking some life back into a dead relationship. Choose handbags. Choose high-heeled shoes. Cashmere and silk to make yourself feel what passes for happy. Choose an iPhone made in China by a woman who jumped out of a window, and stick it in the pocket of your jacket fresh from a South Asian firetrap. Choose Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram and a thousand other ways to spew your bile across people you’ve never met. Choose updating your profile. Tell the world what you had for breakfast and hope that someone, somewhere cares. Choose looking up old flames, desperate to believe that you don’t look as bad as they do. Choose live-blogging from your first wank to your last breath. Human interaction reduced to nothing more than data. Choose ten things you never knew about celebrities who’d had surgery. Choose screaming about abortion. Choose rape jokes, slut shaming, revenge porn, and an endless tide of depressing misogyny. Choose 9/11 never happened, and if it did, it was the Jews. Choose a zero-hour contract and a two-hour journey to work, and choose the same for your kids, only worse. And maybe tell yourself it’s better that they never happened. And then sit back and smother the pain with an unknown dose of an unknown drug made in somebody’s f***ing kitchen. Choose unfulfilled promise and wishing you’d done it all differently. Choose never learning from your own mistakes. Choose watching history repeat itself. Choose the slow reconciliation towards what you can get rather than what you always hoped for. Settle for less and keep a brave face on it. Choose disappointment. And choose losing the ones you loved. And as they fall from view, a piece of you dies with them. Until you can see that one day in the future, piece by piece, they will all be gone. And there’ll be nothing left of you to call alive or dead. Choose your future, Veronika. Choose life."

[ingravinoveritas]

I don’t want to perv all over the adorable pic that @elementarystan posted of JLM with his kid, so I will do it here instead:

Jonny is an absolute smoking hot DILF to the 5000th power. Bar none, case closed, good night, be sure to tip your waitress. This information also gives me way too many emotions, so I’ll just be over here in the corner of Tumblr feeling things...

[oliver-watches-films]

TRAINSPOTTING (1996)

- dir. danny boyle

- starring ewan mcgregor, jonny lee miller, robert carlyle + kelly macdonald

[viscountessevie]

Part 2: What The Cast Should Have Done

READ PART 1 FIRST - IT’S THE MAIN FOCUS

First off, I would like to say I’m disappointed at myself for prematurely bringing up Jonny’s name before I had these two posts written up. I shouldn’t have done that at all. Clarifying my point again too early made it worse. Suddenly, even though my original post asked about what you all thought of Regé posting his story and his POV, my ask box was just either flooded with defending/being curious about what Jonny did or being against him for this. It completely ended up centring the conversation on Regé’s white cast mates.

This was on me for prematurely bringing up Jonny’s name and not thinking it through, and I deeply regret that. Also definitely time for us to check our bias & blindspots as always, to think about how and why we quickly started talking more about Jonny.  

That being said, here's my points along with the takeaways I’ve gotten after hearing my friends (the same ones tagged in Part 1!) out on this. A special shoutout to Triv @hptriviachamp​ who pretty much co-wrote this with me since she provided her thoughts/answers to my asks so I’ll be quoting her most of them time below. 

Okay so I’ve said this a couple times before but going to reiterate it one last time. I only placed importance on Jonny before because I don’t expect shit from the rest of them and Phoebe is already pretty much being written out of the show at this point. However that aside, the onus is not just on Jonny or Phoebe to protect their onscreen partners but the whole cast and crew could have done what ROP and Kenobi did. 

ROP made the solidarity statement seen in Regé’s story which can be found here. With Kenobi, they had Ewan McGregor, a representative of the show aka the face/star of the show, to speak out for everyone. 

From the chronically online NC to no social media Luke T/Claudia: all these people, especially white people, have the power to do/say something. Luke could find another way to communicate this. Nicola could learn and stop saying bullshit. They have interviews and live events they always do. Yt people don't know how to be allies or even what an ally is - this is very apparent in our own fandom as well. 

Now I’m bringing in my anons to further illustrate these points and expand on them!  So I've gotten a couple of different anons with conflicting views. I think it's one of those situations where both things can be true so I am putting all of them here to let them speak for themselves before elaborating: 

Triv: It’s upsetting that "they'd never do it" but we should try to hold them to a higher standard anyway

Yeah we know this, that the Production side especially the higher ups you listed along with JQ and some cast members - we all know who - perpetuate this. However, if they really wanted sell this ‘great’ “diversity is why we are set apart from other media” lie to us even more, a solidarity statement when #NotMyDuke was trending or racist hate at Simone and Charithra was being thrown, would have definitely shown the cast of colour they had the support of their show.

Production can pretend not to perpetuate it all they want, but showing that kind of solidarity and support against racist 'fans' would have gone a long way and made the cast of colour feel safer. Like Triv said it's about holding them to a higher and better standard and honestly it's THE LEAST Regé deserved especially as a lead and draw of S1. [Of course goes without saying this applies to Simone in S2 as well.]

