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Line 1: {{work\|wppage=Alligator (film)}} [[File:alligator_dvd_6795.jpg\|frame\|[[Never Smile At a Crocodile]], but what happens when it smiles at ''you?'']] {{quote\| ''It's 36 feet long, weighs 2000 pounds, lives 50 feet below the city. Nobody knows it's down there except the people it eats.''}}▼ '''Alligator''' is a 1981 horror/comedy film, directed by Lewis Teague and starring Robert Forster, with a screenplay by [[John Sayles]], in which "Ramon", the eponymous beast, runs amok in the Chicago sewer system after feeding on covertly discarded growth hormone. The film is notable for being among the first of the slew of ''[[Jaws (~~Film~~film)\|Jaws]]'' homages/rip-offs to be produced by the American movie industry. Unlike 99% of the horrors that have come lurching along in its wake, the humor is intentional, the human characters are sympathetic, and the flick is worth seeing.▼ ▲{{quote\| It's 36 feet long, weighs 2000 pounds, lives 50 feet below the city. Nobody knows it's down there except the people it eats.}} ▲'''Alligator''' is a 1981 horror/comedy film, directed by Lewis Teague and starring Robert Forster, with a screenplay by [[John Sayles]], in which "Ramon", the eponymous beast, runs amok in the Chicago sewer system after feeding on covertly discarded growth hormone. The film is notable for being among the first of the slew of ''[[Jaws (Film)\|Jaws]]'' homages/rip-offs to be produced by the American movie industry. Unlike 99% of the horrors that have come lurching along in its wake, the humor is intentional, the human characters are sympathetic, and the flick is worth seeing. ~~----~~ ~~=== Provides examples of: ===~~ {{tropelist}} * [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]] * [[Children Are Innocent]]: Subverted more than once. Line 17 ⟶ 15: * [[Great White Hunter]]: Again, an overt parody in the form of Col. Brock. * [[Hot Scientist]] * [[Intrepid Reporter]]: Subverted, in that the guy is an obnoxious jerk, but genuinely goes [[Going for ~~The~~the Big Scoop\|looking for scoops]], eventually {{spoiler\|taking [[Apocalyptic Log\|crucial pictures]] of Ramon, even as he is devoured.}} * [[Infant Immortality]]: ** Averted when on a dare, a kid jumps off the diving board of his backyard swimming pool at night while the alligator is momentarily staying in it. He realizes at the last moment what is happening and tries to step back, but his friends push him in anyway because they didn't see it and think he chickened out. Line 26 ⟶ 24: * [[Nigh Invulnerability]]: Ramon * [[Nightmare Dreams]]: David has these from the first encounter with Ramon. * [[Numbered Sequels]]: With [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo]]. * [[Pet Baby Wild Animal]]: Subverted. Ramon gets unceremoniously flushed into the sewer while still tiny, and his former owner then makes every effort to help kill him. * [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]] * [[Shout -Out]]: The [[The Third Man\|graffiti]] in the sewers, the name of the [[The Honeymooners\|sewer-worker]] Ramon kills. * [[Suspiciously Stealthy Predator]]: Because it just wouldn't be a ''[[Jaws (~~Film~~film)\|Jaws]]'' ripoff if the beast let anyone but the hero realize it was out there too soon, would it? * [[Stock Footage]]: The sequel uses snippets of footage from the first film's alligator sequences in some scenes. * [[Talking the Monster Toto Death]]: Literally if sarcastically suggested by the Hot Scientist, in reference to her motor-mouthed mother. * [[The End - or Is It?]]: The film ends with {{spoiler\|another alligator getting flushed into the sewer.}} {{reflist}} Line 41 ⟶ 39: [[Category:Alligator]] [[Category:Film]] [[Category:Pages with working Wikipedia tabs]] [[Category:Cult Classic]]