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Line 1: {{~~trope~~work}} [[File:the_blue_lagoon_dvd.jpg\|frame]] Line 6: The novel is about two young cousins, Richard and Emmeline Lestrange, and galley cook Paddy Button who are marooned on a tropical island after escaping their burning ship. Paddy teaches the kids how to survive on the island, before dying in a drunken haze, leaving the two to fend for themselves. There have been three film adaptions. A 1923 silent film directed by W. Bowden and Dick Cruickshanks. A 1949 version directed by Frank Launder. The 1980 adaption directed by Randal Kleiser and starring [[Brooke Shields]] and Christopher Atkins. In 1991, William A. Graham produced and directed a loose adaption of ''The Garden of God'' titled ''[[Return To The Blue Lagoon]]'' starring Milla Jovovich and Brian Krause. [~~http~~https://web.archive.org/web/20080101033038/http://www.pacificislandsinfo.com/ All three novels are online here under "E-texts".] Serious scholars of [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]' work believe they can track part of his inspiration for ''[[Tarzan]]'' to these novels and to Morgan Robertson's earlier novella, ''Primordial''. ---- {{tropelist}} ~~=== The novels and the films provide examples of: ===~~ * [[Caught ~~With~~with Your Pants Down]]: In the film there's a scene where the boy, seen from behind, is clearly masturbating. The girl asks him "What are you doing?" and he guiltily says "Nothing!"▼ ▲* [[Caught With Your Pants Down]]: In the film there's a scene where the boy, seen from behind, is clearly masturbating. The girl asks him "What are you doing?" and he guiltily says "Nothing!" * [[Children Are Innocent]] * [[Coming of Age Story]] Line 24 ⟶ 23: * [[Kissing Cousins]]: Richard and Emmeline are cousins. They are also the only available mates for each other. * [[Loin Cloth]] * [[Mighty Whitey]]: Dick Lestrange, son of the [[Kissing Cousins\|original couple]]. He appears in the sequel, ''The Garden of God'' and the followup novel ''The Gates of Morning''. He can best be described as an intelligent, likeable and very easygoing [[Surfer Dude]]. Katafa, something between a [[Jungle Princess]] and a [[Broken Bird]], washes up on the shore and causes trouble. She [[But Not Too Foreign\|isn't really a Kanaka, but a Spanish girl]] who was [[Raised Byby Natives]]. To ensure the plotline, she's been cursed as an untouchable. After sundry how-likely-is-''that'' events, Dick and Katafa [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?\|fall in love]]. Katafa [[Defrosting Ice Queen\|becomes touchably soft]] and takes him home with her, where he is ''immediately'' [[Awesome Moment of Crowning\|hailed as King]], the old King having died in Katafa's absence. More to the point, laid-back ol' Dick immediately accepts, as a matter of course! (Having earlier picked up a Royal [[MacGuffin]] probably helped with this decision.) Stacpoole (usually fairly nonracist) clearly implies that in their present predicament, the natives need a white couple to save them. * [[Noble Savage]]: Richard and Emmeline in the original film, and Richard (son of the couple from the first movie) and Lilli of the sequel. They pretty much raise themselves to adulthood and know little of human civilization. On the other hand, the original inhabitants of the island are seen practicing human sacrifice. Nothing particularly noble about them. * [[Nostalgic Music Box]]: Among the artifacts taken to the island is a music box that plays Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9, #2 in E flat major. Emmeline says "That's Chopin! I can play it on the piano." It's used by the kids growing up as a connection with/nostalgic reminder of their life before the island. Sometimes they dance to it. None of this is in the book. Line 35 ⟶ 34: [[Category:Films of the 1980s]] [[Category:The Blue Lagoon]] [[Category:Multiple Works Need Separate Pages]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Blue Lagoon, The}} [[Category:Film]]