Sharkwater - The Story 'An eye-opening film...visually stunning... this movie will change the way you see our oceans.' - Bonnie Laufer, Tribute Magazine For filmmaker Rob Stewart, exploring sharks began as an underwater adventure. What it turned into was a beautiful and dangerous life journey into the balance of life on earth. Driven by passion fed from a life-long fascination with sharks, Stewart debunks historical stereotypes and media depictions of sharks as bloodthirsty, man-eating monsters and reveals the reality of sharks as pillars in the evolution of the seas. Filmed in visually stunning, high definition video, Sharkwater takes you into the most shark rich waters of the world, exposing the exploitation and corruption surrounding the world's shark populations in the marine reserves of Cocos Island, Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. In an effort to protect sharks, Stewart teams up with renegade conservationist Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Their unbelievable adventure together starts with a battle between the Sea Shepherd and shark poachers in Guatemala, resulting in pirate boat rammings, gunboat chases, mafia espionage, corrupt court systems and attempted murder charges, forcing them to flee for their lives. Through it all, Stewart discovers these magnificent creatures have gone from predator to prey, and how despite surviving the earth's history of mass extinctions, they could easily be wiped out within a few years due to human greed. Stewart's remarkable journey of courage and determination changes from a mission to save the world's sharks, into a fight for his life, and that of humankind.
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Sandra Bullock replaced Lori Petty after a few days filming.
Sylvester Stallone wanted the Simon Phoenix character to be played by Jackie Chan. Chan refused, since Asian audiences don't like the idea of actors who have always played heroes suddenly playing evil characters.
At one point Bullock surprises Stallone by showing her karate moves. He asks her where she learned that and she said from old Jackie Chan movies.
"Lenina Huxley" is a reference to the character "Lenina Crowne", a character in "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. At one point she says to John Spartan, "You are a savage creature, John Spartan" thus alluding to the Brave New World character John the Savage. Also, when Phoenix picks up the ray gun after it has finally charged, he says "It's a brave new world."
In the museum armory, Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) referred to one of the mannequins as Rambo, a character played by Sylvester Stallone in three earlier movies.
A poster for Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) can be seen in Lenina Huxley's office. Both films had Mark Poll as a set designer.
Many of the cars in the movie were prototypes of future models, supplied by General Motors.
For some non-American releases, references to Taco Bell were changed to Pizza Hut. This includes dubbing, plus changing the logos during post-production. Taco Bell remains in the closing credits. In the Swedish release the subtitles still use Taco Bell while the sound and picture has been altered as above.
The "ray gun" used by Wesley Snipes in the Museum Armory sequence is based on the Heckler and Koch G11, a prototype weapon for the German army that would have been the most advanced rifle in the world, firing caseless ammunition (bullets, not death rays).
Benjamin Bratt's character, "Alfredo Garcia", is named after the Sam Peckinpah film Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974).
At one point, Lenina Huxley (Sandra Bullock) says to John Spartan "While you were sleeping... ", referring to the time he was frozen. Bullock later starred in the movie While You Were Sleeping (1995).
During TV replays, the computer announcing the reanimation of Jeffrey Dahmer and Simon Phoenix's line "I love that guy!" is deleted. Dahmer was killed in "normal" prison after release of the movie so the line became anachronistic.
After breaking out of the cryogenic prison and using the information booth, Wesley Snipes refers to the booth as HAL from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
Warden William Smithers is named after the actor William Smithers who played the sadistic Warden Barrot in Papillon (1973).
The building used for exterior shots of the SAPD building was the California Headquarters of GTE in Thousand Oaks.
In the strange attempt to entirely replace the Taco Bell name with Pizza Hut (the name was dubbed over and computer generated images of the logo were pasted over), the editors missed a spot. At the start of the battle outside the restaurant, when everyone is flocking to the window, one pane still holds the logo for Taco Bell and the Taco Bell sign is visible in the first shot of the van (in the background when people are running) on the door.
Wesley Snipes's kicks and punches sometimes look lurchy and awkward. Snipes is a black belt in real life, and his kicks and punches were so fast that they blurred on camera. Hence the producers asked him to slow them down.
Lenina Huxley tells John Spartan about the Arnold Schwarzenegger Library, explaining that, based on the sheer popularity of his movies, a Constitutional amendment was passed in order for Schwarzenegger to run for president, which, according to Huxley, he did. In 2003, ten years after this film's release, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California and shortly after his election, three senators separately proposed amendments to the US Constitution to allow naturalized citizens to become president.
