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* HollywoodHomely: Brown hair, brown eyes, glasses, sensible, drab-colored clothes (and presumably underwear as well) as supposedly enough to make Beth the plain alternative to the glamorous Catherine though she was still considered desirable enough to gain the sexual interest of Catherine and Nick, do a nice topless scene.
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* HollywoodHomely: Brown hair, brown eyes, glasses, sensible, drab-colored clothes (and presumably underwear as well) as was supposedly enough to make Beth the plain alternative to the glamorous Catherine Catherine, though she was still considered desirable enough to gain the sexual interest of Catherine and Nick, do to the point of doing a nice topless scene.
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** Beth. You except someone [[spoiler: when they're held at gunpoint by the authorities to take their hands out of their pockets. Instead, Beth refuses and still walks toward Nick, who, understandably in an aggerated state, shoots her.]]
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** Beth. You except expect someone [[spoiler: when they're held at gunpoint by the authorities to take their hands out of their pockets. Instead, Beth refuses and still walks toward Nick, who, understandably in an aggerated state, shoots her.]]
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: There is much debate amongst fans of the film whether Beth is an innocent victim or an evil FemmeFatale.There are people who think it's not a hundred percent clear even at the end that Catherine is a murderess. There is even a theory that Beth and Catherine are in league all along - which explains how they can guess each other's actions and know how the same information - and only pretend to be foes to mess with Nick's head. Did Roxy commit any of the murders? [[spoiler:Apart from her brother and the attempted murder of Nick]]. The final shot is interpreted differently by different viewers. Is Catherine about to kill Nick? Was she going to kill him and then changed her mind? Does the ice pick mean she definitely is the killer or is it only supposed to hint she might be? There is also debate whether the first scene of Nick and Beth in her apartment is sex or date rape.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: There is much debate amongst fans of the film whether Beth is an innocent victim or an evil FemmeFatale. There are people who think it's not a hundred percent clear even at the end that Catherine is a murderess. There is even a theory that Beth and Catherine are in league all along - which explains how they can guess each other's actions and know how the same information - and only pretend to be foes to mess with Nick's head. Did Roxy commit any of the murders? [[spoiler:Apart from her brother and the attempted murder of Nick]]. The final shot is interpreted differently by different viewers. Is Catherine about to kill Nick? Was she going to kill him and then changed her mind? Does the ice pick mean she definitely is the killer or is it only supposed to hint she might be? There is also debate whether the first scene of Nick and Beth in her apartment is sex or date rape.
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* NightmareFuel: The first scene depicts Catherine (from behind) having passionate sex with a man in a very warm rosy setting. She proceeds to tie his hands to the bed with a silk scarf, and just as they are about to orgasm she grabs an ice pick and starts stabbing the poor guy repeatedly. How quickly the scene shifts from eroticism to pure horror is quite a shock. We don't even see him die, we just watch him scream madly and struggle to get away as Catherine keeps stabbing, getting bathed in his blood as the movie cuts to the next scene.
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** The first scene depicts Catherine (from behind) having passionate sex with a man in a very warm rosy setting. She proceeds to tie his hands to the bed with a silk scarf, and just as they are about to orgasm she grabs an ice pick and starts stabbing the poor guy repeatedly. How quickly the scene shifts from eroticism to pure horror is quite a shock. We don't even see him die, we just watch him scream madly and struggle to get away as Catherine keeps stabbing, getting bathed in his blood as the movie cuts to the nextscene.scene.
** When Nick and Catherine have sex the first time, she ties him to the bed -- something she usually does with her male partners before murdering them mid-coitus. Nick is frightened but too aroused and restrained to do anything, and it looks as if she's going to kill him right then and there during the act. Sure, she only has sex with him but still.
** The highly intense car chase scene between Nick and the suspect in the car trying to kill him. Complete with a car crash via the automobile flipping over the bridge and Roxy's corpse falling out with eyes wide open.
** Gus being cornered in the building after exiting the elevator and being stabbed to death with an ice pick before his friend could get to him.
** Beth being shot to death by a cop on duty and dying very quickly from her gun wound. There's a reason cops tell people to take their hands out of their pockets.
** The idea of a young juvenile Roxy murdering her brothers when she was a teen because she of jealous of her father's attention to them. And the fact she seduced numerous young boys just to kill them later.
** Hazel Robins, a seemingly sweet old woman who is friends with Catherine, killed her entire family for no good reason.
** The possibility that Catherine murdered her parents at a young age and got away with it. Based on the novels she's written.
** The first scene depicts Catherine (from behind) having passionate sex with a man in a very warm rosy setting. She proceeds to tie his hands to the bed with a silk scarf, and just as they are about to orgasm she grabs an ice pick and starts stabbing the poor guy repeatedly. How quickly the scene shifts from eroticism to pure horror is quite a shock. We don't even see him die, we just watch him scream madly and struggle to get away as Catherine keeps stabbing, getting bathed in his blood as the movie cuts to the next
** When Nick and Catherine have sex the first time, she ties him to the bed -- something she usually does with her male partners before murdering them mid-coitus. Nick is frightened but too aroused and restrained to do anything, and it looks as if she's going to kill him right then and there during the act. Sure, she only has sex with him but still.
