He initially says no, but then the two become lovers. She appears on Bellocq’s doorstep and asks him if he will sleep with her and take care of her. Violet runs away from the brothel after being punished for some hijinks. Hattie promises to return for Violet, once she’s settled and has broken the news to the new spouse. Louis without her daughter, whom her husband believes to be her sister. She marries a customer and leaves for St. Hattie, meanwhile, aspires to escape prostitution. This first sexual experience is unpleasant. After a bidding war among regulars, Violet is bought by an apparently quiet customer. Nell decides that Violet is old enough for her virginity to be auctioned off. Violet is a restless child, frustrated by the long, precise process Bellocq must go through to pose and take pictures. His activities fascinate Violet, though she believes he is falling in love with her mother, which makes her jealous. Madame Nell agrees only after he offers to pay.īellocq becomes a fixture in the brothel, photographing the prostitutes, mostly Hattie. He asks to be allowed to take photographs of the women. Bellocq comes with his camera, Hattie and Violet are the only people awake. Hattie has given birth to a baby boy and has a 12-year-old daughter, Violet, who lives in the house. With their maturing bodies and raging hormones, there are plenty of awkward encounters between the two. But The Blue Lagoon is far grimmer and more disturbing than you likely remember, especially for a movie that makes "young love" one of its centerpieces.In 1917, during the last months of legal prostitution in Storyville, the red-light district of New Orleans, Louisiana, Hattie is a prostitute working at an elegant brothel run by the elderly, cocaine-sniffing Madame Nell. The only adult in the story doesn't make it, and the adolescents are left marooned together. It opens with three people shipwrecked on a remote South Pacific island.
The plot is relatively straightforward and features standard stuff for a human survival story.
While the scenes were simulated using a body double for Shields, the film is still uncomfortable to watch. The 1980 film version, which stars Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins, is likely the most problematic of all the incarnations of the story: It depicts several sex scenes between 14-year-old Shields and 19-year-old Atkins. Not creepy in a spooky way, but creepy in a messed-up, this-is-super-problematic way. The Blue Lagoon, a classic(ish) 1908 novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole, has inspired five films despite being pretty creepy.
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