Episode 139 — Danny Boyle: Adrenaline, Awe & the Human Pulse

pplpod Episode 139 sprints through Danny Boyle’s high-voltage filmography—stories that marry kinetic style to stubborn human hope. We start with the Brit-indie quake of Shallow Grave and Trainspotting (needle-drops, whip-pans, and a generation sprinting from the void), then veer into genre restarts: 28 Days Later reviving the apocalypse with DV urgency, and Sunshine turning space opera into a hymn. We track the crowd-sweeping miracle of Slumdog Millionaire (global fairy tale, propulsive editing, A. R. Rahman’s lift), survival-as-spiritual quest in 127 Hours, and pop detours that still thrum with heart—Millions, The Beach, Trance, Yesterday, and Sorkin’s Steve Jobs. Along the way: key collaborators (Alex Garland, Anthony Dod Mantle), the London 2012  ...