Waterworld
Director:
Kevin Reynolds
Writers (WGA):
Peter Rader (written by) and
David Twohy (written by)
Contact:
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Release Date:
28 July 1995 (USA)
Genre:
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Tagline:
Beyond the horizon lies the secret to a new beginning.
Plot:
In a future where the polar ice caps have melted and most of Earth is underwater, a mutated mariner fights starvation and outlaw “smokers,” and reluctantly helps a woman and a young girl find dry land
In the future, the Earth is engulfed with water when the polar ice caps melts, leaving the lands and civilization beneath the sea. In “Waterworld” drifters sail across the waters of the world on their man-made ships, trading for supplies and salvaging what is left of civilization, communities of survivors lives in towns called “Atolls” and a force of evil pirates “The Smokers” travel across Waterworld in search of a mythical island called “Dryland”. Arriving at a Atoll, a mysterious drifter without a name called The Mariner is sentenced to death when the community discover he is a mutant. When the Atoll is attacked by The Smokers led by their evil leader Deacon, a woman named Helen and her adopted daughter Enola bribes The Mariner to take them to Dryland, believing The Mariner has been there. But the Mariner, Helen and Enola are pursued by Deacon and the Smokers, when The Mariner learns the tattoo on Enola’s back is in reality a map that will lead them to Dryland
The movie Waterworld is a post-apocalyptic story about a mutant named Mariner (Kevin Costner). As the polar ice-caps in the world have all melted, very little land remains, causing some humans to mutate into growing fins and gills, to adapt to their new environment.
‘Normal humans’ however, hate, shun and attempt to kill what they consider to be unnatural creatures. Mariner (Costner) is captured by a floating village, in which dirt is more precious then gold, and orange trees are worth an arm and a leg. During his execution, locked in a cage, the settlement is attacked by ’smokers’, the villains, saving Mariner (Costner). He makes a lucky escape, reluctantly saving Helen (Jeanne Tripplehorn). Mariner then proceeds to find a legendary piece of land (Mt. Everest), which is still dry and habitable by land-living humans. Defeating the ‘Smokers’ on the way, Mariner, Helen, and Helen’s adopted daughter manage to finally reach this paradise.
Ashamed of his mutation, Mariner considers himself unworthy of living on the beautiful green earth, and sails off into the distance.
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