History Literature / TheBlueLagoon

* ADateWithRosiePalms: In the film, Richard does this to vent his sexual frustration for Emmeline. Emmeline catches him in the act and later mocks him for it.

* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: In the 1980 film, Emmeline catches Richard [[ADateWithRosiePalms stimulating himself manually]]. She asks what he's doing, and he guiltily says "Nothing!" In another scene when they're arguing, she taunts him extensively about this.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Even though they're stuck on a deserted island for years, the leads never really look like they're any worse for wear, besides a couple tears in their clothes and deep tans. The 2012 movie is especially bad about this.

* {{Bowdlerise}}:
** The version aired on TBS cuts out the shot of Paddy's nude photographs, the blood spurting onto the native after the execution, as well as all nude scenes.
** The TNT version also cuts out the words "Sweet Jesus!"
** NBC edited 9 minutes from this film for its 1982 network television premiere due to nudity and sexual content.

* ChildrenAreInnocent: 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:

* ConvenientComa: In the novel, 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.

* ''Film/{{The Blue Lagoon|1980}}'' (1980) directed by Randal Kleiser for Creator/ColumbiaPictures and starring Creator/BrookeShields and Creator/ChristopherAtkins, the best-known version.

* ''Film/{{The Blue Lagoon|1980}}'' (1980) adaption directed by Randal Kleiser for Creator/ColumbiaPictures and starring Creator/BrookeShields and Creator/ChristopherAtkins, the best-known version.

''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.

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.

* A 1949 version directed by Frank Launder starring Creator/JeanSimmons and Creator/DonaldHouston.
* The 1980 adaption directed by Randal Kleiser and starring Creator/BrookeShields and Christopher Atkins, arguably the best known version.

* In 2012, Creator/{{Lifetime}} had a loose adaptation called ''Blue Lagoon: The Awakening'' starring ''Series/HomeAndAway'' actors Creator/IndianaEvans and Creator/BrentonThwaites, with Creator/ChristopherAtkins making a cameo as their teacher.

* {{Irony}}: After awakening from a nightmare, Emmeline is comforted by Richard and make him promise to never leave her and always be with her. After which she kisses him but as the kiss intensifies, Emmeline pushes him away telling him not to.

* MarsNeedsWomen: As Dick accepts his responsibilities as king of the Kanaka people on nearby Karolin, at the end of ''The Garden of God'', he realizes that (due to a recent misguided war) there are no mature men among them, and not enough war canoes; and because the New Hebridean slaves who overpowered their evil masters and took over the island are all guys they'll be coming to Karolin to steal women, and Dick spends most of the third book getting ready for them. (They never show up, because Stacpoole kills off the island itself in a tsunami.)

* MorningSickness: Richard awakens one morning to discover Emmeline vomiting by the sea due to her pregnancy.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Done in a somewhat comic scene in which the two kids go running naked ahead of Paddy, who's yelling at them to get their clothes back on.

* NobleSavage: 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. 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.

* PlotHole: Being stranded on an island for years, neither Richard nor Emmeline show any signs of tanning or sunburning.

* WorthlessYellowRocks: 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.

* AdultFear: 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.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: In the film, Richard does this to vent his sexual frustration for Emmaline. Emmaline catches him in the act and later mocks him for it.
* AdultFear: Richard and Emmaline 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.

* BabiesEverAfter: Richard and Emmaline 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.

* BelligerentSexualTension: As they become teenagers, Richard and Emmaline find themselves fighting a lot even though it's playful.

* BigNo: Emmaline screams one upon waking from a nightmare about Richard dying in various ways.

** How Emmaline discovers her first period.

* EatingTheEyeCandy: Emmaline ogles the shirtless Richard while he's fixing a boat.

'''Emmaline:''' Your muscles.\\

* MorningSickness: Richard awakens one morning to discover Emmaline vomiting by the sea due to her pregnancy.

* NoPeriodsPeriod: Emmaline is terrified when she gets her first period, and not knowing what to do about it, refuses to talk to Richard about it.

* PervertedSniffing: Richard sniffs some of Emmaline's hair while she's sleeping.

* ScreamDiscretionShot: As Emmaline 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.

