Basic Instinct (Erotic 90’s, Part 6)
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The Importance of Basic Instinct
A huge weakness of basic instinct is that Douglas is unable to play Nick as a pure piece of shit without signaling to the audience that he's still the hero. Esther Haas got an inkling that this was in the cards when he attended a pre-production meeting with Verhoeven and Douglas, at which point it became clear to him that the actor and director didn't actually like his screenplay. He also protested that Verhoeven wanted to film a sex scene between two women. The sole reason to put this kind of scene on the screen, Esther Haas fumed, was for titillation value,. As opposed to artistic reasons.
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