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The Blue Lagoon

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The Blue Lagoon	comment	The Blue Lagoon is a 1908 novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole, which follows a pair of teenagers as they attempt to survive on an idyllic tropical island.In the late Victorian era, specifically The Gay '90s, a ship goes off course and sinks, with three people — a galley cook named Paddy Button, and two young cousins, Richard "Dicky" Lestrange, a 10-year-old boy, and Emmeline Lestrange, an 8-year-old girl, fleeing to a rowboat and sailing towards an island in the distance. Once they arrive, they begin to make the island their permanent home, and Paddy teaches them basic survival skills. However, Paddy wanders off and dies in a drunken haze, leaving the two to fend for themselves.Several years pass, and the now-mature teenagers begin to explore the island, discovering relics and hidden secrets in the process. Their hot-cold friendship also turns into a full-blown romance and eventually results in Emmeline giving birth to a child and the newly formed family inadvertently leaving the island.Two sequels were made following the success of the original book. The Garden of God, published in 1923, follows Richard and Emmeline's son, Dick Lestrange (called "Dick M." because he says "Dick" and "Em" while playing with the sailors who rescued him). He ends up with his grandfather (Richard's father) and a sailor from his grandfather's ship, on the same island, and as a young adult meets a marooned woman named Katafa, from the nearby island of Karolin, with whom he eventually begins a romance. The Gates of Morning, published in 1925, has Dick become the king of the native Kanaka tribe on Karolin, and grapples with newfound responsibility and the threat of a rival tribe. All three original novels can be online here under "E-texts".There have been several adaptations: A 1923 silent film directed by William Bowden and Dick Cruickshanks, starring Molly Adair and Arthur Pusey, produced for African Film Productions. It is now considered a lost film. The Blue Lagoon (1949) produced by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder and directed by Launder for The Rank Organisation, starring Jean Simmons and Donald Houston. The Blue Lagoon (1980) directed by Randal Kleiser for Columbia Pictures and starring Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins, the best-known version. 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. In 2012, Lifetime had a loose adaptation called Blue Lagoon: The Awakening starring Home and Away actors Indiana Evans and Brenton Thwaites, with Christopher Atkins making a cameo as their teacher. It was shot as a Pilot Movie for a proposed TV series that was never picked up.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.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_121865ac	type	Noble Savage
The Blue Lagoon / int_121865ac	comment	Noble Savage: Richard and Emmeline in the original book and film, and Dick M aka Taori with Katafa in the sequels. Richard and Em pretty much raise themselves to adulthood and know little of human civilization. They are described explicitly as "far gone in savagery", to the point that they don't talk much anymore (they don't have to). On the other hand, the original inhabitants of the island are seen practicing human sacrifice; nothing particularly noble about them. Same goes for the Kanaka of Katafa's island Karolin.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_1383d1c1	type	Led by the Outsider
The Blue Lagoon / int_1383d1c1	comment	Led by the Outsider: Dick (Dick M.) Lestrange aka Taori, son of the original couple, when he is elected by acclaim to be the new king of Karolin, an atoll 40 or so miles from the original island. In a series of how-likely-is-that incidents, he's picked up the Karolin royal war club, and his mate Katafa tells him this means he's destined to be the next king. The third book describes how he handles it — not perfectly, not better than the Kanaka, just different, and looking to older men to explain what he needs to know. Stacpoole probably meant to avert Mighty Whitey as he was notably anti-racist towards South Seas indigenous people, but with Katafa being of Spanish heritage he did ensure Dick would mate with a Caucasian woman.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_1c8e096e	type	Childhood Friend Romance
The Blue Lagoon / int_1c8e096e	comment	Childhood Friend Romance: Exaggerated, since from early childhood they are literally the only partners of the opposite sex for each other.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_245cb69d	type	Changing of the Guard