* TwoPersonPoolParty: Richard and Emmaline in a few scenes during their love montage.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Due to their lack of knowledge of human sexuality and intimacy, the romantic and sexual tension between Richard and Emmaline goes unresolved until the middle of the film when Emmaline falls ill and Richard nurses her back to health.
* WackyCravings: In the film, Emmaline indulges in coconut to satisfy her pregnancy cravings. [[note]]Not inappropriate by a long shot: coconut is rich in nutritional value including fiber, vitamins, minerals and fats. Em may have also found that she has less morning sickness if she eats some every day. Pregnant women today are counseled to eat it for their own health and the child's. [[/note]]

* WorthlessYellowRocks: Richard collects presents for Emmaline'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.

* MarsNeedsWomen: As Dick accepts his responsibilities as king of the Kanaka people on nearby Karolin, at the end of ''The Garden of God'', he realizes that (due to a recent misguided war) there are no mature men among them, and not enough war canoes; and because the New Hebridean slaves who overpowered their evil masters and took over the island are all guys. They'll be coming to Karolin to steal women, and Dick spends most of the third book getting ready for them. (They never show up, because Stacpoole kills off the island itself in a tsunami.)

* BabiesEverAfter: Richard and Emmaline 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.

* BrotherSisterIncest: In "Return To The Blue Lagoon", siblings Richard Jr and Lily fall in love when they grow up.

* {{Loincloth}}: Richard and Emmeline wear them for clothing on the island. In "Return To The Blue Lagoon", so do Richard Jr and Lily.

* In 2012, Creator/{{Lifetime}} had a loose adaptation called ''Blue Lagoon: The Awakening'' starring ''Series/HomeAndAway'' actors [[Series/H2OJustAddWater Indiana Evans]] and Creator/BrentonThwaites, with Christopher Atkins making a cameo as their teacher.

** 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 sequel (''The Garden of God'') has Arthur saying "No, they are dead," 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 from their white masters, kill them and take over the island; in book three, ''The Gates of Morning,'' Stacpoole went into full RocksFallEveryoneDies mode. He killed off ''the island itself'' by having it completely swallowed up in a huge typhoon. He followed that up with an EverybodysDeadDave 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!

* In 1991, William A. Graham produced and directed a loose adaption of ''The Garden of God'' titled ''Return to the Blue Lagoon'' starring Creator/MillaJovovich and Brian Krause.

* The 1980 adaption directed by Randal Kleiser and starring Creator/BrookeShields and Christopher Atkins, arguable thre best known version.

* The 1980 adaption directed by Randal Kleiser and starring Creator/BrookeShields and Christopher Atkins.

There have been four film adaptations. 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 Creator/BrookeShields 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 Creator/MillaJovovich and Brian Krause. And in 2012, Creator/{{Lifetime}} had a loose adaptation called ''Blue Lagoon: The Awakening'' starring ''Series/HomeAndAway'' actors [[Series/H2OJustAddWater Indiana Evans]] and Creator/BrentonThwaites, with Christopher Atkins making a cameo as their teacher.

* WackyCravings: Emmaline indulges in coconut to satisfy her pregnancy cravings.

* WorthlessYellowRocks: Richard collects presents for Emmaline's Christmas stocking, not knowing that the "marbles" he got out of some shells are really natural pearls.

-->'''Richard:''' Why are we always fighting?

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) 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. [[http://web.archive.org/web/20080101033038/http://www.pacificislandsinfo.com/ All three original novels can be online here under "E-texts"]].

** This was Stacpoole's doing. The first words in the sequel (''The Garden of God'') are "No, they are dead," 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; in the third book, he went into full RocksFallEveryoneDies mode. He killed off ''the island itself'' by having it completely swallowed up in a huge typhoon. He did an EverybodysDeadDave in the last book 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!

* MightyWhitey: Dick (Dick M.) Lestrange, son of the [[KissingCousins original couple]]. He appears in ''Garden of God'' and the followup novel ''The Gates of Morning''. He can best be described as an intelligent, likable and very easygoing SurferDude. Katafa, something between a JunglePrincess and a BrokenBird, washes up on the shore and causes trouble. She [[ButNotTooForeign isn't really a Kanaka, but a Spanish girl]] who was RaisedByNatives. To ensure the plotline, she's been cursed as an untouchable. After sundry how-likely-is-''that'' events, during which he picks up and keeps a Royal MacGuffin, Dick and Katafa [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove fall in love]]. Katafa [[DefrostingIceQueen becomes touchably soft]] while Dick becomes both active and passionately caring; she's kind of his Muse. She takes him home with her, where (partly due to his having the royal war club) he is ''immediately'' [[AwesomeMomentOfCrowning hailed as King]]; the old King having died in Katafa's absence and Katafa having been thought dead, her return is a miracle. Stacpoole (usually fairly non-racist) clearly implies that in their present predicament, the natives need a white couple to save them -- or, at least, that Dick couldn't marry an indigenous woman, so ''he'' needed a Caucasian girl.

* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: 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 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.

* MightyWhitey: Dick (Dick M.) Lestrange, son of the [[KissingCousins original couple]]. He appears in ''Garden of God'' and the followup novel ''The Gates of Morning''. He can best be described as an intelligent, likable and very easygoing SurferDude. Katafa, something between a JunglePrincess and a BrokenBird, washes up on the shore and causes trouble. She [[ButNotTooForeign isn't really a Kanaka, but a Spanish girl]] who was RaisedByNatives. To ensure the plotline, she's been cursed as an untouchable. After sundry how-likely-is-''that'' events, during which he picks up and keeps a Royal MacGuffin, Dick and Katafa [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove fall in love]]. Katafa [[DefrostingIceQueen becomes touchably soft]] while Dick becomes both active and passionately caring; she's kind of his Muse. She takes him home with her, where (partly due to his having the royal war club) he is ''immediately'' [[AwesomeMomentofCrowning hailed as King]]; the old King having died in Katafa's absence and Katafa having been thought dead, her return is a miracle. Stacpoole (usually fairly non-racist) clearly implies that in their present predicament, the natives need a white couple to save them -- or, at least, that Dick couldn't marry an indigenous woman, so ''he'' needed a Caucasian girl.

* DidTheResearch: Stacpoole, a ship's surgeon, lived among the South Sea Islands for years. Everything he wrote about Palm Tree (Richard and Em's island) and Karolin and its indigenous Kanaka people was legit and realistic.

-->'''Richard:''' What are you looking at?
-->'''Emmaline:''' Your muscles.
-->'''Richard:''' What about them? You're really acting silly lately, Em. Always saying dumb things like that. Always looking at me funny! You're not coming down with something, are you? Don't give it to me.

* StrongFamilyResemblance: In ''The Awakening'', Denise Richards really ''does'' look like a twenty years older version of her in-movie daughter Indiana Evans.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: In the film, Richard does this to vent his sexual frustration for Emmaline. Unfortunately, Emmaline catches him in the act. She later mocks him for it.

* BloodIsSquickerInWater: How Emmaline discovers her first period.

* {{Bowdlerise}} The version aired on TBS cuts out the shot of Paddy's nude photographs, the blood spurting onto the native after the execution, as well as all nude scenes.

* DullSurprise: The acting from the leads in these films was somewhat wooden. Brooke Shields was the first actress to win a Razzie and Milla Jovovich and Brian Krause were both nominated for Worst New Star.

* GladToBeAliveSex: 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.

* HappyEndingOverride: Both the sequel film and book have 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 is especially egregious in ''Return to the Blue Lagoon'', in which the characters' positions on the boat have changed (they're now lying face-down instead of huddled together) and the scene is reshot to have different dialogue.

* SurprisePregnancy: Justified, in that neither Richard or Emmeline have had enough of a sex education to recognize the signs of a pregnancy. They don't know what ''sex'' is, or that it causes this.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Richard does this to vent his sexual frustration for Emmaline. Unfortunately, Emmaline catches him in the act.
* AdultFear: Richard and Emmaline fear for Paddy when he swallows some of the poisonous "never-wake" berries. Worst when they both realize that there's no way they could induce vomiting and realizing their son's going to die.

* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: 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 and also shock, paralysis, tissue death and if not treated within few hours also death. Emmeline doesn't seem to suffer from any of these symptoms and it seems it takes some time until Richard finds her.
* BabiesEverAfter: Richard and Emmaline have a son whom they name Paddy. In "Return To The Blue Lagoon", Richard Jr and Lily have a little girl.

* DeadGuyJunior: Richard and Emmaline name their infant son Paddy after their late caretaker Paddy.

* {{Irony}}: After awakening from a nightmare, Emmaline is comforted by Richard and make him promise to never leave her and always be with her. After which she kisses him but as the kiss intensifies, Emmaline pushes him away telling him not to.

* LastKiss: Richard and Emmaline tearfully share one in the end, thinking they're not gonna live.
* {{Loincloth}}: Richard and Emmaline wear them for clothing on the island. In "Return To The Blue Lagoon", so do Richard Jr and Lily.