The Acid House

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In the United States, the film was screened in limited release on August 6, 1999. [6] In some English-speaking countries such as Canada and the US, it was screened with subtitles because of the Scots vernacular and heavy Edinburgh accents. [7] [6] Reception [ edit ] Irvine Welsh: I didn’t really choose, it was the producer Alex Usborne who decided which ones to do as he bought the rights to the book. I think when someone buys the rights to your book, you’re quite flattered, so you listen to their choices. He knew what he wanted to do, so I just let him get on with it. I kind of felt that the second story he chose was a bit too realist for the other two, but once they’d been filmed I thought that the second one came across really well, especially as we decided to cut it down to fit the other three. I thought it then worked much better instead of being a single drama, it then worked in the whole progressional thread of the film. Primal Scream c1990 (l-r, standing): Robert Young, Henry Olsen, Philip Tomanov; (seated) Andrew Innes and Bobby Gillespie. Photograph: Tim Roney/Getty Images Birch, Helen (16 April 1994). "Meeting God down the pub: The Acid House - Irvine Welsh". The Independent. Independent Print Limited . Retrieved 26 July 2014. Then there's the most emotionally dwelling story "The Soft Touch". A truly caring but naive man, marries and impregnates a whore. Obviously enough she openly cheats on him, and everything goes down, for the man with no escape. The setting was tense, and while the ending was anti-climatic, it was the most well made of the shorts.

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Si bien me queda claro que lo de Welsh no son los cuentos, si no las historias más largas y trabajadas, incluso esto se nota con la novela corta que adjunta al final del volumen. 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. In 2022, he married Emma Currie, an actor and sister of Scottish pop star Momus [21] [22] Bibliography [ edit ] Novels [ edit ] The characters in these stories are usually teetering on the edge of destruction--usually self-inflicted--and living dark and violent lives. Yet, despite these grim outlooks, Welsh doesn’t moralize or preach but simply show these lives as they are. These are people for whom fornication and fisticuffs register interchangeably on a deep emotional level, and are looking for anything to make them feel alive to escape crushing despair. A man watches every movie in a guide until he can’t take life anymore, rival philosophers grow so angry with each other they brawl in the streets (and find out they are gratified), a man books a cruise for one last fling before flinging himself in the ocean still torn up over his wife’s death a decade ago...this isn’t exactly an uplifting collection but Welsh handles the situations with grace and near-humor.IW When Andrew passed, everything in the world just seemed to turn to shit. It was like the end of an era, for want of a better term. His creative and social tentacles went everywhere. He knew all sorts of people, he had all sorts of associations and collaborations. An amazing character, very conceptual and thematic in his thinking. Probably the defining artist of that era, right through the 90s, to the present day. First look teaser at Ewen Bremner's Alan McGee biopic is here". NME. 29 September 2020. Archived from the original on 24 January 2021 . Retrieved 27 February 2021. The Acid House was unfairly judged as an inferior Trainspotting imitation upon its release. It's completely inaccurate as director Paul McGuigan was offered the job before that movie was even released and deliberately held-off on watching so as not to be influenced by Danny Boyle's overrated drug-fest. The Acid House is actually a very colorful, sporadically atmospheric, and so totally over-the-top movie experience that it makes Trainspotting look pedestrian. 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. C'mon, she says, moving into the darkness. I look into the darkness, but I can't see her, I can only hear her voice. — C'mon, she shouts.

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Hay cuentos muy breves, y otros un poco más elaborados, pero no todos tienen el punch que estos dos.In 2021, a TV adaptation of Crime was launched in the UK on BritBox as a 6-episode series starring Dougray Scott as detective Lennox. Welsh worked on the project with Dean Cavanagh. This is the first TV adaptation ever made out of a book by Irvine Welsh. [10] Film and stage [ edit ] I just love this movie. When I lose it, I always replace it. I adore brilliant movies like Star Wars, Jaws, Alien, Forrest Gump etc etc... But a favourite hobby of mine is to make new acquaintances watch THIS movie LOL!

