Quicksand Fans

I found this video about how a filmmaker made a quicksand pit. Not the greatest sinking ever, but I've not seen content like this before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16aMXRu9puY

Chimerix wrote:I found this video about how a filmmaker made a quicksand pit. Not the greatest sinking ever, but I've not seen content like this before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16aMXRu9puY

OMG: This may be why movie tickets cost so much.

It's really neat to see just how Hollywood special effects makes all of this look so realistic. If I can create stuff like this then I'd so do it!
Such amazing stuff! Thanks so much for sharing this.

~williams64901qs

So the victim even keeps dry and clean?
This is not my business. I will stay with the puddle with leaves on top.

Didn't Pamela Rose use a similar method?

Boppinabe wrote:Didn't Pamela Rose use a similar method?

Rob went to a nearby beach for that "dry" look that some folks like. He was good at it.

This has never really worked for me. I read about it being used for the Lawrence of Arabia scene but I like at least a little dampness. Dry desert quicksand has been said to exist when winds pile sand up on one side of a big dune. The desert sand you encounter in the Middle East is fine powder compared to the course stuff here. It's slippery for lack of a better way to describe it. It's the result of the sand being blown around and pounded together for thousands of years. The finest stuff I've ever encountered on Gulf Coast beaches is like driveway gravel by comparison.

Duncan Edwards wrote:

Boppinabe wrote:Didn't Pamela Rose use a similar method?

Rob went to a nearby beach for that "dry" look that some folks like. He was good at it.

This has never really worked for me. I read about it being used for the Lawrence of Arabia scene but I like at least a little dampness. Dry desert quicksand has been said to exist when winds pile sand up on one side of a big dune. The desert sand you encounter in the Middle East is fine powder compared to the course stuff here. It's slippery for lack of a better way to describe it. It's the result of the sand being blown around and pounded together for thousands of years. The finest stuff I've ever encountered on Gulf Coast beaches is like driveway gravel by comparison.

Yea, but in my mind he gets serious cred for being a middle-aged guy with a bad back, digging serious holes in heavy sand. Not really my thing either, but the scenes sold reasonably well.

My personal tastes for this look is that when the surface is dry, that some wetter stuff appears around the victim as the struggle goes on. Either way, Rob saw a viable way to keep going when there were no reasonable alternatives, and did.

Duncan Edwards wrote:

Boppinabe wrote:Didn't Pamela Rose use a similar method?

Rob went to a nearby beach for that "dry" look that some folks like. He was good at it.

This has never really worked for me. I read about it being used for the Lawrence of Arabia scene but I like at least a little dampness. Dry desert quicksand has been said to exist when winds pile sand up on one side of a big dune. The desert sand you encounter in the Middle East is fine powder compared to the course stuff here. It's slippery for lack of a better way to describe it. It's the result of the sand being blown around and pounded together for thousands of years. The finest stuff I've ever encountered on Gulf Coast beaches is like driveway gravel by comparison.

The one time I’ve been to Hawaii, the beach near the hotel literally was gravel. No waves. I was not impressed. But hey, I was able to climb Diamondhead, so there’s that.

He should have gotten his wife to do it.

Thick, sticky mud. Everything else pales.