"The Beach" The paradise that Danny Boyle and his friends aimed for, and its collapse

Friendships and their disintegration in Trainspotting

The Beach is the fourth time director Danny Boyle has teamed up with screenwriter John Hodge and producer Andrew Macdonald. In addition to this, planning began with the idea that Ewan McGregor would star.

Needless to say, they are allies who became darlings of the '90s with Shallow Grave (1994) and Trainspotting (1996). After that, aiming for even higher heights in the film industry, he went to the eternal paradise of Hollywood and worked on `` Not Ordinary '' (1997), but it ended up being a box office flop (although it was widely loved by fans). ). If that's the case, then ``The Beach,'' which follows, is already on the brink. Failure was not an option, and there is no doubt that Coach Boyle approached the match with unwavering determination.

What happened here was that Danny Boyle made the final decision to cast Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role instead of McGregor.

There may have been some requests from the studio, and it is also true that choosing DiCaprio, who is well-known, had a greater advantage in order to obtain the desired production scale. Boyle is, in a sense, extremely Lucky , as DiCaprio took the time to look through over 100 scripts and this project caught his attention after the historic blockbuster success of `` Titanic .'' You can say it's an expansion.

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However, McGregor, who thought he would be able to star in a film produced by a team he was close to, seems to have been unexpectedly taken off the ladder. Perhaps the shock was so great that Boyle and McGregor remained estranged The Day After more than 10 years.

When you watch ``The Beach'' with this behind-the-scenes episode in mind, the climactic ``Russian Roulette'' scene seems particularly meaningful. The end of our friendship, the destruction of the paradise we thought would last forever. In a sense, Boyle definitely pulled the trigger with this movie.

It must have affected not only the McGregor incident, but also various other events at a level that we cannot fully understand. After The Beach, Boyle did not work with John Hodge for a while, and his opportunities to collaborate with Andrew Macdonald gradually decreased. As a result of this movie, they were once a sensation in the movie industry together, and dreamed of a paradise called Hollywood as an extension of their dreams, but just like in the final scene of this movie, they scattered and started walking different paths. The four members did not appear together until ` `T2: Trainspotting '' (17).

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