T2 trainspotting

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Movie
German title T2 trainspotting
Original title T2 trainspotting
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 2017
length 117 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Danny Boyle
script John Hodge
production Bernard Bellew ,
Danny Boyle,
Christian Colson ,
Andrew Macdonald
camera Anthony Dod Mantle
cut Jon Harris
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Trainspotting - New Heroes

T2 Trainspotting is a British feature film by Danny Boyle from the year 2017 . It is the sequel to Boyle's successful film Trainspotting - New Heroes (1996), for which John Hodge wrote the screenplay again . The action begins 20 years after the previous film, and the main characters leads (played by Ewan McGregor , Ewen Bremner , Robert Carlyle and Jonny Lee Miller ) in Scottish Edinburgh back together. The script is based in part on Irvine Welsh's novel Porno (2002) and its predecessor Trainspotting (1993).

T2 Trainspotting premiered in Edinburgh on January 22, 2017 and opened in UK theaters five days later on January 27. In Germany , the film was shown out of competition on February 10, 2017 at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival and was released in cinemas on February 16, 2017.

action

The action begins 20 years after the first part. After stealing £ 16,000 from his friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie from a heroin store in London, Mark Renton lives in Amsterdam . He stayed away from drugs during this time, got married and made his living with warehouse management software for retail. Mark's marriage is childless and broke because of this.

After having a heart attack, Mark decides to return to his home country for a few days. When he got home, his father told him that his mother, who had always hoped that he would come back, had already passed away. He's the first of his old friends to visit Spud. Spud, now the father of a son, has never got his drug addiction under control. Whatever he tackles, he fails, and recently he lost his job again. He is now so desperate that he decides to commit suicide . He writes a suicide note to his son's mother and tries to kill himself. Mark saves his life at the last moment. The rescued person shows no gratitude, however, but becomes angry. He justified his reaction by saying that as a junkie Mark gave him 4,000 pounds at the time, which destroyed his life for good because Mark should have known that he would spend everything on heroin. However, Spud calms down very quickly and is happy to see Mark again after all these years.

The cynical Sick Boy, who meanwhile wants to be addressed by his real name Simon , initially greets Mark in a friendly manner, but then hits him in the face and almost beats him to death. Simon continues his aunt's shabby pub "Port Sunshine", which is next to a junkyard with a steadily growing mountain of car wrecks. He switched from heroin to cocaine . He has another additional income from blackmailing customers of the Bulgarian prostitute Veronika, his business partner. The two plan to use the money to open a brothel.

Veronika and Mark get closer. The relationship between Sick Boy and Mark is strained. Mark admits to Sick Boy that he failed too and they both start doing criminal things again . After both talking about repressed guilt and remembering their youth, they start taking drugs again. Spud, who has stopped using heroin, is meanwhile beginning to write down the experiences from that time, which should help as a "substitute drug".

Begbie, now married and also father of a son, is being held in Saughton Prison for murder . He lets himself be injured on purpose by a fellow inmate in order to be transferred to a hospital. There he manages to escape. He goes into hiding with his family and wants to "do a few things" with his teenage son. He is angry when he learns that his son has started studying hotel management. Begbie takes the "training" of the son into her own hands and forces him to assist with break-ins. When Begbie learns of Mark's return to Leith , he seeks revenge and tries to kill Mark.

Mark has submitted an application for economic development and is hoping to get grants from the state for the brothel. Mark and Sick Boy are kidnapped by a gang boss who explains to them that he has an unofficial monopoly on brothels in Edinburgh and threatens them with death if they open a brothel. When Mark, lured into a trap by Begbie, struggles with death, Simon and Spud save his life. Begbie, knocked unconscious with a toilet bowl and then injured in the trunk, is arrested again. Veronika withholds the money approved by the state and goes back to Bulgaria with it. Mark moves in with his father.

background

The director Danny Boyle had already expressed interest in a sequel to Trainspotting - New Heroes in 2009 , but wanted to wait with a second part because of the actors. “I just want to wait until the actors are in their forties. I could do it now, but the problem is they all look the same. I want them to look heavily drawn over time, ”said Boyle.

