basic instinct sharon stone leg cross scene

However, despite that, and despite the film clearly involving at least two explicit love making scenes featuring both female and male nudity, it was a partially obscured, momentary glimpse of a woman’s vulva that caught the fancy of the audience, and drove well over a quarter of the world crazy. ‘Basic Instinct’ was itself a mildly entertaining thriller in my opinion, with clearly under-running themes of eroticism and sensuality. Without a doubt, the single most paused scene in movie history, Sharon Stone’s interrogation scene in the film came to ‘posterise’ the film in a way I have rarely seen any single shot or scene do to a film in recent times. Such is the power of the scene and I have absolutely no doubts that in the times to follow, this one scene will also be the film’s legacy.

Every single major channel on Youtube lists the official trailer of the film with this shot as the cover image.Īs a matter of fact, coming to the ever belligerent viewer, even you have forgotten what the actual poster of the film looks like. Major keywords in the search term suggestions include “interrogation”, “legs”, Catherine”, “flash” and “cross”. Type the film’s name on the Google search bar and the first ten images that appear are from the scene. Need a testament to what I am saying? Here it is.

By the merit in that argument, you are plainly lying if a cross legged Sharon Stone seated in that black leather chair does not appear in your mind before you deliberately try to switch over to one of the less memorable scenes from the film, whenever I mention Paul Verhoeven’s sensuous murder mystery ‘ Basic Instinct’.

Basic instinct sharon stone leg cross scene