Last night we watched the 1992 box office smash Basic Instinct, starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone. (We were also delighted to see Mitch Pileggi in a small part -- he went on to play FBI Director Skinner in The X-Files.) It was pretty good, in a popcorn movie sort of way. Amy and I hadn't seen it since it was first out, and this was the first time around for the kids. It pushes the boundaries of that R rating, by the way.
After the movie was over we checked out the special features. In the short "making of..." movie we were reminded that the movie caused quite a stir even before it came out, the target of protests from the activist gay community in San Francisco, where it was filmed. I'd forgotten all that. The issue is over the fact that Basic Instinct has homicidal lesbians -- it was targeted because it was a big-hype production and because it was filmed in S.F.
While watching the movie it didn't occur to me that the depiction of lesbians was negative. In fact, the depiction of pretty much everyone in the movie is negative. The protagonist is a drug and alcohol abusing loose cannon cop who's just killed some tourists while hopped up on cocaine, and he's the guy you're supposed to root for.
The other special feature must have been put on this DVD (which I purchased for $4) as some kind of pet peeve or statement: it was a comparison of scenes from the original movie, compared to the version when it first aired on television. We thought this might be a boring featurette, but it turned out to be hilarious. The voices they used for overdubbing don't sound anything at all like the actors' voices, which made the dopey substitutions even funnier.
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Sharon Stone is a guy who played halfback for Notre Dame.
That is why her femi is non.
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