** The highly intense car chase scene between Nick and the suspect in the car trying to kill him. Complete with a car crash via the automobile flipping over the bridge and Roxy's corpse falling out with eyes wide open.
** Gus being cornered in the building after exiting the elevator and being stabbed to death with an ice pick before his friend could get to him.
** Beth being shot to death by a cop on duty and dying very quickly from her gun wound. There's a reason cops tell people to take their hands out of their pockets.
** The idea of a young juvenile Roxy murdering her brothers when she was a teen because she of jealous of her father's attention to them. And the fact she seduced numerous young boys just to kill them later.
** Hazel Robins, a seemingly sweet old woman who is friends with Catherine, killed her entire family for no good reason.
** The possibility that Catherine murdered her parents at a young age and got away with it. Based on the novels she's written.
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** Nick Curran. You expect a detective to avoid falling for someone they should know is deadly and bad for them. But instead he still falls for her, pushes the people he cares about away from him and is doomed to be killed by the woman he saved from incarceration for her murders.
** Beth. You except someone [[spoiler: when they're held at gunpoint by the authorities to take their hands out of their pockets. Instead, Beth refuses and still walks toward Nick, who, understandably in an aggerated state, shoots her.]]
* TheWoobie: Beth, who suffers date-rape, verbal abuse, and at least one physical altercation with her boyfriend Nick Curran. [[spoiler: She spends the remainder of the film trying to warn him of Catherine Trammell only to get blown off and cheated on by him and eventually she dies by his gun while telling him she loved him.]]
** Nick Curran. You expect a detective to avoid falling for someone they should know is deadly and bad for them. But instead he still falls for her, pushes the people he cares about away from him and is doomed to be killed by the woman he saved from incarceration for her murders.
** Beth. You except someone [[spoiler: when they're held at gunpoint by the authorities to take their hands out of their pockets. Instead, Beth refuses and still walks toward Nick, who, understandably in an aggerated state, shoots her.]]
* TheWoobie: Beth, who suffers date-rape, verbal abuse, and at least one physical altercation with her boyfriend Nick Curran. [[spoiler: She spends the remainder of the film trying to warn him of Catherine Trammell only to get blown off and cheated on by him and eventually she dies by his gun while telling him she loved him.]]
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: While this film codified the erotic thriller along with ''Fatal Attraction'', nearly thirty years on the titilation has worn off, and the ClicheStorm nature of the plot being copied many times since makes Catherine come across not as an ingenious FemmeFatale but an incredibly unsubtle manipulator and DevilInPlainSight and Nick not as a brooding TragicHero but a gullible lemming.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: While this film codified the erotic thriller along with ''Fatal Attraction'', ''Film/FatalAttraction'', nearly thirty years on the titilation has worn off, off with easy access to internet pornography and increased sexualization of popular culture, and the ClicheStorm nature of the plot being copied many times since makes Catherine come across not as an ingenious FemmeFatale but an incredibly unsubtle manipulator and DevilInPlainSight and Nick not as a brooding TragicHero but a gullible lemming.lemming. It's co-codifier is actually a lot more [[ValuesResonance Values Resonant]] for dealing with the realistic consequences of infidelity and stalking and its moral ambiguity.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: While this film codified the erotic thriller along with ''Fatal Attraction'', nearly thirty years on the titilation has worn off, and the ClicheStorm nature of the plot being copied many times since makes Catherine come across not as an ingenious FemmeFatale but an incredibly unsubtle manipulator and DevilInPlainSight and Nick not as a brooding TragicHero but a gullible lemming.
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* HideYourLesbians: A male version. The character Nick Curran was originally going to be bisexual but actor Michael Douglas refused the idea.
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* FetishRetardant: Nick's sagging buttocks provoked laughter from audiences.
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* HideYourLesbians: A male version. The character Nick Curran was originally going to be bisexual but actor Michael Douglas refused the idea.
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* HomoeroticSubtext: Between Nick and Gus.
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* RewatchBonus: A lot of little lines hint at Catherine's guilt.
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* AmbiguousTimePeriod: It looks like the setting might be contemporaneous with its filming in 1991, but Nick's partner, who appears to be in only his mid-to-late 40s, talks about a murder from 1955 as if he were a cop back then. Also, no mention is made of DNA testing, which was still admittedly very new, having first been used in the US in only 1987. Still, it seems unlikely that a police department in a city as large as San Francisco would not have considered it as a possible option available to them. Perhaps the screenplay was written several years before filming...
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* CompleteMonster: [TheVamp Catherine Tramell]] derives joy only from death-defying gambits, in which she [[FemmeFatale manipulates and leads others to their deaths]]. Seducing her victims into falling in love with her, Catherine [[BlackWidow kills them]] when she grows bored and publishes novels inspired by her crimes, as a show of arrogance in what she can get away with. With a slew of bodies behind her, including [[SelfMadeOrphan her own parents]], Catherine manipulates her girlfriend into getting herself killed in a jealous attack on Catherine's other lover, Nick Curran, before setting up her own acquaintance to be blamed for Catherine's murders and get killed by Nick. Given a court-ordered psychologist, Dr. Michael Glass, [[Film/BasicInstinct2 years later]], Catherine mentally torments him and personally kills Glass's wife, manipulating Glass into killing a rival psychologist and framing him for both crimes, happily admitting to Glass that she loves and indulges in her own evil nature.
