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Return to the Blue Lagoon
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Return to the Blue Lagoon is a 1991 American
romance and
adventure film starring
Milla Jovovich and
Brian Krause, produced and directed by
William A. Graham. The screenplay by
Leslie Stevens was based on the novel
The Garden of God by
Henry De Vere Stacpoole. The original music score was composed by
Basil Poledouris. The film's closing theme song "
A World of Our Own" is performed by
Surface featuring Bernard Jackson. The music was written by
Barry Mann, and the lyrics were written by
Cynthia Weil. The film was marketed with the slogan, "Return to the Romance, Return to the Adventure..." referring to 1980's
The Blue Lagoon to which this film is a sequel.
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The film tells the story of two young children marooned on a
tropical island paradise in the South Pacific. Their life together is blissful, but not without physical and emotional changes, as they grow to
maturity and fall in love.
Plot
In 1897, Mrs. Sarah Hargrave, a widow, and two young children (one of whom is the son of the castaways from the
original film) are
cast off
from the ship they are travelling on, because the ship's crew are
infected with cholera. After days afloat, Kearney, a sailor who has been
sent with them, tries to kill the boy because of his excessive crying.
Sarah angrily beats Kearney to death with a harpoon and dumps his body
overboard. The trio arrives at and is stranded on a beautiful tropical
island in the
South Pacific.
Sarah tries to raise them to be civilized, but soon gives up, as the
orphaned boy Richard was born and raised by young lovers on this same
island, and he influences the widow's daughter Lilli. They grow up, and
Sarah educates them from the
Bible,
as well as from her own knowledge, including the facts of life. She
cautiously demands the children never to go to the forbidden side of the
island.
When Richard and Lilli are about eight, Sarah dies from
pneumonia,
leaving them to fend for themselves. Sarah is buried on a scenic
promontory overlooking the tidal reef area. Together, the children
survive solely on their resourcefulness, and the bounty of their remote
paradise. Years later, both Richard and Lilli grow into strong and
beautiful teenagers. They live in a house on the beach and spend their
days together fishing, swimming, and exploring the island. Both their
bodies mature and develop, and they are physically attracted to each
other. Richard lets Lilli win the child's game
Easter egg hunt and dives to find Lilli an adult's pearl as her reward. His penchant for racing a lagoon
shark sparks a domestic quarrel; Lilli thinks he is foolhardy, but the liveliness makes Richard feel virile.
Lilli awakens in the morning with her first
menstrual period, just as Sarah described the threshold of womanhood. Richard awakens in the morning with an
erection, and suffers a nasty mood swing, which he cannot explain. They then get into an argument regarding
privacy
and their late mother's rules. One night, Richard goes off to the
forbidden side of the island, and discovers that a group of natives from
another island use the shrine of an impressive,
Kon-Tiki-like idol to sacrifice conquered enemies every full moon. Richard
camouflages
himself with mud and hides in the muck; meanwhile, Lilli worries about
his disappearance. Richard escapes unscathed, though he is seen by a
lone native. Ultimately, after making up for their fight, Richard and
Lilli discover
natural love and
passion,
which deepens their emotional bond. They fall in love, and exchange
formal wedding vows and rings in the middle of the jungle. They
consummate their new-found feelings for each other for the next several months.
Soon after, a ship arrives at the island, carrying unruly sailors, a
proud captain, and his beautiful but spoiled daughter, Sylvia Hilliard.
The party is welcomed by the young couple, and they ask to be taken back
to civilization, after many years in isolation. Sylvia tries to steal
Richard from Lilli and seduce him, but as tempted as he is by her
strange ways, he realizes that Lilli is his heart and soul, upsetting
Sylvia. Richard angrily leaves Sylvia behind in the middle of the fish
pond, in plain view of the landing party. Meanwhile, a sailor ogles
Lilli in her bath and drags her back to the house. He tries to
rape
her and steal her pearl, before Richard comes to her rescue. The sailor
opens fire on Richard who flees. Richard lures the sailor to his death
in the jaws of the shark in the tidal reef area. Upon returning, he
apologizes to Lilli for hurting her and she reveals that she is
pregnant. She tells him that if he wants to leave, then she won't stop
him, but that she wants to raise their child away from civilization, and
from guns. They decide to stay and raise their child on the island, as
they feel their blissful life would not compare to civilization. The
ship departs and the two young lovers stay on the island, and have their
baby.
Cast
Background and production
The film was shot on location in
Australia and
Taveuni,
Fiji and is a sequel to the
1980 remake
The Blue Lagoon, starring
Brooke Shields and
Christopher Atkins.
Return to the Blue Lagoon bears a strong similarity to its predecessor, which was produced and directed by
Randal Kleiser, but picks up from where its predecessor left off. It is almost nothing like
The Garden of God, Henry De Vere Stacpoole's sequel to his novel
The Blue Lagoon. However, in the third novel,
The Gates of Morning,
a pair of sailors attack the people of a nearby island because they
know its waters are rich with pearls, and it is possible the filmmakers
used this. Richard is the child of Richard and Emmeline Lestrange of the
previous film, who both are revealed to be dead at the beginning and
are
buried at sea (it is simply stated that they are dead whereas in the previous film it is stated that they are sleeping). The new
shipwreck occurred mere days after they were found where the crew is struck with cholera.
Although many of the film's elements were derived from the 1980
Blue Lagoon film, and there was some nudity, the film was much more sanitized in content than its predecessor, and was able to garner a
PG-13 rating in the United States.
Reception
Like the original, the film received negative reviews. It currently holds a rare 0% rating on
Rotten Tomatoes based on 30 reviews with the consensus: "Despite its lush tropical scenery and attractive leads,
Return to the Blue Lagoon is as ridiculous as its predecessor, and lacks the prurience and unintentional laughs that might make it a guilty pleasure."
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The film also flopped at the box office. On a budget of $11 million, it made less than $3 million in the United States.
Nominations
- 1991 Golden Raspberry Awards
- Nominee: Worst Director - William A. Graham
- Nominee: Worst New Star - Milla Jovovich
- Nominee: Worst New Star - Brian Krause
- Nominee: Worst Picture - William A. Graham
- Nominee: Worst Screenplay - Leslie Stevens
- Young Artist Awards[3]
- Nominee: Best Young Actress Starring in a Motion Picture - Milla Jovovich
États-Unis
France
