I think the moment his resolve solidifies is when Begbie responds to his meek compliance in being ordered around like a lackey with blowing smoke in his face. Compared to the rest it's small, but it's such an intensely petty cunt move that completely snaps the tie of friendship that would keep Renton from betraying a "mate" .It's also when the song overlaying his flight pointedly kicks in. It also occurs to me how similar this is to a previous incident with Begbie that Tommy describes to Renton. Tommy shrugged it off and stuck by him because "he's a mate", but look where Tommy ended up sticking with the horrible people he called friends. It's probably what's going through his head as he lies awake in bed before taking the money.
i don't think so .I n the scene where he has to try the heroin before selling you can hear his dialogue which is obviously him wanting to take the money.
@@Zlarel funny you say that, because that very quote from Tommy has always stuck with me as something missing in so many people, who won't stand by their "mates" even for the pettiest of reasons. I've never read the book, but the film really makes Tommy into an almost Christ-like figure. He is honest, he is kind, he's generous with his time and possessions, he openly associates with people who are pretty vile, but never becomes like them himself. His attitude towards the utterly undeserving Begbie is one of forgiveness and forbearance. He isn't into hard drugs at all until his heart and spirit are smashed to bits by his bad breakup. The fact that he immediately gets HIV.and dies so quickly whilst Spud, Renton and Sick Boy all end up clean, is almost like him dying for their sins. Even the soldier song that Spud sings when they all gather after Tommy's funeral reinforces his essential innocence.
What's funny is that I've seen this movie at least 15 times and just noticed Spud doing that in the last couple times I watched it. Never caught that before lol
Never noticed that till you'd said, seen it loads if times. Nasty scene this is. People think violence is a joke but people get really hurt. Seen it, been it, done it. Not funny.
@Jack Burton what gay for thinking that acts of extreme violence isn't funny.... you ever seen someone get glassed before mate? Of someone get stabbed? Or had their head stamped on? I've seen all that. Sometimes to mates. And I can tell you there isn't anything funny or nice about it. I'm not saying there aren't certain situations where a bit of violence is needed but 9 out 10 times in the pubs and all that when these things happen it's over fuck all. Needless and pointless extreme violence that leaves people scarred and fucked up for the rest of their lives. Have a good evening. Cheers
@Jack Burton for sure mate. I remember one night being out in Beckenham. Outside this Irish chain pub called O'Neils (dunno if you're from the UK or not but in America i know they got the same sort of places) and I'm out the front with the missus. This dude is standing next to me and I can hear in his accent that he's a traveller (what we call the gypsies round our way- the Irish lot that move around in caravans. If u know what I mean then apologies) and all of a sudden these two guys come out of no where with a hammer and a bottle and go to work on him. Mate it was one of the most vicious things I've seen in the flesh. There was bouncers there but they didn't want nothing to do with it. They were stamping on this guys head and all u could hear was birds screaming. When they left this dudes head was twice the size it was before. And his mates pulled him up and dragged him off looking for the cunts. How he wasn't in a coma I'll never know. Anyway after that me and my bird went home. I just felt weird afterwards because it was so fkn savage. It just ruined the night. But yeah senseless violence mate. There's no need for it. He could have died then they are up on a murder charge
This scene was kinda sad. I always felt sorry for that guy who got glassed. He was apologizing, saying he would buy him another beer, and only when Begbie continues insulting him does he finally stick up for himself. Then Begbie glasses him and beats the living shit out of him.
If you also notice that he wasn't even at fault Begbie tried to push through those guys and bumped into him, which means a fight with Begbie is pretty much unavoidable.
"Hey rent boy, you bring me down a fucking smoke" is the point when Begbie knows he has control of everyone in the pub, this is why he doesn't need heroin ! Excellent scene.
Begbie didn't trust him to begin with, and Rents thought that Begbie was out of control and a liability to his future plans. They literally repelled each other.
@@Mark-jg2li It's explained better in the books that Begbie's one and only redeeming quality is a sense of loyalty to his friends. That's part of why he has such an intense hatred for Mark even 20 years later, sure he's pissed about losing the money but he also views betraying your friends as like the ultimate sin.
