Costner bashers should get over themselves and start giving Michael Bay and George Lucas what they deserve. Now is the time for the extended DVD version maybe that will explain where all those cigarettes came from, and how the Smokers converted raw crude into gasoline.ħ out of 10. I’m sure Costner hacked it to pieces in order to accommodate the two-hour-running-time maxim imposed by the studio, so that corporate could get their investment back. Costner’s performance works on exactly the same level as the Connery/Moore/Brosnan portrayals of 007 and Harrison Ford’s portrayal of Indy - straightforward, grim, stoic, a little mean-spirited, a little cruel, unafraid of dirt, grime, death, or salt water.
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"Waterworld" is an escapist fantasy/action picture, not unlike the James Bond and Indiana Jones pictures. Then they’ll know that they have seen the worst movie ever made. I'm struggling to work out why you'd think that anything from before the flood must have been submerged when it would seem far more likely that the "Smoker"'s cigarettes and vehicles were found on board watertight vessels they raided.I want the Costner bashers to sit down and watch "Rebirth of the Mothra III" on Sci-Fi Channel some time. In the film, the Mariner shouted out Portugreek to a bartering outpost but received no response, making him wary. Portu-Greek is most commonly used for trade, on Bartering Outposts, and by Slavers. The prehistoric sticks-Camels, Marlboros, Chesterfields, all freshĮnough to smoke after hundreds of years, thanks to their crisp,Ĭrackly plastic wrappers. Portu-Greek (also PortuGreek or Portugreek), is a constructed language spoken on Waterworld.It is one of the two most commonly used languages along with English. The mother ship, he had in his storehouse of spoils many cartons of Iron-the Deacon inhaled his unfiltered smokestick. Refueler barge, leaning on his mace of office-a Spaulding five On the outskirts of the battle, on the deck of the oil-drum-strewn These are luxury items that seem to have survived from before the flood and were, presumably, highly prized by the original owners as tradeable goods, something confirmed by the film's official novelisation, itself based on the original screenplay. Particularly prized items of booty are petrol (obviously) as well as cigarettes and booze. The "smokers" seems to be largely surviving by raiding settlements and passing vessels. Some ideas seem plausible within the few bits of universe that we see in the movie but a definite answer is not possible. The movie doesn't give a definite answer. It is possible that they are recycled filters with seaweed filling but we neither see collection of cigarette butts nor do we learn about this.
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We don't know whether cigarettes are produced and from what they are produced. So we know there is some production activity.
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The drifter from the beginning in the movie mentioned that the slavers now produce epoxy in good quality. When the interior of the Exxon Valdez is shown we see repair crews and even metal casting. We know that some material is produced and recycled. There are indicators that the action takes place shortly after the flood (still floating ships, paper) or long after (mutation, reference to former generations). How plausible this is depends highly on the timeframe. The smokers are reavers as we see in the movie so it mustn't be just their own stock from the beginning. (And can't you dry wet tobacco? The quality may be stained but that doesn't seem the main problem.) So depending on how long after the flood the action takes place those may be stock. Also everything aboard a ship isn't directly affected by a flood. prisons, after devastating wars like WW II in Germany). They probably would have taken a lot of stuff with them, and cigarettes are a valuable currency in times of trouble by experience (e.g. The flood probably didn't come suddenly so people could retracted to higher areas before leaving land completely. There are contradicting indicators for how long after the flood the action takes place. We also don't know much about the time frame. We don't know much about the economy of Waterworld. He throws them into the people like candy on a parade. They don't seem to be very valuable on the other hand they are a special gift that Dennis Hopper's character gives away on his tour through the ship. Still a lot of smokers smoke cigarettes or cigarillos of different kind.
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I never assumed this was their defining trait, I always thought of the use of engines burning oil as namegiver compared to the drifters who sail or the archipelago people who mostly use paddles. Not all smokers smoke cigarettes all the time.