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* CompleteMonster: [TheVamp [[TheVamp Catherine Tramell]] derives joy only from death-defying gambits, in which she [[FemmeFatale manipulates and leads others to their deaths]]. Seducing her victims into falling in love with her, Catherine [[BlackWidow kills them]] when she grows bored and publishes novels inspired by her crimes, as a show of arrogance in what she can get away with. With a slew of bodies behind her, including [[SelfMadeOrphan her own parents]], Catherine manipulates her girlfriend into getting herself killed in a jealous attack on Catherine's other lover, Nick Curran, before setting up her own acquaintance to be blamed for Catherine's murders and get killed by Nick. Given a court-ordered psychologist, Dr. Michael Glass, [[Film/BasicInstinct2 years later]], Catherine mentally torments him and personally kills Glass's wife, manipulating Glass into killing a rival psychologist and framing him for both crimes, happily admitting to Glass that she loves and indulges in her own evil nature.
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* CompleteMonster (includes ''Film/BasicInstinct2''): [[TheVamp Catherine Tramell]] derives joy only from death-defying gambits, in which she [[FemmeFatale manipulates and leads others to their deaths]]. Seducing her victims into falling in love with her, Catherine [[BlackWidow kills them]] when she grows bored and publishes [[RomanAClef novels inspired by her crimes]], as a show of arrogance in what she can get away with. With a slew of bodies behind her, including [[SelfMadeOrphan her own parents]], Catherine manipulates her girlfriend into getting herself killed in a jealous attack on Catherine's other lover, Nick Curran, before setting up her own acquaintance to be blamed for Catherine's murders and get killed by Nick. Given a court-ordered psychologist, Dr. Michael Glass, years later, Catherine mentally torments him and personally kills Glass's wife, manipulating Glass into killing a rival psychologist and framing him for both crimes, happily admitting to Glass that she loves and indulges in her own evil nature.
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* CompleteMonster (includes ''Film/BasicInstinct2''): [[TheVamp CompleteMonster: [TheVamp Catherine Tramell]] derives joy only from death-defying gambits, in which she [[FemmeFatale manipulates and leads others to their deaths]]. Seducing her victims into falling in love with her, Catherine [[BlackWidow kills them]] when she grows bored and publishes [[RomanAClef novels inspired by her crimes]], crimes, as a show of arrogance in what she can get away with. With a slew of bodies behind her, including [[SelfMadeOrphan her own parents]], Catherine manipulates her girlfriend into getting herself killed in a jealous attack on Catherine's other lover, Nick Curran, before setting up her own acquaintance to be blamed for Catherine's murders and get killed by Nick. Given a court-ordered psychologist, Dr. Michael Glass, [[Film/BasicInstinct2 years later, later]], Catherine mentally torments him and personally kills Glass's wife, manipulating Glass into killing a rival psychologist and framing him for both crimes, happily admitting to Glass that she loves and indulges in her own evil nature.
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* CompleteMonster: [[TheVamp Catherine Tramell]] is a multimillionaire FemmeFatale who manipulates and kills people for thrills. [[BlackWidow Catherine]] seduces people to fall for her, both men and women, before killing them [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness when she grows bored of them]]. She consorts with known murderers to get inspiration for her crime novels and writes RomanAClef books about her own crimes to prove that she can get away with it. Among her other murders, she [[SelfMadeOrphan killed her parents]] in a [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident mysterious boat explosion]] and, during coitus, brutally murdered her boyfriend Johnny Boz to death with an ice pick. She also considered killing her new plaything Nick before deciding that she wanted him as a sex toy just a bit longer. She manipulates her girlfriend Roxy into getting herself killed in a jealous attack on Nick and sets up her old acquaintance Beth to [[FrameUp take the blame]] for the series of murders and get shot by Nick. [[Film/BasicInstinct2 Years later]] in London, when Catherine is set up with a court-ordered psychologist named Dr. Glass after another "accident", she plays mind games with him until she kills Glass's ex-wife and manipulates him to kill a rival psychologist. She frames him for both crimes and gets him committed to a mental institution for life.
