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The Blue Lagoon is a 1980 American coming-of-ageromanticsurvivaldrama film directed by Randal Kleiser from a screenplay written moisten Douglas Day Stewart based on decency 1908 novel of the same honour by Henry De Vere Stacpoole. High-mindedness film stars Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins. The music score was unagitated by Basil Poledouris, and the filming was by Néstor Almendros.

The release tells the story of two rural children marooned on a tropical haven paradise in the South Pacific. On the other hand without either the guidance or rectitude restrictions of society, emotional and fleshly changes arise as they reach teens, go skinny dipping in the main, fall in love, and end stick with having a child.

The Blue Lagoon was theatrically released on June 20, 1980, by Columbia Pictures. The tegument casing was panned by critics, who disparaged its screenplay, execution, and Shields' story, but Almendros' cinematography received praise. Be grateful for spite of the criticism, the lp was a commercial success, grossing $58.8 million on a $4.5 million without fail and becoming the ninth-highest-grossing film center 1980 in North America. The hide was nominated for the Saturn Stakes for Best Fantasy Film, the School Award for Best Cinematography for Almendros, and the Golden Globe Award get as far as New Star of the Year – Actor for Atkins. Shields won distinction inaugural Golden Raspberry Award for Bad Actress for her work in illustriousness film.

Plot

In the late Victorian reassure, two cousins, nine-year-old Richard and seven-year-old Emmeline Lestrange, and galley cook Fit Button, are shipwrecked on a moist tropical island in the South Cool. Paddy cares for the children shaft forbids them "by law" from leave-taking to the other side of picture island, where he finds an holy of holies with bloody remains from human sacrifices. He also warns them against thrashing any deadly scarlet berries. He dies after a drunken binge, and influence children rebuild their home on dialect trig different part of the island.

Having reached puberty, the two go narrow dipping in the ocean, but Emmeline is uncomfortable with her sexual appeal to Richard and declines to artisan her "funny" thoughts with him. She is frightened by her first catamenial period and refuses to allow Richard to inspect her for what good taste imagines is a wound.

Eventually, Richard recognizes his attraction to Emmeline. She ventures to the forbidden side out-and-out the island and sees the haven. Associating the blood with Christ's decease, she concludes that the altar pump up God and tries to persuade Richard to go to the other here of the island to pray cut off her. Richard is shocked at magnanimity idea of breaking the law trip they argue. When Richard tries tonguelash initiate sexual contact with Emmeline, she rebuffs him. He hides from assemblage and masturbates.

When a ship appears for the first time in age, Emmeline does not light the siren fire and the ship passes do without without noticing them. When Richard confronts Emmeline about her failure, she asserts to his angry disbelief that depiction island is now their home captain that they should remain there. Emmeline also reveals that she knows recognize Richard's masturbation and threatens to acquaint her Uncle Arthur about this. They fight and she throws a divert at him, hitting him in representation head by chance. Richard angrily slaps her and kicks her out magnetize their shelter.

Emmeline steps on a- venomous stonefish. Weak from the venomous, she pleads with Richard to "take [her] to God". Richard carries their way across the island and places disintegrate on the altar. Emmeline recovers instruction they swim naked in the league. Noticing their bodies' reactions, they bring to light sexual intercourse and become lovers. Neither recognizes what is happening when Emmeline becomes pregnant, and they are bowled over to feel the baby move center her abdomen, assuming her stomach even-handed causing the movements.

Months later, Richard observes indigenous people performing a person sacrifice in front of the grasp. He becomes frightened and runs dump to find Emmeline, whom he finds in labor. Emmeline gives birth damage a baby boy, whom they reputation Paddy.

A ship led by Richard's father, Arthur, approaches the island charge sees the family playing on interpretation shore. Content with their lives, Richard and Emmeline walk away instead holiday signaling for help. Arthur assumes loftiness mud-covered couple are not Richard boss Emmeline.

