Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Deacon: Don`t just stand there, kill something! Deacon: Well, I`ll be damned. It`s the gentleman guppy. You know, he`s like a turd that won`t flush.
Deacon: If I ever see him again, I`m going to cut open his head and eat his brain.
Deacon: Dry land is not just our destination, it is our destiny!
[speaking of dry land]
Mariner: Because I haven`t seen it. And I`ve sailed further than most men have dreamed.
Deacon: Look, it`s the gentleman guppy.
Deacon: He`ll see what`s left of you in a goddamn jar!
Enola: He doesn`t have a name so Death can`t find him!
Deacon: Wanna cigarette? You`re never too young to start.
Mariner: What are the markings on her back?
Helen: Some say it`s the way to dry land.
Mariner: Dry land is a myth.
Helen: No, you said it yourself, that you`ve seen it.
Mariner: You`re a fool to believe in something you`ve never seen.
Helen: But the things on your boat...!
Mariner: The things on my boat, what?
Helen: There are things on your boat that no one has ever seen. These shells, the music box and the reflecting glass. Well, if not from dry land, then where? Where?
Mariner: You wanna see dry land? You really wanna see it? I`ll take you there.
Deacon: Let`s have an intelligent conversation here: I`ll talk, and you listen.
Nord: [to the Mariner] You should have stayed under water.
Mariner: I`ve seen your boat before. Haven`t seen you.
Mariner: Two drifters meet. Something needs to be exchanged.
Drifter: I know the code. But I`ll give this one to you for free.
Mariner: Nothing`s free in Waterworld.
Enola: You`re not so tough, you know that? How many people have you killed? Ten? Twenty?
Mariner: You talk a lot.
Enola: I talk a lot because you don`t talk at all. Now, how many?
Mariner: Including little girls?
Enola: I`m not afraid of you. I told Helen you wouldn`t be so ugly if you cut your hair.
Mariner: In fact, you talk all the time. It`s like a storm when you`re around!
Mariner: This is my boat. I got it the way I like it. You take up space and you slow me down.
Deacon: If you`ll notice the arterial nature of the blood coming from the hole in my head, you can assume that we`re all having a real lousy day.
Deacon: I`ve had a vision so great, as it came to me I wept.
Depth Gauge: Sir? Your Deaconship? Good day! Or night. Whatever the case may be...
Deacon: What is it? I`m a busy man.
Depth Gauge: I thought you should know. There`s exactly nine feet and four inches of THE BLACK STUFF...
[the Deacon spits on the Depth Gauge`s head]
Depth Gauge: Oh, thank you!
Depth Gauge: [Sees the Mariner`s lit flare about to fall on the oil. An end to his miserable existence] Oh, thank God!
[Kaboom]
Helen: Did you see anything out there?
Mariner: See what?
Helen: An end, to all this water?
Mariner: That old woman they buried today? She found the only end there is.
[after painting a ball bearing in the Deacon`s eye socket to look like a real one]
Deacon: Well? How`s it look?
[the other smokers say, "not bad," "not bad at all", etc]
Doctor: I-I like it better than your real eye.
[One smoker says, "much better," to general agreement]
Deacon: What do you say, Toby? The truth.
Toby: Looks like shit.
Deacon: That`s why I love children: no guile.
[while holding Helen and the Mariner at gunpoint]
Deacon: All right, that`s it! If you won`t tell us where she is, let`s just KILL `EM ALL!
[He fires a gun into the air]
Enola: [popping up from her hiding place] NO!
Deacon: Ha-ha, so gullible!
Mariner: I want the girl.
Deacon: You know, I thought you were stupid, friend. But I underestimated you. You are a total freaking retard! Ha-ha-ha...
Mariner: I want the girl. That`s all.
Deacon: Well, what on this screwed-up earth of ours makes you think you`re gonna get her?
[the Mariner takes a flare from his belt, and holds it over a hole leading down to the Deez`s fuel hold]
Mariner: You know what this is. I drop it, you burn.
Doctor: We all burn...
Deacon: Now-now-now, let`s not do anything rash here. I mean, are you sure this kid is worth it? I mean, she never does stop talking, she never shuts up!
Mariner: I noticed.
Deacon: So what is it, then? It`s the map.
Mariner: She`s my friend.
Deacon: Golly gee, a single tear rolls down my cheek. You`re gonna die for your friend.
Mariner: If it comes to that.
[He ignites the flare, and holds it over the hole again]
Nord: He`s bluffing! I`ll kill him.
Enola: He`s not bluffing, he never bluffs.
Deacon: SHUT UP!
[to the Mariner]
Deacon: I-I-I-I-I don`t think you`re gonna drop that torch, my friend.
Mariner: Why not?
Deacon: Because you`re not crazy.
[the Mariner smiles, lifts his hand, and drops the flare down the hole]
Deacon: NO-O-O-O-O!
Deacon: You know, I thought you were stupid, friend. But I underestimated you; you`re a total freakin` retard!
[after the deck of the Deez clears, one lone figure walks toward the bridge]
Deacon: Why aren`t you rowing?
[the Mariner removes his mask]
Nord: [laughs] It`s him.
Enola: It is him! You guys are in so much trouble.
Nord: So which way we rowin`?
