Basic Instinct with Miriam Bale

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2018

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Film critic Miriam Bale joins Griffin and David to discuss 1992’s sexy thriller, Basic Instinct. But what about the dialogue gives away this is a Eszterhas script? Does Jeanne Tripplehorn always play herself? Where are there cowboy bars in San Francisco? Together they examine the careers of Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone, ice picking, the infamous leg crossing scene and poor Beth. This episode is sponsored by RXBAR and Audible.

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0:00.0	Let me ask you something, Rocky. Man to man. I think she's the podcast of the century.
0:27.0	Rocky. That's what that's how it's really he calls it rocky. Okay. My Douglas is not very good.
0:33.4	That's one of the worst ones. That wasn't really I didn't even know you were doing it really.
0:37.0	I kind of I guess you just do a lot. No, but now I'm sounding like he's got a very specific voice
0:41.7	in you. I can't do it either. I can't do it either. It's a bit greasy. It is greasy.
0:48.0	Everything that one thing we've talked about on a run he's having at this point.
0:52.6	Unbelievable. We talked about in a previous episode how incredible it was that he became such a
0:57.0	major movie star just being a piece of shit. Like that was his whole brand was just like what a
1:03.3	piece of shit this guy. He loves to grit his teeth though. It is a lot of like yeah. Yeah. Fuck you.
1:09.0	I can't do it though. No, whatever. Anyway, I love everybody. My name is Griffin. I'm David Sims.
1:14.2	This is Blankcheck with Griffin and David. No, we love it when guests talk before they introduce you
1:18.5	have a point you're burning to make clearly. I was just going to introduce myself that I didn't
1:23.1	wait. So go ahead. No, no, no, it's totally fine. You're killing it so far. This is what we like.
1:28.6	It's perfect. This podcast called Blankcheck with Griffin and David on it we talk about film
1:34.5	ography directors with massive success early on in their career and we're issued a series of
1:38.6	Blankchecks to make whatever crazy passion projects they want and sometimes those checks clear
1:42.8	and sometimes they bounce baby. And this is a mini series on the films of Paul Verhoeven in Hollywood.
1:48.5	True. This is sort of the midpoint. Yeah. Right up until now all hits this continues the street.
1:55.6	Right. Yes. Uh, many series is called Podchip Casters. And today we're talking about the movie
2:00.6	Basic Instinct. Yep. And our guest today. All right. I'm Miriam Vale. Hell yeah. Hell yeah.
2:07.4	It is. Guests should introduce themselves all the time. Yeah. It's interesting. We're like,
2:11.5	oh, they're a great person. And uh, hello, I'd like to thoughts their brain make.
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