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. Life is so short and their childhood is so short.Wild Things is often regarded as a sleazy guilty pleasure. It just made me realize how fast it goes. "The girls have been through a lot and how I chose to relate to the dysfunction that was going on with their father was to hide it from the kids," Richards added. "And I don't know if I did a disservice or not. Sheen publicly struggled with drug and alcohol abuse over the next few years, which led to his firing from "Two and a Half Men" in 2011.
Richards married Sheen in 2002 and filed for divorce in 2005, just months after the birth of their second daughter, Lola, now 13. Richards, 48, and Charlie Sheen, 53, have been divorced for over a decade, but the actress and reality star still worries that their volatile marriage and his subsequent substance use had a negative impact on their daughters. I don't want them to look back on their childhood and just remember (fighting)." It makes me cry," she told husband Aaron Phypers, whom she married in 2018. "I just feel like I (expletive) up a lot with their dad. "It's so funny, this age when you start to see your kids become adults. “It’s weird for them, to see their mom in something that’s sexy or different," she said. "I think it would be very rude for me if it were my parents."Įarlier this week on "Real Housewives," Richards expressed dismay over how fast the girls were growing up after finding out a boy asked her oldest, Sami, 15, to a school dance. Richards, who is a cast member on the "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," added she wants to shield her kids, Sami, 15, Lola, 13, and Eloise, 7. I worked with amazing actors and one day if you do see it, you may not agree with my decision but that’s what mom decided to do.' ”
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“A couple of friends had told her about it and I just said to her, ‘I would appreciate if you didn’t watch it,' " she said. "It’s not age appropriate and it was a movie I did it was a script I loved it’s me being creative. The actress, 48, revealed in an interview with Yahoo Lifestyle Australia that one of her daughters asked her about the movie. View Gallery: Charlie Sheen, happy birthday: Photos of the actor through the yearsĭenise Richards's performance in the erotic thriller "Wild Things" over 20 years ago is raising some discussions in her household.
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