Now, "Waterworld" is not a tale one wants to examine too closely. Will he, Helen, and Enola make it alive to Dryland - if it exists? But no one can decode it, The Smokers (who always have cigarettes dangling from their lips) want to get their hands on the gift - and get revenge on the Mariner. Little Enola has a map tattooed on her back, which some believe can lead them to Dry.land. It's well paced, and it never feels cluttered, no small thanks to the sea itself, which gives the story vast, gorgeous room to breathe. It's a fiendishly complicated action sequence that Reynolds choreographs with real flair - unlike, say, the incoherent mayhem in "Batman Forever." That squalling summer cartoon quickly grew tedious it was always in your face - but "Water-world" doesn't wear out its welcome. Rescued by Atoll dweller Helen (Jeanne Tripplehorn) and her adopted daughter Enola (Tina Majorino), Cost-net must flee the besieged city with girl and woman in tow, while using his trusty harpoon gun to turn the attacking Smoker guns back on themselves. Leaping over the city's parapets on water skis, the Smokers have a wild arsenal of makeshift weapons at their command.
The local Atollers are about to put Costner to death, thinking he's a spy, when they're attacked by the movie's piratical villains, the Smokers, led by the scurvy, baldpated Dennis Hopper. (This fortresslike slag heap, built out of 1,000 tons of steel, alone cost a reported $5 million it had to be rotated in the seas off Hawaii so that, from whatever angle a scene was shot, no glimpse of land appeared in the background.) Here Reynolds stages the first of "Waterworld's" several nifty action set pieces. The Mariner sails his souped-up trimaran (a wonderful creation, this boat) into a floating city that is one of production designer Dennis Gassner's triumphs. I'll take my hat off to any $200 million movie that gives me that for openers. He funnels the liquid through a Rube Goldbergish contraption, fills his mug with his purified urine and takes a swig. Shot from behind at a heroic low angle, the Mariner's first act is to piss in a plastic pot.
From our first glimpse of the hero (Kevin Costner), a strong, grouchy, silent type known as the Mariner, the movie lets us know it possesses some convention-tweaking wit. This funky, rusty, dystopian vision will be instantly recognizable as a descendant of the junk-pile futurism of the "Mad Max" series.īut director Kevin Reynolds has found a jaunty, comic-book epic tone he can call his own, however derivative the elements. In Waterworld, pure dirt is as good as gold. The survivors, floating on man-made atolls or navigating on boats, have become desperate scavengers, bartering and sometimes killing each other to obtain whatever meager detritus of the old world they can find. It is set far in the post-apocalyptic future, after the polar caps have melted, burying the world as we know it under water and turning the horizon into an unending scape of sea. "Waterworld," as you may have heard, has no landscape. And "fun," Lord knows, is the bottom line of that corporate invention known as the summer movie-a concept, like cyberspace, we didn't ask for, but which has become a permanent part of the American landscape. The most expensive movie ever made-estimates range from $172 million to $200 million - is actually fun. The world, and Universal Pictures, can take a deep breath. Spielberg tried to save Kevin Costner from this issue.Waterworld is a pretty damn good summer movie. His own experience filming Jaws was also a nightmare that went significantly over budget and had to deal with a host of problems that certainly wouldn't have been as big had the production not been spending a lot of its time on open water.
Do all of your coverage in a tank or a stage.’Īnd Steven Spielberg certainly knew what he was talking about. Do you have any advice for me?’ And Spielberg was unequivocal: ‘Do not shoot on water! You’re going to need a couple of shots on water, so use second unit for that.
Kevin said, ‘Steven, I’m doing this Waterworld movie, and we’re shooting on water. As it happened, Spielberg did have a very strong recommendation when it came to filming on the water, don't. Waterworld screenwriter Peter Rader told Yahoo that, in the lead up to the production of Waterworld, Kevin Costner had an opportunity to ask Steven Spielberg, director of Jaws, for advice on shooting a movie on the water.
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