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How Does Hitchcock Create Suspense In Basic Instinct

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Basic Instinct by Paul Verhoeven is a sexual thriller, which exploring the ideas of femme fatale women, power games and manipulation between woman and man. This is not a movie driven by its moral lessons; this is a movie about wanting the multimillion-dollar mansion of a murderess. The women in Basic Instinct kill in order to fight against restraints put on them by their families and society. The movie features three women, who in one form or another, have this as their killing aim in Basic Instinct, women kill in acts of rage directed specifically against men and the family.
If we just start from the first scene we can see how the director establishes the mood of the noir movie with an erotic bias. Let’s get closer into the details of the …show more content…

According to the definition of suspense, director gives us all the information before the action has begun in order to cause an audience to have an emotional reaction. As Alfred Hitchcock said: “It could be achieved only by giving them knowledge to get confused between the mystery story, thriller, suspense story and who done it”. The plot in Basic Instinct was constructed so that every relevant clue could’ve been read in two ways, which means that all the given solutions are not necessary true. Again as an example we can take the best moment of the movie- the interrogation scene of Catherine (Sharon Stone) at the police headquarters. When she is sitting all alone by the wall in the room, right in front of all the male officers, in white skimpy dress. She makes the audience in the room stare at her without a blink of an eye, as they get to see the most private part of her body. She is getting to play with the officer’s minds, trying to get the most attention from Nick (main character). Her body was transformed into a weapon, which she uses to control a man’s desire. Her sexuality and intellect are the bullets, which could take any man "down". Back in Hitchcock’s days it would not have been accepted to have a bisexual serial killer but someone who looks like Sharon Stone would have been a perfect suspense character for any of Hitchcock’s

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