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.
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