Screenplay by Waldo Salt
Based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy
Another scene about pissing!
We wanted to include this because it’s a friendship scene. Ratso is essentially dying on a bus and his friend Joe tries to make him feel better by getting him to laugh.
It’s a sweet, genuine kind of seduction, trying to get somebody to laugh in the face of death. It’s also a great contrast — laughing when something is desperately sad.