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TRAINSPOTTING - OPENING SCENE - Coggle Diagram
TRAINSPOTTING - OPENING SCENE
MISE EN SCENE
Renton running away from the ops
Society is trying to get him
Spud can't keep up
Inferior strength wise compared to Renton
Useless commodities falling out of their pockets
Rejecting consumerism
Edinburgh is grey and dull
Subjective POV of Renton
We don't see what happened to Spud
Hyperfixated on Renton
A large shadow cast behind him
Shadow self
Team photos
Messy, disorganised, informal
Renton knocks over Tommy
Foreshadowing
Addicts in the back, clean at the front (for now)
Enemies are representative of the homogenous mass
TRIVIA: The team were actually former addicts who consulted with the team about how addiction should be represented, and so they were given this minor part in the film
Visual exposition
Sick Boy denies knocking over the guy
Begbie gets off knocking that guy over
Spud misses the goal and wears the most baby-like clothes out of the boys
Tommy being beaten into the corner
The girls metaphorically and literally watching from the sidelines
Blending into the darkness
Irrelevant
Hypermasculine narrative
The smoke leaving Renton's body
The soul leaving Renton's body
Blacked out from the screen, dead and lifeless
Mother superior's
Mother superiors have long habits, and so do drug users
The baby being neglected in the other room
The parent's interests are not with them
Tommy
Well ironed and clean shirt
Better presented compared to everyone else
Silent women next to him
Woman = prop
Renton's old home
Renton literally blacked out by the light - disowned him
Lower quality home - working class up bringing
Silent, passive woman = prop
An overall depressing image
Red light behind Mother Teresa
The devil + danger
The apartment
Giant hole behind Renton
His life + Thatcherite Scotland is fall apart
The walls appear to have once vibrant colours that have degraded into sickly tones
Still a vibrant apartment - getting HITS of colour (
feeling that rush
)
CINNAMONTOGRAPHY
Renton stepping over the camera
Powerful, all mighty, enlightened compared to the audience
Established as being against the homogenous mass, a counter cultural icon
Wide shot of Renton
All alone, suffering in silence
Crawling low, like the baby
We, the audience, are new to the world of drugs
4th wall break
Brechtian - talking directly to the audience, out of their
false consciousness
Renton laughing at the homogenous mass - the audience
EDITING
Quick and confusing cuts when Renton's hit by a car
Subjective POV
Inside Renton's fractured and confused mind
This scene comes back later
We're inside the fractured and confused mind of Renton
FREEZEFRAME
Clearly defines to the audience Renton's character
Breaking the 4th wall - laughing at the audience
Sickly brown colour palette
Match cut from football to apartment
"Feel the rush" - Danny Boyle
Knocked out by life and the opps
Pace of editing slows down at this moment
A more intimate moment
SOUND
Music begins when Renton puts his foot down
Hammers home subjective POV
"Lust for Life" by Iggy Pop
Loud, energetic song to "wake up" the people
Big crowd "ooh" when Spud misses
The boys think they're more important than they think they are
We hear Renton's footsteps before the first shot
Builds anticipation - we're already aware a chase is coming
Monologue with chase
Reminiscent of A Hard Day's Night, opening with the audience chasing The Beatles
Also of Alfie starring Michael Caine: a VO is used in that film to connect the audience to the criminal, the bad person
Youthful, gen X rebellion
IDEOLOGY
PERFORMANCE
"No way I'm poisoning my body with that shite"
Irony
Pinks and yellow's in Begbie's place, more feminine
Hinting at Begbie's homosexuality
Overly sexualised Allison
Only talks about orgasms and exists for sex
Stepping over his friends
Foreshadowing for the film's ending
