Undressing Basic Instinct, part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video we cover the creation and scandals involving Basic Instinct from the protests, Sharon Stone's struggles with the film, cast and crew disagreements as well as feuds with Joe Eszterhas.
For part 2 click here: • Undressing Basic Insti...
What's funny is today, Stones character would be called a strong and independent woman. How the turn-tables
Relative to today she is. Psychotic murder aside, imagine if movies had female characters half as good as Catherine Trammel.
Paul Verhoeven is the best example of Dutch craziness to be unleashed on Hollywood. America was not ready for his craziness.
I agree, Robocop in 1986 blew my mind.
More like America wasn't ready to look at itself on the mirror of a crazy dutch...
I dont care what any of these blind and stupid critics have to say. They completely missed the point of Basic Instinct. This movie is one of the greatest film noir who-done-it mysteries ever put on film. Its unique, exciting, seductive, smart, and creepy af. The characters of Catherine Tramell and Nick Curran are brilliantly written and played by Stone and Douglas.
"She is evil and devine." That perfectly describes the femme fatales in the old film noir classics. Think of Barbara Stanwyck in a lot of movies.
I'm not sure who I believe in this whole drama honestly 🤷🏾♂️ but damn I love Sharon Stone
Wow they had sensitive readings way before these woke times!
Feminists with Feminist Goggles on have always been around. They see everything in negative terms.
Catherine Trammell always struck me as a female Hannibal Lector not in terms of devouring flesh but devouring people sensually .
In Basic Instinct, you can see how she demonstrates her intelligence as well as power over people.
The police interrogation scene with Douglas a n d Stone is like Clarice Starling talking to Lektor in his cell.
Basically It Stinks In the 1990s my family used Siskel and Egert as reverse barometers and I forget which year sometime around 98 we just stopped caring about award shows when nothing any of our very different interests won. It was always about "actor movies". 9:20 You call that cheesy? Probably think it's unrealistic? That's how my Dad drives on mountain roads and i'ts made my friends queezy lol.
this is WILD!!! what you mean the same dude did Show-Girls!!! ^^ thx for recounting the reception of this movie, really interesting stuff i heard in this video
Best erotic thriller ever. Has aged much better than Fatal Attraction, which is just dull and grey.
I'm still in love with Sharon Stone.
The theory in the video that Douglas' character is a man on the edge trying to rebuild his life but his flaws are used against him does have some support in the visual homages to Vertigo found in the film.
It's obvious with Beth's absolute surprise at the end where she's caught completely off guard - not to mention the other, not so subtle clues throughout!
I love the mystery between Beth and Catherine. But in the end, poor Beth.
Thanks for including that vintage Stone interview proving she's full of crap. You don't plan out and light scenes with a crew.... and have that be a total accident. I don't believe her.
When the movie was first released, she was always saying the scene was her idea, it was only latter that her story changed.
@@gcndc she going along with the times.
@@gcndcto get on star level status she needed to speak high of herself, but now with the political correctness she needs to play the victim card I guess...
She only kicked up a 'oh no, it wasn't me honest, i didnt know' about face when women got their panties in a twist over the film. She knew exactly what she was doing, and she's STILL crying victim decades later...
One of the biggest problems these days is that studios have all these DEI rules about including minorities, but they aren't allowed to be depicted in any negative way, which both stifles creative freedom and produces predictable boring stories. People are people, no matter their sex, race, sexual affiliations or whatever, there are both good and bad people. It's completely unrealistic that a bisexual woman, such as portrayed in Basic Instinct, is incapable of murder, and the protestors at the time are taking a single character in a movie and saying that it's generalising about bisexual people which it is not. It's simply saying that THIS particular bisexual woman IS capable of murder.
I could see Great Scacchi in the Catherine Tremmel role, but she'd only just played an evil character in Presumed Innocent. Strangely she never really got any big roles after that.
I just got caught up on all your videos. Glad to see a new one today. Keep it up because this channel and you have a lot of potential.
Nice video! Looking forward to the next part , and the next Alien3 video too.
Alien 3 will be up next Friday and Basic 2 the following Friday.
I remember you have show your id if you wanted to rent this movie..
