The Pill


I had a question on the pill he was on why did he act all weird when he swallows the pill?

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Oldman said that he deliberately made the pill and its effects to be unknowable, to add to Stansfield's strangeness.

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Thank you. The only reason I came on here was to find out what was in Stansfields strange little pills.



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Oldman said that he deliberately made the pill and its effects to be unknowable, to add to Stansfield's strangeness.
Thanks for posting that. His character was strange enough, but he added to it and I loved it. They could not have casted his character with anyone else. His character is my favorite character of all the characters Oldman has played.

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It was a good acting job, however, I liked him better in true romance as drexl

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Source?^^

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I have a large box of interviews and articles that I collected over 15 years ago when I first got interested in the background of this film. All I'm sure of without looking is that it was an explicit statement by him that the pill he took and the effect it had was deliberately made unknowable to add to the strangeness of the character.

It is also in the IMDb FAQ for this film

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I had a question on the pill he was on why did he act all weird when he swallows the pill?


Wouldn't YOU?

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Shoot him, cut out his tongue, then shoot his tongue. And trim that beard.

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^this was the pill he took.

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To be fair, he didn't swallow the pills. He held them in his teeth and cracked them, then got the immediate rush of the powder.

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Also - how does he manage to swallow it without a little water?

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As someone else said, he cracks them open in his teeth. He doesn't swallow it whole

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Oh, so that way he cleverly takes the right dosage or something?

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Oh, so that way he cleverly takes the right dosage or something?


No, I guess it's so it kicks in quicker. You don't have to wait for the shell of the pill to melt first.


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I believe the pill was LSD in powder form.

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Hardly. It sure wouldn't have the effect it did.

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