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Style and Themes
editDanny Boyle uses a coherent film style throughout his filmography. Music has great importance in his films, as evidenced by the best-selling soundtracks for Trainspotting and Slumdog Millionaire, both of which feature a lot of pop and punk rock artists. In Boyle's view, songs can be “amazing things to use because they obviously bring a lot of baggage with them. They may have painful associations, and so they they inter-breathe with the material you’re using”[1]
The combination of visuals and music with the setting of the criminal underworld has drawn comparisons to Pulp Fiction and the hugely influential films of Quentin Tarantino, that had spawned a certain type of "90s indie cinema" which "strove to dazzle the viewer with self-conscious cleverness and empty shock tactics".[2] This impacted the shooting style of the film, which features "wildly imaginative" and "downright hallucinatory" visual imagery, achieved through a mix of "a handheld, hurtling camera", jump cuts, zoom shots, freeze frames and wide angles.[3] This vigorous style contributed to the "breathless" pace that Boyle's films have been associated with.[4]
For the look of the film, Boyle was influenced by the colours of Francis Bacon's paintings, which represented "a sort of in-between land – part reality, part fantasy".[5] The scene where Renton (McGregor) dives in a toilet is a reference to Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow.[6]
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- ^ [1]. Danny Boyle: Brits ‘Brilliant With Music’ But ‘Rubbish at Film’, by Paul Hechinger, Published by BBC America, 2013.
- ^ [2]. Danny Boyle: a career in 10 songs, by Paul O’Callaghan , Published by BFI, 2015.
- ^ [3]. Fiction into film, or bringing Welsh to a Boyle, by Bert Cardullo, Published by Literature/Film Quarterly, 1997. Page 158-62.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (26 July 1996). "Trainspotting". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
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