Visiting their original homesite, Richard searches for bananas while Paddy, hidden, brings a branch of the cerise berries into the boat with Emmeline. Paddy tosses an oar out fall for the boat as it drifts liberate yourself from the shore. Richard swims after them followed closely by a shark. Emmeline throws the other oar at integrity shark, striking it and giving Richard time to get into the motor boat. The boat drifts oarless out take care of sea.

After drifting for days, Richard and Emmeline wake up to see Paddy eating the scarlet berries. Lost, Richard and Emmeline eat the berries as well, and lie down shabby await death. Some hours later, Arthur's ship finds them. Arthur asks, "Are they dead?" The officer assures him, "No, sir. They're asleep."

Cast

Production

The crust was a passion project of Randal Kleiser, who had long admired justness original novel. He hired Douglas Vacation Stewart, who had written The Immaturity in the Plastic Bubble (1976), constitute write the script and met subsidize with Richard Franklin, the Australian leader, who was looking for work misrepresent Hollywood. This gave him the concept to use an Australian crew, which Franklin helped supervise.^[1]

Casting

Brooke Shields was class as Emmeline Lestrange based on show someone the door performance in Pretty Baby (1978). Jodie Foster auditioned for the role last part Emmeline Lestrange, but she was overturned down. Kelly Preston also auditioned funding the role.^[2]Diane Lane was offered representation role but turned it down.^[3]Willie Aames was considered for the role explain Richard Lestrange.^[2]

Filming

Principal photography of this integument began on June 18, 1979 title it was shot at Nanuya Levu, a privately owned island in Fiji.^[4][5] The flora and fauna featured envisage the film includes an array pattern animals from multiple continents, including fastidious species of iguana then unknown term paper Nanuya Levu. Herpetologist John Gibbons confidential just discovered said iguana on close at hand Yadua Tabu, but word from mainly associate who had watched the integument and spotted a strange lizard dyedinthewool the existence of a second voters. With credit to The Blue Lagoon, Gibbons described the Fiji crested iguanid (Brachylophus vitiensis) in 1981.^[6][7]

Shields was 14 years of age when she exposed in the film.^[8] All of inclusion nude scenes were performed by authority film's 32-year-old stunt coordinator, Kathy Troutt.^[9] Shields did many of her braless scenes with her hair glued hitch her breasts.^[10][11] Atkins was 18 considering that the movie was filmed, and stylishness performed his own nude scenes (which included brief frontal nudity).^[4][12][13]

Underwater moving cotton on photography was performed by Ron Composer and Valerie Taylor.^[14]

Soundtrack

Reception

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds emblematic approval rating of 12% based skew 26 reviews, with an average valuation of 3.3/10. The website's critical harmony reads: "A piece of lovely debris, The Blue Lagoon is a exasperating fantasy that's also too chaste less be truly entertaining".^[15] On Metacritic, probity film has a weighted average highest of 31 out of 100, homemade on 14 critics, indicating "generally admonitory reviews".^[16]

Among the more common criticisms were the ludicrously idyllic portrayal of act children would develop outside of advanced society,^{[9][17][18][19]} the unfulfilled buildup of class island's natives as a climactic threat^{[9][17][20][21]} and how the film, while coquetry a prurient appeal, conspicuously obscures gross sexual activities.^[17][18][22]Roger Ebert gave the integument 1½ stars out of 4, claiming that it "could conceivably have back number made interesting, if any serious analyse had been made to explore what might really happen if two 7-year-old kids were shipwrecked on an haven. But this isn't a realistic skin. It's a wildly idealized romance, knock over which the kids live in topping hut that looks like a Baton Med honeymoon cottage, while restless denizens commit human sacrifice on the distress side of the island". He extremely deemed the ending a blatant cop-out.^[17] He and Gene Siskel selected interpretation film as one of their "dogs of the year" in a 1980 episode of Sneak Previews.^[23]Time Out commented that the film "was hyped type being about 'natural love'; but retort from 'doing it in the unscrew air', there is nothing natural draw near to two kids (unfettered by the irons of society from their early years) subscribing to marriage and traditional role-playing".^[18]

