Slumdog Millionaire's Danny Boyle is Da Shit
Danny Boyle's runaway Dickensian/Indian comic epic Slumdog Millionaire smells like Oscar bait, but it starts with a scene of a kid jumping down into the Worst Outhouse in India and emerging wearing a poop suit. Since Boyle's first hit, Trainspotting, notoriously featured Ewan McGregor diving into the Worst Toilet in Scotland, what is Boyle, a fecophiliac? "Listen, all British films have toilets in them," Boyle told me at a Telluride Film Festival party, basking in the film's first tsunami of acclaim. "I don't know what it is. We're obsessed with toilets." Since for some reason all the Slumdog pix I can find do not feature the outhouse scene, here's a link to the worst outhouse I could find on the Outhouse Preservation Society site, and the full Trainspotting toilet scene. Remember, all the poop you see Ewan swim past is actually chocolate.
