All I can encourage is that people go look at a picture of the scene in question. It's a childlike drawing with no relation to real world geography at all. Its not "similar but wrong", it's utterly unrecognisable. It's there to show that the main character has no understanding of geography...
That's what I did, and I agree. The only thing recognizable is the text at the top saying "map of the world". Everything else looks to me like just a bunch of blobs that don't resemble any world map I've ever seen, in any orientation, but I just got a bunch of downvotes for writing this. I don't know what everyone else is seeing here.
Of course, I'm just going off the one little photo in the article. I'm not going to watch some stupid trailer. If someone writes an article making a claim about a map in a movie or trailer, it's their responsibility to provide a still image or screenshot supporting their claim. If they can't do this, and they just say "watch the trailer", I'm going to dismiss their claim as ridiculous and frivolous.
Really? Didn't you recognize the word "Asia"? Didn't you recognize the Malaysian peninsulae, almost the only recognizable part of the "Asia" map? And just to its east, exactly like the sea in question, the dashed line. It's clear in the screenshot, and the frame shows that the part they want you to see isn't America, Europe or Africa: it's "World Map", "Asia" and dashed line.
Even if you hosnestly didn't recognize it, this isn't here for you. This is here for the people who knows. I recall menctioning "1488" in a conversation, and there were more people that didn't have a clue than they do. But if you include a VW Beetle in a movie, with the plates "1488-HH"... that's no mistake, even if only 10% of the viewers get it. That will end with someone fired, and nobody could claim they did it unknowingly. Maybe they though it was a clever joke or an easter egg, but it's not possible by chance.