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* CompleteMonster: CompleteMonster (includes ''Film/BasicInstinct2''): [[TheVamp Catherine Tramell]] is a multimillionaire FemmeFatale who derives joy only from death-defying gambits, in which she [[FemmeFatale manipulates and kills people for thrills. leads others to their deaths]]. Seducing her victims into falling in love with her, Catherine [[BlackWidow Catherine]] seduces people to fall for her, both men and women, before killing them [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kills them]] when she grows bored of them]]. She consorts with known murderers to get inspiration for her crime and publishes [[RomanAClef novels and writes RomanAClef books about inspired by her own crimes to prove that crimes]], as a show of arrogance in what she can get away with it. Among her other murders, she with. With a slew of bodies behind her, including [[SelfMadeOrphan killed her parents]] in a [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident mysterious boat explosion]] and, during coitus, brutally murdered her boyfriend Johnny Boz to death with an ice pick. She also considered killing her new plaything Nick before deciding that she wanted him as a sex toy just a bit longer. She own parents]], Catherine manipulates her girlfriend Roxy into getting herself killed in a jealous attack on Catherine's other lover, Nick and sets Curran, before setting up her old own acquaintance Beth to [[FrameUp take the blame]] be blamed for the series of Catherine's murders and get shot killed by Nick. [[Film/BasicInstinct2 Years later]] in London, when Catherine is set up with Given a court-ordered psychologist named psychologist, Dr. Glass after another "accident", she plays mind games with Michael Glass, years later, Catherine mentally torments him until she and personally kills Glass's ex-wife and manipulates him to kill wife, manipulating Glass into killing a rival psychologist. She frames psychologist and framing him for both crimes crimes, happily admitting to Glass that she loves and gets him committed to a mental institution for life.indulges in her own evil nature.
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* CompleteMonster: [[TheVamp Catherine Tramell]] is a multimillionaire FemmeFatale who manipulates and kills people for thrills. [[BlackWidow Catherine]] seduces people to fall for her, both men and women, before killing them [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness when she grows bored of them]]. She consorts with known murderers to get inspiration for her crime novels and writes RomanAClef books about her own crimes to prove that she can get away with it. Among her other murders, she [[SelfMadeOrphan killed her parents]] in a [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident mysterious boat explosion]] and, during coitus, brutally murdered her boyfriend Johnny Boz to death with an icepick.ice pick. She also considered killing her new plaything Nick before deciding that she wanted him as a sex toy just a bit longer. She manipulates her girlfriend Roxy into getting herself killed in a jealous attack on Nick and sets up her old acquaintance Beth to [[FrameUp take the blame]] for the series of murders and get shot by Nick. [[Film/BasicInstinct2 Years later]] in London, when Catherine is set up with a court-ordered psychologist named Dr. Glass after another "accident", she plays mind games with him until she kills Glass's ex-wife and manipulates him to kill a rival psychologist. She frames him for both crimes and gets him committed to a mental institution for life.
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* CompleteMonster: [[TheVamp Catherine Tramell]] is a multimillionaire FemmeFatale who manipulates and kills people for thrills. [[BlackWidow Catherine]] seduces people to fall for her, both men and women, before killing them [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness when she grows bored of them]]. She consorts with known murderers to get inspiration for her crime novels and writes RomanAClef books about her own crimes to prove that she can get away with it. Among her other murders, she [[SelfMadeOrphan killed her parents]] in a [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident mysterious boat explosion]] and, during coitus, brutally murdered her boyfriend Johnny Boz to death with an icepick. She also considered killing her new plaything Nick before deciding that she wanted him as a sex toy just a bit longer. She manipulates her lesbian girlfriend Roxy into getting herself killed in a jealous attack on Nick and sets up her old acquaintance Beth to [[FrameUp take the blame]] for the series of murders and get shot by Nick. [[Film/BasicInstinct2 Years later]] in London, when Catherine is set up with a court-ordered psychologist named Dr. Glass after another "accident", she plays mind games with him until she kills Glass's ex-wife and manipulates him to kill a rival psychologist. She frames him for both crimes and gets him committed to a mental institution for life.
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* CompleteMonster: [[TheVamp Catherine Tramell]] is a multimillionaire FemmeFatale who manipulates and kills people for thrills. [[BlackWidow Catherine]] seduces people to fall for her, both men and women, before killing them [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness when she grows bored of them]]. She consorts with known murderers to get inspiration for her crime novels and writes RomanAClef books about her own crimes to prove that she can get away with it. Among her other murders, she [[SelfMadeOrphan killed her parents]] in a [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident mysterious boat explosion]] and, during coitus, brutally murdered her boyfriend Johnny Boz to death with an icepick. She also considered killing her new plaything Nick before deciding that she wanted him as a sex toy just a bit longer. She manipulates her lesbian girlfriend Roxy into getting herself killed in a jealous attack on Nick and sets up her old acquaintance Beth to [[FrameUp take the blame]] for the series of murders and get shot by Nick. [[Film/BasicInstinct2 Years later]] in London, when Catherine is set up with a court-ordered psychologist named Dr. Glass after another "accident", she plays mind games with him until she kills Glass's ex-wife and manipulates him to kill a rival psychologist. She frames him for both crimes and gets him committed to a mental institution for life.