I love the way Begbie smokes the cigarette after this it’s almost reminiscent of a post sex smoke as if doing people is as pleasurable to him as sex scary af
It is as pleasurable for begbie, Renton states earlier in the film “begbie didn’t do drugs either he just did people that’s what he got off on his own sensory addiction”
People like Begbie are just piss streaks that you could snap like a twig. But he’s so volatile and afraid of nothing, his moxie just makes you terrified to cross him. Robert Carlisles acting in this film is absolute class!
bullshit .. you have no clue how mutch power strong emotions can set free in anyone of us ...people lifting cars because their child was trapped under that burning wreck and stories like this
Begbie is scary partially because there's a Begbie in every UK city on a Saturday night. Or at least there was when the pub drinking culture was at it's peak.
I remember being on a night out in Glasgow city centre on old firm derby day about 20 years ago and an argument broke out between these two guys near us while we were in a pub, one of them pulled a machete and done him right across the face.
Great foreshadowing with Renton looking coldly at sickboy after the latter casually admits that he would run out on a mate. That and when he stares at the bag after Begbie calls him down. Then the symbolism at the end, when he tips the whiskey out of the glass and pours water into it. His mind was all but made up in the bar, but that was the moment he knew he was going to get out.
I think the point is that a real violent crazy bastard doesn't need a persona or outer costume to give him an image to live up too. They usually just love a scrap and to cause trouble at each and every opportunity.
The 90s were an epic time to be alive and a teenager. Drinking and smoking in parks, going to music festivals, hanging out at the beach during summer having bbqs, house party every month. Those were the days😄
yortzandat He didn’t look very hard when they beat his brother half to death and buried him alive under some corn, nor when a little kid hit him in the face with a can of paint
I find Begbie one of the scariest character in any film. When I lived in Glasgow I met some Begbie wannabies but nothing quite the same. Begbie is scary not because he is violent, not because he's also out of control but not so out of control to be dismissed... Begbie knows what he wants and he wont let anyone - mates or not - get in his way. The reason he's so damned scary? Because I bet you could met a man just like him down Possilpark or Peckham or Cheetham hill... that's what is scary
If you " love Begbie" as a character and you haven't already then read The Blade Artist by Irvine Welsh. When a reformed Begbie begins to revert to type but has evolved into an even far more terrifying and effective psychopath as a result of repressing his true self all those years.
I love this film!!! This film is truly suspenseful! Cheers to Begbie and his mates!!! I've been to Edinburgh and other towns in Scotland! Nice, and friendly people!
I love certain sounds especially when I slow them down when spud gets his hand cut when he screams the first time it's realistic because he weren't expecting it so doesn't scream fully as his lungs were empty but the second time when he screams it's registered in his brain so gets to fill his lungs completely and screams harder.
I think this scene is supposed to make you really frightened when Renton is stealing money from Begbie in the scene directly after this one, cos we know what he is capable of doing. If he wakes up Renton is fucked
@@lovelondon806 That's why behave yourself in an English,Irish or Scottish bar. You never know how many Begbies are lurking around:)) It's like a snake poke it with a stick and it will attack. Poke a Begbie with beer suds and it will attack lol.
Nasty use of a glass. Back in the 1990's the city centres were dangerous at night and we often saw people clutching their faces as they knelt on the ground, with pools or little rivers of blood. It happened every weekend at least a few times.
there's nothing underrated about trainspotting, it was one of the biggest films of its time, was critically acclaimed, and left a huge mark on cinema. just say it's really good
I would love Begbie to come across Bex Bissell in a London pub. Or the Yeti. Now that would be explosive. One gets glassed, and in retaliation the other gets a razor blade smile.
Yeah I've read the book too and I'm aware it's based in Edinburgh. It's - here comes the big cliche - much better than the film although the film was great. I especially liked the way Spud thought and talked with the "Cat man" stuff he said. And Renton with his brothers wife... wow... just wow. I gotta read Porno now. The reason I said Glasgow is that was just the only big city in Scotland I've lived in and in Glasgow there are a LOT of people just like him.
wasnt 'darn' hillsborough in sheffield on a friday night back in the late eighties early nineties was it? glassings most weekends back then. Good times, unless your being glassed of course!
There's exactly nothing the man could have done to avoid a "fight" with Begbie. Perhaps, he could have attacked him first, but that would have resulted in charges for him. Difficult situation. Alternately, his friends could have attacked Begbie after the initial glassing. Other than that, I don't see a legal way around it and even then, most of the damage is done.