The Blue Lagoon / int_245cb69d	comment	Changing of the Guard: The original novel is about Dick and Em Lestrange growing up and having a son, whom they name Hannah, on the island. The two sequels are about their son (renamed Dick M. by the sailors who rescue him) as a young adult, following his own adventures. In The Garden of God he matures from a cute toddler to an intelligent, likable and very easygoing Surfer Dude, then to an active, caring young man. In The Gates of Morning, now known as Taori, having been elected by acclaim to be king of a nearby island, he takes the responsibility seriously and is willing to learn from older men how to lead the people.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_27690f66	type	Literary Allusion Title
The Blue Lagoon / int_27690f66	comment	Literary Allusion Title: The title refers to a line from Lord Byron's Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
The Blue Lagoon / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Katafa, once her untouchable curse is broken by her discovery of love and human connection.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_2fd7200b	type	Dead Guy Junior
The Blue Lagoon / int_2fd7200b	comment	Dead Guy Junior: Richard and Emmeline name their infant son Paddy after their late caretaker Paddy. In the book, he's called Hannah, because the only baby they ever knew had that name. He's called Dick M by the sailors who rescue him. Katafa, the young woman who crashes on the island and later becomes his mate, calls him Taori.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_417c78f5	type	Robinsonade
The Blue Lagoon / int_417c78f5	comment	Robinsonade: The first two books are definitely this. When you are done reading them you will know how to cook a breadfruit, the uses of liana vine, what to expect in a hurricane, and to store food and clean your campsite thoroughly after meals so you don't get crabs.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_47060811	type	Screaming Birth
The Blue Lagoon / int_47060811	comment	Screaming Birth: Emmeline doesn't even know she's giving birth, only that she feels sick and is in pain and her body's pushing against something. She instinctively takes a hands-and-knees posture. The only acknowledgment of it being a birth is Richard asking why she had a baby.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
The Blue Lagoon / int_50ca4422	comment	Unresolved Sexual Tension: Due to their lack of knowledge of human sexuality and intimacy, the romantic and sexual tension between Richard and Emmeline goes unresolved until the middle of the film when Emmeline falls ill and Richard nurses her back to health. Dick M, their son, with his friend Katafa, in spades, since she's an untouchable and he can't even stand too close to her.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_53c5f30e	type	Happy Ending Override
The Blue Lagoon / int_53c5f30e	comment	Happy Ending Override: The sequel has it so that the otherwise-happy ending of the original work (Richard, Emmeline, and Hannah (Dick M) are found sleeping in the boat) is overridden by the reveal that the berries really were poisonous and the adults died. This was Stacpoole's doing. At the end of the first book, the words are "No, sir, they are asleep," just like in the film. We are meant to take the words for granted. The Immediate Sequel (The Garden of God) has Arthur saying "No, they are dead" in the very first line, and we are told they have just stopped breathing at that moment. Seems Stacpoole didn't want to write any sequels; he ended up writing two. First, he killed off Richard and Em; book two ends up taking their son off the island as a boatful of New Hebridean slaves revolt against their white masters, kill them and take over the island; in book three, The Gates of Morning, Stacpoole went into full Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies mode. He killed off the island itself by having it completely swallowed up in a huge typhoon. He followed that up with an Everybody's Dead, Dave by visiting almost the entire population of Kanaka people on Karolin (and Dick, but not Katafa) with a measles epidemic. In the last chapter, Katafa's niece Le Moan offers her life to the gods to spare Dick's life and he begins to recover. Sheesh!
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The Blue Lagoon / int_557dabce	type	Deserted Island
The Blue Lagoon / int_557dabce	comment	Deserted Island: Take a wild guess...