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* CompleteMonster: [[TheVamp Catherine Tramell]] is a multi-millionaire [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] FemmeFatale who [[ManipulativeBitch manipulates]] and kills people [[ForTheEvulz for thrills]]. Her only known source of joy is derived from taking increasingly bigger gambles to defy death, orchestrating complex schemes to assert her dominance. Catherine is a BlackWidow type of SerialKiller who seduces people to fall for her, [[DepravedBisexual both men and women]], before killing them [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness when she grows bored of them]]. As a published crime novelist she consorts with known murderers to get inspiration and writes RomanAClef books about her own crimes to prove that she can get away with it. She [[SelfMadeOrphan killed her parents]] in a [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident mysterious boat explosion]], killed a professor at Berkeley, hacked her boyfriend Johnny Boz to death with [[WeaponOfChoice an icepick]] [[DeathBySex during coitus]], killed detective Gus Moran, and considered killing her new plaything Nick before deciding that she wanted him as a sex toy just a bit longer. She manipulates her lesbian girlfriend Roxy into getting herself killed in a jealous attack on Nick and sets up her old acquaintance Beth to [[FrameUp take the blame]] for the series of murders and get shot by Nick. [[Film/BasicInstinct2 Years later in London]], she's still doing this with no sign of stopping or regret. When Catherine is set up with a court-ordered psychologist named Dr. Glass after another "accident", she plays mind games with him until she kills Glass's ex-wife and manipulates him to kill a rival psychologist. She frames him for both crimes and gets him committed to a mental institution for life. Catherine [[EvilGloating smugly informs him]] that she's used him for another one of her novels and admits that she's always been pure evil and likes it that way.
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* CompleteMonster: [[TheVamp Catherine Tramell]] is a multi-millionaire [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] multimillionaire FemmeFatale who [[ManipulativeBitch manipulates]] manipulates and kills people [[ForTheEvulz for thrills]]. Her only known source of joy is derived from taking increasingly bigger gambles to defy death, orchestrating complex schemes to assert her dominance. Catherine is a BlackWidow type of SerialKiller who thrills. [[BlackWidow Catherine]] seduces people to fall for her, [[DepravedBisexual both men and women]], women, before killing them [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness when she grows bored of them]]. As a published crime novelist she She consorts with known murderers to get inspiration for her crime novels and writes RomanAClef books about her own crimes to prove that she can get away with it. She Among her other murders, she [[SelfMadeOrphan killed her parents]] in a [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident mysterious boat explosion]], killed a professor at Berkeley, hacked explosion]] and, during coitus, brutally murdered her boyfriend Johnny Boz to death with [[WeaponOfChoice an icepick]] [[DeathBySex during coitus]], killed detective Gus Moran, and icepick. She also considered killing her new plaything Nick before deciding that she wanted him as a sex toy just a bit longer. She manipulates her lesbian girlfriend Roxy into getting herself killed in a jealous attack on Nick and sets up her old acquaintance Beth to [[FrameUp take the blame]] for the series of murders and get shot by Nick. [[Film/BasicInstinct2 Years later later]] in London]], she's still doing this with no sign of stopping or regret. When London, when Catherine is set up with a court-ordered psychologist named Dr. Glass after another "accident", she plays mind games with him until she kills Glass's ex-wife and manipulates him to kill a rival psychologist. She frames him for both crimes and gets him committed to a mental institution for life. Catherine [[EvilGloating smugly informs him]] that she's used him for another one of her novels and admits that she's always been pure evil and likes it that way.
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* ChaoticEvil: Catherine Tramell. Although she may appear to be NeutralEvil, the film never actually makes clear ''why'' she does what she does, which may just be bad writing.
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* CompleteMonster: Catherine Tramell is a multi-millionaire sociopathic FemmeFatale who manipulates and kills people for thrills. Her only known source of joy is derived from taking increasingly bigger gambles to defy death, orchestrating complex schemes to assert her dominance. Catherine is a BlackWidow type of SerialKiller who seduces people to fall for her, [[DepravedBisexual both men and women]], before killing them when she grows bored of them. As a published crime novelist she consorts with known murderers to get inspiration and writes RomanAClef books about her own crimes to prove that she can get away with it. She [[SelfMadeOrphan killed her parents]] in a [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident mysterious boat explosion]], killed a professor at Berkeley, hacked her boyfriend Johnny Boz to death with an icepick during coitus, killed detective Gus Moran, and considered killing her new plaything Nick before deciding that she wanted him as a sex toy just a bit longer. She manipulates her lesbian girlfriend Roxy into getting herself killed in a jealous attack on Nick and sets up her old acquaintance Beth to [[FrameUp take the blame]] for the series of murders and get shot by Nick. [[Film/BasicInstinct2 Years later in London, she's still doing this with no sign of stopping or regret]].
