- The film was re-dubbed 20 minutes before it was released in the United States so that the audience could understand the strong Scottish accent.
- There are many shots in the film that are related to the Beatles. When the four friends watch the train passing by, their poses are the same as the poses of the Beatles on the back cover of the album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". The scene where they cross the road into the hotel is a parody of the album cover of "Abbey Road".
- The role played by Johnny Lee Miller, Sick Boy, is a 007 fan, and Miller is the grandson of Bernard Lee. Bernard Lee played Dr. M in the 007 film series until 1979.
- The film begins to catch up with Mark and Spud, the store security guard is one of the film's screenwriters, John Hodge. The author of the original novel, Irvine Welsh, plays a drug dealer who sells opium to the protagonists.
- The scene of swimming in the toilet refers to Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel "The Rainbow of Gravity."
- In order to play the skinny, heroin addicted Renton, Ivan McQuieger listed himself a weight loss diet without alcohol and dairy products. It took him 2 months to reach the director's request.
- Scud: When the thief ran out of the famous record store on Princes Street, Edinburgh, and the camera went from the store security chasing him back to the thief, he was already on Leith Walk in the east of the city, and the distance between the two places was approximately 1 mile away.
- Suddenly appearing mirror: Renton and the others came to London and stayed there. There was no mirror in the sink in the room. After Renton used up the sink, he began to think about the problem in the mirror that suddenly appeared on the wall.
- New pants: The pair of pants he wore before when Renton and Diane did it was different from the one he was wearing when he followed Diane to school the next morning.
- Off-site bus: The background setting of the story is Edinburgh, but because some scenes were shot in Glasgow, there will be such scenes: for example, the bus is orange instead of Edinburgh's maroon and creamy white bus. Some sights that belong only to Glasgow are looming.
Trainspotting behind the scenes gags
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Extended Reading
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Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: ##The downside of coming off junk was I knew I would need to mix with my friends again in a state of full consciousness. It was awful. They reminded me so much of myself, I could hardly bear to look at them. Take Sick Boy, for instance. He came off junk at the same time as me - not because he wanted to, you understand, but just to annoy me. Just to show me how easily he could do it, thereby downgrading my own struggle. Sneaky fucker, don't you think?
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Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: [narrating] Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suit on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?