Javier Bardem in No Country, Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast and Robert Carlyle in this are the 3 most ridiculously fucking scary characters in all movies I know of
Begbie was never going to give them any of that money. He made that very clear when he intentionally humiliated Renton at the bar. The job was over, why hadn’t they split the money up between themselves already. Sickboy is the only one who got screwed, Renton should have given him his share.
Danny Boyle - fucking genius for inventing begbies character..then again there’s prob many begbies in Scotland.. he’s prob seen he’s type of character real hand.. thank you
24 years on..2.15 when the music comes in it was the same back then, an absolutely terrible scene but completely iconic for the film at the time, irvine welsh genius..just a great film was able to capture human emotions and thinking long before the advent of social media..
The most unbeleivable thing i always thought trainspotting had was how much do people actually let Begbie get away with. If he tried to do the same number in eastern europe he would be chopped in four and scattered in different sewers, somewhere around 2nd or 3rd attempt
If you read the books, it goes into a bit more details on how he only "fights"/picks on people much weaker than him, along with beating women too. Begbie may be a psychopath, but he's an absolute coward at the end of the day. In the prequel book to "Trainspotting", he accidentally impregnates this one woman and instead of taking responsibility for it and staying as a father, he just fucks off and leaves her. When one of her two brothers finds out about it and talks about how he wants to get revenge for his sister, Begbie sneaks up to their house when they're not looking and smashes the man's face in with a bit of rebar, breaking his jaw and permanently disfiguring his face. I think he also goes after the other brother who doesn't even want anything to do with it, but I'm not too sure. He also impregnates another woman in the original novel and when confronted about it by his partner, beats her up.
All of them except spot deserve that. I was glad he left him some money because he acknowledged that Spud had never done anything to anyone. In other words he was saying Spud had never fucked anyone over. This kind of reminds me of how I ended up getting clean and sober 9 years ago. I realized that I was hanging out with some fucked-up people and I was fucking my life up and I wanted to do better than that. I didn't want to die like that.
I think this is the moment Renton decided to take the money
And somehow Begbie fucking knew. Scary.
I think the moment his resolve solidifies is when Begbie responds to his meek compliance in being ordered around like a lackey with blowing smoke in his face. Compared to the rest it's small, but it's such an intensely petty cunt move that completely snaps the tie of friendship that would keep Renton from betraying a "mate" .It's also when the song overlaying his flight pointedly kicks in.
It also occurs to me how similar this is to a previous incident with Begbie that Tommy describes to Renton. Tommy shrugged it off and stuck by him because "he's a mate", but look where Tommy ended up sticking with the horrible people he called friends. It's probably what's going through his head as he lies awake in bed before taking the money.
i don't think so .I n the scene where he has to try the heroin before selling you can hear his dialogue which is obviously him wanting to take the money.
@@Zlarel funny you say that, because that very quote from Tommy has always stuck with me as something missing in so many people, who won't stand by their "mates" even for the pettiest of reasons. I've never read the book, but the film really makes Tommy into an almost Christ-like figure. He is honest, he is kind, he's generous with his time and possessions, he openly associates with people who are pretty vile, but never becomes like them himself. His attitude towards the utterly undeserving Begbie is one of forgiveness and forbearance. He isn't into hard drugs at all until his heart and spirit are smashed to bits by his bad breakup. The fact that he immediately gets HIV.and dies so quickly whilst Spud, Renton and Sick Boy all end up clean, is almost like him dying for their sins. Even the soldier song that Spud sings when they all gather after Tommy's funeral reinforces his essential innocence.
The moment he went to London he wanted rid of them
I love how you can see spud out of focus in the background waving his arms about trying to tell the guy not to say anything back to begbie lol
What's funny is that I've seen this movie at least 15 times and just noticed Spud doing that in the last couple times I watched it. Never caught that before lol
Never noticed that till you'd said, seen it loads if times. Nasty scene this is. People think violence is a joke but people get really hurt. Seen it, been it, done it. Not funny.
