Word: instinctiveness
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...have never in my life seen him so torn up about something," admits Powell's son Michael. "You have to remember, this is a soldier. This is a warrior, who does not like walking away from a fight. It's not fear; it's not self-doubt. Every instinct in his bones says...
...Jade" is written by "Basic Instinct" screenwriter and quintessential dirty old man, Joe Esterhas, who also was responsible for the early-'80's hit "Flashdance." That movie was just as badly written as Esterhas' later work and has an equally offensive storyline (about an eighteen-year-old woman who is a welder by day, sexy nightclub dancer by night), but has something which most movies do not: Jennifer Beals. In the nineties, Esterhas' biggest movies ("Basic Instinct" and the recent "Showgirls") have recieved a great deal of publicity as being terribly offensive and demeaning to women. The truth is, they...
Esterhas' weak script in "Basic Instinct" was somewhat resucitated by the presence of Sharon Stone. "Jade" is not resucitated by anyone. Any movie that has Angie Everheart and Linda Fiorentino in it is of some interest on a purely visual level. However, any movie in which Angie Ever-heart gives the most believable and compelling performance has some-thing terribly wrong with it. But Chazz Palmintieri is a genuinely good actor, and when even he can't do any-thing with this movie, we know that the core must be rotten...
...Simpson trial has a deeper geography. Sometimes a trial plays out like a culture's collective dream--a vivid, edgy, distorted story that casts up images and characters from the realm of instinct and has them act out the society's deepest passions: its fears, prejudices and desires...
...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, you'll start hoping for somebody to kill somebody...