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The Blue Lagoon / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Blue Lagoon / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: In the 2012 Lifetime adaptation set in the modern time, where locating a pair of teenagers stranded on an island that's unlikely to be located further than 35 miles away from the spot the Coast Guard intercepted the party boat (judging by the fact they were floating throughout an entire night on an apparently calm sea) proves a tremendous task.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_5f410c2c	type	Blood Is Squicker in Water
The Blue Lagoon / int_5f410c2c	comment	Blood Is Squicker in Water: How Emmeline discovers her first period. Also, when Richard gets his hands cut from a rope trying to lure in a fish caught by a shark.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_6331ba26	type	Plot Hole
The Blue Lagoon / int_6331ba26	comment	Plot Hole: Being stranded on an island for years, neither Richard nor Emmeline shows any signs of sunburning although they do have some pretty deep tans.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_677c65ea	type	Scream Discretion Shot
The Blue Lagoon / int_677c65ea	comment	Scream Discretion Shot: As Emmeline lets out a loud scream giving birth, it cuts away briefly to the animals reacting to the noise and several birds flying out of the trees.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
The Blue Lagoon / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: Richard and Emmeline have a son whom they name Paddy (Hannah in the book — it's the only baby name they know. The sailors later call him Dick M.). In Return to the Blue Lagoon, Richard Jr and Lily have a little girl.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_6f66bef7	type	But Not Too Foreign
The Blue Lagoon / int_6f66bef7	comment	But Not Too Foreign: Katafa, Dick M's friend and eventual mate, thinks of herself as a Kanaka, but is really a Spanish girl raised by Kanaka on the island of Karolin, 40 miles from the "Blue Lagoon" island. Her parents were killed by the Kanaka to prevent them taking water from the wells during a drought, but following her rescue the long-delayed rains came, so the king said she had brought good luck and must not be harmed. Making her an untouchable ensured her safety and the tribe's; if she cannot have any relationships, there's less chance of her parents' ghosts breaking through to cause trouble.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_71384f0e	type	Two-Person Pool Party
The Blue Lagoon / int_71384f0e	comment	Two-Person Pool Party: Richard and Emmeline in a few scenes during their love montage.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_72c8b35c	type	When She Smiles
The Blue Lagoon / int_72c8b35c	comment	When She Smiles: Emmeline.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
The Blue Lagoon / int_771f6307	comment	Brotherâ€“Sister Incest: In Return to the Blue Lagoon, siblings Richard Jr and Lily fall in love when they grow up.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_7eb2bc15	type	Ambiguous Time Period
The Blue Lagoon / int_7eb2bc15	comment	Ambiguous Time Period: Despite being written in 1907, the novel intentionally presents an ambiguous time period. This ambiguity serves several purposes: to appeal to a wider audience by avoiding specific historical markers, to create a timeless story focusing on universal themes and characters' experiences, to provide an escapist and fantastical atmosphere, and to allow for symbolism and allegory. While the exact reasons for the ambiguous time period are speculative, these factors contribute to the novel's enduring appeal and exploration of deeper meanings.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_83856158	type	Worthless Yellow Rocks
The Blue Lagoon / int_83856158	comment	Worthless Yellow Rocks: Richard collects presents for Emmeline's Christmas stocking, not knowing that the "marbles" he got out of some shells are excruciatingly valuable. Emphasized in the book; Em's walking around with a necklace worth fifteen or twenty thousand pounds. Today, that would be over Â£2.5 million, or over $3 million.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_849d24d9	type	Last Kiss
The Blue Lagoon / int_849d24d9	comment	Last Kiss: Richard and Emmeline tearfully share one in the end, thinking they're not gonna live.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_8d6d9535	type	Artistic License â€“ Medicine
The Blue Lagoon / int_8d6d9535	comment	Artistic License â€“ Medicine: In the film, when Emmeline walks in the water she accidentally steps on a fish and gets sick. The fish that the movie shows is called Stone Fish and in fact, if you step on one the venom will cause excruciating pain, shock, paralysis, tissue death, and if not treated within a few hours, death. Emmeline doesn't seem to suffer from any of these symptoms outside of extreme pain and fever, and it seems it takes some time until Richard finds her.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
The Blue Lagoon / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: Richard and Emmeline are cousins. They are also the only available mates for each other.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
The Blue Lagoon / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: Emmeline and Richard are this at first before they get older. In fact part of the point of the novel and films is that they remain innocent:
