An Adventure in Filmmaking: The Making of 'The Blue Lagoon' Page #2

What are you doing that for?

I'm going to put it on Mr. Button's head,

so when you say "boo" into his ear...

...he'll jump up with it on.

Paddy, wake up, it's us.

Wake up!

Don't worry, Em, we'll be all right.

Take me away from this place, Richard.

Look!

This looks like a good place

to stay for awhile.

Wake up. It's Christmas morning.

Christmas?

Yesterday, I counted 52 big marks

on the tree and last night he came.

What are you talking about?

Santa Claus. I saw all his reindeer

right there on the beach.

Let's see if he brought us anything.

Come on, Em, hurry.

That's where the reindeer were, see?

Look at our stockings.

And there's something in them!

Look, just what I always wanted.

What are they?

What do they look like? They're marbles.

See, these are your Jaspers

and these are your Peewees.

You did it all.

But...

Fooled ya, didn't I?

You!

Why are we always fighting so much?

I don't know.

That should be our New Year's revolution:

to stop fighting so much.

- I'll try, but...

- But, what?

I don't know what's wrong with me

when I say the things I say.

I just keep on having

all these strange thoughts.

What kind of thoughts?

Just thoughts.

Funny thoughts about you and me.

Tell me.

I couldn't.

They're just thoughts.

They don't mean anything.

Where did you find these?

I found them in those little shells.

They're beautiful. Thank you.

"O come, all ye faithful"

"O little town of Bethlehem"

"Dashing through the snow

In a one-horse open sleigh

"All the"

Help!

What's wrong?

You're bleeding.

Don't! I'm all right.

But you're bleeding.

Go away! Don't look at me.

Go away!

What was it, Em?

- Why were you bleeding like that?

- I don't know.

Liar!

It's true, I don't know.

People don't bleed like that

unless they've cut themselves.

Maybe you're hurt real bad

and you just don't know it.

- Let me look.

- No! I don't want you to look.

- But, why?

- Just because.

That is not fair.

I don't keep any secrets from you.

I tell you everything.

Everything.

What are you looking at?

Your muscles.

What about them?

You're really acting silly lately.

Always saying dumb things like that.

Always looking at me funny.

You're not coming down with something,

are you?

Well, don't give it to me.

Tell me again.

- Where are your mother and father?

- In heaven.

But where's heaven?

You know, up there.

- Your father might be there, too.

- No, he's not.

He's coming on a ship someday

to take us home.

Do you hear it?

No.

Do you ever hear it?

Sometimes I think I do.

I think Paddy was a liar.

He told us there was a pot of gold

at the end of every rainbow...

...and that was a lie.

He told us if we dug far enough

we'd reach China.

And Santa Claus never came.

Do you ever think about him?

I do.

I know you don't like to talk about it, but...

...don't you ever wonder

what really happened?

I don't want to know what happened.

I do.

There are so many things

I don't understand.

Why do fish stop swimming and lie on top

of the tide pools after it rains?

Why do you hear the waves

inside the big shells?

Why are all these funny hairs

growing on me?

I wish a big book with all the answers

to every question in the world...

...would drop out of the sky

and land in my hand right now.

- I'd read it till I knew everything.

- You can't know everything.

Only God knows everything.

God?

He can't find us

any better than Santa Claus.

I wonder what fish think about?

What are you doing?

Trying to cheer you up. Come on, laugh.

It's not going to work.

There it is again.

Do you think it's the bogeyman?

Maybe it's another person.

No...

...or he would have come over

to meet us and say hello.

That's the proper thing to do.

What if he's not nice?

What if he wants to hurt us?

Then I'll spear him.

Look! I'm the greatest fisherman

who ever lived.

I'm the greatest fisherman who ever lived.

While you scare them off,

I catch as many as I want to.

That's my fish dance!

It doesn't scare them off.

It brings them up to the surface

where I can spear them.

Who cares what you say?

It's not how many you catch.

It's how you do it.

Stop that!

Please play something else.

Why must you do that

when you know it makes me angry?

"It doesn't scare them away.

It brings 'em to the top...

"...where I can spear them."

I'll spear you.

Here I am.

Come back here...

...or I'll pull your britches down

and take a switch to you.

Don't you dare try to spank me. I mean it.

I'll put never-wake-up berries in your food!

I mean it.

Say, "Richard is the smartest person

on the island."

- Say it!

- Stop it, Richard. I'm getting angry.

- Stop it! Now get off.

- Say it!

Richard is the smartest person

on the island.

- The fastest swimmer.

- The fastest swimmer.

- The fastest runner.

- The fastest runner.

- The best hut builder.

- You're the best everything. Now get off!

It's true.

Just you wait.

You'll never know when it'll happen.

Just one little bite

and you'll never wake up again.

- What is it? What happened?

- I saw him.

- Who?

- The face Paddy thought was a bogeyman.

- You went to the other side?

- He's not the bogeyman.

I think he's God.

God?

He looks like Pastor Logan said

he looked like:

"You'd better be good or else."

And he was bleeding.

- I don't believe you.

- Just like Jesus.

Don't go there again. It's the law.

What if he really is God?

Shouldn't we go and pray?

Or won't he be mad

and not let us go to heaven?

I don't want to talk about it.

What is it?

I'm here.

- You ate the "dead and berries"...

- No, I'm fine.

- You just had a bad dream.

- Don't ever leave me.

Promise you won't.

Promise you'll always be with me.

I promise.

Don't.

What are you doing?

Go away!

Where are you going?

Wait. What's the matter?

- What are you doing?

- What do you want?

Why won't you talk to me?

Just leave me alone.

A ship, Emmeline!

The signal fire, you didn't light it.

Why didn't you light it?

You know how much I want to leave.

It's the most important thing to me.

I know.

First you cry for help,

then you throw sticks at me.

A ship comes, a ship!

The first ship we've seen

since we've been here and you let it go by.

Well, that's it. I've had it.

I'm sick and tired

of waiting for you to get better.

I'm going to San Fr'isco without you.

You'll never build a boat strong enough

to get to San Fr'isco.

That's the fourth time you've tried

and they've all sunk.

Shut up!

Why don't you give up?

You don't even know where San Fr'isco is.

You're such a silly dodo.

We're never getting off this island.

Thanks to you.

This is where we live.

This is our home, now and forever.

No!

I could never live here forever

with just you.

I don't even like you.

You never used to laugh at me.

You never used to have secrets.

You're not so perfect either,

Mr. Richard Lestrange.

I've seen you playing with it.

And I'll tell your father if he ever gets here.

You. I hate you.

You almost hit me.

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