Basic instinct
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Basic instinct |
| Original title | Basic instinct |
 | |
| Country of production |
United States , France |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1992 |
| length | 128 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Paul Verhoeven |
| script | Joe Eszterhas |
| production | Alan Marshall |
| music | Jerry Goldsmith |
| camera | Jan de Bont |
| cut | Frank J. Urioste |
| occupation | |
| |
| chronology | |
|
Successor → |
|
Basic Instinct is an erotic thriller by the Dutch director Paul Verhoeven from 1992 . The American - French co-production caused a sensation with its erotic scenes and made the leading actress Sharon Stone known worldwide.
action
The once successful rock singer Johnny Boz is found dead in his San Francisco home . Tied to the bed with a white silk scarf, the victim was stabbed to death with several dozen stabs with an ice pick during sex . The murdered man's friend, the beautiful and rich writer Catherine Tramell, quickly becomes the focus of the police investigation. She published a book months ago in which a former rock star is murdered with an ice ax.
Detective Nick Curran is fascinated by the mysterious and ice-cold blonde beauty, who is not averse to both men and women and apparently knows every detail from his past. With her manner, she casts a spell over the investigators, and Curran lets herself into an affair with her. Catherine announces that in her next book, a cop who falls in love with the wrong woman will bless the temporal. Curran is suspended from duty for assaulting a civil servant supervisor. He had investigated him some time ago because he had mistakenly shot two tourists during an undercover mission because he had meanwhile overcome drug problems.
It gradually turns out that there have been several unexplained, violent deaths in Catherine's past. Catherine also had an affair with Curran's ex-girlfriend Beth, a police psychologist whom Curran is increasingly suspecting, in college . When Curran's partner is stabbed to death in an elevator and Beth shows up at the scene, Curran shoots her.
Incremental material is found in Beth's apartment that suggests Beth was the perpetrator, and the case appears to be closed. In the last scene, Curran and Catherine are in bed. She reaches under the bed but withdraws her hand when she notices Curran is watching her. An ice ax can be seen under the bed while she kisses him.
background
Sharon Stone, who had previously appeared in Verhoeven's science fiction thriller Total Recall , was only offered the role of Catherine Tramell after Michelle Pfeiffer , Kim Basinger , Geena Davis , Ellen Barkin and Mariel Hemingway had declined.
Paul Verhoeven's erotic thriller caused a sensation when filming began in April 1991. The Dutch director had previously sat down with numerous gay and lesbian associations in San Francisco to defuse the scandalous, $ 3 million script by Joe Eszterhas ( Music Box - The Whole Truth ). However, when they asked for the plot and characters to be changed drastically, Verhoeven gave up working with them. On the first day of shooting over 150 demonstrators came and made filming almost impossible with their loud slogans. The producers sued and obtained that the demonstrators had to stay 300 feet (about 91 meters) from the set. Two dozen protesters broke the barriers; they were taken into custody by the police.
Eszterhas agreed to alter his script at a meeting with protesters at the Hyatt Hotel in San Francisco; Verhoeven and the producers categorically refused. Peter Hoffman, the president of Carolco Pictures' production company, called Eszterhas a "snobbish hypocrite." Eszterhas said that the changes he proposed made Basic Instinct not only dramaturgically but also "a better film from a social perspective."
When the scandalous film opened in US cinemas in March 1992, massive protests took place again, supported by homosexual groups and NOW ( National Organization for Women ), the largest feminist organization in the USA. Protesters tried to block the cinema entrances and full-page advertisements called for a boycott of the film.
Basic Instinct was shown in competition at the Cannes International Film Festival in early May 1992 . The cinema release in the United States was on March 20, 1992. The film was in Germany (May 21, 1992) and other European countries in the cinemas uncut; the American theatrical version was shortened by about a minute. The cut scenes were included on later DVD releases. The film broke the $ 100 million mark in the United States and grossed more than $ 350 million worldwide.
The film caused a sensation with its revealing sex scenes and Sharon Stone rose to world fame overnight as a femme fatale , and Stone also rose to become a contemporary sex symbol . On the occasion of the start of Germany, the newspaper Bild ran the headline : “The most swiney film of all time.” The scene in which Stone crossed his legs during an interrogation and, because she wore nothing under her dress, saw her vulva for a split second, became well known is. According to Verhoeven, this scene was agreed with Stone; Verhoeven claimed in an interview that Stone gave him her panties just before filming. Stone denied; rather, it was tricked by the director with regard to what would actually be seen on the screen. Verhoeven and screenwriter Eszterhas accused Stone of dishonesty about the scene.
reception
Reviews
“Effectively staged thriller that merges sexual desire and violence and propagates a rather reactionary worldview. Playing with the psychological abyss remains only superficial. "
“ Basic Instinct joins the orgies of brutality and human contempt that viewers are unfortunately only too used to and increasingly used in a polished American action cinema. Seen in this way, the film offers absolutely nothing new and unexpected. Michael Douglas acts like 20 years ago in the television series Streets of San Francisco . The only thing that will be remembered is the wonderfully controlled and perfectly stylized character study by Sharon Stone, which may be added to the anthology of the depictions of women in better times American film history. You would have wished for a more appropriate environment. "
"This film, knitted in Hitchcock's manner according to the suspense pattern, is less about plausible narration and more about the precisely calculated captivity of the audience around cleverly designed sex and violence scenes and a pace of action routinely introduced by the" Total Recall "director Paul Verhoeven."
