Who was the actual hottie, Jeanne or Sharon??

Jeanne by a million miles,i wish she got more sex scenes.she has such a sultry sexy look.

Coming from a straight girl, they are both attractive. Jeanne has impressively sensual lips, and Sharon had that "girl next door/shampoo model" look that made her character's behavior all the more shocking. I will say, what was with that suit they put Jeanne in at the beginning? It looked like it belonged to her father. She was swimming in it.

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These questions like "Who's the hottest...?" always remind me of the kinds of questions my friends and I used to ask each other when we were kids, like "What car would you rather drive-- a Ferrari F-40 or a Lamborghini Countach?" then proceed to spend hours offering up all sorts of "authoritative" reasons in defense of one or the other. And even though many of the arguments were actually valid, the whole discussion was ultimately academic, because the real answer is, "either vehicle is gonna leave you with a silly-ass grin on your face after you mash your foot down on the gas pedal."

That having been said, from early in my youth I've always had a thing for the icy blonde "femme fatale" types. I'm definitely a fan of the old film-noirs, a chief reason being the plethora of really good looking women in them, and among these there have been some truly hot blondes: Veronica Lake, Claire Trevor, a young Lauren Bacall. In fact, I like collecting old movie posters and photos, and I have a black & white shot of a somewhat lesser-known film noir actress, Mariann Carr, who Sharon Stone (particularly in Basic Instinct) actually bears a somewhat vague but striking resemblance to. Unfortunately, there's no info on the photo as to what film it might be from so I can't refer the inquisitive among you, you'll just have to Google around or check IMDB for a sampling of photos.

So it's this bias that would lead me, at least at first glance, to vote Sharon Stone as the "true hottie" of the film. I'm definitely partial to blondes (not just from afar, it seems that quite a few of my girlfriends over the years have been fair-haired), and Sharon Stone is most definitely stunning in this movie (and still is today), yet I can't state conclusively that she wins the contest. [BTW, another poster mentioned it so I see I'm not the only one, but I found Stone's lover, Roxy, to be quite a hottie in her own right!]

For one thing, even though body-wise Stone is smoking, her thinner, more "angular" frame just loses out to Jeanne Tripplehorn's slightly fuller, more curvaceous shape. Also, just as I admire the Impressionist art of Renoir while simultaneously having a love of Picasso, even though they are stylisticly wide apart on the spectrum, so it is with women: I do love blondes, but can very much appreciate a dark-haired beauty. In fact, the starlet I have been most infatuated with my movie-watching life, the poster-size photo that would be on my wall if I could have no other, would be Gene Tierney, of "Laura" fame. She was eye-flippingly gorgeous, and she was a brunette.

I definitely think Jeanne Tripplehorn is in this league. She is just a full-on '10' in every category there is. The astute poster above me, agnieszka01, is right on when she observes Jeanne's "impressively sensual lips". I would also add her impressively sensual cheeks, eyes, hips, and-- oh my God-- those legs. I also confess to being an unabashed connoisseur of the female posterior (vulgarly known as "an ass man"), and in that department there is no contest-- it's Tripplehorn all the way.

Oh, there is something else.... Even though we are ranking mainly based on looks (this being a film board, after all), personality enters greatly into the equation, at least for me, with intelligence in particular carrying the most weight. So clearly Stone's character ranks highly in this arena: she's articulate, an author, and her clever outgunning of Michael Douglas throughout the film cranks up the sexiness quotient a bit. On the other hand, Jeanne's obviously no slouch in the smarts department either, with the added benefit that her intelligence is not of the psychopathic variety. Furthermore, Stone is ultimately too cool and calculating, too "in-control" to take the top prize; I like to see passion in a woman, a little blaze of heat once in a while, and that was on display with J.T. several times, like when she comes ferociously at Douglas in his apartment (for some remarks he made after asking for his keys back). But the scene that takes top honors, the one that gets my pulse-rate highest and solidly places J.T. in the #1 slot as the all-around-total-hottie-package, is where she petulantly tells 'Nick' where he can find some cigarettes while storming off in her short tight skirt and thigh-high stockings: "Get 'em on your way out!", she says, just before slamming the door. She was sizzling, and it's a bit ironic too that these few frames-- for me, the hottest in the whole movie-- don't actually involve any sex or even nudity (she may have been topless- I don't remember), and actually come after the particularly aggressive (and controversial) sex scence between Douglas and Tripplehorn. Once again: that sequence where she's in bed with Douglas, angry and flushed, yells at him and storms off-- that alone exalts her to Top Hottie, in polite, my hat's off to runner-up Ms. Stone fashion. If you tack on the preceding sex scene, then it's not just J.T. as Top Hottie-- it's a no-contest, deck-is-stacked, all-opponents-left-crying-for-mercy Top-Hottie-with-extreme-prejudice!

Sharon Stone.... there is no other above this Lady... Period!!

Jeanne for me. Sharon Stone has unremarkable features - a bit like Madonna

And the WINNER!!! is > whoever had either one of these HOTTIES!!!
Delicious either way...

Personally, if this was a genuine choice (and I really wish it was), I'd go for Jeanne Tripplehorn. Sharon Stone is a bit too perfect looking for me, Jeanne Tripplehorn has more of a 'girl next door' thing going on (in hollywood terms obviously), and that scene is so fricking hot, when he holds her down and rips her clothes off, wow.

Although I'd take Madonna in Body of Evidence over both of them.

Jeanne Tripplehorn, any day. That ass is just asking for a nice banging.

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