# Mermaid's Necklace - the Movie "Splash" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 24, 2008, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mermaids-necklace-the-movie-splash/434888 "2008-01-24T23:30:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mermaids-necklace-the-movie-splash/434888/1 "2008-01-24T23:30:54Z")
I’ve been completely in love with Madison the mermaid’s necklace, featured prominently in the 1984 movie _Splash_, for many years. First, does anybody know if anyone has made a decent replica and where I could buy it? Or, does a good photo of the necklace exist so I could maybe copy it and put one together? I’ve tried Google and Wikipedia and no luck. Thanks in advance, Creaky ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mermaids-necklace-the-movie-splash/434888/2 "2008-01-25T03:02:10Z")
I love that movie and necklace too. I had no idea it was so difficult to find a good picture of it online! [http://www.starpulse.com/Movies/Splash/gallery/SPLASHMOVIE05/](http://www.starpulse.com/Movies/Splash/gallery/SPLASHMOVIE05/) This is the only decent one I found and it’s still not any good! ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mermaids-necklace-the-movie-splash/434888/3 "2008-01-25T03:08:08Z")
Oh, I found this - can you get a screen capture? There’s a pretty good shot of the necklace around 1 minute in. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-GOqh6MJOs) ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mermaids-necklace-the-movie-splash/434888/4 "2008-01-25T05:16:28Z")
[QUOTE=Glory] Oh, I found this - can you get a screen capture? There’s a pretty good shot of the necklace around 1 minute in. ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/v-GOqh6MJOs/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/v-GOqh6MJOs?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque [/QUOTE] **Glory** , thank you! Yes, I think I can freeze that pic from the YouTube video and try and reproduce the necklace from the still. Thank you so much!! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mermaids-necklace-the-movie-splash/434888/5 "2008-01-25T14:18:58Z")
Can you put the still up here? ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mermaids-necklace-the-movie-splash/434888/6 "2008-01-25T14:22:17Z")
Guess I wasn’t looking at the necklace when I saw that movie. It is nice, though. I like when a movie has little props that aren’t strictly necessary for the plot, but add details to the world created by the story. ---
**Author:** ![fatgail](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fatgail/32/7285_2.png) [@fatgail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fatgail)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mermaids-necklace-the-movie-splash/434888/7 "2008-01-25T14:24:36Z")
[QUOTE=Baldwin] Guess I wasn’t looking at the necklace when I saw that movie. It is nice, though. I like when a movie has little props that aren’t strictly necessary for the plot, but add details to the world created by the story. [/QUOTE] It’s actually pretty important to the plot. She sells the necklace to buy him the mermaid statue from the park. “It’s so … big!” ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mermaids-necklace-the-movie-splash/434888/8 "2008-01-25T15:05:21Z")
Bocce _Balls_!!! ---
**Author:** ![fatgail](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fatgail/32/7285_2.png) [@fatgail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fatgail)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mermaids-necklace-the-movie-splash/434888/9 "2008-01-25T15:08:48Z")
_Mr. Mango on my shoulder…_ God I love that movie. ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mermaids-necklace-the-movie-splash/434888/10 "2008-01-25T16:19:07Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] Can you put the still up here? [/QUOTE] I’m not sure I know how to freeze the shot and save it as a frozen image and post it. I’m pretty untechnological! It’s good to have a fairly decent shot of it, though. I’m already starting to shop around for the necklace components. ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mermaids-necklace-the-movie-splash/434888/11 "2008-01-25T18:54:25Z")
The Youtube video won’t give a good enough screenshot to work from. My advice is that you rent the DVD and pause at the right moment to get a good look. Also you could use software such as PowerDVD to create a screenshot from the DVD on your computer. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mermaids-necklace-the-movie-splash/434888/12 "2008-01-25T19:51:33Z")
Could you pause the video at the right part and hit Print Screen to take a screenshot? You could crop it in Photoshop, since there would be a lot of extraneous bits around what you want to see. I can’t remember if something pops up on the video player screen when you hit pause on YouTube. If it doesn’t, then Prt Scr follies ahoy. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mermaids-necklace-the-movie-splash/434888/13 "2008-01-25T20:19:47Z")
A more detailed image: [![](http://www.kinokunst.de/LSets_d/Splash/Splash-JungfrauAmHaken_F05x.jpg) ](http://www.kinokunst.de/LSets_d/Splash/Splash-JungfrauAmHaken_F05x.jpg) Image is safe for work, but Darryl Hannah really distracts one from the necklace… Excuse me, I’ll be in my bunk… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mermaids-necklace-the-movie-splash/434888/14 "2008-01-25T20:31:11Z")
I’ll be back! I’ll be back with nuclear weapons! ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mermaids-necklace-the-movie-splash/434888/15 "2008-01-25T23:48:04Z")
**Miss Purl** , that’s a good idea and I’ll try it. Thanks!! Also, **Gigo** , that’s a good image too. I really want to make this necklace and you all are being really wonderful to help me! **awldune** , I don’t have a DVD player or a TV that’s compatible with one, but I have friends who do, so perhaps they’d indulge me. I just got my Fire Mountain Gems and Beads catalogue supplement last week and am expecting the big catalogue soon. I know they have lots of great and nicely priced components in there that would make a great mermaid necklace. As for the big ole gold coin as the focal point, I have some neat old large foreign coins that my great aunts brought back from their youthful travels abroad in the 1930s. I’m hoping maybe I can get my dad to drill some holes in one of the coins so I can attach it as shown in the pic. If I can actually make this, I’ll post a pic of the finished piece! Again, thank you!!