Dan Markham Brain Dump

Dahl, Roald Dahl

I re-watched Trainspotting last night. The Trainspotting: Collector’s Edition DVD has deleted scenes. One has Renton (Ewan McGregor) and Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller) sitting in an apartment, pre park-gun-dog incident, with Sick Boy, as usual, spouting James Bond trivia. Sick Boy is grilling Renton on bits of info related to the James Bond film, You Only Live Twice. One bit stuck out:

                    SICK BOY
       Screenwriter?
                    RENTON
       Eh - Ian Fleming?

                    SICK BOY
       Fuck off! He never wrote any of
       them.

… a bit of banter, and then …

                    RENTON
       Who wrote it?

                    SICK BOY
       Roald Dahl.

                    RENTON
       Roald Dahl. Fuck me.

… and, damn, if it isn’t the case.

This is the same Roald Dahl that wrote such children’s classics as Matilda, James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Interesting fellow, really. From the mini-bio on his IMDB page:

When his then wife actress Patricia Neal suffered a series of devastating strokes in 1965, he was appalled at the lack of effective rehabilitation. He subsequently designed techniques that restored his wife to full function after the doctors had told them she’d never recover. His techniques are now standard procedure throughout the world for the treatment of stroke victims.

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