Movies You Wished Had A Quicksand Scene/Near Misses
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2021 10:18 pm
I haven’t been writing much lately, I probably won't have another story ready to post for a month or two. So instead, I thought I'd do something different this month.
Forgive me if something like this has been discussed here in the past but the other day, I was thinking about movies I wished would’ve had a quicksand scene, so I thought I’d start a discussion about it and start it off with a few I thought off (I might add more later as I think of it).
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
During the beach fight scene between Jack, Will, and , Elizabeth tries to get the men’s attention and break up the fight by pretending to collapse in the heat, but the men just ignore her and continue to fight. I thought it’d cool if just after that, she stands up and starts to sink in quicksand. Now in real trouble, she screams for them to help her, but they just continue to fight and ignore her. Finally, neck deep, the two idiots stealing the chest pull her out and say something like, “you’d be safer with us!”
Tammy Tell Me True (1961)
As Tammy leaves her houseboat in the swamp (in her bare feet, not wanting to ruin her shoes) to walk to the nearby college, she comes across a dark, muddy looking spot beside the water. She dips her toe in it and decides to step around it, perhaps believing it to be a patch of quicksand (as I hoped), and/or maybe just not wanting to ruin her dress in the deep mud. As she approached it, I was so hoping she would walk right into it, get stuck and start sinking, and maybe escape on her own after a minute or two. (If I remember correctly, there actually was a mud scene in one of the Tammy movies, where she fell in a pig pen and got covered in mud).
So, what movies or TV shows have you always wished had a quicksand scene?
Forgive me if something like this has been discussed here in the past but the other day, I was thinking about movies I wished would’ve had a quicksand scene, so I thought I’d start a discussion about it and start it off with a few I thought off (I might add more later as I think of it).
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
During the beach fight scene between Jack, Will, and , Elizabeth tries to get the men’s attention and break up the fight by pretending to collapse in the heat, but the men just ignore her and continue to fight. I thought it’d cool if just after that, she stands up and starts to sink in quicksand. Now in real trouble, she screams for them to help her, but they just continue to fight and ignore her. Finally, neck deep, the two idiots stealing the chest pull her out and say something like, “you’d be safer with us!”
Tammy Tell Me True (1961)
As Tammy leaves her houseboat in the swamp (in her bare feet, not wanting to ruin her shoes) to walk to the nearby college, she comes across a dark, muddy looking spot beside the water. She dips her toe in it and decides to step around it, perhaps believing it to be a patch of quicksand (as I hoped), and/or maybe just not wanting to ruin her dress in the deep mud. As she approached it, I was so hoping she would walk right into it, get stuck and start sinking, and maybe escape on her own after a minute or two. (If I remember correctly, there actually was a mud scene in one of the Tammy movies, where she fell in a pig pen and got covered in mud).
So, what movies or TV shows have you always wished had a quicksand scene?