Near the end, Matt Dillon and the Wendy character each chug down a can of Sprite. Was there any significance to this act or were they just thirsty? Did they want to leave their fingerprints behind? This is the only part I had trouble with. The rest of the movie was great. I really enjoyed it.
“All of these moments will be lost in time...like tears in the rain” Blade Runner
No, They were just thirsty, but yeah this movie was great.
shareActually, it was 7-Up.
shareNo, it was Sprite.
share'No, it was Sprite.'
See, the product placement worked.
Actually - there was so product placement for Sprite. I saw this movie when it was at Sundance and the same question was asked and the writer/director MItch Rouse said that there was no special significance to the Sprit - he just thought that two people taking the time to drink a sprite or anything for that long period of time after killing someone was just funny to him. So there you go.
shareIt is the un-Cola...no, wait.
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If you really wanted to possibly read a bit more into it, Sprite is considered to be a Citrus drink with lemon being a main ingredient. If I'm not mistaken, I believe there's even a lemon on the bottle/can, or at least there used to be. You could see this as a bit of a take on the old saying, "When Life Hands You A Lemon, Make Lemonade." I'd say that's certainly what they did, or at least what Matt Dillon's character attempted to do. Of course the complete irony of this is..........
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He was celebrating a little too early...with the woman who "does him in" the very next moment.
I may be reading too much into it, but I don't know. With all the really shocking irony-filled surprises that happen every other second in the last 20 minutes of this movie...I may be hitting the nail right on the head.
Because Dillon's character in Wild Things was poisoned, and this was a reference to that movie (which it shared many similarites with). They wanted us to think he would be poisoned.
shareOr perhaps the intention was to indicate that she was every bit of capable of sucking a situation (or a man, or a can of Sprite) dry as he was.
Or maybe they were just thirsty and the machine really had run out of Coke.
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It could be a sly refrence to 'Pulp fiction' where Samuel Jacksons charater sipped on Sprite with a evil look on his face to wash down his 'Big Kahuna burger' before he killed three people.
The dialogue was just a little more clever in that movie though.
"You sent us to guard the wrong man Mr. Chalmers."
It could be a sly reference to 'Pulp fiction' where Samuel Jacksons charater sipped on Sprite with a evil look on his face to wash down his 'Big Kahuna burger' before he killed three people.
Third.
shareTo signify that to them death meant nothing.
I dont dig movies that end like this-- aside from that it was good.
The twists were good until steve zahn got popped, then it was just dumb.
shareI agree with that... good until zahn was shot. It really seemed like the last two twists were written AFTER the rest of the film was made. There are earlier scenes in which Christina Applegate's character was alone, and visibly upset over the situation with her fiance. And yet the ending implied that she planned this whole thing all along. If they had just ended it 2 minutes early, I would have more respect for the guys who made it. I suppose that the bus at the end was the writers way of laughing at the absurdness of it all.
I rented this movie just to see Christina Applegate. I am obsessed recently. So I liked the movie mainly because of her.
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It means that people read into things way too much, even after being told by the director that they don't mean anything.
shareIt was a pretty simple ending to a complex twist. She basically went off to grab them a refreshing drink from the soda machine while he killed his best friend, he needed the extra few minutes to finish the job. They shared a moment together drinking their soda and then he got his. I like the link to pulp fiction but I doubt there was any real thought and more of a coincidence.
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