The title was taken from The Police's song of the same name. Hence, the use of Sting to remake the song for the film.
The two original choices for the roles were Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme. Van Damme was offered the role of the bad guy, but didn't want that role. He agreed to star in it if both the lead roles could be switched, the producers tried to get Seagal to play the bad guy, he declined.
Sandra Bullock's costume during the Taco Bell sequence was made of stones and gems weighing approximately 40 pounds. After the fight scene outside the restaurant when her character gleefully jumps and replays the action, her dress actually started to rip, which is why she is holding her arms to her sides after Stallone walks away.
In an early scene, set after the first MDK (Murder Death Kill), the name Scott Peterson is listed as one of the cryo-prisoners. The name appears listed before Simon Phoenix on a computer display, which the character Lenina Huxley (Sandra Bullock) has called to the screen. This is merely a coincidence, however, as Scott Peterson was not a public figure until he was tried for the murder of his wife during 2004-2005
Simon Phoenix:
Spartan? John Spartan? Oh shit! They let anybody into this century.
John Spartan:
Send a maniac to catch a maniac.
John Spartan:
You're gonna regret this the rest of your life... both seconds of it.
Lenina Huxley:
I was wondering if you would like to have sex?
John Spartan:
[surprised] Here? With you? Now?
Lenina Huxley:
[nervously, nodding] Mm-hmm.
John Spartan:
Oh yeah.
[after futuristic, contact-free "sex"]
John Spartan:
Look, Huxley, why don't we just do it the old-fashioned way?
Lenina Huxley:
[stands up, shocked] Eeewww, disgusting! You mean... *fluid transfer*?
Lenina Huxley:
[stamping her foot] You are a savage creature John Spartan, and I wish for you to leave my domicile now!
Lenina Huxley:
Let's go blow this guy.
John Spartan:
Away! Blow this guy *away*!
Lenina Huxley:
Whatever.
Simon Phoenix:
Wait a minute, this is the future. Where are all the phaser guns?
Booth:
Gun. Noun. Portable firearm. This device was widely utilized in the urban wars of the late twentieth century. Referred to as a pistol, a piece...
Simon Phoenix:
Look I don't need a history lesson! C'mon, HAL, where are the god damn guns?
Moral Statute Machine:
You are fined one credit for a violation of the Verbal Morality Statute.
Simon Phoenix:
What? Fuck you!
Moral Statute Machine:
Your repeated violation of the Verbal Morality Statute has caused me to notify the San Angeles Police Department. Please remain where you are for your reprimand.
Simon Phoenix:
Yeah, right.
[police sirens approach]
Simon Phoenix:
Fuckers are fast too.
John Spartan:
[to machine on wall after finding out that they no longer use toilet paper] Thanks a lot you shit-brained, fuck-faced, ball breaking, duck fucking pain in the ass.
Moral Statute Machine:
John Spartan, you are fined five credits for repeated violations of the verbal morality statute.
John Spartan:
[grabbing the tickets] So much for the seashells. See you in a few minutes.
John Spartan:
Hey Luke Skywalker, use the force.
Simon Phoenix:
I'm sorry to say that the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of robed sissies.
Lenina Huxley:
Looks like there's a new shepherd in town.
[Spartan gives her an exasperated look]
John Spartan:
That's sheriff.
Lenina Huxley:
Chief, you can take this job, and you can shovel it.
John Spartan:
Take this job... and shovel it.
Lenina Huxley:
Yeah?
John Spartan:
Close enough.
Lenina Huxley:
He's finally matched his meet. You really licked his ass.
John Spartan:
That's *met* his match and kicked... *kicked* his ass...
Boggle Guard:
Mellow greetings. What seems to be your boggle?
Lenina Huxley:
The exchange of bodily fluids, do you know what that leads to?
John Spartan:
Yeah, I do! Kids, smoking, a desire to raid the fridge.
Lenina Huxley:
I find this lack of stimulus to be truly disappointing, don't you think?
Warden Smithers:
I try not to, my dear. However, you're young, think all you want!
Lenina Huxley:
[sotto voce] Sanctimonious asshole.
Machine on wall:
Lenina Huxley, you are fined one-half credit for a sotto voce violation of the Verbal Morality Statute.
Simon Phoenix:
Simon says, "Die."
Simon Phoenix:
Simon says, "Bleed."
Troubled Guy:
I don't know... lately I just don't feel like there's anything special about me.