@Jack Burton what gay for thinking that acts of extreme violence isn't funny.... you ever seen someone get glassed before mate? Of someone get stabbed? Or had their head stamped on? I've seen all that. Sometimes to mates. And I can tell you there isn't anything funny or nice about it. I'm not saying there aren't certain situations where a bit of violence is needed but 9 out 10 times in the pubs and all that when these things happen it's over fuck all. Needless and pointless extreme violence that leaves people scarred and fucked up for the rest of their lives. Have a good evening. Cheers
Ha never noticed that before :)
@Jack Burton for sure mate. I remember one night being out in Beckenham. Outside this Irish chain pub called O'Neils (dunno if you're from the UK or not but in America i know they got the same sort of places) and I'm out the front with the missus. This dude is standing next to me and I can hear in his accent that he's a traveller (what we call the gypsies round our way- the Irish lot that move around in caravans. If u know what I mean then apologies) and all of a sudden these two guys come out of no where with a hammer and a bottle and go to work on him. Mate it was one of the most vicious things I've seen in the flesh. There was bouncers there but they didn't want nothing to do with it. They were stamping on this guys head and all u could hear was birds screaming. When they left this dudes head was twice the size it was before. And his mates pulled him up and dragged him off looking for the cunts. How he wasn't in a coma I'll never know. Anyway after that me and my bird went home. I just felt weird afterwards because it was so fkn savage. It just ruined the night. But yeah senseless violence mate. There's no need for it. He could have died then they are up on a murder charge
The sad thing is that people like Begbie really do exist...
He’s not saying he’s met a begbie, he’s just sayin there’s people out there like him
@@donnythedealer2571 And so, it's good thing.
I’m not saying it’s a bad thing either ffs spastics everywhere
It is a bad thing. The guy's a fucking psycho you shut in nutcases
I fuckin hate CZcams
This scene was kinda sad. I always felt sorry for that guy who got glassed. He was apologizing, saying he would buy him another beer, and only when Begbie continues insulting him does he finally stick up for himself. Then Begbie glasses him and beats the living shit out of him.
That's what makes Begbie such an entertaining, interesting, yet loathsome character who of course deserves the eventual betrayal by Renton.
that guy wasnt serious about being sorry
Doesn't matter, he offered to pay for another drink. Sorry enough imo
If you also notice that he wasn't even at fault Begbie tried to push through those guys and bumped into him, which means a fight with Begbie is pretty much unavoidable.
"N whit'.... u fukin say suhin hen" begby verbatim
"Hey rent boy, you bring me down a fucking smoke" is the point when Begbie knows he has control of everyone in the pub, this is why he doesn't need heroin ! Excellent scene.
He could have walked with the bag there and then. I'm surprised he didn't.
Begbie didn't trust him to begin with, and Rents thought that Begbie was out of control and a liability to his future plans. They literally repelled each other.
@@Mark-jg2li It's explained better in the books that Begbie's one and only redeeming quality is a sense of loyalty to his friends. That's part of why he has such an intense hatred for Mark even 20 years later, sure he's pissed about losing the money but he also views betraying your friends as like the ultimate sin.
He widnae put that shite in is boady, Ken?
"Rent Boy" ... kinda funny .... begbie moves in like a squater to Marc´s place... but renton pays the Rent ... "Rent Boy" .... hehe
I love the way Begbie smokes the cigarette after this it’s almost reminiscent of a post sex smoke as if doing people is as pleasurable to him as sex scary af
It is as pleasurable for begbie, Renton states earlier in the film “begbie didn’t do drugs either he just did people that’s what he got off on his own sensory addiction”
Holy fuck that's true
Also in trainspotting 2, when he chases Renton, Begbie has an erection in his pants. No joke.
People like Begbie are just piss streaks that you could snap like a twig. But he’s so volatile and afraid of nothing, his moxie just makes you terrified to cross him. Robert Carlisles acting in this film is absolute class!
They got nothing to live for
bullshit .. you have no clue how mutch power strong emotions can set free in anyone of us ...people lifting cars because their child was trapped under that burning wreck and stories like this
@@cousinleigh1470 On the contrary, they got everything to live for . It's analytical cunts that end up with severe depression . Ignorance is bliss
Robert Carlisle is a fantastic actor.
The way the music kicks in gently in the bar scene is genius at work.
With friends like these no wonder they all did heroin
Begbie never done it
Begbie may be the cleanest out of these heroin junkie. But FFS his anger and impulsive violent behaviour are way worse than an actual addiction
Begbie didn't do heroin. He did people
@@raidennaz1590 Begbie was also a chain smoker and an alcoholic which probably didn't help his violent tendencies
Think shes on abt begbie and having a pal like him made em do it
Begbie is scary partially because there's a Begbie in every UK city on a Saturday night. Or at least there was when the pub drinking culture was at it's peak.
