Essays Tagged: "Trainspotting"

Trainspotting A Novel By Irvine Welsh

Trainspotting A Novel By Irvine WelshTrainspotting is a captivating story of the random events that ...

(2 pages) 90 3 2.8 Mar/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

3 Movie's Reviewed

TrainspottingTrainspotting is a drop-dead look at a dead-end lifestyle. Set among the junkies and th ... (director Danny Boyle, writer John Hodge, producer Andrew Macdonald) that created 'Shallow Grave,' 'Trainspotting' caused a sensation in Britain, where it took in more money than any U.K. film except ... Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?' It is very difficult to resist the film's great energy.'Trainspotting's' subject matter is raw and raunchy, including AIDS, overdosesand violence as well as ...

(3 pages) 146 2 3.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

"Titanic" and "The Beach".

e viewer a small taste of what the film will be like.Above the title it says "From the director of 'Trainspotting'" they have included this into the design because it would be important and get people ... ign because it would be important and get people to come and watch the film. If they liked the film Trainspotting, then it is more than likely that they will like this film.At the very bottom of the p ...

(5 pages) 46 0 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Diversity in films.

e way we see the film. It can either be funny, sad, realistic, scary or many genres in one. Such as Trainspotting. Its funny, its realistic and its also sad in a sense to see people doing this to them ... r is big, strong, powerful and overwhelmingly attractive to the opposite sex. But in a film such as Trainspotting the male characters are weak little things and I imagine are not to attractive to the ...

(4 pages) 75 0 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film History

"A Comparison of the Representations of the British Working Classes in the Cinema of the 1960's and the 1990's" This essay examines and compares the lives of the working classes in British film.

omedy and stark realism have been used portray the working class with films like "Brassed Off" and "Trainspotting". However, despite the variety of ways in which the working class have been portrayed ...

(16 pages) 96 0 3.8 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

It has been argued that "Trainspotting" by Irvine Welsh is a critique of materialism in western society. Do you agree?

oods. This, society argues, is what everyone should strive for.It has been said that Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting is a critique of both excess, and the culture of, materialism. The characters in Train ... result of their exclusion from society, and their inability to 'succeed' due to their social class?Trainspotting is a poignant story told with a certain rawness and harsh resignation that exposes the ...

(9 pages) 81 1 4.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

"Trainspotting" & "Requiem for a dream": Compare and contrast (correct version, fully uploaded)

"Trainspotting" and "Requiem for a Dream":Two Drug Movies and their different approach to a social ph ... other's; they have a different purpose even though they address to the same audience.The fact that Trainspotting is British and Requiem For A Dream American reveals a lot about the way each one appro ... ls a lot about the way each one approaches the same disturbing issue; drug addiction. Danny Boyle's Trainspotting is easy to watch, as it is not as dark and depressive as Darren Aronofsky's Requiem. T ...

(5 pages) 32 0 0.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Trainspotting Vs. Fight Club

to abandon your morals and watch your life go to ruins before you can get your bliss. In the books Trainspotting and Fight Club this method of happiness is demonstrated by Rents, a heroin addict, and ... iss was the road to hitting bottom. The characters of the books gave up on life and the majority of Trainspotting and Fight Club are characters participating in their own illegal activities that event ...

(11 pages) 18 0 5.0 Feb/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Trainspotting

TRAINSPOTTING Screenplay by John Hodge Produced by Andrew MacDonald Directed by Danny Boyle Cast Lis ...

(39 pages) 25 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Underclass and Its Representation In the Novel Trainspotting

ute; UniversityFaculty of PhilosophyEnglish PhilologyUnderclass and Its Representation In the Novel TrainspottingKAA/SK00Ondřej Andrle11th May 2014The attempt of this essay is to delve into the c ... hat the features of this group should be. The theme of this so-called underclass was popularised by Trainspotting, as well as other groups. This particular novel deals with irresponsible and careless ...

(7 pages) 0 0 0.0 May/2014

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors