Girls Gone Wild
After watching “Basic Instinct� I didn’t feel like queerness played much of a role in the film at all. The filmmaker used queerness as just another tool of the “unknown� to keep Nick on edge and jealous. This film was released in 1992 and there weren’t many mainstream films with queerness in them and it was simply used as a cheap ploy to sell tickets and stir up faux controversy. It was more or less a queer tease to play into a heterosexual shock fantasy for male, heterosexual spectators. I never felt that there was a link between evil and queer when watching the film. I agree with Celestino Deleyto writes she writes, “For all the controversy raised in the U.S. by gay and lesbian groups about the attitude towards lesbianism, the only same-sex relationship developed of any depth by the film is the one between the two men.� The lesbianism plays such a small role in the film that it’s barely worth analyzing. The film wasn't made with much care, evidenced by the ridiculous plot. I don't believe the director intended to make a homophobic film. He just created a silly, thriller with little depth.
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I absolutely agree with you. This film, to me, was not made to create controversey. The homosexual audience took the insignificant parts of this film and argued them. The main intention of the director was to create a film that focused on female power and a male with an inferiority complex.
Posted by: Teena Rasmussen | September 30, 2008 11:18 AM