Sick Boy
But this is the scene:
Sick Boy: It's certainly a phenomenon in all walks of life.
Renton: What do you mean?Sick Boy: Well, at one time, you've got it... and then you lose it... and it's gone forever. All walks of life: George Best, for example. Had it, lost it. Or David Bowie, or Lou Reed...
Renton: Some of his solo stuff's not bad.
Sick Boy: No, it's not bad, but it's not great either. And in your heart you kind of know that although it sounds all right, it's actually just... shite.
Renton: So who else?
Sick Boy: Charlie Nicholas, David Niven, Malcolm McLaren, Elvis Presley...
Renton: OK, OK, so what's the point you're trying to make?
Sick Boy: All I'm trying to do is help you understand that The Name of The Rose is merely a blip on an otherwise uninterrupted downward trajectory.
Renton: What about The Untouchables?
Sick Boy: I don't rate that at all.
Renton: Despite the Academy Award?
Sick Boy: That means fuck all. It's a sympathy vote.
Renton: Right. So we all get old and then we can't hack it anymore. Is that it?
Sick Boy: Yeah.
Renton: That's your theory?
Sick Boy: Yeah. Beautifully fucking illustrated.So you got it? You get older, wonderboy? You become a normal guy. Not only normal. Nermal. Need we name you? Ely Buendia. The Spice Boys. Raymond Red. The LIRA Boys. The Spice Boys. Us. Us. Stop the pitying but I just read an article from the Telegraph about the British Angry Young Men and how they now became the Angry Old Men. If not dead.
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