I remember being on a night out in Glasgow city centre on old firm derby day about 20 years ago and an argument broke out between these two guys near us while we were in a pub, one of them pulled a machete and done him right across the face.
@@danw1374 Holy moly that’s wild
i m not from britain ... but can you tell me wehn this was the case ? mid 90s like the movie ?
Exactly I think there was one in every local pub I think one of my pals was one no names
@@solunasunrisepeople like this are everywhere in Britain. There's always drunk violence happening today, just like the 90's and any other era.
Great foreshadowing with Renton looking coldly at sickboy after the latter casually admits that he would run out on a mate. That and when he stares at the bag after Begbie calls him down. Then the symbolism at the end, when he tips the whiskey out of the glass and pours water into it. His mind was all but made up in the bar, but that was the moment he knew he was going to get out.
It wasn’t Whiskey it was Buckfast a tonic wine
We've all had a mate like Sick Boy.
The kind that cares only about himself.
robert carlyle is a SUPERB ACTOR...
"Ooooh fuckin nice one Frankooo!" "Shut it!" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA always cracks me up.
The silhouette shots of Renton and Begbie from 1:50 to 2:18 with the cigarette smoke was always so cool to me.
I think the same best scene iv seen
No one realises this is Begbie's 'post coital' cigarette. Remember, he gets off on doing people, his own sensory addiction.
Leeroy Jenkins cheers
No one, aye? I scrolled down a couple more comments and there was someone else saying exactly the same thing.
Violence is begbies drug of choice. And he can't get enough.
@@jmckendry84 cool story bro.
20 years on and still the best scene ever. still get anxiety watching this.... for the 10,000th time
Two things I like: even the skinheads didn’t want a any of this.
Spud probably saved that guys life by getting cut.
I think the point is that a real violent crazy bastard doesn't need a persona or outer costume to give him an image to live up too. They usually just love a scrap and to cause trouble at each and every opportunity.
Has everyone missed something one of the most iconic pieces of music in any film for the last 30 years well done Mr Boyle
The 90s were an epic time to be alive and a teenager. Drinking and smoking in parks, going to music festivals, hanging out at the beach during summer having bbqs, house party every month. Those were the days😄
Begbie and Joe Pesci should hang out..
Begbie and Tommy DeVito.
Pesci would waste the wee chav
Sherry lee Raven wee chav? Pesci is about 4 foot tall.
Or the Don Logan character in "Sexy Beast" played brilliantly by Ben Kingsley.
yortzandat He didn’t look very hard when they beat his brother half to death and buried him alive under some corn, nor when a little kid hit him in the face with a can of paint
Ome of the scariest movie villains ever, because nutters like Begbie really are out there! Terrific performance from Robert Carlyle
Villain? He's the good guy.
Begbie is one frighteningly scary guy. There's violence and then there's ultra violence
Is that a Clockwork Orange reference I see as well lol
Begbie dont do drugs, he just does people
I find Begbie one of the scariest character in any film.
When I lived in Glasgow I met some Begbie wannabies but nothing quite the same. Begbie is scary not because he is violent, not because he's also out of control but not so out of control to be dismissed... Begbie knows what he wants and he wont let anyone - mates or not - get in his way.
The reason he's so damned scary? Because I bet you could met a man just like him down Possilpark or Peckham or Cheetham hill... that's what is scary
Don in sexy beast was scary
You think Don is scary until you meet Teddy Bass.
a a kind of like joe Pesci from goodfellas
How this comment has aged. Peckham is mostly gentrified. Basically what they was saying in TS2
If you " love Begbie" as a character and you haven't already then read The Blade Artist by Irvine Welsh. When a reformed Begbie begins to revert to type but has evolved into an even far more terrifying and effective psychopath as a result of repressing his true self all those years.
Coming soon as a TV series!
@@kitharrison8799 Best news ever. A controlled Begbie was far worse.
One of the most epic scenes in cinematic history
I knew a guy like Begbie. He's dead now of course
Guys like Begbie are one of a kind legends
@@JLG629 the fuck is wrong with you!? He's a pathetic coward who cant even fight face to face like a man
Haha, of course of course.
Thank God.
Robert Carlyle is a legend.
