Word: instinctiveness
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...Lambs, which features a crazed transvestite who kills and flays women, and JFK, which has a scene in which gays alleged to be conspirators in the Kennedy assassination cavort in sadomasochistic fun and games. No movie, however, has provoked more outrage in the gay community than Basic Instinct, the box-office hit in which Michael Douglas plays a troubled detective who falls in love with a mystery writer (Sharon Stone) who is one of three bisexual or lesbian women suspected of stabbing a man to death with an ice pick...
Demonstrations protesting the portrayal of homosexual women as man-hating murderers started when Basic Instinct began filming in San Francisco last year and resumed when the film opened. "Every lesbian and bisexual character in these films is accused of being a psychotic killer," says Kate Sorensen, a member of Queer Nation, which helped organize the protests. "And the girl never gets the girl. I'm tired of that." Gay activists across the country tried to dissuade moviegoers from seeing it by telling them who the killer is as they lined up for tickets...
...Basic Instinct...
...BASIC INSTINCT. This confused thriller, about a detective (Michael Douglas) and a bisexual novelist (Sharon Stone) who may do her sharpest work with an ice pick, has some steamy skin scenes; that's what all the ratings ruckus was about. (The film lost less than a minute and got an R.) But there's something wrong with a whodunit if, at the end, viewers are still asking, "O.K., who done it?" The answer is director Paul Verhoeven. And the next question...
CINEMA Basic Instinct goes wrong, but not for the reasons you think...