Trainspotting (1996)
Goofs
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Audio/visual unsynchronised (1) |
Continuity (9) |
Crew or equipment visible (2) |
Errors in geography (2) |
Revealing mistakes (4)
Audio/visual unsynchronised
When Tommy is bench pressing a weights bar while telling Renton about the snooker club, the weights on the bar are clearly made of plastic but they make a clinking sound as if made from metal.
Continuity
After Renton has sex with Diane, he has nothing on his penis, but once he gets kicked out into the hallway, he pulls a condom off.
Before Begbie throws the glass the woman sitting across from him is wearing tights that aren't fishnet but after he throws the glass the woman sitting across from him is wearing fishnet tights.
When Mark leaves the money for Spud, it is in the middle of the locker and parallel to the locker walls, but when Spud retrieves it the money is crooked and off-center.
The Doctor slapping Renton's face has no rings on her hand initially, then she has rings on both hands.
When Renton and Spud are in the restaurant to share a soda with 2 straws, once they finish there's one straw sticking out towards Renton, but as the camera moves between shots of them the straw is either pointed at Spud or is gone altogether.
After Renton's court arraignment when he gets high and is enveloped by the red carpet, he has no belt. But once Mother Superior drags him to the street he's now wearing a belt.
Length of the ash on the joint that Renton and Dianne share after Renton visits Tommy.
The amount of beer on Begbie's shirt after making the heroin deal.
When Begbie throws the beer glass behind him over the the balcony, it has less than a quarter of beer still left in the glass. Then after the cut-scene with Tommy telling the truth about the Pool Table incident, the scene continues & is then immediately followed by another shot with an empty, & dry looking beer glass. It isn't even wet looking, let alone spilling the small amount of beer that was previously left in the glass when Begbie chucked it over.
Crew or equipment visible
When Renton is in his bedroom being forced off heroin by his parents and the baby is crawling across the roof towards him after Sickboy has made an appearance, there is a close-up shot of Renton cowering against the pillow. The shadow of the camera is visible against his face and the pillow.
When Renton is in bed screaming covering his ears, the shadow of the camera is visible.
Errors in geography
When Diane meets Spud lying comatose on the street, a bus passes by in the background. The bus is orange, which is the colour of Glasgow City buses, but the movie is set in Edinburgh where the buses are maroon and cream.
Although the film is set in Edinburgh, the Campsie Fells, situated to the north of Glasgow, 50 miles away, are clearly visible.
Revealing mistakes
When Begbie strikes the seated man with the pool cue, he clearly hits the seat. The back of the chair is covered by the man's jacket and the cue hits the chair underneath the jacket.
About 41 minutes in, when Spud and Renton are running down the street, several passers by stop to look at the camera, most notably the two women at the left of the screen and the two men carrying bags near the corner from which they have run.
During the pub brawl seen from above, some guys clearly just do pretend to hit each other.
When Tommy wants to try heroin and presents the folded banknote to Renton (seen from both Renton's and Tommy's point of view), the imagery partly visible on one side of the folded note is not consistent with that on the other side.
