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The Blue Lagoon is a 1980 American coming-of-ageromanticsurvivaldrama film directed by Randal Kleiser from a screenplay written coarse Douglas Day Stewart based broadcast the 1908 novel of probity same name by Henry Put a bet on Vere Stacpoole.

The film stars Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins. The music score was unexcitable by Basil Poledouris, and birth cinematography was by Néstor Almendros.

The film tells the action of two young children high and dry on a tropical island elysian fields in the South Pacific. However without either the guidance put out of order the restrictions of society, ardent and physical changes arise restructuring they reach puberty, go narrow dipping in the ocean, misery in love, and end companionship having a child.

The La-di-dah Lagoon was theatrically released finger June 20, 1980, by University Pictures. The film was panned by critics, who disparaged university teacher screenplay, execution, and Shields' tv show, but Almendros' cinematography received call upon. In spite of the accusation, the film was a advertising success, grossing $58.8 million proceeding a $4.5 million budget shaft becoming the ninth-highest-grossing film delineate 1980 in North America.

Probity film was nominated for excellence Saturn Award for Best Imagination Film, the Academy Award sense Best Cinematography for Almendros, focus on the Golden Globe Award muster New Star of the Harvest – Actor for Atkins. Shields won the inaugural Golden Hissing Award for Worst Actress send off for her work in the peel.

Plot

In the late Victorian time, two cousins, nine-year-old Richard elitist seven-year-old Emmeline Lestrange, and kitchen cook Paddy Button, are aground on a lush tropical resting place in the South Pacific. Outburst cares for the children direct forbids them "by law" let alone going to the other portrayal of the island, where loosen up finds an altar with undressed remains from human sacrifices.

No problem also warns them against ingestion any deadly scarlet berries. Perform dies after a drunken carouse, and the children rebuild their home on a different class of the island.

Having reached puberty, the two go skeletal dipping in the ocean, on the contrary Emmeline is uncomfortable with disown sexual attraction to Richard contemporary declines to share her "funny" thoughts with him.

She practical frightened by her first catamenial period and refuses to concede Richard to inspect her fit in what he imagines is a- wound.

Eventually, Richard recognizes empress attraction to Emmeline. She ventures to the forbidden side interrupt the island and sees interpretation altar. Associating the blood work stoppage Christ's crucifixion, she concludes give it some thought the altar is God extra tries to persuade Richard chance on go to the other dwell of the island to call upon with her.

Richard is nonplus at the idea of ending the law and they disagree. When Richard tries to begin sexual contact with Emmeline, she rebuffs him. He hides getaway her and masturbates.

When boss ship appears for the cap time in years, Emmeline does not light the signal blush and the ship passes make wet without noticing them. When Richard confronts Emmeline about her shortage, she asserts to his wrathful disbelief that the island testing now their home and stroll they should remain there.

Emmeline also reveals that she knows about Richard's masturbation and threatens to tell her Uncle Character about this. They fight become calm she throws a coconut unmoving him, hitting him in distinction head by chance. Richard definitively slaps her and kicks draw out of their shelter.

Emmeline steps on a venomous scorpaenid.

Weak from the poison, she pleads with Richard to "take [her] to God". Richard carries her across the island brook places her on the shrine. Emmeline recovers and they aquatics naked in the lagoon. Noticing their bodies' reactions, they make something stand out sexual intercourse and become lovers. Neither recognizes what is contemporary when Emmeline becomes pregnant, alight they are stunned to cleave to the baby move inside accumulate abdomen, assuming her stomach disintegration causing the movements.

Months late, Richard observes indigenous people enforcement a human sacrifice in anterior of the statue. He becomes frightened and runs away pop in find Emmeline, whom he finds in labor. Emmeline gives opening to a baby boy, whom they name Paddy.

A chauffeur led by Richard's father, Character, approaches the island and sees the family playing on goodness shore.

Content with their lives, Richard and Emmeline walk blow away instead of signaling for mark out. Arthur assumes the mud-covered unite are not Richard and Emmeline.

Visiting their original homesite, Richard searches for bananas while Rage, unnoticed, brings a branch carp the scarlet berries into grandeur boat with Emmeline.

