The leg-cross scene in Basic Instinct made that a difficult movie for me not to check out.
The film was released in 1992. The leg-crosser (Catherine Tramell) was played by Sharon Stone, and Detective Nick Curran, one of the men in the interrogation room watching Ms. Tramell, was played by Michael Douglas. Ms. Stone returned fourteen years later, when she was 48, to do more of the same in Basic Instinct 2, but this time with psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass (played by David Morrissey). The sequel may not have been as good as its predecessor, but Ms. Stone definitely was.
Limerick of the Week:
That's all there is, that's all she wrote,[Here's a link to the extended, R-rated version of the scene from Basic Instinct; I was asked to give my age before being allowed to watch it.]
The only fish I have to quote,
And though it wasn't stated
It seemed to be R-rated—
Or do we need to hold a vote?
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Copyright © 2013 by Morris Dean
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Thank heaven for "Dirty old men"! Love 'em all!
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DeleteSomehow missed the 'Basic Instinct' flicks, but the Crocodile Dundee "now that's a knife" scene convinced a bunch of us outdoorsy, never-go-to-movie types to go see that one. When we started putting together an effort to see it as a group, all the girlfriends and wives involved started worrying what type of movie it must be to actually lure us to a theater. Turned out the movie was even better than the trailer, at least in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteAnother trailer that pulled me in was the one for 'The Ghost and the Darkness.' (You can search it on YouTube.) This is one of those historical-based movies that is real to the point the lions did exist and did kill a bunch of people, and Val Kilmer's engineer character was real. The "great white hunter" played by Michael Douglas was as fake and laughable as Kilmer's accent, and I have yet to figure out why they added that character to the storyline.
Coincidentally, I spent two weeks camping in the Tsavo area of Kenya not too long after seeing the movie, and I have never slept so lightly and fitfully anyplace else. One evening, just before dark, we were driving back to camp in a small, open pick-up truck, and as we rounded a curve less than 75 yards from our tents, lions were suddenly on both sides of us. It was surreal to be peeking over the edge of a pick-up truck bed and realize I was eye level with the huge male lion looking at me from less than 15 feet away. That night none of us slept.
Well I can imagine that you didn't sleep well!
DeleteThe scene from "The Ghost and the Darkness" would have to be VERY good to woo me; the title is a real turnoff.
And this from a man enamored of a novel with the title "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" - which I assume is about a large rodent-like creature with Martha Stewart-like style and flair? As for the subsequent movie, simply titled "The Hedgehog" - they abandoned the ultra-slim chopsticks and doily approach and made it a pure nature documentary?
ReplyDeleteYes, I fear the folks who titled "The Ghost and the Darkness" fell into the age-old trap of trying to avoid doing the obvious, even if the obvious made a lot more sense. The movie was about the infamous man-eating lions of Tsavo; what better title to lure the average movie goer than something like "The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo?"
There is an axiom in writing:"beware the elongated yellow fruit." That stems for the guy writing about bananas who just couldn't stand to use the word banana yet again, so in desperation he instead came up the never to be forgotten "elongated yellow fruit." The movie title seems the same sort of mistake.
Man-eating lions usually work alone, and the Tsavo lions stalked and killed as a team - often in broad daylight and in front of several people - which endowed them with spiritual and perhaps even supernatural qualities in the minds of those dealing with them at the time. They became known as "the ghost and the darkness" and that bit of name mysticism is apparently what the movie makers were trying to play on when they titled the film. The last I knew, the expertly mounted bodies of the lions were still on display at the Field Museum in Chicago - and the lions of the rugged Tsavo region were still notorious for supplementing their occasionally sparse wild-game diet with less nutritious but much easier to catch human prey.
There you go again about hedgehogs!
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