In Britain, you can (or could) buy the video version of Trainspotting that includes the deleted scenes. They are not reinserted into the film, but are kept as quite a lengthy 'afterward' (22 minutes), with interviews with producer Andrew McDonald and director Danny Boyle explaining why the scenes were in fact deleted. As MacDonald explains: "In general we left out the scenes because they didn't add to the story. We wanted it to be a short, sharp 90 minutes, focussing on Renton's trials on and off drugs and how he got away from his friends."

Some of them are just extended versions of scenes that * are * included. The scenes are (shown in this order):

* Cut scene 24: Renton & Sick Boy have an extended quiz about James Bond movies.

First interview mention of RC - Boyle: "We cut scenes because they gave us too much information, or were about characters not at the centre of the narrative. We got pretty obsessed with characters like Spud and Begbie, especially with performances you get like from Bobby Carlyle and Ewen Bremner and Johnny as Sick Boy."

* Cut scene 143: Sick Boy and Renton sit in a park, discussing Tommy's sickness and Sick Boy has a monologue about his view of the world.

* Cut scene 32: Extended Spud job interview.

* Cut scene 31: Extended Renton job inteview, in which he explains his heroin addiction in order not to get the job.

* Cut montage scene - Spud and Tommy sit on a street and discuss their fantasy of going to Australia.

* Cut scenes 73/110: Shows screenwriter John Hodge in a cameo in pursuit of Renton; then we see a longer scene in which Diane discovers Renton, Spud and Sick Boy shop lifting.

* Cut scene 188: Diane dumps Renton during a football game.

* Cut scene 142: The major scene for otherwise minor character Swanny - Renton visits him in hospital after his leg is amputated.

* Cut scene 191: [This is the only cut scene featuring Begbie.] Boyle: "You get these actors and you get somebody like Bobby Carlyle, and he is conveying each time you see him, he's conveying such information to you. You know, even as he sits on the coach and he doesn't say anything, he's conveying all that same information which is portrayed in the earlier [cut] scene." [Shots of the scene with Begbie on the coach to demonstrate this point] "So you don't need it, because you know he's tense."

The scene: Begbie is waiting tensely by the coach for the others to arrive, and smoking. They arrive at their leisure, and he is angry. He has a couple of lines of dialogue, and as they get on the coach, he pushes Spud over, who does a comedy fall.

That's all, folks. Very interesting if (as I do) you love to know more about the film making/editing process. Not too much about Bobby, but what is there is very complimentary. Of course.

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