Quote of the Day
"The Catherine Tramell role cannot be played well, but Sharon Stone can play it badly better than any other actress alive."
It's also comforting to know that if the NPC ends up being more laughable than menacing, I have Roger Ebert's authority to say that it's because the role "cannot be played well." :)
- from Roger Ebert's review of Basic Instinct 2I confess a recent fascination with the Basic Instinct franchise. I have never seen the original - indeed, I could not have legally entered a theatre in which it was playing in 1992 - but all the same, I have managed to almost entirely and completely rip off the Tramell character for my RPG. The only reason Odessa doesn't have a degree in psychology is that the field hasn't been invented in her world yet.
It's also comforting to know that if the NPC ends up being more laughable than menacing, I have Roger Ebert's authority to say that it's because the role "cannot be played well." :)