Deacon: I don`t have a goddamn clue. Don`t worry, they`ll row for a month before they figure out I`m fakin` it.
Trivia
Anna Paquin was the first choice to play Enola.
Rumors abound that director Kevin Reynolds walked off the set with two weeks of filming left, and Kevin Costner completed the film.
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# The sunken city visited by the Mariner and guest is actually a digitally edited Denver, Colorado. The "Norwest Building" (roughly shaped like a cash register) can be seen in one shot.
Prior to Titanic (1997), this was the most expensive movie ever produced.
If the icecaps melted, the oceans would only rise a few hundred feet; not enough to flood civilization into a floating oblivion.
The real Exxon Valdez was repaired and renamed the Sea River Mediterranean. It is used to haul oil across the Atlantic.
In the scene where The Deacon (Dennis Hopper) takes aim at The Mariner (Kevin Costner) with his rifle, he first licks his thumb and then wipes the rifle sight, just like Gary Cooper does with his Alvin York character in Sergeant York (1941).
The picture on the wall that Deacon refers as "Old Saint Joe" is actually Joseph Hazelwood, infamous captain who crashed the Exxon Valdez oil tanker into the Alaskan landscape, negligently discharging millions of gallons of crude oil. The base of the Smokers is the Exxon Valdez, as evident when it sinks. The stern rises and the word "Valdez" is visible.
The most remembered line from Waterworld (1995), "Dryland is not a myth; I have seen it", is never spoken in the actual movie.
The four-machine gun chassis in the atoll assault scene is called a Maxon Mount. It is comprised of four .50 caliber Browning machine guns and was used as an anti-aircraft battery during World War II. It also came in a two gun mount which was used upto & in the Vietnam War as a Point Defense Weapon.
Joss Whedon flew out to the set to do last minute rewrites on the script. He later described it as "seven weeks of hell".
Because the movie didn`t make as much money as planned, it was nicknamed "Fishtar", after the 1987 box office bomb Ishtar (1987).
Stunt coordinator Norman Howell got hit with compression sickness during filming of an underwater scene and was rushed to a hospital in Honolulu via helicopter. He recovered fairly quickly from the potentially life-threatening sickness and returned to the set a couple days later.
Kevin Costner was on the set 157 days, working 6 days a week.
Mark Isham`s score was reported rejected because it was "too ethnic".
Jokingly called "Kevin`s Gate" because it had an over-inflated budget like Heaven`s Gate (1980) did.
The name of the child, Enola, is alone spelled backwards.
Widely considered to be one of the biggest box-office bombs of all time, although it grossed $255 million from a $175 million budget.
For the Japanese premiere, Kevin Costner had his private plane flown to Tokyo. However, he failed to get permission to store his plane at the airport for the duration of his trip. He asked the Navy if he could use their airport at Atsugi. They agreed, contingent on Costner showing the movie there, and making a personal appearance.
Gene Hackman, `James Caan` and Gary Oldman all turned down the role of the Deacon.
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# LOGO GIMMICK: The Universal Studios logo, the planet Earth, was given a close-up, and as it got closer, the continents began to fade away until there was nothing left... but water.
Tina Majorino was nicknamed "Jellyfish Candy" by the crew after she was stung three different times by the creatures during production.
The language Kevin Costner speaks to the lemon-stealing drifter early in the movie is Hindi.
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# It has been reported that Roger Corman passed on making this film because he felt it could not be made for less than $3 million.
The map tattoo on Enola`s back is in Chinese traditional characters (or Japanese Kanji). The characters in the middle surrounding the arrow are actual coordinates for longitude and latitude. While one number is not quite readable, the others give almost exact coordinates for Mount Everest, which is Latitude 27° 59` N Longitude 86° 56` E. The movie coordinates give: Latitude 27 or 28° 58` N Longitude 86° 56` E.
Laird John Hamilton, the famous big wave rider was Kevin Costner’s double for many water scenes.
The atoll set was over 1/4 mile in circumference.
Costume designer John Bloomfield estimated that over 2000 costumes were made.
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# The 1,000 ton floating set used up all the available steel in the Hawaiian Islands. When more was required, it had to be flown in from California.
The 1,000 ton floating set did not have any restrooms, nor were there any on any of the 30 boats used by the cast and crew. The result was that filming had to halt so those in need could be ferried to a barge anchored near the shore which had several portable toilets on it.
Costner was put up in an oceanfront villa with a butler, chef, and his own private swimming pool. Cost: $4,500 a night.
In stark contrast to the luxury enjoyed by Costner, the film crew were forced to live in un-insulated condominiums which were subject to temperature swings of up to fifty degrees. The inequity of accommodations contributed to hostility and low morale on the set.
Kevin Costner`s salary for the movie was $14 million.
The studio`s first choice for director was Robert Zemeckis.
Kevin Costner insisted that his friend Kevin Reynolds be given the director`s position, or he would quit. Later, Costner had a falling out with Reynolds over the film`s direction.
The studio didn`t spend any money researching weather patterns off Hawaii`s Kona coast, where the film was shot. If they had, they would have learned that the area was subject to 45 mph winds, which constantly blew the set out of position and ruined shots.
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Kevin Costner
(as Mariner)
with Jeanne Tripplehorn
(as Helen)
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