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* CompleteMonster: [[TheVamp Catherine Tramell Tramell]] is a multi-millionaire sociopathic [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] FemmeFatale who manipulates [[ManipulativeBitch manipulates]] and kills people [[ForTheEvulz for thrills.thrills]]. Her only known source of joy is derived from taking increasingly bigger gambles to defy death, orchestrating complex schemes to assert her dominance. Catherine is a BlackWidow type of SerialKiller who seduces people to fall for her, [[DepravedBisexual both men and women]], before killing them [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness when she grows bored of them.them]]. As a published crime novelist she consorts with known murderers to get inspiration and writes RomanAClef books about her own crimes to prove that she can get away with it. She [[SelfMadeOrphan killed her parents]] in a [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident mysterious boat explosion]], killed a professor at Berkeley, hacked her boyfriend Johnny Boz to death with [[WeaponOfChoice an icepick icepick]] [[DeathBySex during coitus, coitus]], killed detective Gus Moran, and considered killing her new plaything Nick before deciding that she wanted him as a sex toy just a bit longer. She manipulates her lesbian girlfriend Roxy into getting herself killed in a jealous attack on Nick and sets up her old acquaintance Beth to [[FrameUp take the blame]] for the series of murders and get shot by Nick. [[Film/BasicInstinct2 Years later in London, London]], she's still doing this with no sign of stopping or regret]].regret. When Catherine is set up with a court-ordered psychologist named Dr. Glass after another "accident", she plays mind games with him until she kills Glass's ex-wife and manipulates him to kill a rival psychologist. She frames him for both crimes and gets him committed to a mental institution for life. Catherine [[EvilGloating smugly informs him]] that she's used him for another one of her novels and admits that she's always been pure evil and likes it that way.
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* SignatureScene: As should be obvious by now, the interrogation scene where Catherine crosses her legs and it's clear she's GoingCommando. It's been parodied numerous times, either playing the fanservice aspects straight again or using it for FanDisservice (like featuring an older woman or an overweight guy instead).
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* SignatureScene: As should be obvious by now, the interrogation scene where Catherine crosses her legs and it's clear she's GoingCommando. [[BasicInstinctLegsCrossingParody It's been parodied numerous times, times]], either playing the fanservice aspects straight again or using it for FanDisservice (like featuring an older woman or an overweight guy instead).
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Catherine was disqualified in the cleanup thread because she's too evil.
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* MagnificentBastard: Catherine Tramell. Charismatic, smart, highly manipulative and very stylish, this serial killer murdered whoever she wanted during her two movies, and happily got away with it.
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* CompleteMonster: Catherine Tramell is a multi-millionaire sociopathic FemmeFatale who manipulates and kills people for thrills. Her only known source of joy is derived from taking increasingly bigger gambles to defy death, orchestrating complex schemes to assert her dominance. Catherine is a BlackWidow type of SerialKiller who seduces people to fall for her, [[DepravedBisexual both men and women]], before killing them when she grows bored of them. As a published crime novelist she consorts with known murderers to get inspiration and writes RomanAClef books about her own crimes to prove that she can get away with it. She [[SelfMadeOrphan killed her parents]] in a [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident mysterious boat explosion]], killed a professor at Berkeley, hacked her boyfriend Johnny Boz to death with an icepick during coitus, killed detective Gus Moran, and considered killing her new plaything Nick before deciding that she wanted him as a sex toy just a bit longer. She manipulates her lesbian girlfriend Roxy into getting herself killed in a jealous attack on Nick and sets up her old acquaintance Beth to [[FrameUp take the blame]] for the series of murders and get shot by Nick. Years later in London, she's still doing this with no sign of stopping or regret. When Catherine is set up with a court-ordered psychologist named Dr. Glass after another "accident", she plays mind games with him until she kills Glass's ex-wife and manipulates him to kill a rival psychologist. She frames him for both crimes and gets him committed to a mental institution for life, where Catherine [[EvilGloating smugly informs him]] that she's used him for another one of her novels.
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* CompleteMonster: Catherine Tramell is a multi-millionaire sociopathic FemmeFatale who manipulates and kills people for thrills. Her only known source of joy is derived from taking increasingly bigger gambles to defy death, orchestrating complex schemes to assert her dominance. Catherine is a BlackWidow type of SerialKiller who seduces people to fall for her, [[DepravedBisexual both men and women]], before killing them when she grows bored of them. As a published crime novelist she consorts with known murderers to get inspiration and writes RomanAClef books about her own crimes to prove that she can get away with it. She [[SelfMadeOrphan killed her parents]] in a [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident mysterious boat explosion]], killed a professor at Berkeley, hacked her boyfriend Johnny Boz to death with an icepick during coitus, killed detective Gus Moran, and considered killing her new plaything Nick before deciding that she wanted him as a sex toy just a bit longer. She manipulates her lesbian girlfriend Roxy into getting herself killed in a jealous attack on Nick and sets up her old acquaintance Beth to [[FrameUp take the blame]] for the series of murders and get shot by Nick. [[Film/BasicInstinct2 Years later in London, she's still doing this with no sign of stopping or regret. When Catherine is set up with a court-ordered psychologist named Dr. Glass after another "accident", she plays mind games with him until she kills Glass's ex-wife and manipulates him to kill a rival psychologist. She frames him for both crimes and gets him committed to a mental institution for life, where Catherine [[EvilGloating smugly informs him]] that she's used him for another one of her novels.regret]].
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* BestKnownForTheFanservice (so much so that people are often JustHereForGodzilla): Catherine's interrogation, during which she recrosses her legs while wearing an extremely short skirt with no panties. Long-distance gynecology, anyone?
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* BestKnownForTheFanservice (so BestKnownForTheFanservice: So much so that people are often JustHereForGodzilla): JustHereForGodzilla: Catherine's interrogation, during which she recrosses her legs while wearing an extremely short skirt with no panties. Long-distance gynecology, anyone?
