Quicksand Fans

What's your favorite submergence from any studio or producer...and why do you like it so much? The acting? How slow it is?

One of the best is in a 1970s version of "Moonstone" when Rosanna submits herself to quicksand.

I like how Jungle Girl goes under in “Whiny Chick Meets Jungle Girl.”

She doesn’t arch her head back. She just takes one last somber, doomed look at her surroundings and slips under vertically, chin-to-mouth-to-nose-to-eyes. For some reason, that type of disappearance does it for me.

Just what is "best" is, I think, about 99 percent a matter of individual preference. Personally, there have been several done at my studio when the actress kept her face above the surface (which is what one would naturally do in such a situation so as to keep the mouth above the surface as long as possible) in such a way that her eye sockets were covered over for an impressive period before her face finally went under.

Fred588 wrote:Just what is "best" is, I think, about 99 percent a matter of individual preference. Personally, there have been several done at my studio when the actress kept her face above the surface (which is what one would naturally do in such a situation so as to keep the mouth above the surface as long as possible) in such a way that her eye sockets were covered over for an impressive period before her face finally went under.

I love those, especially Blu's work, very well done acting

SinkThatDamsel wrote:I like how Jungle Girl goes under in “Whiny Chick Meets Jungle Girl.”

She doesn’t arch her head back. She just takes one last somber, doomed look at her surroundings and slips under vertically, chin-to-mouth-to-nose-to-eyes. For some reason, that type of disappearance does it for me.

Yes. If it could be me sinking, that's how I would do it, four times out of five. Face forward, mouth open wide, let it rise up my face, flow into my mouth, cover my nostrils, my conchas, my eyes, up my forehead and close up over top of my head! If I did face up I'd want it to be just thick enough to let me go down and have inch-high walls that give way as it slides shut over my face, and that would be one time out of five.