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Basic Instinct

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Basic Instinct

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Year

1992

Size/Type

UK Quad / Double Sided (30" x 40")

Country of Origin

UK / British

Condition

Near Mint minus / Originally Rolled (as issued)

Director

Paul Verhoeven

Actor/Actress

George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone

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“I’d have to be pretty stupid to write a book about killing and then kill him the way I described in my book. I’d be announcing myself as the killer. I’m not stupid.”

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The draw of “Basic Instinct” is its over-the-top style and sex, the way the story forges ahead with gleeful abandon and is widely regarded as an expertly crafted guilty pleasure. One of the most talked about movie of the early 90’s. From Sharon Stone’s leg crossing interrogation scene to Michael Douglas’ green cashmere jumper in a disco. This rolled (as issued), UK Quad from 1992 features close-ups of Michael Douglas & Sharon Stone designed by Dan Chapman and Kevin Bachman. It presents to excellent condition and represents  a fantastic piece of high quality cinematic movie memorabilia for a classic crime noir thriller.

Trivia: After the film’s release, someone called Sharon Stone‘s mother and asked her how she would feel about her daughter’s nudity in the film. Her mother said, “Frankly, I was much more concerned about her playing a sociopathic serial killer, but thank you for calling”.

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Film Description

Basic Instinct Movie Poster

“A former rock star, Johnny Boz, is brutally killed during sex, and the case is assigned to detective Nick Curran of the SFPD. During the investigation, Nick meets Catherine Tramell, a crime novelist who was Boz’s girlfriend when he died. Catherine proves to be a very clever and manipulative woman, and though Nick is more or less convinced that she murdered Boz, he is unable to find any evidence. Later, when Nilsen, Nick’s rival in the police, is killed, Nick suspects of Catherine’s involvement in it. He then starts to play a dangerous lust-filled mind game with Catherine to nail her, but as their relationship progresses, the body count rises and contradicting evidences force Nick to start questioning his own suspicions about Catherine’s guilt.”

Despite being built around the most ‘basic’ of plots, erotic thriller “Basic Instinct” remains director Paul Verhoeven‘s biggest commercial success, being one of the highest grossing titles of 1992. Unperturbed by the protestations of gay activists and uptight censor-happy moralists, who objected to the film’s provocative cocktail of graphic sex and violence and its portrayal of bisexuals as crazed killers, the general public flocked to the cinema to revel in Verhoeven’s heady concoction of wanton lust and cold-blooded violence.

Written by Joe Eszterhas, the script is slick Hollywood nonsense, a flashy, trashy, twisting, turning tale clearly inspired by Hitchcock and the film-noir genre. Frequently teetering on the brink of preposterousness, its is precisely the kind of far-fetched nonsense that only a true maverick like Verhoeven could do justice to—and boy, does he pull out all the stops.

The film follows troubled detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) as he investigates the murder, stupidly becoming involved with his prime suspect, scorching hot, super intelligent, highly manipulative crime novelist Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone), who may or may not be lining him up as her latest victim

Never one to do things by halves, the Dutch director opens his film as he means to go on, with a brutal murder that takes place during intercourse, a physically flawless blonde viciously stabbing her lover to death with an ice-pick. Scorching sex combined with gut churning nastiness, it’s a real shocker and a clear indicator that this is to be no run-of-the-mill Hollywood thriller.

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