Booth:
You are an incredibly sensitive man, who inspires joy-joy feelings in all those around you.
Erwin:
We're police officers! We're not trained to handle this kind of violence!
John Spartan:
I'm gonna go down there, I'm gonna find Phoenix, and I'm gonna put him in a hurt locker.
Taco Bell Patron:
What would you say if I called you a brutish fossil, symbolic of a decayed era gratefully forgotten?
John Spartan:
I don't know... thanks?
[Huge Explosion, John Spartan steps from the wreckage]
Simon Phoenix:
I'll be god damned! Like a New York cockroach!
Simon Phoenix:
I must've done something right in a previous life. Can't imagine what that could've been.
T.V. Reporter:
[to John Spartan] How can you justify destroying a $7 million dollar mini mall to rescue a girl whose ransom was only $25,000 dollars?
Little Girl:
FUCK YOU, LADY!
John Spartan:
Ha! Good answer!
[a frozen naked criminal swings by overhead]
Simon Phoenix:
I hope my butt didn't look like that! Okay, who do we have that's good? Wilkes, Patrick... Jeffrey Dahmer? I love that guy!
Edgar Friendly:
You see, according to Cocteau's plan I'm the enemy, 'cause I like to think; I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I'm the kind of guy likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder - "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecued ribs with the side order of gravy fries?" I WANT high cholesterol. I wanna eat bacon and butter and BUCKETS of cheese, okay? I want to smoke Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section. I want to run through the streets naked with green jello all over my body reading playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to, okay, pal? I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiener".
John Spartan:
You're on TV!
Simon Phoenix:
So let me get this right, they defrosted you just so you could lasso my piddly ass? Damn, you been had! I been dreamin' about killin' you for forty years.
John Spartan:
Well, keep dreaming!
Dr. Cocteau:
Well I must say that whacking, whatever it is, sounds most disagreeable.
John Spartan:
So let me get this right, Spacely Sprockets here, who's now the man in charge, the Mayor Gov who want to take me to dinner at Taco Bell, and Lord knows I could go for a burrito, is also one of the guys who built the God-damned cryo-prison?
John Spartan:
Now, Phoenix could be anywhere, but not being coded could hurt him and limit his options...
John Spartan:
That is correct. Money is out-moded. All transactions are through code.
John Spartan:
All right, so he can't buy food or a place to stay for the night. It would be a waste of time to mug somebody... Unless he rips off somebody's hand, and let's hope he doesn't figure that one out!
John Spartan:
You're under arrest, Phoenix.
Simon Phoenix:
Arrest? Shit. And you're trespassing.
Squad Leader:
Simon Phoenix! Lie down with your hands behind your back.
Simon Phoenix:
What's this? Six of you. Such nice, tidy uniforms. Oh I'm so scared!
[the Police Officers look at each other]
Simon Phoenix:
What you guys don't have sarcasm anymore?
[Police Officer talks to his automated assistant]
Squad Leader:
Maniac has responded with a scornful remark.
automated assistant:
Approach, and repeat ultimatum in an even firmer tone of voice. Add the words, "or else".
Automated Announcer:
The Armory exhibit is now sealed. All museum patrons still occupying the facility should remain calm. Help is imminent.
[the sealed Armory door is blown apart by a canon]
Simon Phoenix:
The museum is no longer sealed is it! Haha! What can I say, I'm a blast from the past!
John Spartan:
You should've stayed there.
Simon Phoenix:
Whoa that voice sounds familiar. Who is that?
Chief George Earle:
We can just wait for another code to go red. And when Phoenix performs another Murder Death Kill, we'll know exactly where to pounce.
John Spartan:
Great plan.
Chief George Earle:
Thank you.
Erwin:
He likes your plan, Chief!
Erwin:
[On phone] Greetings and salutations. Welcome to the San Angeles Emergency Line. If you would like an automated response, please press '1' now.
[cops are singing along with "golden oldies": radio jingles]
John Spartan:
Somebody put me back in the fridge.
John Spartan:
Is it cold in here, or is it just me?
Simon Phoenix:
Good memory.
Zachary Lamb - Aged:
Phoenix is an old fashioned criminal. We need an old fashioned cop.
Lenina Huxley:
No, John Spartan, you do not accuse the savior of our city of being in league with a multi-murder-death-killer like Simon Phoenix! It's... rude!
John Spartan:
I'll be subtle. I'm good at subtle.
Dr. Cocteau:
John Spartan, this display of barbaric behavior was unacceptable even in your time!
