Deliberate Controversy, a conversation – Part 4: “Basic Instinct” (1992)

This is the fourth part of an eight-part series about difficult movies. 

Part 1 focused on S. Craig Zahler’s “Dragged Across Concrete”. Part 2 focused on Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris”. Part 3 focused on Don Edmonds’s “Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS”. Part 5 will focus on Terry Jones’s “Monty Python’s Life of Brian”. Part 6 will focus on Martin Scorsese’s “Last Temptation of Christ”. Part 7 will focus on Spike Lee’s “Bamboozled”. Part 8 will focus on Dinesh D’Souza's “2000 Mules”.

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Referenced media:

• “Total Recall” (Paul Verhoeven, 1990)
• “Citizen Kane” (Orson Welles, 1941)
• “The X-Files” (Chris Carter, 1993-2002, 2016-2018)
• “The Streets of San Francisco” (Edward Hume, 1972-1977)
• “The Deer Hunter” (Michael Cimino, 1978)
• “Double Indemnity” (Billy Wilder, 1944)
• “Sin City” (Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez, 2005)
• “The Killers” (Robert Siodmak, 1946)
• “Shortbus” (James Cameron Mitchell, 2006)
• “In the Realm of the Senses” (Nagisa Oshima, 1976)
• “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle” (Curtis Hanson, 1992)
• “Love Crimes” (Lizzie Borden, 1992)
• “Final Analysis” (Wesley Strick, 1992)
• “One False Move” (Carl Franklin, 1992),
• “The Silence of the Lambs” (Jonathan Demme, 1991)

Audio quotation:

• “Basic Instinct” (Paul Verhoeven, 1992)
• “Total Recall” (Paul Verhoeven, 1990)
• “Citizen Kane” (Orson Welles, 1941)
• “Contagious Laughter Compilation” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQVZ-0EMeVQ