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Every bit as filthy, funny and provocative as the novel that proceeded it [ Trainspotting]… Welsh's first collection of short stories is a riot of colourful characters, eye-watering vernacular and imaginative story-telling. This is one of Britain's best writers in his swaggering pomp, and the result is brilliantly addictive. Esquire 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. You said, when we embarked on this great adventure together, that lots of laughter was essential in a relationship. All these stories collected in this collection are good, but the few that really stand out make it worth reading all of them. The title story is just outstanding: a lightning strike switches the soul of acid-tripping Coco Bryce with a newborn baby. "A Smart Cunt", a logical extension of "Trainspotting" and whose narrator is largely indistinguishable from Mark Renton, is supreme as well, with it's look at crime, death, and shitting on other people's faces. "The Granton Star Cause" is the other genius standout: Boab Coyle meets a drunken, angry God in a pub and gets turned into a housefly as punishment, but also to act as God's instrument against shitty people. The short stories range from the realistic to the ridiculous, employing a wide, albeit largely the same, cast of downtrodden, drug addicts. Madonna blethers with Kylie Minogue about shagging blokes from Leith, brains switch bodies and God exercises catharsis. However, that's not to say the realistic stories don't stand side-by-side with them, drug addled frenzies more than compensate, on top of a scathing social commentary which leaves no shit unturned.Book Genre: British Literature, Contemporary, Crime, Cultural, Dark, European Literature, Fiction, Literature, Modern, Mystery, Novels, Scotland, Short Stories Director Paul McGuigan has a history in documentary and was only slated to film the first of the three stories. But his first attempt was so well liked by Welsh and crew, that it was decided he should shoot the whole film, with his unconventional style matching well with the content. The result: a serious trip as losers turn into flies, husbands are betrayed and a baby swaps minds with an acid head. The film is not an experience for the faint fainthearted, but what else would you expect from 100% uncut Irvine Welsh? The Scottish novelist, TV writer, and now screenwriter speaks to indieWIRE about adaptation, our psychoactive lives, and the hazard of making a “Trainspotting” sequel. 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 script is full of energy if not substance and it rattles along really well, although I suspect that even some Scots will struggle to catch every word thanks to the speed of delivery and the accents. The cast are reasonably good but aren't sure what to make of the material at times. McCole just flops around the place and doesn't seem to understand his character or motivation. Roëves is good as God but is poorly used by the script – it would have made a better double-hander in the second half of this story. Sweeney, McCrindle and others all spit their dialogue with passion and do OK as such. McGuigan's direction focuses on the crudity and excess of Welsh's script but forgets anything else.

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BG There’s Andrew Weatherall’s quote: “Ecstasy is a great drug but it’s also very dangerous because you find yourself on the dancefloor, punching the air to Lady in Red by Chris de Burgh.” But you know, ecstasy, acid house, it all goes together. We liked drugs. I loved taking drugs. I wasn’t wrong. We weren’t wrong. I was right to do it. I’m glad I did it. I just got to the point where I couldn’t take them any more and manage myself. Flood, Alison (19 January 2009). "Welsh offers chance to score a role in Trainspotting prequel". guardian.co.uk. London. Archived from the original on 30 September 2015 . Retrieved 20 January 2009. Adapted by Irvine Welsh himself from his own outrageous short story collection the film features three 35-minute stories of depravity, revenge, existentialism, and nihilism. Dark matter indeed, especially for a comedy, but there's literally not one minute without a moment of humor. a b Holden, Stephen (6 August 1999). " 'The Acid House': Short Stories, Nasty and Brutish, of Life in Edinburgh". The New York Times . Retrieved 25 May 2023. Welsh, Irvine (18 October 2007). "Irvine Welsh: In the past 15 years Dublin has gone from being Calcutta to Paris". The Irish Independent. Archived from the original on 20 November 2007 . Retrieved 17 February 2012.

For the ‘Free Solo’ Directors, Making ‘Nyad’ Was Much Harder Than Hanging Off the Side of a Mountain Hattenstone, Simon (17 March 2018). "Irvine Welsh: 'When you get older, it's harder to be a bastard' ". Theguardian.com. Archived from the original on 14 October 2018 . Retrieved 14 October 2018. Murphy, Claire (13 January 2009). "Author can't find buyer for his Dublin home". Evening Herald. Archived from the original on 18 April 2022 . Retrieved 17 February 2012.