Chiasmus cult cinema trailers - "Romancing the Stone" (1984). *These will be ongoing posts, courtesy of the A.Glass DVD collection. As I offer via Chiasmus Cult trailers, my summarized overviews*

Following on from the 1981 global box office success of the action adventure 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', which was aimed at the mid teen market, with its early 80s violence, romance and sexual tension continued onward with director Robert Zemeckis third picture 'Romancing The Stone' (1984).  With his R rated dark comedy from 1981, Used Cars, offering a clue to how Zemeckis incorporated his counterculture 'baby boomers' as they navigated their sexual liberation well into the 1980s, when they were all entering their Thirties and Generation Xers were in their early teens.  Written by an unknown screenwriter at the time, the late Diane Thomas (who was killed in a car accident a year later in 1985) when she was working as a cocktail waitress at a Californian cafe in 1978, with a rumour that she handed the script to Michael Douglas, who ending up producing the movie and starring as its lead character "Jack T. Colton", when he visited the cafe.  Katherine Turner plays "Joan Wilder", the successful, but lonely romance author, who becomes caught up in extorsion, kidnapping and a large rare Emerald as she falls in love with Douglas's character, the exotic bird smuggler living in Colombia.  Even though it does indeed feel like a more mature and less supernatural version of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', Thomas wrote the script Four years before Steven Spielberg's 1981 blockbuster.  Romancing The Stone stands alone in its nostalgia, as that quintessential 1980s adventure movie.

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