Thursday, March 26, 1992
Basic Instinct basically
Rick Kastan
The Collegian
Basic Instinct, quite simply
put, is a movie about sex. It is
about sex and homosexuality and
the stupidity that libido often
brings out in us all.
Consequently, the film is full
of sex - not your ordinary, garden
variety-simulated-’his fly's still
closed!' sex, mind you, but hoi,
rough, steamy sex like your
mother and father never had.
It also just so happens that it
is lull of homosexuals too.
These aren't your ordinary, garden
variety-slcrcotypical-'talks with a
lisp' homosexuals though, these
arc psycho-homosexuals.
In fact, the flick is so chock
full of psycho-gays that it has the
homosexual community terribly
up in arms, so up in arms that
they arc actually out protesting
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the film (and bringing it mucho
profits). I guess they figure that
gays are totally incapable of
being brutal killers (they
obviously have never heard of
Jeffrey Dahmcr).
Lastly, and unfortunately, the
movie is full of stupidity, and,
sadly, it is not the stupidity of
uncontrollable libido.
The plot follows Detective
Nick Curran (Michael Douglas)
as he investigates the sex-murder
of a former rock star. His
investigation takes him to the
home of Catherine Tramell
(Sharon Stone), a writer of
murder mysteries and the rock
star's last sexual conquest.
Interestingly enough, Ms
Tramcll just happens to be the
author of 'Love Hurts,’ a book
detailing the murder of a rock star
by his bisexual girlfriend.
The question is, is she the
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killer, hiding behind the alibi of
'why would I write about it if 1
planned on doing it' or the victim
of a set up copy-cat murder.
Well kiddies, I admit that this
is a pretty intriguing story. The
problem here is that after about
15 minutes of following this
story we begin to realize that the
filmmakers have completely lost
interest in providing us with an
interesting mystery and arc only
preoccupied with rushing
Douglas' character into bed with
Stone's (which is exactly wdiat
they do, repeatedly in fact). This
is where the problems come in
droves.
#l. Poor old droopy Michael
Douglas is all wrong for the part
of a sexy young police detective.
#2. The character that Douglas
plays is so unlikcablc and has so
many problems that we arc
completely unable to identify
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#3. The sex is so explicit
(read: steamy) from the very
beginning, the following 6 or so
sex-scenes have nothing left to
show us and are thus
dissappointing.
#4. The movie has the lamest,
tacked-on, 'Wow, wouldn't this
be a neato twist Hollywood
ending that I have ever seen. It
not only is totally unneeded
(since any intelligent viewer can
figure out the killer from frame
one) but it either makes
absolutely no sense from what
came before it or it just doesn't
play fair with us.
The director is Paul
Vcrhoevcn who also made
Robocop , Total Recall and the
awesome The 4th Man. He has a
lot of flair and presents us with a
very glossy looking film with
some neat camera moves often
itudent T Jfe
stinks
reminiscent of Martin Scorsese,
but he obviously doesn't have the
power to hold this flick together.
0.K., here's what you've all
been waiLing for, I have to admit
it, Sharon Stone is HOT, she
absolutely steams up the screen.
And, yes, she shows enough of
her body that you won't have to
bring your imagination.
She nl-.o shows herself to be
quite a capable actress although,
unfortunate!;,, -die -.vib new
probably he know;• : -s- for her
acting than for lu i ebilitc to
show au\ pari oi her anatomy
without showing the lean Im of
embarrassment.
Basically, Basic Instinct isn’t
worth the controversy that
surrounds it and is a mindless,
cheap, unfair excuse lor great sex
scenes. It’s like Porky’s with an
attitude - and Sharon Stone, of
course.
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