{"id":4582,"date":"2015-05-05T09:25:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T13:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/event\/basic-instinct-screening\/"},"modified":"2015-05-05T09:25:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T13:25:42","slug":"basic-instinct-screening","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/event\/basic-instinct-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic Instinct screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight at 8 p.m., the <strong>Dryden<\/strong> will screen <strong>Basic Instinct<\/strong> (Paul Verhoeven, Us\/France 1992, 125 min., 35mm). <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scripted by Joe Eszterhas (Jagged Edge) and starring Michael Douglas, Verhoeven's glossy pulp shocker stands as the ne plus ultra of the '80s\/'90s erotic thriller. It was also one of the most controversial&mdash;and successful&mdash;hollywood movies of the 1990s. Based on hearsay about the film's content&mdash;gratuitous sex, over-the-top violence, and the depiction of bisexual women as murderous, man-hating psychopaths&mdash;protests against the film erupted even before shooting had finished. The eventual release did little to settle qualms, and this lurid tale of a successful crime novelist (Sharon Stone, famously sans culottes) who may have or may not have disposed of a one-night stand with an ice pick continues to annoy, fascinate, and liberate&mdash;all in equal measure. A paranoid male fantasy? A feminist parable of female empowerment? Both?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <em>[source: <a HREF=\"https:\/\/dryden.eastmanhouse.org\/films\/2015\/04\/basic-instinct\/\">Dryden website<\/a>, 2015-May-4]<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight at 8 p.m., the Dryden will screen Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, Us\/France 1992, 125 min., 35mm). Scripted by Joe Eszterhas (Jagged Edge) and starring Michael Douglas, Verhoeven's glossy pulp shocker stands as the ne plus ultra of the '80s\/'90s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/event\/basic-instinct-screening\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[2718],"class_list":["post-4582","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-jayceland-2015-may-7","cat_jayceland-2015-may-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/4582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4582"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=4582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}