Even after 500 years, how could they not know

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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Waterworld

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IndyOwns — 11 years ago(September 08, 2014 07:01 PM)

that there use to be dry land all over the place and how Waterworld got that way. Did people just stop telling the new generations of how things use to be?

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Mhjm6 — 11 years ago(September 14, 2014 11:44 AM)

I think so seeing as how it was likely they had no point to give hope to what was literally nowhere to be found without the tattoo's indications.

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Etherdave — 11 years ago(November 10, 2014 08:47 AM)

The film's setting is largely a fantasy, designed to atavistically depict our present as a myth and the film's present as a new Dark Ages. As the miserable inhabitants of the Atolls are presented, humanity may well be on the path to extinction, barring some last-minute 'Deus Ex Aqua' revelation of actual dry land that will 'save' the human race and set it back towards a terrestrial culture, which is, in fact, what concerns much of the film's storyline.

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bobcunk — 10 years ago(June 02, 2015 09:24 PM)

I assumed they knew, there were old magazines with pictures of land.

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Technomage001 — 10 years ago(October 11, 2015 12:14 PM)

Even though they showed it a lot in the movie it was said that paper was very rare. So it's possible most people had never even seen it.

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Royalcourtier — 10 years ago(June 11, 2015 01:30 AM)

And it cannot be that long, planes and boats would not be functioning after less than 50 years.

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SpiltPersonality — 9 years ago(April 15, 2016 07:14 AM)

That's not true. Apparently Harrier Jump Jets can be operated 1000 years after the last maintenance was done one them:
http://www.imdb.com/board/10185183/?ref_=nv_sr_1
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Verylegendary — 10 years ago(June 13, 2015 05:38 PM)

There are cultures that have oral traditions that have recitations and chains of narrations that go back thousands of years ( middle eastern, native ect.) and there are cultures that dont have oral traditions, i assume word got around from travellers with said oral traditions.

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Technomage001 — 10 years ago(October 11, 2015 12:22 PM)

In one scene the mariner says that the map is of the cities down below and that the poles have reversed. When he said that dry land was below, someone yelled, "That's blasphemy!" Perhaps indicating that even considering there might be land below them had somehow become forbidden.
Also in the face of such a great catastrophe the human race would probably be in survival mode for generations, focused mainly on staying alive and their children staying alive.

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Geosci — 10 years ago(November 12, 2015 10:01 AM)

Helen: The world wasn't created in a deluge, it was covered by it.
Some guy: That's blasphemy!
These lines always nagged at me. I think it means the people hold a religious belief that the Earth is ONLY water, a liquid planet, like a raindrop. So to answer your question - dogma.
As an aside, this movie is the first place I saw a woman's bare ass. Ka-ching!