Easter egg: On the Basic Instinct Deluxe Edition DVD, go to the main menu and click on Special Features. At the Special Features menu, scroll down and then to the right to highlight the icepick. Clicking on it gives you Sharon Stone's screen tests of 3 scenes in the movie.
Basic Instinct (1992)
1 easter egg
Directed by: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, Jeanne Tripplehorn, George Dzundza
Continuity mistake: During the infamous leg un-crossing scene when Sharon Stone is being interrogated, a cigarette in her hand disappears and then reappears.
Nick: How did you feel when I told you Johnny Boz had died, that day at the beach?
Catherine: I felt somebody had read my book and was playing a game.
Nick: But you didn't hurt.
Catherine: No.
Nick: Because you didn't love him.
Catherine: That's right.
Nick: Even though you were fucking him.
Catherine: You still get the pleasure. Didn't you ever fuck anybody else while you were married, Nick?
Trivia: Director Paul Verhoeven approached Peter Weller for the role of Nick Curran but the producers opted for Michael Douglas instead.
Question: Did Stone have a motive for all that she did or was she nuts and doing it all for fun?
Answer: I would say her motive mostly amounts to exploiting others and real-life stories to create more fascinating and complex stories to satisfy her insatiable ego, whether she chooses to kill them or not in the story.
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Answer: She is portrayed as a psychopath with an uncontrollable urge to kill.
raywest ★
I wouldn't say that she had an "urge" to kill. Rather, she was willing to "dispose" of people by killing them. She would kill people who were in her way or were no longer interesting/useful.