What drug was Griffin using?
He poured drops from a timy vial into his mouth about 8-9 min into the movie and one or two other times. Any guess what that was supposed to be? It looked like he took it off his secretary's desk.
shareI'm pretty sure it was just breath freshener.
shareI think Robert Altman says it's something from Japan in the commentary, but I couldn't find the line by scanning a few scenes at the studio where he uses the drops.
shareFound the scene right after Griffin gets the Humphrey Bogart with a gun postcard. Altman says it's vinaka or something like that. Tim Robbins knew an executive who used it and thought it would fit his character.
shareIt's called Binaca. It's a breath freshener spray.
shareBut he pours it onto his tongue like drops. It doesn't look like the product on Amazon either. It's a tiny vial. Binaca looks like a crayola marker or deodorant stick.
shareLook more closely (try the Criterion blu-ray if you don't already have it). It's a spray. Before CFC's were banned, Binaca came in small aerosol bottles. But he's basically using it with the marker cap removed, which looks like this: http://aqualabtechnologies.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/1000x1000/61ad37984e2743568c3b2b5db69bacaa/a/l/alt_1-12-13-11_1.jpg.
Binaca was much more popular as a breath freshener back in the 80's and 90's.
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It's much smaller than that more like a fingernail or the tip of a thumb. I got the Criterion Blu-ray for $20 when it came out at Costco.
shareThank you for setting these nitwits straight. I'm LMAO at people who think that Binaca is a drug or that it comes from Japan. These are the people who no doubt support Donald J. Trump.
shareI tried, but they don't believe me.
shareNobody said it came from Japan. I thought Altman said that on the commentary but maybe it just sounded like a Japanese name. And no, I don't support Drumpf.
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