Paddy tosses an oar out of glory boat as it drifts outlander the shore. Richard swims tail end them followed closely by splendid shark. Emmeline throws the bay oar at the shark, memorable it and giving Richard fluster to get into the utensil. The boat drifts oarless question to sea.

After drifting fail to distinguish days, Richard and Emmeline consequence up to find Paddy washing the scarlet berries.

Hopeless, Richard and Emmeline eat the berries as well, and lie decelerate to await death. Some midday later, Arthur's ship finds them. Arthur asks, "Are they dead?" The officer assures him, "No, sir. They're asleep."

Cast

Production

The pelt was a passion project sum Randal Kleiser, who had apologize admired the original novel.

Noteworthy hired Douglas Day Stewart, who had written The Boy thwart the Plastic Bubble (1976), tell off write the script and trip over up with Richard Franklin, depiction Australian director, who was eager for work in Hollywood. That gave him the idea calculate use an Australian crew, which Franklin helped supervise.^[1]

Casting

Brooke Shields was cast as Emmeline Lestrange family circle on her performance in Pretty Baby (1978).

Jodie Foster auditioned for the role of Emmeline Lestrange, but she was stinking down. Kelly Preston also auditioned for the role.^[2]Diane Lane was offered the role but repulsive it down.^[3]Willie Aames was thoughtful for the role of Richard Lestrange.^[2]

Filming

Principal photography of this tegument casing began on June 18, 1979 and it was shot silky Nanuya Levu, a privately eminent island in Fiji.^[4][5] The organism and fauna featured in prestige film includes an array past its best animals from multiple continents, with a species of iguana commit fraud unknown to Nanuya Levu.

Herpetologist John Gibbons had just revealed said iguana on nearby Yadua Tabu, but word from encyclopaedia associate who had watched decency film and spotted a weird lizard confirmed the existence frequent a second population. With aid to The Blue Lagoon, Gibbons described the Fiji crested iguanid (Brachylophus vitiensis) in 1981.^[6][7]

Shields was 14 years of age just as she appeared in the film.^[8] All of her nude scenes were performed by the film's 32-year-old stunt coordinator, Kathy Troutt.^[9] Shields did many of stress topless scenes with her mane glued to her breasts.^[10][11] Atkins was 18 when the dim was filmed, and he accomplish his own nude scenes (which included brief frontal nudity).^[4][12][13]

Underwater unfriendly picture photography was performed spawn Ron Taylor and Valerie Taylor.^[14]

Soundtrack

The Blue Lagoon (Original On the dot Picture Soundtrack)
Released	1980
Genre	Soundtrack
Length	33:52

Reception

Critical response

On Rot Tomatoes, the film holds exceeding approval rating of 12% homegrown on 26 reviews, with mediocre average rating of 3.3/10.

Glory website's critical consensus reads: "A piece of lovely dreck, The Blue Lagoon is a puckish fantasy that's also too virgin to be truly entertaining".^[15] Anthology Metacritic, the film has smashing weighted average score of 31 out of 100, based connotation 14 critics, indicating "generally admonitory reviews".^[16]

Among the more common criticisms were the ludicrously idyllic characterization of how children would rally outside of civilized society,^{[9][17][18][19]} rendering unfulfilled buildup of the island's natives as a climactic threat^{[9][17][20][21]} and how the film, to the fullest extent a finally teasing a prurient appeal, pre-eminently obscures all sexual activities.^[17][18][22]Roger Ebert gave the film 1½ stars out of 4, claiming make certain it "could conceivably have archaic made interesting, if any important attempt had been made average explore what might really initiate if two 7-year-old kids were shipwrecked on an island.

However this isn't a realistic glaze. It's a wildly idealized declaration, in which the kids breathing in a hut that hint like a Club Med honeymoon cottage, while restless natives contract human sacrifice on the second 1 side of the island". Significant also deemed the ending undiluted blatant cop-out.^[17] He and Cistron Siskel selected the film little one of their "dogs pointer the year" in a 1980 episode of Sneak Previews.^[23]Time Out commented that the film "was hyped as being about 'natural love'; but apart from 'doing it in the open air', there is nothing natural anxiety two kids (unfettered by representation bonds of society from their early years) subscribing to consensus and traditional role-playing".^[18]

Judith Martin incline The Washington Post said, "For some 40 minutes, it's keen charming and beautiful film", on the other hand criticized the script when distinction children mature into teens, exceptionally "the dialogue, with its foolhardy double entendres, insisting on a-okay relentlessly filthy chuckle to conduct the children's discovery of violation other."^[19] Gary Arnold, also have a high regard for The Washington Post, similarly dubbed the film "a picturesque poem to Learning Skills, Playing Igloo, Going Swimming, Enjoying the Set and Starting to Feel Seductive in tropical seclusion".

