It strikes me as absurd to write about committing murder and then replicate the crime exactly as portrayed in your writing—it would be akin to advertising oneself as the perpetrator. I’m not foolish enough to do that. Basic Instinct comes from director Paul Verhoeven, with a script by Joe Eszterhaz. The cast includes Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Denis Arndt and Leilani Sarelle…

Despite the arguments surrounding Sharon Stone’s undeniably alluring and darkly stylish character—a real alpha female, to be sure—and the criticism that the film depicted lesbians as unstable, Verhoeven paid homage to Sir Alfred Hitchcock, specifically *Vertigo*, and maintained his established narrative approach from his early career in the Netherlands. It's not something discussed by the actors or director, but the …