“In 1992, no other film caused such a stir in the world as Paul Verhoeven's [...] perfect erotic thriller about obsessions and human abysses. Sharon Stone [...] catapulted herself to stardom with her courageous and revealing role as the ice-cold angel of death. At her side even superstar Michael Douglas pales [...]. The explicit, explosive sex scenes are already considered classics, but the boldly constructed Whodunnit and the shocking moments of violence stand up to any (sic!) Comparison. "
Aftermath
The worldwide success of Basic Instinct drew a large number of other erotic thrillers, including Phillip Noyce's Sliver (1993), also starring Sharon Stone, Body of Evidence (1993), with Madonna , and Fair Game (1995), with Cindy Crawford . However, these films did not match the success of Basic Instinct .
In 2005, a sequel was made under the title Basic Instinct - New Game for Catherine Tramell , in which Sharon Stone again slipped into the role of Catherine Tramell. The thriller, directed by Michael Caton-Jones and starring David Morrissey , Charlotte Rampling and David Thewlis in other roles , was shown in German cinemas at the end of March 2006.
Oscar winner Dorothy Malone can be seen in a supporting role . It was her last role before retiring from the movie business.
Audio film
In 2009, Bayerischer Rundfunk prepared an audio description for television broadcasts on behalf of Swiss television . The image descriptions are spoken by Thomas Meinhardt .
Awards
Academy Awards 1993
nominated in the categories:
- Best cut
- Best film score
Golden Globe Awards 1993
nominated in the categories:
- Best Actress in a Drama: Sharon Stone
- Best film score
MTV Movie Awards 1993
- Best Actress: Sharon Stone
- Most Desired Actress: Sharon Stone
also nominated in the categories:
- Best movie
- Best Actor: Michael Douglas
- Best Film Couple: Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone
Saturn Award ceremony 1993
nominated in the categories:
- Best horror film
- Best director
- Best Actress: Sharon Stone
- Best script
- Best music
Golden Raspberry 1993
nominated in the categories:
- Worst actor: Michael Douglas
- Worst supporting actress: Jeanne Tripplehorn
- Worst Newcomer: Sharon Stone (although she had previously appeared in two dozen films)
Novel adaptation
- Richard Osborne: Basic Instinct: The novel for the film. From the English by Reinhard Wagner. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1992, ISBN 3-404-13444-3 .
- Richard Osborne, Joe Eszterhas: Basic instinct. A novel. Penguin, New York 1992, ISBN 0-451-17243-4 (English edition).
literature
- Gebhard Hölzl, Thomas Lassonczyk: Sharon Stone - With "Basic Instinct" to success. Heyne, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-453-06551-4 , pp. 113-124, 230.
- Oliver Jahraus , Stefan Neuhaus : The Erotic Film - On the media coding of aesthetics, sexuality and violence. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 3-8260-2582-2 , pp. 107-130.
- Hans-Dieter König: Basic Instinct (s) and gender struggle. In: Stefan Müller-Doohm, Klaus Neumann-Braun (Hrsg.): Kulturinszenierungen. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-518-11937-0 , pp. 141-164.
- Anselm C. Kreuzer: Film Music - History and Analysis. 2nd, expanded and revised edition. Lang, Frankfurt 2003, ISBN 3-631-51150-7 , pp. 119-221.
- Stefan Volk: Basic Instinct. In: Stefan Volk: Scandal films - cineastic excitement yesterday and today. Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89472-562-4 , pp. 238-243.
Web links
- Basic Instinct in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Basic Instinct at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Basic Instinct at Metacritic (English)
- Basic Instinct in the online film database
- Basic Instinct in the German dubbing index
- Basic Instinct on Skandalfilm.net
- Comparison of the cut versions RTL 2 from 12 - FSK 16 , R-Rated - Unrated Director's Cut (FSK 16) by Basic Instinct at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Basic Instinct . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2012 (PDF; test number: 67 827 V).
- ↑ Bernard Weinraub, Basic Instinct: The Suspect Is Attractive, and May Be Fatal , The New York Times , March 15, 1992, accessed December 23, 2011.
- ↑ See documentation on the double DVD Basic Instinct . Kinowelt Home Entertainment, 2002.
- ↑ Cf.: Stefan Volk: Scandal Films. Cinematic excitement yesterday and today . Marburg 2011, p. 241 .
- ↑ Cf.: Stefan Volk: Scandal Films. Cinematic excitement yesterday and today . Marburg 2011, p. 239 ff .
- ↑ Basic Instinct on the Cannes International Film Festival website, accessed December 23, 2011.
- ↑ Basic Instinct in the Internet Movie Database .
- ↑ Quoted from: Stefan Volk: Scandalfilme. Cinematic excitement yesterday and today . Marburg 2011, p. 243 .
- ↑ Peter Beddies: What happened to Sharon Stone's slip? , Die Welt , No. 139, June 18, 2007, p. 29, accessed December 23, 2011.
- ↑ Sven Boedecker: Ich bin der Eispickel , SonntagsZeitung , August 8, 2004, p. 41.
- ↑ Liz Hodgson: The trouble with Sharon… ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Evening Standard , August 22, 2000, accessed December 23, 2011.
- ^ Basic Instinct. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 13, 2017 .
- ↑ mediabiz.de
- ↑ imdb.com
- ^ Basic Instinct in the Hörfilm database of Hörfilm e. V.
- ↑ Announcement of the audio film version
- ↑ Awards for Basic Instinct
