Slate - Terra Infirma, The rise and fall of quicksand

[Mud_Duck]

http://www.slate.com/id/2264312/

[newtothis2]

Very interesting article. Almost sounded like the author may be interested in signing on as one of the assistants for the next shooting season.

[Fred588]

Interesting, though rather dated with respect to our community.

[Regisblb]

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[Duncan Edwards]

I'm waiting.

[bumberjack]

I can't even begin to tell y'all how much I grinned while reading this piece! I admit it's a long article; I started skimming about halfway through. But I'm thrilled to see work like this out there.

[Mynock]

I'm waiting.

For what? An autograph request?

[nachtjaeger]

Finally got around to reading that. Nice to see a scholarly discussion of quicksand that neither shies away from nor wags a scornful figure at the fetish aspect.

[jack c]

I agree - I read the entire article and it was thoughtful and respectful of the interest. I think he missed (in my opinion) the basic reason for the disappearance of the damsel quicksand scene: women's equality. It is simply not politically correct any more for a movie producer to put a woman in a helpless situation and have some "dominant" male rescue her. So we won't see that kind of scene for a long, long time.

While I admire the reason for the genre's disappearance - sigh - sometimes I long for one more good scene in which some guy saves the woman at just the last second, with her hands outstretched and sinking under the surface. I doubt I will live to see this again in the mainstream movie world.

But still, the Slate piece was long and thoughtful.

[Fred588]

Apparently the Slate article is getting attention:

http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/hun ... onger-cool

http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/ ... quicksand/

http://insidemovies.moviefone.com/2010/ ... in-movies/