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By Robrt L. Pela
Published on May 18, 2006
It was a book and a play before it was a film, but, as ever, folks will still want Trainspotting, the play, to mirror the movie. It doesn't. Here's how.
Character: Spud, the beloved spaz
Fate in book and movie: Goofy speed fanatic who hates working.
Fate in play: Nonexistence. Poor Spud gets morphed into Mark, who gets his monologues, and Tommy, who gets aspects of his personality.
Character: Mark Renton, our hero
Fate in book and movie: Disses his druggie past and finds wildly happy ending.
Fate in play: Without giving away the wind-up, a not-so-happy ending.
Character: Begbie, drunken psychopath
In the movie: A walking, talking commercial for testosterone and two-dimensional violence who loves to make people bleed.
In the play: A still-violent and misogynistic asshole, but with a soft spot.
Character: Diane, the underage club kid
In the movie: Dishonest. Tells Mark she's underage after he has sex with her.
In the play: Obsolete. Replaced by two other girls, neither of whom tricks anyone into a horizontal bop.
Drugs of Choice
In the movie: Heroin, period.
In the book and the play: Ecstasy. Heroin. Everything in between.
The Final Word
The movie: "Being a junkie is fun!"
The book: Nails the misery of the druggie scene.
The play: Somewhere in between.
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