Quicksand Fans

Hello Everyone,

I came across this old, 1973, Filipino film, "Florinda," which features a short quicksand scene, where a female character, "Criselda" (played by the actress, Rosemarie Gil), falls into quicksand while teasing a hunchbacked man, who tries to save her, but fails. The scene is shot at night, is short, but features a good submergence, with hands raised - you can watch her whole head/face go under:

https://youtu.be/DIyZrfvBZwk?si=c7AtV8Ib0sBbBudV&t=6283

Go to the 1h45m mark - although, if you rewind a few minutes, you'll see that Criselda locks the main character, "Florinda," in a cellar dungeon, running off with the key in her hands, before she meets her doom.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1178127/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1

If you look at the IMDB entry, you'll see that Rosemarie Gil was nominated for best supporting actress - FAMAS Awards (Filipino "Oscars"). You can see a photo of her sinking at this site:

https://cinemorgue.fandom.com/wiki/Rosemarie_Gil

Ms. Gil was quite bold - she did another movie where she had live snakes in her hair!

The swamp set looks menacing, but the camera angles could have been much better. And I certainly wished for a longer sink, showing more struggling.

I checked Crypto's latest Movie Guide and did not see this film listed, so I am hoping this is a new find. If not, forgive my duplication.

Mike

Hey Mike,

Nice find. Pretty cool to wake up to (Youtube video already squirreled away!).

They clearly put some effort into this scene, which is much better than typical Asian productions. I especially enjoyed the foreshadowing supplied by the dolly (tracking) shot.

This was most likely shot MOS (without sound). So the dialogue and screaming etc. was all done later. Again, nice catch.

Gnarly!

Yes indeed... a new find for The List!! Thanks for sharing it!!

Nice find Mike, good job.

I had a quick skim through the film, and around 35 minute mark two of the characters walk to the edge of the same swamp area and talk for a few minutes, too bad we don't know what they are saying, but sure it involves some discussion of the quicksand to set up for the finale so it doesn't just appear out of the blue.

But knowing it was there no-one bothered with any fences or even a proper bridge, lets just use an old fallen tree to cross.

Tim wrote:But knowing it was there no-one bothered with any fences or even a proper bridge, lets just use an old fallen tree to cross.

They do it that way all the time at TSM.

Really nice find.