The Blue Lagoon (1980)

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★★★★☆

Starring: William Daniels, Brooke Shields, Leo McKern, Christopher Atkins

Corrected entry: When Em is lying on the rock it is completely blood free. Later in the movie, we see the sacrifice that would have obviously left the rock blood-stained, though it was perfectly clean.

Correction: On a tropical island, violent rain can clean even the most dirty rock.

Corrected entry: In the scene where they are on the other island that they swam across to, in the back ground where they're making out you can see the statue of "god" behind them.

Correction: They did not go to "the other island", they just went swimming in the lagoon. I'm very sure if they were on another Island, you would not see the "God" statue. Not to mention the scene continues with them on their island.

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Mistakes

Continuity mistake: After the baby is born, in one scene where it is lying on the bed, it's lying on a blue-green print receiving blanket. In the next shot, the baby is wrapped in a fur or rough cloth material. (01:20:20)

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Quotes

Young Emmeline: Mr. Button, there's a cask over hear with stuff in it that smells like the Captain's breath.

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Trivia

Trivia: Melissa Sue Anderson ("Mary Ingalls" in Little House on the Prairie) was initially given the offer to be Em, but she turned it down because she would have to do some nude scenes. Brooke Shields got the offer instead.

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Questions

Question: At the end of the movie, when the ship finds Richard, Emmeline, and baby Paddy in the lifeboat, Richard's father asks if they are dead. A crewman tells him that they are only asleep. Are they really dead and the crewman was trying to spare his feelings by lying to him, or are they really only sleeping?

Answer: The ending is meant to be ambiguous, and is identical to the ending of the original novel on which the film is based. It is never answered whether they are alive or not.

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Answer: At the end of the movie, it says they are only asleep. But in the second film (The Blue Lagoon: The Awakening), they say that they are dead. However, the child is not, because he didn't actually eat any of the dead and buried berries. Then they named the baby Richard because that was the first word baby Paddy could say. He probably said it a lot, so they thought that was his name.

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