Thread 213767241

In *Waterworld*, Enola's tattoo contains Chinese coordinates (27°59'N, 86°56'E) pointing to Mount Everest. Director Kevin Reynolds planned the film to end with the discovery of a survey plaque revealing that "Dryland" was actually the peak of Mount Everest; the world's highest point and last refuge from rising seas.

Kevin Costner fired Reynolds and re-edited the film, cutting this crucial 10-second scene entirely.


Without the reveal, the story's central mystery goes unanswered. For Chinese-speaking audiences, it was even worse... they could read the coordinates from the beginning and spent the entire film waiting for a payoff that never came.


Why would Costner destroy his own story? Removing this scene was like cutting the Statue of Liberty reveal from "Planet of the Apes" ... it eliminated the moment that gives the entire plot meaning.

Was this pure ego? Did firing the director and dismantling his vision matter more than making a coherent film?

Did no one in post-production speak up? How did such obvious narrative vandalism make it to theaters?

Keeping the scene would have cost nothing. Costner actively chose to break his movie for reasons that remain inexplicable 3 decades later.

>>213767241 (OP)
Nobody noticed, because that was far from the only thing wrong with this movie.

>>213767322
kek, agreed there were many other issues, but still, why remove the crucial last piece of the story?

>>213767241 (OP)
>Director Kevin Reynolds planned the film to end with the discovery of a survey plaque revealing that "Dryland" was actually the peak of Mount Everest;
Um, that is how it ends. Did you watch some alternate version without the ending or something?

>>213767322
But I always took it to be Everest, because that's obvious.

>>213767241 (OP)
isnt it because hes a liberal scumbag and didnt want his film to end on a high note about human survival/adaptability
the movies liberal itself, hes a freak fish fag REEEEEing at humans

pinball

>>213767919
This. What fucking else would it be?

>>213767241 (OP)
Doesn't break anything for me. It's just a fun story that's Mad Max on water. I don't care why the place and people in Mad Max are the way they are or where they are. Same I don't care why it's a water world. The movie established that it is, and that's that. There was some catastrophe, the water rose above cities, and there's some mountain peak somewhere that's high enough to still be out of the water. Not a big thing to worry about.

>>213767241 (OP)
The uncut version has been released on Blu-ray so you can now stfu.

So why was there a giant mutant sea monster around?

>>213767241 (OP)
This what you choose to be autistic about? Speed running would at least have made you money.

>>213768061
Just some shoggoth that got freed when Antarctica melted.

Postman came out around the same time and it's an infinitely better movie and actually incredibly underrated.

This was just a campy romp, but even then it didn't really deliver. Hopper was hamming it up too much and the whole tanker faction came off like captain Hook and his crew in Spielberg's Hook. Just too saturday morning cartoon tier bumbling around.

>>213767241 (OP)
I understood it was Mount Everest when I was a fucking 5-year-old. I think you are just autistic and stupid

>>213767241 (OP)
>NorGAY
Lol

>>213768133
Non-autismos can like more than one movie at the same time. Must suck being you and having to hate one and like one.

>>213767241 (OP)
>they could read the coordinates from the beginning and spent the entire film waiting for a payoff that never came.
Do the Chinese perceive the world in a coordinate system?

>>213768133
Postman also has the more hopeful ending, but people sleep on it because it's detached from the mainstream conspiracy lore, however it predicts the collapse and Balkanizing of the US, to the point of couriers being the only remaining form of official government authority

He had to get it on

>>213767241 (OP)
Is this a mandela effect? I thought the cut scene revealed Dry Land was Mt. McKinley.

>>213768153
>Norgay
>nor gay
It means he's not gay, anon.

>>213768659
Nah, you're just American and thought it was the highest mountain in the world.

>>213768503
Liking multiple things means you don't like them at all.

>>213767241 (OP)
>Was this pure ego? Did firing the director and dismantling his vision matter more than making a coherent film?
Are you joking? Costner left Yellowstone and the biggest deal in TV history, after your favorite Friends, because he didn't want to work more than 2 days a week because he decided that spending $300 million on 3 3-hour Western movies was going to be his version of 3 Titanics with Wolfs. Now he's broke, and has filmed a sequel that no one will release, and is trying to keep his sets and costumes for the third movie lol meanwhile the Yellowstone creator is worth a billion dollars and has 6 more series in the works and directed the most buzzed about 2026 action movie since the 80s or The Rock. Waterworld was just the beginning of Costner's ego tsunami

>>213767322
>because that was far from the only thing wrong with this movie
Nobody will ever give a logical explanation for the cigarettes

>>213768061
why was megalon around?

>>213768133
hook is my favorite kino stfu

>>213768659
Yes, except it's called Denali

>"I've been savin' it for a special trade"
>Paper literally reads "Children and Infants"
What did Reynolds meant by this?

>>213768771
Man this post was a difficult read. Are you using voice to text or something? Goddamn.

>>213768901
You're black.

>>213768821
tobacco evolved into a new seaweed like variety

>>213768821
Product placement

>>213768619
unlike idiot americans most other country's people can look like lat long numbers and estimate where about it is on the Earth.

>>213768821
he handed them out sparingly so it makes sense he had a giant stash of tobacco (just like his gunpowder) to roll new batches of cigs (or bullets) regularly.

>>213768893
Damn, what an Easter egg.

>>213769111
Non american here. Literally no one knows how to read coordinates just randomly. I'm sure you're super smart and all that, but the average human being has no fucking idea how coordinates work.

>>213768016
And if there's only one mountain peak then it HAS to be Everest. Duh.

>>213768882
Nah. It’s named after an American hero, not some faggy tribal shit.

>>213769454
It may be the only mountain peak. It may be the only one they have coordinates for.

>>213769454
No one really said there was only one. Just where Enola came from. Her parents were dying and couldn't care for her anymore so they set her adrift in the water and hoped someone would find her then come to the location.

>>213769783
>>213769454
>>213769856

The plot is the ice caps melted, and sea level rose to 25,000 feet/7620 meters.

you are on the internet, look up mountain peaks by height. anything higher than 7620 meters/25,000 feet is 'dry land'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_mountains_on_Earth

there are at least 37 locations that would qualify as dry land. although the script does say everest, its not the only spot. And of course, thats just the peak. The surronding area, all the way to the 25,000 foot mark is above sea level.

and when you think of it like that, it seems pretty silly that only enola's family was living there and she was forced to be abanonded. Mount erest is a full thousand feet above sea level, there has got to be tons of people living on that mountain range.

>>213770718
Also the air would still be thinner than it would be at lower elevations
Oxygen should be just as big a commodity as oil in this universe

>>213768133
>postman has GOAT villian

>rofl just have him killed by his own unappreciated henchman

Weak