Water for Elephants/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • Robert Pattinson plays a character named "Jacob". This also happens to be the name of the romantic rival to Pattinson's character in a popular film series, also based on books.
    • In a deleted scene of the 2004 film Vanity Fair, Robert Pattinson played Reese Witherspoon's estranged son. In Water for Elephants, they play lovers.
    • In 1998, Reese Witherspoon was in a film that happened to be called Twilight.
    • Robert Pattinson plays a creepy, abusive, jealous stalker in Twilight. Here he plays the (non-abusive) protagonist in a story that deconstructs abusive relationships.
  • Moral Event Horizon: August throwing Walter and Camel off the train as it goes over a trestle bridge.