I’m remembering back to when I went to the cinema in 1984 to see Romancing the Stone, a romantic adventure comedy set in politically turbulent Colombia. I was happy that the birds escaped. And I remember it was the bad guy who was keeping alligators in captivity and using them to threaten, scare, torture, and kill people. The bad guy. He was a corrupt and despotic high level official with the secret police who murdered someone in cold blood for a treasure map. And spoiler, the bad guy winds up getting his own hand chomped off by one of his own captive crocs. But the point is that it’s the corrupt bad guy using alligators to threaten people. The bad guy.