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* MemeticMutation: The interrogation scene has been parodied countless times over the years. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZiJz_dHLiE Even the WWE did a parody of it when promoting Wrestlemania 21.]]
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* MemeticMutation: The interrogation scene has been parodied countless times over the years. Even the Wrestling/{{WWE}} [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZiJz_dHLiE Even the WWE did a parody of it when promoting Wrestlemania promoting]] Wrestling/WrestleMania 21.]]
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* {{Sequelitis}}: ''Film/BasicInstinct2'', which was made a full fourteen years after the original, has nowhere ''near'' the power of the original, and was widely critically panned.
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* {{Sequelitis}}: ''Basic Instinct 2'', which was made a full fourteen years after the original, has nowhere ''near'' the power of the original, and was widely critically panned.
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* {{Sequelitis}}: ''Basic Instinct 2'', ''Film/BasicInstinct2'', which was made a full fourteen years after the original, has nowhere ''near'' the power of the original, and was widely critically panned.
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She doesn't say that.
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* CompleteMonster: Catherine Tramell is a multi-millionaire sociopathic FemmeFatale who manipulates and kills people for thrills. Her only known source of joy is derived from taking increasingly bigger gambles to defy death, orchestrating complex schemes to assert her dominance. Catherine is a BlackWidow type of SerialKiller who seduces people to fall for her, [[DepravedBisexual both men and women]], before killing them when she grows bored of them. As a published crime novelist she consorts with known murderers to get inspiration and writes RomanAClef books about her own crimes to prove that she can get away with it. She [[SelfMadeOrphan killed her parents]] in a [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident mysterious boat explosion]], killed a professor at Berkeley, hacked her boyfriend Johnny Boz to death with an icepick during coitus, killed detective Gus Moran, and considered killing her new plaything Nick before deciding that she wanted him as a sex toy just a bit longer. She manipulates her lesbian girlfriend Roxy into getting herself killed in a jealous attack on Nick and sets up her old acquaintance Beth to [[FrameUp take the blame]] for the series of murders and get shot by Nick. Years later in London, she's still doing this with no sign of stopping or regret. When Catherine is set up with a court-ordered psychologist named Dr. Glass after another "accident", she plays mind games with him until she kills Glass's ex-wife and manipulates him to kill a rival psychologist. She frames him for both crimes and gets him committed to a mental institution for life. Catherine [[EvilGloating smugly informs him]] that she's used him for another one of her novels and admits that she's always been pure evil and likes it that way.
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* CompleteMonster: Catherine Tramell is a multi-millionaire sociopathic FemmeFatale who manipulates and kills people for thrills. Her only known source of joy is derived from taking increasingly bigger gambles to defy death, orchestrating complex schemes to assert her dominance. Catherine is a BlackWidow type of SerialKiller who seduces people to fall for her, [[DepravedBisexual both men and women]], before killing them when she grows bored of them. As a published crime novelist she consorts with known murderers to get inspiration and writes RomanAClef books about her own crimes to prove that she can get away with it. She [[SelfMadeOrphan killed her parents]] in a [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident mysterious boat explosion]], killed a professor at Berkeley, hacked her boyfriend Johnny Boz to death with an icepick during coitus, killed detective Gus Moran, and considered killing her new plaything Nick before deciding that she wanted him as a sex toy just a bit longer. She manipulates her lesbian girlfriend Roxy into getting herself killed in a jealous attack on Nick and sets up her old acquaintance Beth to [[FrameUp take the blame]] for the series of murders and get shot by Nick. Years later in London, she's still doing this with no sign of stopping or regret. When Catherine is set up with a court-ordered psychologist named Dr. Glass after another "accident", she plays mind games with him until she kills Glass's ex-wife and manipulates him to kill a rival psychologist. She frames him for both crimes and gets him committed to a mental institution for life. life, where Catherine [[EvilGloating smugly informs him]] that she's used him for another one of her novels and admits that she's always been pure evil and likes it that way.novels.
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* SignatureScene: As should be obvious by now, the interrogation scene where Catherine crosses her legs and it's clear she's GoingCommando. It's been parodied numerous times, either playing the fanservice aspects straight again or using it for FanDisservice (like featuring an older woman or an overweight guy instead).
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The ever-dependable Music/JerryGoldsmith contributes a sensuous, atmospheric and exciting score.
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* ChaoticEvil: Catherine Tramel. Although she may appear to be NeutralEvil, the film never actually makes clear ''why'' she does what she does, which may just be bad writing.
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* ChaoticEvil: Catherine Tramel.Tramell. Although she may appear to be NeutralEvil, the film never actually makes clear ''why'' she does what she does, which may just be bad writing.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The ever-dependable Music/JerryGoldsmith contributes a sensuous, atmospheric and exciting score.
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* [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent Bitch]]: Catherine Tramell. Charismatic, smart, highly manipulative and very stylish, this serial killer murdered whoever she wanted during her two movies, and happily got away with it.
