Word: hookings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hollywood fantasies (RoboCop, Total Recall), for making this movie--though we're surprised he can bear to watch it. The real culprit is Eszterhas, swami of the High Concept. He found Nazis in The Music Box and white supremacists in Betrayed, but cogent drama in neither. His favorite plot hook, sexual mutilation, bore rancid fruit in Jagged Edge, Basic Instinct and Sliver. At least those three had some sick kick to them. But if his women characters aren't psychos or sex-crime victims, the scripts get shrill and turgid. After an hour of naughty chat in Showgirls...
...Hook me up, because you know that I want it and you can give it to me. I need your stuff, man, your line, your snuff, your meal, your contacts...
...Hook me up for just a little while 'til I get through this call, this fix, this evening, this ambition...
...Hook me up with the best connection, pot, chicken and challah, names...
...need me. So you hook me up. And I like it. And I want more. And you are so generous...