I read them all anyways and while some were better than others (The Granton Star Cause) most of them were not that interesting. Also really disliked 'Disnae Matter' because this included one of my biggest pet hates, when people say Disneyland when they mean Disney World. This winds me up massively!(Big Disney fan!). And none of that story had any ring of truth to it. It's also tougher and grimier than Trainspotting, which, for all its taboo-breaking harshness, revelled in pop-thrill glamour. The Acid House is seedier and uglier - the screen is awash in pallid, pasty, spotty flesh throughout. And it's truer to the letter of the text - verbally at least, these are very faithful adaptations. But there's something crucially missing. You'd never guess that these grim vignettes of estate desperation are derived from crisp and inspired stories. Irvine's plays and theatre adaptations". Irvine Welsh. The Random House Group Limited. Archived from the original on 23 July 2012 . Retrieved 29 July 2012.

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Bleak, heart-rending and incredibly funny, Welsh's follow up to "Trainspotting" is a worthy successor to an incredibly tough act to follow. My week Irvine Welsh A few punches to toughen up then Im Trainspotting again". The Times. London. 25 January 2009. Archived from the original on 18 April 2022 . Retrieved 5 May 2010.BG I’m glad we’ve got two beautiful sons [Wolf, 19, and Lux, 17]. It’s about giving them a loving environment to grow up in, letting them be themselves. So long as they’re all right, I’m all right. With his sons, Lux and Wolf, and wife, Katy England, at Paris fashion week in September 2019. Photograph: David M Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images But I don't mean to rant, it's not Welsh's fault, in fact he sums up a political thesis of sorts in the short story Smart Cunt: iW: What do you think about the difference between a British and an American audience? I’ve spoken to other writers who’ve felt that American audiences are more open to fantasy than British?

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E un autor pe gustul meu, numai bun pentru a-ți rupe obișnuitul, frumosul și la care vei Ah!-ooo-iii mai mereu. Welsh: I think after “Trainspotting,” which has become a bit of a reference point for just about every British film, that it’s very difficult to do something a bit different, a bit less airbrushed, a bit less for the mass market. We wanted the actors to be rougher and to speak roughly. It’s very difficult after that, to just do our own wee daft film. Primal Scream c1990 (l-r, standing): Robert Young, Henry Olsen, Philip Tomanov; (seated) Andrew Innes and Bobby Gillespie. Photograph: Tim Roney/Getty Imageshttps://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/irvine-welsh-trainspotting-author-marries-former-taggart-star-emma-currie-3801258 Welsh: We did have the freedom to do it, but the whole media perception of it is another thing. I never wanted to make “Trainspotting 2,” never tried to, but that’s what everyone expected. That has been kind of overwhelming at times. I wanted to take this film to another realm. The Granton Star Cause" - A very comedic take on "The Fly." I think I liked this one the most. What if you're so messed up and pathetic that even God himself is fed up with you? Like The Butcher Boy, The Acid House explores the seamy side of, in this case, Scottish rather than Irish workingclass culture. It follows demented characters who pursue debased agendas under circumstances which are at once supernatural and decidedly sleazy Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting) dramatizes three plots from his raunchy book of short stories, The Acid House. Given Welsh's imagination and penchant for depraved characters, decadent circumstances, and just plain rotten motives and outcomes, the result is a creepy movie with totally grotesque content.

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a b "Film". Irvine Welsh. The Random House Group Limited. Archived from the original on 11 July 2012 . Retrieved 29 July 2012. Irvine Welsh: 'When you get older, it's harder to be a bastard' ". 17 March 2018. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020 . Retrieved 18 December 2020. Do you remember his funeral? We were in that place in Clapham, and everybody was there, from across all different places and times. He kind of united everybody. That was the last night everybody was together and then, bang, the pandemic hit. In a strange way, if he had to go, that was the time to do it.Welsh's novels share characters, giving the feel of a "shared universe" within his writing. For example, characters from Trainspotting make cameo appearances in The Acid House, Marabou Stork Nightmares, Ecstasy, Filth, and slightly larger appearances in Glue, whose characters then appear in Porno. The characters are great! They totally do your head in! LOL! The situations just make you feel filthy, depraved and highly amused. The lovely wedding, for example, is straight out of a Disney romance - not! The movie is full of quotable lines that when expressed in front of people who have seen the movie, they start nodding and laughing. Coco Bryce's father's request for cigarettes was used by my friend as a greeting to his friends for a while! He's a GP, by the way (a doctor). He co-authored Babylon Heights with his screen writing partner Dean Cavanagh. The play premiered in San Francisco at the Exit Theatre and made its European première in Dublin, at The Mill Theatre Dundrum, directed by Graham Cantwell. The plot revolves around the behind-the-scenes antics of a group of Munchkins on the set of The Wizard of Oz. The production included the use of oversized sets with actors of regular stature. My only gripe here is that the territory is a bit narrow. If there was just a bit of variety in perspectives, I would've given it five stars. I appreciate that Welsh is at home when writing about junkies and dropouts, but the occasional surprise would have done this collection some favours. Finally there's the story that the film invests the most effort into, The Acid House. This was absolutely, the best midnight humor I've ever came across. Dirty, crazy, and makes Trainspotting, look like it copped out. A dope head switches bodies with a newly born baby, and while switch of bodies has become a comedy cliche, this one actually made it work. I laughed eccentrically and it really completed the film, if there's any reason to finish it, here you go.

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Welsh returned to Edinburgh in the late 1980s, where he worked for the city council in the housing department. He then studied for an MBA at Heriot-Watt University. [4] Fiction [ edit ] Irvine Welsh in Warsaw, 13 March 2006 In 2009 Welsh directed the film Good Arrows (co-directed by Helen Grace). It was written by Welsh and Cavanagh. The film is about a darts player who suffers from depression which causes him to lose his skill. [11] Themes [ edit ]

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The novel begins with its four characters’ parents in a Scotland so markedly different from the Scotland of Welsh’s earlier novels. It then moves to their children as they grow up in 1970s Edinburgh, beginning with Terry Lawson’s first day at school. The novel varies between a third person narrative and the distinctive individual voices of its characters. The early section of Glue takes the traditional ‘young man growing up’ narrative and transforms it, replacing the individual focus of that form with an examination of how different people develop differently under similar circumstances. Welsh also takes away the soft-focus lens, refusing to censor his characters or sanitise their experiences. As Glue progresses, and its characters move from childhood to youth to middle age, it explores, in a more sustained way than elsewhere in Welsh’s work, the solidarity rejected at the end of Trainspotting. Glue is about friendship as much as it is about anger and inequality.