FOKS SAKE
I love this film!!! This film is truly suspenseful! Cheers to Begbie and his mates!!! I've been to Edinburgh and other towns in Scotland! Nice, and friendly people!
Well said that man, it's great (Not Shite) being Scottish.
this scene still gives me tingles
wow
Begbie great caracter i think we all knew a begbie type growing up ..:) and transpotting was just great movie about my generation
I've met my share of begbies sooner or later all of them meet their nemesis
Yeah exactly,
And get it bad usually.
U fuck with enough people u.generally will run out of luck
But have you met his boss?
Live by the sword!
I love certain sounds especially when I slow them down when spud gets his hand cut when he screams the first time it's realistic because he weren't expecting it so doesn't scream fully as his lungs were empty but the second time when he screams it's registered in his brain so gets to fill his lungs completely and screams harder.
Reminds of how smoggy pubs used to be back in pre smoking ban days, I can sense the scent of tobacco smoke and John Smith farts in the air
I think this scene is supposed to make you really frightened when Renton is stealing money from Begbie in the scene directly after this one, cos we know what he is capable of doing. If he wakes up Renton is fucked
" enybody els wonna get in me focken wei Yu ... looks around YU!!!' great acting in display here.
Yu...? Yu....? Hahahaha total nut case
@@lovelondon806 Wei Yu sounds like a Chinese olympic diver:))
@@lovelondon806 That's why behave yourself in an English,Irish or Scottish bar. You never know how many Begbies are lurking around:)) It's like a snake poke it with a stick and it will attack. Poke a Begbie with beer suds and it will attack lol.
0:27 laughed at spud trying to warn the guy to shut up
Nasty use of a glass. Back in the 1990's the city centres were dangerous at night and we often saw people clutching their faces as they knelt on the ground, with pools or little rivers of blood. It happened every weekend at least a few times.
1:03 look it thaese two gadges, lookin aw biscuit-ersed.
fucking hell mate you would be on the ground crying if you saw that shit. good luck making eye contact with a psycho wielding a knife
Lol
@@uwua6509 Fucking right. That would be terrifying to witness.
2:14 iconic
Favorite scene in the movie
0:47 *love how Sick Boy catches an elbow from Spud*
Best nutter scene ever! Joe Peshi is good too in casino and good fellas.
+Heuyen Rolf Bronson has some really great scenes as well, if you like these you should check it out
Michael Madsen in reservoir dogs is also good
Tommy vs Begbie oooooo
One of the most underrated movies in the history of cinema.
Have you watched the second T2 Trainspotting?
there's nothing underrated about trainspotting, it was one of the biggest films of its time, was critically acclaimed, and left a huge mark on cinema. just say it's really good
I would love Begbie to come across Bex Bissell in a London pub. Or the Yeti.
Now that would be explosive. One gets glassed, and in retaliation the other gets a razor blade smile.
Yeah I've read the book too and I'm aware it's based in Edinburgh. It's - here comes the big cliche - much better than the film although the film was great. I especially liked the way Spud thought and talked with the "Cat man" stuff he said. And Renton with his brothers wife... wow... just wow. I gotta read Porno now.
The reason I said Glasgow is that was just the only big city in Scotland I've lived in and in Glasgow there are a LOT of people just like him.
underworld, great scene.
0:31 " I have a bad feeling about this"
The most shocking part is Begbie buying a round for everyone.
@0:09 "Fuck's sake!" Lol
Begbie was an addict too, just not on heroine
I knew someone who got ‘glassed’ for no reason. Guy was really nice. He died later in hospital. He was in his early 20s.
wasnt 'darn' hillsborough in sheffield on a friday night back in the late eighties early nineties was it? glassings most weekends back then. Good times, unless your being glassed of course!
Robert Carlyle is the Scottish version of Joe Pesci
Begbie always had a screw loose I would just took the free drink
You can see the moment when Renton decides to take the money.
0:45 "fuck sake, not this shit again. getting sick of this every time I'm in a pub"
0:32 vibe check
There's exactly nothing the man could have done to avoid a "fight" with Begbie. Perhaps, he could have attacked him first, but that would have resulted in charges for him. Difficult situation. Alternately, his friends could have attacked Begbie after the initial glassing. Other than that, I don't see a legal way around it and even then, most of the damage is done.
The Begbie’s of this world always choose where, when or who to have a go at.
