What is behind the filming of the sulphurous Basic Instinct, to be rewatched, and its famous scene of crossing legs in a white suit? Not the great benevolence apparently, denounces Sharon Stone.
All it took was a leg crossing to blow Hollywood away.
In 1991, Basic Instinct swept away the box office and the public’s hormones by recycling the codes of the noir series with a… Sexy sauce. Provocative, sulphurous, even downright feverish film, during sequences of seduction and body-to-body combat which pay little attention to the implicit inherent in mainstream cinema.
But far from being limited to frontal nudity or buttocks stories, this story is a true ode to femme fatales, and to the greatest of all in the cinema landscape of the 90s: the incendiary Catherine Trammel, hyper writer suspicious, and brilliant manipulator, leading the ambiguous Michael Douglas by the nose.
She is Sharon Stone, in the most popular role of her entire career. But the actress, who will redouble her intensity in front of Martin Scorsese’s camera shortly after (in Casino) does not only have good memories of the Basic Instinct tornado. And above all, from THE scene, the one which persists (a little too much) in the minds of spectators more than 30 years later: the interrogation, where Trammel, dressed in a legendary white suit, crosses and uncrosses her endless legs, revealing his privacy. Except… Sharon Stone never wanted us to “see that.”
She testifies.
-“I was really shocked”: Sharon Stone denounces this “hyper sexual” staging still 30 years later
Let’s be more precise: Basic Instinct,…
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