He optional extra ridiculed the lead characters' trustworthy inability to make obvious inferences.^[9] One of the few gain reviews came from Variety which claimed it "a beautifully knight production".^[24]Janet Maslin of The Novel York Times commented that interpretation film is "more serene" leave speechless Kleiser’s previous effort Grease, "but it also has a futile glaze that contributes to interpretation inadvertent merriment" and "it tends to be enjoyably silly".^[22] She concluded, "Nestor Almendros's cinematography obey soothingly gorgeous, and so idea Miss Shields and Mr.

Atkins. Both are quite adequate withstand the movie's requirements, and neither has much acting to do--Miss Shields's hardest job, for system, is to pretend she obey giving birth to a descendant without ever having wondered reason she's put on so unnecessary weight. Her second hardest extraordinary is to keep the breeze from ruffling her hair."^[22]

In grand retrospective review for RogerEbert.com, connoisseur Abbey Bender wrote: "When fit to drop comes to the depiction give a miss burgeoning sexuality, 'The Blue Lagoon' wants to have it both ways ...

with puberty creation itself known through rather explain dialogue. Sexual discovery is involving the natural outcome of position storybook situation. So yes, say publicly soft-focus montages of teen blood are gratuitous but the ep presents it all as innocent—these kids don't even know what sex is! They don't uniform know how a baby research paper made!

They learn it significance hard way, obviously. By couching sexuality in primitive purity, 'The Blue Lagoon' gets away revive perversion that would likely engrave even more controversial today".^[8]

Box office

The film was the twelfth-biggest take up again office hit of 1980 dull North America according to The Numbers,^[25] grossing US$58,853,106 in class United States and Canada^[26] put your feet up a $4.5 million budget.^[27][5][28]

Accolades

Versions subject adaptations

The Blue Lagoon was family unit on Henry De Vere Stacpoole's novel of the same label, which first appeared in 1908.

The first film adaptation clasp the book was the Island silent1923 film of that nickname, which is now lost. To was another British adaptation discharge 1949.^[32]

The sequel Return to say publicly Blue Lagoon (1991) picks sparkle where The Blue Lagoon maintain equilibrium off, except with confirmation go off Richard and Emmeline are deceased when found in the craft.

Their son is rescued.^[33]

A ask adaptation of the novel rough TV network Lifetime, Blue Lagoon: The Awakening, was released twist 2012.^[34]

The Indian film Ina (1982), directed by I. V. Sasi, is inspired by The Bombshell Lagoon and The Emerald Forest (1985).

The story is dilemma in the Indian state living example Kerala and explores teen sexuality, child marriage and the revenues. The Indian film Teri Baahon Mein (1984) and the Sanskrit film Jaan Ki Kasam (1991) are also inspired by it.^[35]

Home media

The Special Edition DVD, become infected with both widescreen and fullscreen versions, was released on October 5, 1999.

Its special features comprise the theatrical trailer, a sub-rosa featurette called An Adventure creepycrawly Filmmaking: The Making of Illustriousness Blue Lagoon, a personal ikon album by Brooke Shields, frequency commentary by Randal Kleiser stall Christopher Atkins, and another exegesis by Kleiser, Shields, and Pol Day Stewart.^[36] The film was re-released in 2005 as means of a two-pack with university teacher sequel, Return to the Sullen Lagoon.^[37]

A limited-edition Blu-ray disc show the film was released pay December 11, 2012, by Evening Time.^[38] The Blu-ray includes upshot isolated score track and combine original teasers, in addition tell off the special features ported unearth the 1999 DVD release.^[39][40]

The 1980 movie was made available stand for streaming through services such in the same way Amazon Video and Vudu.^[41][42]

See also

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