Most always get done in the end.
Javier Bardem in No Country, Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast and Robert Carlyle in this are the 3 most ridiculously fucking scary characters in all movies I know of
My mum watched Trainspotting and T2 for the first time recently and now she won't stop telling me how much I remind her of Begbie.
Reading 'skagboys' atm and begbie has the best lines in it
Fuckn Begbie, what a legend!
Part of beauty of this is that everyone knows a group of friends just like this-including Franco
Rage is one hell of a drug.
"You bring then a fucking cigarette" is what he says :D
You bring me down a fucking cigarette**
Define absolute power ...
watch this scene !
To be fair, Begbie walked into the guy who was just standing there.
I'm pretty sure Begbie inspired Rockstar for Trevor in GTA V
Not gonna lie you're probably right, rockstar north are from Edinburgh aswell which is where trainspotting was set 😂😂
DavieCooper1992 you boys are onto something
Begbie was never going to give them any of that money. He made that very clear when he intentionally humiliated Renton at the bar. The job was over, why hadn’t they split the money up between themselves already. Sickboy is the only one who got screwed, Renton should have given him his share.
Lol I like how beforehand spud is like waving his hands and like naw mate then right before he loses temper Mark head turns away lol
"Aw aye well would'nt run out on a mate eh?" "Oh yes well, wouldnt run out on a friend now would I?"
Danny Boyle - fucking genius for inventing begbies character..then again there’s prob many begbies in Scotland.. he’s prob seen he’s type of character real hand.. thank you
He puff and huffed that cigarette with such pleasure, so satisfying
Brave lad, Renton. Drinking water from a London tap.. fuck that
Oi rentboy you bring me doon a fuckin smoke!
Got to be one of the most violent scenes of all time
Begbie is hardcore
24 years on..2.15 when the music comes in it was the same back then, an absolutely terrible scene but completely iconic for the film at the time, irvine welsh genius..just a great film was able to capture human emotions and thinking long before the advent of social media..
When Begbie pulls his knife Spud tries to get it off him and consequently gets slashed across the palm of his hand
Thanks for pointing that out we would never have spotted it because we are blind
Hes a true hero.
Folk think this bad we call it a Saturday night lol fucking hell Franco lol
I still have that head bag...fucking love it
Veinte años esperé la segunda parte para nada... Esta película es insuperable ante si misma
Te gusta t2 amigo?
And that was it. That; was Begbie's story.
i totally agree
Nice one Franco!
The most unbeleivable thing i always thought trainspotting had was how much do people actually let Begbie get away with. If he tried to do the same number in eastern europe he would be chopped in four and scattered in different sewers, somewhere around 2nd or 3rd attempt
If you read the books, it goes into a bit more details on how he only "fights"/picks on people much weaker than him, along with beating women too. Begbie may be a psychopath, but he's an absolute coward at the end of the day.
In the prequel book to "Trainspotting", he accidentally impregnates this one woman and instead of taking responsibility for it and staying as a father, he just fucks off and leaves her. When one of her two brothers finds out about it and talks about how he wants to get revenge for his sister, Begbie sneaks up to their house when they're not looking and smashes the man's face in with a bit of rebar, breaking his jaw and permanently disfiguring his face. I think he also goes after the other brother who doesn't even want anything to do with it, but I'm not too sure. He also impregnates another woman in the original novel and when confronted about it by his partner, beats her up.
How people used to drink water before they were $1.89 a bottle.
He needs to meet Jake the Muss
That lassie got glassed!
Spot on.
As violent psychopaths go Begbie is defiantly up there
If there ever is a "best of youtube comments" you have my vote
Hey Rent boy, u bring me down a fkn smoke 😂😭😭
Not worried one bit about getting caught
Ffs
Mad film but brilliant
Begbie's anger managment should get a little upgrade:D
Begbie had the high ground
ya, jonny lee miller, known in US also via hackers and mansfield park
Nah the short fella is always going to win a fight...
I guess there are no police in Scotland.
All of them except spot deserve that. I was glad he left him some money because he acknowledged that Spud had never done anything to anyone. In other words he was saying Spud had never fucked anyone over. This kind of reminds me of how I ended up getting clean and sober 9 years ago. I realized that I was hanging out with some fucked-up people and I was fucking my life up and I wanted to do better than that. I didn't want to die like that.