Everyone in Wild Things is a devious actor - Suzie most of all. The sexiness in the film is all part of a larger performance, revealed as we discover the many layers of the plot. Any erotic thriller that makes Bill Murray crucial to the plot must have a sense of humor about itself.Įrotic thrillers are big on go-for-broke scenes whose memories linger long after seeing the films - think Sharon Stone’s interrogation in Basic Instinct or Glenn Close’s bunny-boiling in Fatal Attraction - and Wild Things features several such moments: champagne poured on breasts, Showgirls-style, and a sexy car washing sequence among them. And then, to top it all off, there’s Bill Murray as a shady lawyer who turns out to be Suzie’s ally. To watch Wild Things is to lose oneself in a swoony Florida atmosphere, but it also requires intense focus on the details of the plot as deceptions build up to a fever pitch. While Wild Things is well-known for its prurience, with Kelly and Suzie engaging in a threesome with Sam, and later a girl-girl tryst in a swimming pool, the scenes that surely wore out countless VHS tapes aren't the reason Naughton's work demands repeat viewings. While it’s not exactly a feminist film, Wild Things ultimately ends up as a tribute to devious, calculating femininity - a trait which is here presented as a kind of genius, when we learn in the very last minutes that Suzie was the ultimate architect of the entire scheme, and is walking away with millions of dollars, a few dead bodies, and more double-crosses than one can count behind her. If Wild Things was just a story of a false rape accusation, it would be written off today as morally dubious junk by the few people who remember it. By any definition, the plot of Wild Things is, to use a thinkpiece buzzword, "problematic." But wait! There’s more. Wild Things plays a dangerous game: Not only does the film center on two high-school girls, the bratty Kelly (Denise Richards) and the poor goth Suzie (Neve Campbell), but it sets them up in a complex storyline involving false rape allegations against their guidance counselor, Sam (Matt Dillon). But director John McNaughton pushed Wild Things, released 20 years ago this month, into ever more lurid and ultimately rewarding directions. The "adult" subject matter of the erotic thriller means few of them involve teenage characters, aside from a handful of notable exceptions like Poison Ivy and Cruel Intentions. Wild Things should be regarded as a dizzyingly constructed maze of a film - and one of the last great erotic thrillers.īy the late '90s, the genre, with its femme fatales and stylized settings, was receding from its cultural dominance as studios chased the coveted young-person demographic, and mores around on-screen sexual provocation began to change, with pornography and political correctness becoming simultaneously more mainstream. Actual signatures, pen color, and location may vary from picture.Wild Things is often regarded as a sleazy guilty pleasure. Every item comes with third-party authentication papers. All autographs are hand-signed and guaranteed authentic. The COA issuer has the following credentials UACC - Autograph Appraisal Course UACC- Autograph Authentication Course US Army CID Handwriting Program. Additionally a member of the British Autograph Club and German Autograph Collectors Club. This autograph is certified by a 20 year plus member of IADA (International Autograph Dealers Association), UACC (Universal Autograph Collectors Club), IACC - International Autograph Collector Club), Manuscript Society, SAG (Screen Actors Guild), Southern California Motion Picture Council, APS (American Philatelic Society), ASCC (American Society Of Check Collectors), AFDCS (American First Day Cover Society), Hollywood Heritage Museum, and the Golden State Boxing Association. Actual signatures, pen color, and location may vary from picture. NOTE: Stock Images are used in items where multiple quantities exist. Wild Things is a 1998 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by John McNaughton and starring Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell, Kevin Bacon, Denise Richards, Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, and Robert Wagner. Custom matted and framed, the finished piece is 11x14. Wild Things signed movie photo autographed by Denise Richards and Neve Campbell.
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