Romancing the Stone

Great Scene, better humor.

Jack T. Colton may be the second coolest guy behind Indiana Jones. Another classic film I grew up on. What I love about Jack (Michael Douglas) was his unbelievably relaxed mentality about his life. He is a simple American living in South America, who wants nothing more than do deal with buying and selling birds. Birds? We find this out after a major shootout with Zolo, the police chief or general of sorts, and birds are not what we expected of Jack. Jack is roped into a no win situation when an American romance novelist, Joan Wilder, sometimes pronounced with a soft J (Yoan Wilder) ends up in Columbia looking for her sister. She is supposed to be heading to Cartagena, but by the time Jack finds her, she is hell and gone from Cartagena.  When Yoan’s sister is kidnapped, she is leveraged for a treasure map Joan possesses. Jack wants nothing to do with her, or her situation, until he realizes through their trek, they may actually be close to this treasure. Jack convinces her to find the treasure before hand. This way they have something to bargain with the kidnappers. One of the kidnappers is played by the brilliant Danny DeVito, who has a hilarious scene where he is at the station de policia and he notices his picture on the “Wanted” wall. Classic. Full of classic scenes and one liners, this movie never gets old (Watched it last night after after A-Bomb texted me a channel to turn to without telling what was on. This is how much I trust him. I will stop what I am doing to turn on my TV because he told me to.) The sarcasm of Jack is great, mostly because Joan is in such peril, and all he does is make jokes mostly at her expense. Little did he know how valuable she would become when they need a vehicle. Apparently South American drug lords love romance novels. This drug runner loves her so much he takes his “Little Pepe’ ”, and helps them escape the General, who is constantly pursuing them. Throughout his personal nightmare, Jack manages to have quite a few bright spots. He eats a snake, gets high on the biggest stash of unclaimed reefer he has ever seen, and falls for a lady he couldn’t stand earlier. Quite the adventurer, he ended up seeing more than he bargained for. General Zolo getting his arm bit off by the gator was awesome. The funniest line in the movie is based on Joan’s shoes. She is having trouble in the jungle in her Expensive High Heels. To which Jack lops the Heels off of them with a machete.


Joan:
“Those shoes are $200.00”
Jack:
“Now they're practical”  Sweet line Jack. In your face Joan Wilder. Sick Burn!


Jack is a man’s man. He’s good with a gun, quick on his feet, and quite the dancer, if he needs to be. He loves the adrenaline rush, as do I, having watched Romancing at least a hundred times in its 25 years.


NBM rates Romancing the Stone - Phenomenal


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