On another thread I had mentioned in passing, the movie Waterworld. Angelee Sailer Anderson and I very much enjoyed the movie, despite the fact that the very expensive (at the time) movie pretty much bombed at the box office. I could wish it didnt succumb to the big battle scenes of so many movies these days, but all in all, it has some very good stuff. But its biggest plus for me is that it has a scene that is one of the all-time BEST CS Lewis style theological analogies in just about any popular secular movie ever (that I can think of at least). I had mentioned this fact in the other thread, and Jim Kania had asked what the scene was. I couldnt find a clip of the scene on YouTube, so I put the DVD in (which we own), aimed my camera at it and shot a video of the scene to post here. So its not the best quality, and the sound it not as clear as it should be (so Ill transcribe the dialogue here too). Anyway, for those who dont know the movie, Kevin Costner plays a mariner on a future earth whose polar caps have melted and the earth seems to be covered in water with no dry land. In fact, enough time has gone by that the remaining surviving people who live on boats and such think that dry land is just a myth and that there never was such a thing. The mariner (Costner) has taken up with a woman who still believed in dry land, but they cant seem to find any, and she is beginning to have doubts. What she tells the mariner is, to me, the almost perfect CS Lewis moment in any movie I know of. (And as an added CS Lewis moment, she actually makes reference to floating islands that recalls Lewis Pereladra -- but that is not the CS Lewis moment Im referring to above. Her response to the mariners question is the part that makes the scene so Lewisian) So here is the scene I am referring to (and here also is a transcription of the possibly hard-to-hear dialogue): ---------- Woman: Have I been asleep long?...I was dreaming. It’s funny – I always thought dry land floated… or that It drifted with the wind, that was why it was so hard to find. Mariner:Why did you believe in it so much? Woman: Because we weren’t made for the sea. Got hands…and feet. We’re supposed to walk.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 02:19:46 +0000
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