John Spartan:
Yeah. But it worked.
[Shoots out the monitors with Cocteau's face on them]
John Spartan:
When a man like Pheonix has a gun to your head, ten seconds is nine and a half seconds longer than you live.
LeninaHuxley:
I have, in fact, perused some newsreels in the Schwartzenegger Library, and the time that you took that car...
JohnSpartan:
Hold it. The Schwartzenegger Library?
LeninaHuxley:
Yes. The Schwartzenegger Presidential Library. Wasn't he an actor when you...
JohnSpartan:
Stop! He was President?
LeninaHuxley:
Yes! Even though he was not born in this country, his popularity at the time caused the 61st Amendment which states...
JohnSpartan:
I don't wanna know. President.
[John Spartan landed on the police car stolen by Simon Phoenix]
Simon Phoenix:
No free rides!
Edgar Friendly:
All I wanna do in bury Cocteau up to his neck in shit, and let him think happy-happy thoughts forever.
[last lines]
John Spartan:
But there's just one thing I wanna know...
Lenina Huxley:
Hm?
John Spartan:
How's that damn three seashell thing work?
[the voice-activated car that Spartan is riding in is malfunctioning]
John Spartan:
Brake! Brake! Brake now, you Mickey Mouse-piece of shit!
Simon Phoenix:
[after his gang kills Dr. Cocteau] Put another log on the fire, boys.
[the gang throws Cocteau into the fireplace]
John Spartan:
Why don't you just shove a leash up my ass?
Lenina Huxley:
[shoots a CyroCon about to knife Spartan] That man has died by my hands.
John Spartan:
It was him or us, Huxley.
John Spartan:
Well yeah, there is that.
John Spartan:
[whispering to Lenina] Look, I don't know if you guys know it, but uh... you're out of toilet paper.
Alfredo Garcia:
[confused] Did... did you say toilet *paper*?
Lenina Huxley:
Um... they used handfuls of wadded paper back in the 20th...
[Lenina, Alfredo, and Erwin all laugh]
John Spartan:
I'm happy that you're happy, but the place where you're supposed to have the toilet paper, you've got this little shelf with three seashells on it.
Erwin:
He doesn't know how to use the three seashells!
[Erwin continues to laugh, then calms down]
Erwin:
I can see how that could be confusing.
Lenina Huxley:
[Spartan encounters a burger grill in the underground world] Just don't ask them where the meat comes from.
John Spartan:
Huxley, what's that supposed to mean?
Lenina Huxley:
Do you see any cows around here, detective?
John Spartan:
Que es este carne?
[What is this meat?]
Hamburger Stand Scrap:
Este carne es de rata.
[This meat is from rats]
John Spartan:
Rat? This is a rat burger?
[vendor nods]
John Spartan:
Not bad! Matter of fact this is the best burger I've had in years!
Hamburger Stand Scrap:
Gracias, Senor.
John Spartan:
Prego. See ya later.
Dr. Cocteau:
Be well!
John Spartan:
Be fucked.
Continuity: When Phoenix pops his head out of the manhole, the shot has been flipped - the wrong eye is blue.
Continuity: The monitoring devices on Spartan's chest and head swap sides.
Audio/visual unsynchronized: The name of the restaurant that Spartan is invited to (see trivia).
Continuity: The hole in Spartan's T-shirt.
Continuity: During the car chase, Phoenix fires his MP5 out of the rear window of the police car. But when Spartan jumps onto the roof, the rear window is evidently unbroken.
Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Simon is shooting at John Spartan during the car chase scene, he shoots out of the back of the car. There is no sound of the rear window glass breaking, and it never shows him breaking the rear window previously.
Continuity: In the underground sewers, Edgar Friendly shoots his small version of a sawn-off shotgun three times without reloading: once to warn John and the others, and twice at Simon Phoenix.
Factual errors: Lenina Huxley complains about going to work on a Monday. A little while later the cyrogenic capsule shows the date August 3, 2032. August 3, 2032 will be a Tuesday.
Revealing mistakes: Just after the building collapses due to the massive explosion at the beginning of the film, several crew members can be heard clapping and yelling.
Continuity: The number of hostages said to have been killed varies between 20 and 40.
Revealing mistakes: When Spartan's car crashes through the police station sign towards the you can see the rig that is lifting the car up and pulling it over.
Revealing mistakes: When Spartan's car crashes through the police station sign, the glass explodes before the car hits the glass.
