{"id":12485,"date":"2014-10-07T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=12485"},"modified":"2014-10-07T07:00:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T07:00:19","slug":"the-croods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2014\/10\/07\/the-croods\/","title":{"rendered":"Landslides in the movies part 1: The Croods"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>The Croods<\/h5>\n<p>I thought it would be interesting to run an occasional series showing how landslides have been depicted in the movies and on television.\u00a0 The first example I came across comes from The Croods, a Dreamworks animated film that was released last year.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Croods\">The plot of the film is described here<\/a>, but a key scene is one in which the family is forced from their home by a large rockfall.\u00a0 This almost kills them, but of course they have a miraculous escape.\u00a0 The rockfall sequence appears in the trailer at about 1 minute 20 secs:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Croods - Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4fVCKy69zUY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The animation is pretty good.\u00a0 The main collapse is preceded by some precursory small rockfalls (and the father of the family correctly deduces from this that a collapse is imminent &#8211; perhaps the first example of a landslide warning system? The main collapse event looks a little strange &#8211; in particular it is hard to see how the mass that is seen falling at 1 min 29 secs could release kinematically:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/10\/14_10-Croods-1-e1412664342674.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12487\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/10\/14_10-Croods-1-e1412664342674.png\" alt=\"The Croods\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But the fragmentation that is occurring around the block is really good, as is the brief scene in which the mass is impacting on the floor of the canyon, with really nice capture of rock fragmentation on impact.\u00a0 Somehow on the way down the large mass seen above appears to have fragmented though, which seems a little odd:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/10\/14_10-Croods-2-e1412664608954.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12488\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/10\/14_10-Croods-2-e1412664608954.png\" alt=\"The Croods\" width=\"640\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a>..<\/p>\n<p>The rockfall generates a blast wave and dust cloud that envelopes the family, which is also well handled.<\/p>\n<p>Suggestions for subsequent parts of this series are welcome.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 1 of a series looking at how landslides are depicted in movies. 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