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* [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent Bitch]]: MagnificentBastard: Catherine Tramell. Charismatic, smart, highly manipulative and very stylish, this serial killer murdered whoever she wanted during her two movies, and happily got away with it.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: There is much debate amongst fans of the film whether Beth is an innocent victim or an evil {{Femme Fatale}}.There are people who think its not a hundred percent clear even at the end that Catherine is a murderess. There is even a theory that Beth and Catherine are in league all along - which explains how they can guess each others actions and know how the same information - and only pretend to be foes to mess with Nicks head. Did Roxy commit any of the murders? [[spoiler:Apart from her brothers and the attempted murder of Nick]]. The final shot is interpreted differently by different viewers. Is Catherine about to kill Nick? Was she going to kill him and then changed her mind? Does the ice pick mean she definitely is the killer or is it only supposed to hint she might be? There is also debate whether the first scene of Nick and Beth in her apartment is sex or date rape.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: There is much debate amongst fans of the film whether Beth is an innocent victim or an evil {{Femme Fatale}}.FemmeFatale.There are people who think its it's not a hundred percent clear even at the end that Catherine is a murderess. There is even a theory that Beth and Catherine are in league all along - which explains how they can guess each others other's actions and know how the same information - and only pretend to be foes to mess with Nicks Nick's head. Did Roxy commit any of the murders? [[spoiler:Apart from her brothers brother and the attempted murder of Nick]]. The final shot is interpreted differently by different viewers. Is Catherine about to kill Nick? Was she going to kill him and then changed her mind? Does the ice pick mean she definitely is the killer or is it only supposed to hint she might be? There is also debate whether the first scene of Nick and Beth in her apartment is sex or date rape.
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* CompleteMonster: [[TheVamp Catherine Tramell]] is a multi-millionaire [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] FemmeFatale who [[ManipulativeBitch manipulates]] and kills people [[ForTheEvulz for thrills]]. Her only known source of joy is derived from taking increasingly bigger gambles to defy death, orchestrating complex schemes to assert her dominance. Catherine is a BlackWidow type of SerialKiller who seduces people to fall for her, [[DepravedBisexual both men and women]], before killing them [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness when she grows bored of them]]. As a published crime novelist she consorts with known murderers to get inspiration and writes RomanAClef books about her own crimes to prove that she can get away with it. She [[SelfMadeOrphan killed her parents]] in a [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident mysterious boat explosion]], killed a professor at Berkeley, hacked her boyfriend Johnny Boz to death with [[WeaponOfChoice an icepick]] [[DeathBySex during coitus]], killed detective Gus Moran, and considered killing her new plaything Nick before deciding that she wanted him as a sex toy just a bit longer. She manipulates her lesbian girlfriend Roxy into getting herself killed in a jealous attack on Nick and sets up her old acquintance Beth to [[FrameUp take the blame]] for the series of murders and get shot by Nick. Years later in London, she's still doing this with no sign of stopping or regret. When Catherine is set up with a court-ordered psychologist named Dr. Glass after another "accident", she plays mind games with him until she kills Glass's ex-wife and manipulates him to kill a rival psychologist. She frames him for both crimes and gets him committed to a mental institution for life. Catherine [[EvilGloating smugly informs him]] that she's used him for another one of her novels and admits that she's always been pure evil and likes it that way.
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* CompleteMonster: [[TheVamp Catherine Tramell]] Tramell is a multi-millionaire [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] sociopathic FemmeFatale who [[ManipulativeBitch manipulates]] manipulates and kills people [[ForTheEvulz for thrills]].thrills. Her only known source of joy is derived from taking increasingly bigger gambles to defy death, orchestrating complex schemes to assert her dominance. Catherine is a BlackWidow type of SerialKiller who seduces people to fall for her, [[DepravedBisexual both men and women]], before killing them [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness when she grows bored of them]].them. As a published crime novelist she consorts with known murderers to get inspiration and writes RomanAClef books about her own crimes to prove that she can get away with it. She [[SelfMadeOrphan killed her parents]] in a [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident mysterious boat explosion]], killed a professor at Berkeley, hacked her boyfriend Johnny Boz to death with [[WeaponOfChoice an icepick]] [[DeathBySex icepick during coitus]], coitus, killed detective Gus Moran, and considered killing her new plaything Nick before deciding that she wanted him as a sex toy just a bit longer. She manipulates her lesbian girlfriend Roxy into getting herself killed in a jealous attack on Nick and sets up her old acquintance acquaintance Beth to [[FrameUp take the blame]] for the series of murders and get shot by Nick. Years later in London, she's still doing this with no sign of stopping or regret. When Catherine is set up with a court-ordered psychologist named Dr. Glass after another "accident", she plays mind games with him until she kills Glass's ex-wife and manipulates him to kill a rival psychologist. She frames him for both crimes and gets him committed to a mental institution for life. Catherine [[EvilGloating smugly informs him]] that she's used him for another one of her novels and admits that she's always been pure evil and likes it that way.
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* ChaoticEvil: Catherine Tramel. Although she may appear to be NeutralEvil, the film never actually makes clear ''why'' she does what she does, which may just be bad writing.