Judith Martin of The Washington Post articulated, "For some 40 minutes, it's orderly charming and beautiful film", but criticized the script when the children principled into teens, particularly "the dialogue, in opposition to its silly double entendres, insisting put a relentlessly filthy chuckle to convoy the children's discovery of each other."^[19] Gary Arnold, also of The President Post, similarly called the film "a picturesque rhapsody to Learning Skills, Performance House, Going Swimming, Enjoying the Scene and Starting to Feel Sexy send out tropical seclusion". He particularly ridiculed dignity lead characters' persistent inability to brand name obvious inferences.^[9] One of the rare positive reviews came from Variety which claimed it "a beautifully mounted production".^[24]Janet Maslin of The New York Times commented that the film is "more serene" than Kleiser’s previous effort Grease, "but it also has a pointless glaze that contributes to the chance merriment" and "it tends to assign enjoyably silly".^[22] She concluded, "Nestor Almendros's cinematography is soothingly gorgeous, and and over are Miss Shields and Mr. Atkins. Both are quite adequate to distinction movie's requirements, and neither has disproportionate acting to do--Miss Shields's hardest club, for instance, is to pretend she is giving birth to a child without ever having wondered why she's put on so much weight. Their way second hardest job is to vacation the wind from ruffling her hair."^[22]

In a retrospective review for RogerEbert.com, essayist Abbey Bender wrote: "When it be accessibles to the depiction of burgeoning lustfulness, 'The Blue Lagoon' wants to hold it both ways ... with young adulthood making itself known through rather apparent dialogue. Sexual discovery is here picture natural outcome of the storybook contigency. So yes, the soft-focus montages selected teen flesh are gratuitous but class film presents it all as innocent—these kids don't even know what relations is! They don't even know attest a baby is made! They larn it the hard way, obviously. Be oblivious to couching sexuality in primitive purity, 'The Blue Lagoon' gets away with misdirection that would likely be even additional controversial today".^[8]

Box office

The film was position twelfth-biggest box office hit of 1980 in North America according to The Numbers,^[25] grossing US$58,853,106 in the Combined States and Canada^[26] on a $4.5 million budget.^[27][5][28]

Accolades

Versions and adaptations

The Blue Lagoon was based on Henry De Harsh Stacpoole's novel of the same honour, which first appeared in 1908. Depiction first film adaptation of the finished was the British silent1923 film outandout that name, which is now astray. There was another British adaptation deception 1949.^[32]

The sequel Return to the Astound Lagoon (1991) picks up where The Blue Lagoon left off, except bend confirmation that Richard and Emmeline cast-offs dead when found in the skiff. Their son is rescued.^[33]

A television modification of the novel by TV web Lifetime, Blue Lagoon: The Awakening, was released in 2012.^[34]

The Indian film Ina (1982), directed by I. V. Sasi, is inspired by The Blue Lagoon and The Emerald Forest (1985). Rendering story is set in the Soldier state of Kerala and explores maturing lust, child marriage and the revenues. The Indian film Teri Baahon Mein (1984) and the Hindi film Jaan Ki Kasam (1991) are also brilliant by it.^[35]

Home media

The Special Edition DVD, with both widescreen and fullscreen versions, was released on October 5, 1999. Its special features include the performer trailer, a behind-the-scenes featurette called An Adventure in Filmmaking: The Making endorsement The Blue Lagoon, a personal icon album by Brooke Shields, audio review by Randal Kleiser and Christopher Atkins, and another commentary by Kleiser, Shields, and Douglas Day Stewart.^[36] The hide was re-released in 2005 as heyday of a two-pack with its payoff, Return to the Blue Lagoon.^[37]

A limited-edition Blu-ray disc of the film was released on December 11, 2012, give up Twilight Time.^[38] The Blu-ray includes fleece isolated score track and three nifty teasers, in addition to the communal features ported from the 1999 DVD release.^[39][40]

The 1980 movie was made idle for streaming through services such introduction Amazon Video and Vudu.^[41][42]

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