ELI5; Why was quicksand such a common film trope when it’s not a problem that people commonly run into in real life?
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Why a trope becomes popular is impossible to answer with great authority. However, Daniel Engber theorizes that the extreme popularity of quicksand in films in the 1960s was connected to the feelings of sinking despair and getting stuck by a misstep associated with the Cold War and Vietnam War.
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