The relationship between Boyle and the main actor Ewan McGregor was also repeatedly cited as the reason for the failure of a second part after the director had engaged the American Leonardo DiCaprio for the lead role instead of McGregor in his feature film The Beach (2000) (this rumor became confirmed by both after the theatrical release of T2 Trainspotting ). McGregor herself had also questioned the quality of Irvine Welsh's follow-up novel , Porno , published in 2002, which brings the characters together ten years after Trainspotting . McGregor had described a possible film adaptation of the book as a "terrible disgrace" and stated that until January 2013 he had never received a draft script for a sequel. Boyle shared McGregor's concerns and announced in March 2013 that the second part would be loosely oriented towards porn . In May 2013, McGregor announced that it was ready for a sequel and possible filming was targeted by Boyle in 2016.

In early 2014, Welsh, Boyle, producer Andrew Macdonald and screenwriter John Hodge rented an apartment near Edinburgh Castle together and researched how the city had changed compared to the mid-1990s. Hodge then wrote the script for the second part.

Shooting for T2 Trainspotting took place in Edinburgh from March 2016. Boyle said he purposely named the film T2 to annoy director James Cameron , whose film Terminator 2 - Judgment Day (1991) is known by that code.

reception

After its premiere, T2 Trainspotting received mixed reviews in the Anglo-American world. On the Rotten Tomatoes website , the film currently (as of January 2019) has a rating of 80 percent, based on 231 English-language reviews and an average rating of 7/10. The conclusion of the site is: " T2 Trainspotting adds a heady, emotionally echoing ending to its timeless predecessor, albeit without completely recapturing the original, subversive thrill." On Metacritic , the film received a rating of 62 percent, based on thirteen evaluated reviews .

Trivia

  • When Mark Renton visits his father again at the end of the film, you see a boy with a blue lightsaber on the street in front of the house. This is a nod to McGregor's role as the Jedi Knight in the Star Wars prequel trilogy .
  • When Mark and Sick Boy explain all sorts of things to Veronika in front of the TV, the action theme from the classic James Bond films with Sean Connery and Roger Moore can be heard. Sick Boy had shown himself to be a big fan of the series in the first film.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Section “Cast & Crew” at t2trainspotting.de (accessed on January 28, 2017).
  2. ↑ Profile at berlinale.de (accessed on February 2, 2017).
  3. ↑ a b Eaton-Lewis, Andrew: Arts diary: All aboard the sequel! In: The Scotsman , March 14, 2013 (accessed via the Nexis press database ).
  4. ↑ Mapstone, Lucy: Danny Boyle feels great shame 'over rift with Ewan McGregor at scotsman.com, January 27, 2017 (accessed January 30, 2017).
  5. ^ Fulton, Rick: Ewan Returns to Roots . In: Daily Record and Sunday Mail , January 4, 2013, p. 39.
  6. ↑ Bettinger, Brendan: Danny Boyle Planning for TRAINSPOTTING Sequel in 2016 with Original Cast: “You Want to Make Sure You Don't Disappoint People” at collider.com, March 3, 2013 (accessed January 30, 2017).
  7. ↑ Ewan McGregor wants to do Trainspotting sequel . In: The Scotsman , May 15, 2013 (accessed via the Nexis press database ).
  8. ↑ Harkness, Alistair: Irvine Welsh's take on T2 Trainspotting . In: The Scotsman , January 22, 2017 (accessed via the Nexis press database ).
  9. ↑ Munro, Alistair: Shooting of Trainspotting 2 movie begins at edinburghnews.scotsman.com, March 10, 2016 (accessed January 30, 2017).
  10. ^ Howarth, Angus: Danny Boyle reveals reasoning behind T2 Trainspotting title . In: The Scotsman , January 27, 2017 (accessed via the Nexis press database ).
  11. ↑ T2 Trainspotting at Rotten Tomatoes ( Template: Rotten Tomatoes / Maintenance / "imported from" is missingaccessed March 4, 2017).
  12. ↑ T2 Trainspotting at Metacritic (accessed March 4, 2017).