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The Blue Lagoon / int_9588c44b	type	First Period Panic
The Blue Lagoon / int_9588c44b	comment	First Period Panic: In the film, Emmeline is terrified when she gets her first period, and not knowing what to do about it, refuses to talk to Richard about it. In the book she just "goes off and bathes by herself" sometimes.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_a37008ed	type	Loincloth
The Blue Lagoon / int_a37008ed	comment	Loincloth: Richard and Emmeline wear them for clothing on the island. In Return to the Blue Lagoon, so do Richard Jr and Lily. In the book, Paddy makes a skirt for Em out of a sail. He includes reef points (holes every couple of inches or so, with grommets) so that as she grows taller she can just let it out.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_a91f07ee	type	"No Peeking!" Request
The Blue Lagoon / int_a91f07ee	comment	"No Peeking!" Request: In Blue Lagoon: The Awakening, Emma screams at Dean to turn around when he catches her taking a Waterfall Shower.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Blue Lagoon / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Richard and Emmeline fear for Paddy when he swallows some of the poisonous "never-wake-up" berries. Worst when they both realize that there's no way they could induce vomiting and realizing their son's going to die. In the book, all we know is that Em has a branch of the plant, called arita, in her hand; it's only implied that she and Richard ingest any, and the sailors believe their child got some through Em's milk but it's clear he wasn't seriously harmed.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
The Blue Lagoon / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Coming of Age Story: Our two main leads are forced to fend for themselves on a deserted island, while gradually becoming closer to each other. Their son has his coming of age story in the sequel.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_b3aa5504	type	Convenient Coma
The Blue Lagoon / int_b3aa5504	comment	Convenient Coma: Emmeline comes walking out of the forest with the baby she had a few hours earlier. She explains to Richard that she felt ill, went to sit in the forest, and then "remembered nothing more" until she woke to find the baby lying beside her. Apparently, she remembers more about the birth later.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_b90ddf3c	type	Perverted Sniffing
The Blue Lagoon / int_b90ddf3c	comment	Perverted Sniffing: Richard sniffs some of Emmeline's hair while she's sleeping.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
The Blue Lagoon / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book: As mentioned, four of them, of varying faithfulness.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
The Blue Lagoon / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Emmeline screams one upon waking from a nightmare about Richard dying in various ways.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
The Blue Lagoon / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Katafa, Dick M's love interest in The Garden of God and The Gates of Morning. The Kanaka priestess who raised her believed the ghosts of her murdered parents might use her to seek revenge, and that she must not marry anyone from the tribe, so placed her under a taminan curse — literally untouchable — and taught her by repeated punishment never to reach out to others or allow them to touch her. She is so mentally conditioned to avoid contact with humans and even animals that she slips away if she so much as thinks you might touch her. Stacpoole describes the exact psychological effects this has had on her. She gets better.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_d1cedb73	type	Slap-Slap-Kiss
The Blue Lagoon / int_d1cedb73	comment	They also have this in the 1980 film as Em is recovering from stonefish poisoning that almost killed her. In the book, what they experience is closer to Slap-Slap-Kiss.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_d4bb4e51	type	Walking Shirtless Scene
The Blue Lagoon / int_d4bb4e51	comment	Walking Shirtless Scene: Richard spends most of his time shirtless.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_db52f2ff	comment	Surprise Pregnancy: Justified, in that neither Richard nor Emmeline has had enough sex education to recognize the signs of pregnancy. They also don't even know what sex is, or that it causes this.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
The Blue Lagoon / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: In most adaptations, although most notably in The Awakening. Not that anybody would mind watching Indiana Evans cutting her jeans into a pair of shorts and subsequently putting them on though.
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The Blue Lagoon / int_dffd6a64	type	Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex
The Blue Lagoon / int_dffd6a64	comment	Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex: Presumably the reason for the first sex scene in The Awakening. The two leads discover a skeleton near their lean-to, and Emma freaks out. Not long after, she has sex for the first time with Dean. They also have this in the 1980 film as Em is recovering from stonefish poisoning that almost killed her. In the book, what they experience is closer to Slap-Slap-Kiss.
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