In middle school I got me and my friends into Starship Troopers in theaters. My friends didn't think we'd get in. I just knew we would. The 1990s were amazing. Moviehoarderrenters was probably stricter hence why they're gone.
I cant believe Verhoeven actually made Showgirls. 😱
Me neither. I love him and that movie but it's like what?
Stone was right about her career status at the time. Basic Instinct was probably the last chance she had at a lead role.
She had some pretty good roles in Irreconcilable Differences and Total Recall as well as a decent part on Magnum PI but at best was a supporting/ character actress.
Basic Instinct- controversial as it was- proved to be an ideal part for Sharon Stone absent the police interrogation scene.
Stone is a very intelligent woman with a high IQ who was a very good student when she was younger. The role was a perfect structure for her funnel her intelligence into.
@Istuckmyheaddownthetoilet I never cared about the infamous shot or the controversy over it .Doesn't matter to me
@Istuckmyheaddownthetoilet
I'm not interested in it because my post here I s about Sharon Stone and her acceptance of this part. I never discussed the scene.
Also I used to review movies and cover film.festivals so it's nothing more than a flash from.the past.
But I guess if you aren't interested in other aspects of film, this post would be nothing more than trivia ...
@Istuckmyheaddownthetoilet
I think you might have missed something- you are in a thread of a post I made.
If you want to address other people, write your own post.
That's how comment sections work.
Lol
@Istuckmyheaddownthetoilet
What else is new?
It's crazy she didn't get more (leading) roles, she's an excellent actress.
This movie rocks so hard. I view Stone's character as a sympathetic villain. She's no more corrupt than the cops who kill with impunity, and who also make the mistake of thinking they are smarter than her. Douglas' character is pathetic, but in a way I felt was compelling to men (myself included) who feel threatened by someone more powerful than them, and part of that emotion translates into an intense physical and mental desire to be loved by that person, or at least be desired in return.
Really interested to see what kinds of theories you will cover in upcoming videos.
Oh and the soundtrack to this film! Brilliantly chosen. The music in the nightclub scene is a banger.
At 26:54 I used the word Thriller when the word Mystery was more appropriate so please forgive this oversight.
You did great mate!
I would love to see you make a vid on Starship Troopers.. love your narrative style and it's always a smooth watch.. thanks from a fan of the channel!!!❤
@@ultimatesunrise I fully intend to do Verhoeven's Robocop, Total Recall and Starship Troopers. He is a very intelligent film maker and throws a lot in his films, especially in Starship Troopers. The subtext is crazy in that one. I don't know that I will start any of those this year, but we will see. Got lots of movies for all of us to revisit in my mind. Thanks for the kind words and glad you are here.
@RepresentThis yeah I love verhoeven films man.. robocop is a perfect film imo.. I started a little horror review channel and just didn't follow through so only did a few vids.. after seeing your stuff tho, I'm seri0usly considering starting to do it again.. editing is hard work 😆
@@ultimatesunrise Wonderful, I subscribed to help you out. Keep at it. Get your thoughts out there.
This is one movie you definitely need to watch in 4K 😉
I've heard the 4K looks really... nice
Cause you don‘t get any in rl 🥲
That was the beginning of the American Bullheaded Gay activation. This movie was one of the 1 st time I saw diverse sexual suspense without bias.
It strikes me as hypocritically ironic that most of the women who would have objected to this film would have been the ones who gushed wet like a rabid dog over fifty shades...
Do they know when Dune was written?
We need to switch the internet off. Now.
It's too much for the vast majority of little, self obsessed lives out there.
Have you thought of doing one on Showgirls?
Well, it took me about 15 uploads to get part 2 past copyright most likely due to the sexual content of the film. Even pictures were copyrighted. I had score but then I cut it all out. With this in mind I don't think I would have the patience to deal with Showgirls. Also, I was never pationate about that film and thus I believe I would do a disservice to breaking down that film. I love Verhoven's Robocop, Total Recall and Starship (which I will cover all of these someday) because of the layers, style and vision, but Showgirls never became something I fell in love with.
@@RepresentThisUnderstandable.
I saw my first Lotus when I saw this movie. It was awesome