One of the most common way the ocean is used to destroy life as an antagonist is in the form of waves. Sometimes realistic, sometimes overly dramatized, waves batter, flip, and destroy the surroundings of protagonists in many films. In Martin Scorsese’s Silence, two men are tied to crucifixes offshore and slowly battered to death by light blue waves. In Castaway, the ocean waves trap the protagonist Chuck Noland on a deserted island on which he fails to escape for three years. In The Poseidon Adventure, a massive tidal wave rocks a cruise ship, serving as the harsh bang that sets the plot into motion. In Hereafter, The Day After Tomorrow, The Impossible, Geostorm, Noah, The Perfect Storm, The Fifth Wave, San Andreas, 2012, Tidal Wave, and the
