-- and Trainspotting
Zimmy16764 at aol.com
Zimmy16764 at aol.com
Mon Mar 17 20:25:29 CST 1997
In a message dated 97-03-17 17:43:56 EST, Rodney Welch writes:
<< I watched the movie twice and never heard the word used.
It may have been in there, but there's a fair amount of cockney (or
lower-class English) slang and intonation that just kind of falls hard on
these American ears >>
Isn't the film set in Wales with the actors naturally speaking or adopting
Welsh accents? Hence their obsession with Sean Connery.
I particularly enjoyed the life-encompasing list at the end (also very
Pynchonesque, IMHO) with: "getting by/looking ahead/the day you die."
Zim
(Not that it's important, but I got a little rush at seeing the bull terrier
that's "shot" in the film; he looks just like my Percy. Actually, I own
three bull terriers!) ;-)
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