Audio/visual unsynchronized: After John Spartan crashes through the police station sign he says, "All I need is a needle and a thread." But when the camera is behind him and he says the line, "I really didn't say that, did I?" his mouth doesn't move when his face is in frame.
Revealing mistakes: When the film first progresses to the future, the date is 3 August 2032. However when the police computer reports Warden William Smithers' murder-death-kill, it states the date of death as 4 August 2032.
Factual errors: In the beginning of the movie, a stockpile of C4 catches fire, and thus blows the whole building up. C4 only can be detonated by a detonation charge or blasting cap which is just a smaller explosive. If it catches fire, it burns slowly.
Continuity: When John Spartan confronts Dr. Cochtou about his involvement with Simon, a black gun appears. The next shot reveals that Spartan is holding the gun to Dr. Cochtou's head and the gun is now silver.
Revealing mistakes: When Spartan and Phoenix are in the museum, Spartan fires his double-barreled shotgun three times in a row.
Crew or equipment visible: When Pheonix falls through the glass at the museum into the LA exhibit, you can see him sliding down a visible safety rope. His feet are even in the position to be sliding down the rope
Crew or equipment visible: This is during the firefight in the makeshift restaurant down in the sewer. When John Spartan grabs the table to use as a shield, the cable controlling the squibs is visible.
Continuity: When Spartan and Huxley arrive at the cryogenics place to battle Phoenix, Phoenix sees them on the monitor walking into the building and Spartan is on the left and Huxley on the right. In the next shot, Spartan is on the right.
Continuity: When Phoenix first gets out he makes his way to a computer and the police come to arrest him. Phoenix takes one of the policeman and pushes his head through the side glass pane and walks away to fight the other officers, but when Phoenix goes back over to the computer the glass is not broken
Continuity: Several times during the movie, Simon Phoenix's shoulder pads (one side resembles an ATV tire) switch sides.
Continuity: When Phoenix climbs out of the manhole, his tire armor changes sides from shot to shot.
Continuity: During the final shoot out in the cryogenics lab, Spartan is firing a single handgun at Pheonix from behind a computer. He then dives to another terminal, now firing two handguns at once. When we cut back to the new terminal, he's now holding and reloading a single gun.
Continuity: During the final battle in the CryoPrison, the L-shaped remote that Simon Phoenix is using reverses position (wider top section to the right, then to the left).
Factual errors: In the beginning when Simon finishes using the dagger to puncture the gasoline barrels, he lays it back on the table and it is dry. You can see the gasoline spraying all over as he jabs each plastic barrel. He would also have the gasoline on his hands when lighting the cigarette.
Continuity: When Simon Phoenix is in the museum gathering up the weaponry, he is seen wearing an ammo shell vest. In the first shot, two of the shell slots are empty but in the following shots they are both full.
Miscellaneous: When Spartan is chasing Phoenix in the red Oldsmobile muscle car, he instructs Huxley to step on the gas pedal as hard as she can to gain speed to catch up to Phoenix, but since this car was a muscle car, it would not have an automatic transmission thus requiring for Huxley to shift gears to accelerate to such a high speed which she did not.
Factual errors: Towards the beginning, when gasoline is everywhere and Simon holds the torch close to the ground, it should ignite. It's the fumes that ignite, not the gasoline itself.
Spin off
Demolition Man (1994) (VG)
- The video game is based on the film.
References
"The Jetsons" (1962)
"Star Trek" (1966)
"MisteRogers' Neighborhood" (1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Oliver! (1968)
"The Brady Bunch" (1969)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Star Wars (1977)
- John Spartan tells a character: "Hey Luke Skywalker, use the Force!"
"The Love Boat" (1977)
Brave New World (1980) (TV)
Blade Runner (1982)
First Blood (1982)
Scarface (1983)
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
"Unsolved Mysteries" (1987)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)
Referenced in
The Meteor Man (1993)
Voll normaaal (1994)
Hologram Man (1995)
Virtuosity (1995)
- Anti-hero controversial cop is released to chase a really nasty villain.
Vinterviken (1996)
Bicentennial Man (1999)
An Enraged New World (2002)
Minority Report (2002)
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002) (VG)
Comedy Central Roast of Denis Leary (2003) (TV)
- title mentioned
Featured in
Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)
- Excerpts appear in the film.
Shooting the Police: Cops on Film (2006) (TV)
- Clips featured.
Spoofed in
Demolition Woman (1994) (V)
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)