(Also Anon I’m guessing you may have sent this ask to Mimi? We don’t have to agree with everything and that’s okay! I have friends on both sides of the Kathony subfandom and I never fully agree with any of them lol. Some like Showina a little more than I do and some dislike (putting it lightly oop) Showina a little more than I do. It’s our difference is what makes us unique and the important thing is grounding ourselves, respecting and putting each other first - anyways if this not you nor about me oops ignore this but a good side lesson for everyone nonetheless)

With this ask in particular, I understand your frustration but we really need to look at this situation through the lens of intersectionality which I can provide as a queer POC. While it's no oppression Olympics, I will say growing up I did get more racially charged abuse swung my way than I did for being queer. Then again, this is my personal experience.

I think we can all respect Jonny, his sexuality and acknowledge that he does get hate for it and call it out. At the same time, we can point out that he along with the rest of the white cast could have done more especially given their position of power with production and the fans compared to their cast of colour counterparts. I don't think these points are mutually exclusive.

Triv's take: Marginalized groups should uplift one another. I think it's wrong to expect more from Johnny specifically (it applies to everyone regardless of race or sexual orientation and white people should be allies regardless) but we should expect more from the entire cast, crew, and especially the people at the top who set the standard for the cast culture. I wasn't a big believer on the importance of "culture" in a work environment until I started mock my freshman year and the team was getting out of a very toxic era (in terms of hazing, no solidarity, and lack of diversity) and over the past 4 years I've seen that transition to a better culture because my coaches and captains are very explicit about team culture and literally make ppts about it. Culture matters.

Putting these two together because they are similar in calling out the ‘main/flagship’ actors of the show and I’ve talked about how we should be putting it on everyone already so just going to let these anons say their piece and close it off with Trivia’s take: 

That's a very interesting point about the "main people" like Coughlan and Jonny having more of a duty to uplift people of color... I'm unsure if I agree (as opposed to all of them having that duty) but I guess... it depends on how much power they actually have within the show and whether we think they inherently have more power as white people (which they do) to the extent where we should put more of an onus on them.  Real change comes in the form of the people at the top supporting them and ensuring they get promo and interviews and whatnot. It's not about the individual (Jonny, Coughlan, whatever) but about the group

Triv is absolutely right and she pretty much said it all so I don’t have anything to add on this front. 

In conclusion, I think despite Production perpetrating it, the show still should have protected Regé when the ‘fans’ were being shitty. If the cast didn’t want to bite the hand that puts them on the payroll, again they could have just called out the so-called fans. That way, it was still a show of public support and standing up for their cast mates. 

It would also have shut down the hate to a certain extent for those yts to know that their bigotry is frowned upon by their white faves. After all, they only listen to each other it seems. Maybe it may have even curbed how a lot of the fandom bigots behave on here and it would actually feel like a safer space for minority fans. However, none of that happened and we all have to live with the landscape we have now. Living with it obviously doesn’t mean we just take it lying down - we should never ever stop calling these people out. They feel uncomfortable? Good. They don’t even feel the half of what we all go through seeing them post racially ignorant bullshit ‘thinly veiled’ in their posts. 

Finally, I just sincerely hope that Regé got the support and love he deserved behind the scenes with his own circle of friends and loved ones. I hope Simone and every other future POC lead and ensemble character gets the same from their own circle since no one is publicly standing up for them - definitely not in the explicit way it needs to be done to get people to back off. 

Final note: Thank you all so much for reading and I hope the wait was worth it. This being said, writing this up took a lot out of me. I knew I was going to press pause on discourse asks for a while after posting this as I expanded on the type of posts I wanted to blog on here. However, taking about half a week to write all this and kind of stressing about it at times, made me realise I do need the break. Don’t worry I’ll still be in the drama loop reblogging asks and posts from my other friends, just won’t be making my own discussion posts for a while. Hope yall understand!

[adgridley]

🎥🍣 Movie Sushi - Trainspotting

Spud Murphy's a perfectionist. Mark Renton has an on/off heroin habit. Sick Boy knows a lot about Sean Connery. Francis Begbie's a psycho. Tommy's dead against heroin. Swanney has the longest habit of all. What's next for these Edinburgh gentlemen?

Starring Ewan McGregor. Ewen Bremner. Jonny Lee Miller. Rated 18. Dir Danny Boyle. Released in the UK 1996. Runtime 1hr 33mins

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💕 get to know your mutuals!! when you get this, it means someone wants to know more about you, so list 5 things about yourself you want your followers to know. they can be as simple as your age or as complex as your deepest fear, as long as it’s something you’re comfortable with sharing. when you’re done, send this to 10 people you want to get to know better!! 🥺🌼💕 - no pressure ❣️

ahaa, thanks marit! ummmm, right-o, i can’t tag any people because this is a sideblog, but: 

1. i can be found on main here, where there’s just generally more star wars chaos and occasionally i go off about fic and stuff! (idk i feel like most people know this but just in case--)

2. i have watched a total of....about 16.5 movies starring ewan mcgregor! (the half is for the fact that i started big fish and mortdecai, but i haven’t finished either of them yet, maybe because i also cannot stand jonny depp’s hideous mustache in mortdecai. listen. i don’t have a problem, i swear.) 

3. when i was 13 / 14 years old, i memorized the entire star trek: 2009 screenplay. there was a point where someone could just say one line from a scene, and i would be able to recite the entire scene from heart, complete with character voices. i can no longer do that :( 

4. i am currently a double major in english and american studies, as well as a double minor in legal studies and creative writing minor. this means a lot of reading and writing. and tearing my hair out.

5. ummm i’m like...a little bilingual? idk. i used to be able to speak korean fluently as a little kid, but i lost a lot of it and can only speak the language when i’m very stressed / tired / in love. i can understand it completely though, so watching kdramas without subtitles isn’t that big a deal for me haha

[coolhandlook]

2017:131 — T2 Trainspotting

(2017 - Danny Boyle) ***

[moetaur]

Trainspotting (1996) Review.

5/5 stars.

Choose life, choose sitting on the couch after finding an old DVD of your fathers, choose an unforgettable 90 minutes of your life, choose a mind nubimg sadness and no morally-redeemable characters, choose a story of friendship and betrayal, choose teeth-grinding imagery of junk entering veins, knowing perfectly well what that can do to the normal man. But why would I choose that? Simple.

It is a masterpiece of film, a revolutionary step in British cinema. The end of Thatcherism, times changing. 

A quote from this film that perfectly resonates with the audience and symbolism the whole movie portrays awfully too well would have to be “You're not getting any younger, Mark. The world's changing. Music's changing. Even drugs are changing. You can't stay in here all day dreaming about heroin and Ziggy Pop.” - Diane, a side character, often misinterpreted as a love interest of protagonist Renton. 

There is too much to go off about on this movie, most characters having their own arc, some longer than others. The shortest, yet the one that stings the most would be with a lanky, pale-haired and doe-eyed Tommy, post-breakup, turning to heroin. He unfortunately did not make it as far, and wasn’t as lucky as Renton or Sick Boy, in their misadventures with heroin, the longest arc being Renton’s start-to-finish battle with heroin, on and off twice, once which he experiences nightmarish withdrawal, before a relapse, leading to my favourite scene in cinema. A blue-lipped Renton being rag dolled into the back of a taxi, left, abandoned like a dog on the entrance to an Edinburgh Accident and Emergency ward.All the while, ‘Perfect Day’ by Lou Reed gently serenades the man, in a carpet coffin, drawing himself further and further under every hitched breath.

Trainspotting’s soundtrack perfectly contrasts or serenades the many, many monologues of a junk-pumped Mark Renton, and in it’s 23 years of it being released, if you haven’t seen it already. Choose Trainspotting.

Cast: Ewan McGregor - Renton Ewan Bremner - Spud Jonny Lee Miller - Sick Boy Kevin McKidd - Tommy Robert Carlyle - Begbie Kelly MacDonald - Diane

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February 23, 1996 - Trainspotting is released in Ireland and the UK.

The film is based on Irvine Welsh’s 1993 novel of the same name. It was directed by Danny Boyle with the screenplay written by John Hodge. It starred Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd and Robert Carlyle.

In 1999, The British Film Institute made a list of the Top 100 British Films of the 20th Century and Trainspotting came in at #10. 

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From @robertcarlyle_ on twitter 

[somebaconlover]

Trainspotting (1996)

Directed by Danny Boyle

Cinematography by Brian Tufano

Starring Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle and Kelly Macdonald

"It seems, however, I really am the luckiest guy in the world. Several years of addiction right in the middle of an epidemic, surrounded by the living dead. But not me. I’m negative. It’s official. And once the pain goes away, that’s when the real battle starts. Depression, boredom… You feel so fucking low, you want to fucking top yourself."

[ingravinoveritas]

Two of the most accurate quotes I’ve ever read about Jonny Lee Miller, who has been the star of my sexual fantasies nonstop for about a week now. The first is in reference to his role in the movie Complicity:

“If you're looking for someone to play a cocaine-addled, chain-smoking, ale-soaked, morally-ambiguous Scot with upper respiratory ailments and a penchant for kinky sex, and presuming that Ewan McGregor is already booked for the month, the top name on your list should be Jonny Lee Miller.”

And a second, more general quote, which perfectly encapsulates him as Sherlock Holmes:

“His most striking characteristic is some intangible quality wholly unique to Jonny, some weirdly compelling combination of aristocratic and, well, skanky. Okay, I'll get to the point: He's sleazy. Or, to be fair, he gives off a powerful onscreen aura of sleaze.”