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What was up w/ Laura injecting William?

posted 15 years ago by cubicledweller
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Strange scene...William (Billy Bob) asks Laura (Basinger) for a syrenge, and she injects him with something in the genitals or crotch? WTF??

[–] jayjay81 15 years ago

There are two reasons I can think of.
One is that the groin area is a popular place to inject yourself among people who don't want the needle marks to show.
The second is the fact that if you have to inject yourself regularly and you always do it in the same spot, it will start to get really sore. That's why people who have to inject themselves regularly need to switch veins every so often. And if what you're injecting needs to get into your main bloodstream immediately, then the bicep or the groin area are the two most logical places.

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[–] cook_13 15 years ago

According to the book he was diabetic. So he was probably dependent on insuline. But they might have given different approach in the movie.

[–] keith-695 15 years ago

In 1983 Viagra had not been invented. The treatment for ED then was direct injection of testosterone into the penis. They may have been planing to have sex just before they got into the fight.

[–] sized-2 10 years ago

Half right. It wasn't testosterone it was a vasodialator.

[–] Benprogfuse 15 years ago

It was to show the audience that he may have contracted AIDS from that injection, bc his wife was sleeping with Martin, who was sleeping with Christie, who the movie was hinting was dying of AIDS.

[–] gg_uaw9669 15 years ago

I don't think they were *implying* about Christie at all, when they show her on the beach, she was covered in KS lesions.As for William, I think he was getting a diabetes injection, as for using his wifes syringe, well, he knew she was a junkie, and, apparently he was ok with it. They didn't know anything about AIDS transmission back then, so...

I've....seen things you people wouldn't believe; Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.

[–] philadelphiaflyerseric 14 years ago

Alprostadil (Caverject) injection for ED most likely; the alternative would have been to stick a pill up the urethra (MUSE).

[–] Benprogfuse 14 years ago

Yes, but the average person knows about AIDS now. The director kept that scene in to show the veiwer (You and I) that there would be a chance that he would contract AIDs from that injection, because of the actions that took place earlier in the film.

[–] ifilmstuf24 14 years ago

In the book, there is a scene where she (kim basigner who is unnamed in the book) injects William with insulin. It has nothing to do with AIDS or ED. Read the book its so much better than the movie, which I sort of enjoyed.

[–] lazarillo 10 years ago

An insulin shot is a subcutaneous injection (you just pop it under the skin). No diabetic needs someone else to do it for them (since they have to do it several times a day)and you can do it pretty much anywhere--you don't have to find a vein. And even before AIDS I doubt a diabetic would use his junkie wife's IV needles (people with diabetes get prescriptions for needles). There was still hepatitis C and other bad diseases to worry about.

That scene isn't very realistic in the movie or the book.

[–] waspfan33 10 years ago

IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT YOU THINK...

hes diabetic,and shes done that her whole marriage to him.

spectre can

suck it.

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