How swamps on the silver screen reflect how we feel about wetlands

A person in a swamp is trying to pull a white horse out of the muck using ropes, surrounded by twisted trees.

Maybe you’ve seen the meme. Classic film characters up to their necks in muck, with text reading, “As a kid, I thought quicksand was going to be a much bigger problem in my life.” Quicksand was an uncannily common plot point in the 70s and 80s, but murky wetland depictions in film haven’t gone away. 

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