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Actors: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Basic Instinct |
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After a retired rock star was found murdered in his bed, the police begin a search for the murderer. After apprehending the suspect (rock star's girl friend) it is found that she had written a book in which a rock star is murdered in much the same way. This begins a complicated plot leaving many people grabbing at each other's throats and destroying bonds between them.
--z0rQ, Resident Scholar
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Detective Nick Curran(Michael Douglas)is investigating a series of crimes along with his partner Gus(George Dzundza)in San Fransico. Curran falls for the wrong person though, upon investigating the supposed killer(Sharon Stone).
--Will Dame, Resident Scholar
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THERE WAS A MAN WHO FELL FOR THE WOMAN WHO EVERYONE THOUGHT KILLED HER LOVER. SHE WAS BI-SEXUAL, LOTS OF SEX SCENES. THE MANS EX WIFE WAS ACTUALLY THE KILLER
--BLAIR, Resident Scholar
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This 1992 film caused a sensation, which was probably just what Dutch-born director Paul Verhoeven (Robocop, Showgirls) and Hungarian-born writer Joe Eszterhas (Showgirls, Sliver) were looking for. San Francisco detective Nick Curran (Douglas), recovering from alcoholism and drug abuse, takes a murder case whose details exactly copy a mystery by attractive and manipulative novelist Catherine Tramell (Stone), who happens also to be bisexual. Curran gets far too wrapped up in the case and the prime suspect. Stone gives it her all in this grimy story that leaves you feeling dirty after watching it. Jeanne Tripplehorn and Denis Arndt do good supporting work. Stone's dresses were designed to match, in order, the ones worn by Kim Novak in Hitchcock's "Vertigo," an equally tricky but far better movie.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Michael Douglas has to find out who killed a rockstar. All evidence points at Sharon Stone, but did she do it? After all she wrote a book about a murder done in the same style.
--Knut Ragnar H. Bakke, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Basic Instinct |
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 100%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Murder Mystery?
Yes
Misc. Plotlets
- victim dies just after sex
- local police have IQ of houseplant
Special suspect?
- lover
Kind of mystery?
- police procedural
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of story:
- really kinky sex!!!
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
- happy
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- writer
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
- blonde
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- ample chest and buttocks (woman)
unclothed?
- full frontal
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Midwest
- California
City?
Yes
City:
- Los Angeles
- dangerous
- rude people
- San Francisco
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- resort/hotel
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 2
- 3-4
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- licking
- lesbians!
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
- seeing full frontal--women
- sex with icepick
- sex under blankets
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 2 (a little)
Kind of violence:
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
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