The scene also had a stained glass window in the backdrop. He framed the video of the murder similarly to the murder in the movie with the victim tied to the bed, the killer being on top of the victim (cowgirl position), and even painted a screwdriver to look like the ice pick used in the movie. When he finally moved on to killing a person (Jun Lin), he recorded video of himself committing the act while framing his shots similarly to Basic Instinct. He killed animals (a classic telltale sign of a would-be murderer) and made occasional homages to films.

If you don’t care about spoilers though.īasically, Luka Magnotta has a fascination with serial killers and films. She even reprised her Basic Instinct role in a so-so belated sequel.You should really watch it. Unlike some more recent stars, such a Game of Thrones's Nathalie Emmanuel, who have found adverse effects from doing frequent gratuitous nude scenes, namely an expectation that they will do them again in other movies and series', Stone's career at the time seemed to thrive on starring in risqué roles, such as Sliver, and using her sex appeal as much as possible. Whatever the truth behind the filming of the scene, there are very few movie scenes that are still talked about and remembered quite as vividly almost 30 years after the film's release as that blink and you miss it moment in Basic Instinct. When my friend told her we could see her vagina, she said, 'Of course, that's why I do it.' Then Sharon and I decided to do a similar sequence.' I told her it was based on a story of a woman that I knew when I was a student who did the crossing of her legs without panties regularly at parties.

We still have a pleasant relationship and exchange text messages. 'That does not stand in the way and has nothing to do with the wonderful way that she portrayed Catherine Tramell. 'My memory is radically different from Sharon's memory,' the director said. While being asked about the movie in an interview with Variety, Paul Verhoeven said that he had a very different view.

Basic instinct 1992 leg cross scene