American Cinematographer - July 1991 - 56

"How would you like to go to Fiji
and shoot a picture?"
Visions of scantily clad
women,

beautiful beaches, and

sunny days

warm

danced through

my head. The reality was some¬
what different. The women wore
hard hats to protect themselves
from falling coconuts, raincoats
were more

popular than bikinis,

and the dry season was about two
months late.
Columbia Pictures had

asked

us to go to this tropical
paradise to do a sequel to the very
successful The Blue Lagoon. Starring

Brooke Shields and Chris Atkins,
the original featured lush photog¬

raphy by Nestor Almendros, ASC.
sequel to this beautiful picture
was a tall order indeed. The
original
was shot on a very small island in
Fiji, with minimal equipment and
resources. The
sequel would return
to Fiji, but to a larger island. The
A

crew

also had a few more resources

at its

disposal, and could sleep in

hotel

rooms

instead of tents.

We have all had

days

rained out, but have you ever heard
of a whole picture being rained out?
In the first two months of shooting,
I think we could count the number
of sunny days on one hand. It got
so bad that we began
going to work
in wet suits and raincoats. One day
it rained a whole foot! They don't
call Taveuni the "garden isle" for

nothing.
This was primarily an ex¬
picture, shot on the beaches
and in the jungles, with several
extensive sequences on large sail¬
ing vessels and in a 14-foot open
boat. The largest light I had was a
single 4K HMI. It would have been
terior

A Perilous Paradise:

Return to

nice to have had three

or

four 12K

units, but the rough terrain would
have

the Blue

Lagoon

prevented their utilization in
anyway. We had plenty
of willing Fijian hands to pack the
gear around, but you cannot carry
a 25Kva
generator by hand. There
most

were

cases

tremendous contrast

by Bob Steadman
Produced and directed

by

William A. Graham
Director of

photography,

Robert Steadman

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