Word: lagoons
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...black creatures clawing at curvaceous blondes in bikinis, with that corker of a tag line, "Not for killing. For mating..."--movie monsters made a leap from the resignedly platonic to the unabashedly horny. I remember when monsters had morals: King Kong (a little fondling); the Creature from the Black Lagoon (bad ideas--but stoic). And the mere abduction of the unconscious woman seemed to satisfy the aggressive but asexual adolescent; after the limp female was draped across the rocks the panic light went on--"Uh oh, what does he do now?"--and the hero conveniently arrives to blow the shit...
...producer and director pick the stars, of course: a John Travolta to put on his jeans for an Urban Cowboy or a Brooke Shields to take hers off for a Blue Lagoon. Sometimes the stars pick their producers and directors; in a Streisand production the only thing Barbra does not control is how much butter a patron pours on his popcorn-and she probably has firm opinions on that too. But in both television and films there are dozens of smaller roles that only the casting director can fill. For ABC's The Winds...
...dredge up old films. Although Dino DeLaurentis reigns as the King Kong of this burgeoning market, almost everybody has tried his hand at it. The products range from ridiculous but harmless--Heaven Can Wait--to dramatic yet stupid--Invasion of the Body Snatchers--to just plain banal--The Blue Lagoon...
Even with the sharks, the savages and the suntanned insatiable teenagers, Blue Lagoon (which should be called Green Lagoon since that it the color of the water there) drags...
Whatever their intent, the men who made Blue Lagoon blew their only shot at success when they decided to use sound. Our bleached blond hero discusses knowledge in these terms: "There are so many things I don't understand," he says. ". . . Why are all these funny hairs growing on me?" And later, angered at her lover's South Pacific hijinks, Ms. Shields shouts the classic words "I'll get you for this...