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re: Deliverance - A Movie Often Overlooked
Posted on 1/11/25 at 11:07 pm to TygerTyger
Posted on 1/11/25 at 11:07 pm to TygerTyger
I had James Dickey as a creative writing Professor at Carolina. It was amazing some of the guest writers he had come speak to us such as Williams Price Fox and Kurt Vonnegut.
ETA: I just thought of who published my first published poem ... hadn't thought of it in over fifty years. Dickey recommended I submit it there ... The Woodworm Review.
ETA: I just thought of who published my first published poem ... hadn't thought of it in over fifty years. Dickey recommended I submit it there ... The Woodworm Review.
This post was edited on 1/11/25 at 11:10 pm
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Posted on 1/11/25 at 11:15 pm to scrooster
That’s awesome
Posted on 1/11/25 at 11:18 pm to nealnan8
quote:
A common theme in fiction novels and from 1950-1980 was taking a group of disparate people and throwing them into a scary nature setting. Many of these got made into movies, like Deliverance: The Flight of The Phoenix Jaws Lord of The Flies A Night To Remember
The Poseidon Adventure.
Posted on 1/12/25 at 2:03 am to TygerTyger
Funny, as I saw this movie when I was a kid. I’d stay up late and if I was lucky, my dad was watching a game or a movie and ignored my bedtime. Obviously, I was too young to understand on a deep level. I just remember as it being scary, and I liked scary movies. I saw it on DVD at a book store years ago and picked it up. I’ve rewatched a few times and it’s a classic.
Posted on 1/12/25 at 6:32 am to TygerTyger
Who has overlooked it?
Posted on 1/14/25 at 10:46 am to TygerTyger
The location of the backwoods gas station at the beginning where Drew played Dueling Banjoes with the inbred kid is where this house is now. Can still see the lay of the land with the two levels where Burt drove the Scout up to get gas. Just down the road in the turn to the left is a wooden building where the Griner brothers shop was at...
Backwoods gas station 3231 Mulberry Street Otto NC
Backwoods gas station 3231 Mulberry Street Otto NC
Posted on 1/14/25 at 11:39 am to pevetohead
quote:He rebounded in astounding fashion with Excalibur.
The director John Boorman had a lot of potential. Unfortunately he followed up Deliverance with Exorcist II: The Heretic
Posted on 1/14/25 at 12:08 pm to madmaxvol
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For anyone who has rafted down the Chattooga River, you realize what a beautiful spot that is, and what a crazy time it would have been filming it with 1972 technology. It was pretty ambitious, and they knocked it out of the park.
Used to kayak the Chattooga when I was a kid with my parents. Pretty much the most challenging river in the South.
2 things I remember. After depositing our boats upriver, my dad and I would drive the car downriver and park the car and hitchhike back. Locals were always friendly, but they loved to take you on a "shortcut" just to eff with you.
We stayed at the boarding house at the end of the movie and the lady who ran/owned it was in the film. And she loved to tell the tale of the time Burt Reynolds stayed at her place.
Posted on 1/14/25 at 8:27 pm to TygerTyger
Burt was a bad dude in Deliverence.
Posted on 1/14/25 at 8:48 pm to Demonbengal
After watching it a few times , I concluded that Ned might have been the toughest of the bunch. As weak as he seemed at the beginning he was tough at the end. Even after the rape and arduous journey , he was able to sit down and smile at the table like nothing had ever happened. While the others were hurt either mentally or physically. Ned had neither.
It is a solid movie. No doubt.
It is a solid movie. No doubt.
This post was edited on 1/14/25 at 8:49 pm
Posted on 1/16/25 at 10:42 am to lsufan112001
The foreshadowing of what ended up happening was really well done. Ned Beatty's character is the one who gets humiliated after being the most vocal in putting down on the locals.
Also before the infamous scene, as soon as the two guys come out the woods the one keeps touching Beatty's character. Like keeps touching and squeezing him. Don't notice it until you watch it later.
Supposedly the 4 leads, the main griner brother, and the rapist were the only trained actors. All the rest were locals, except for Dickey who played the sheriff.
Also before the infamous scene, as soon as the two guys come out the woods the one keeps touching Beatty's character. Like keeps touching and squeezing him. Don't notice it until you watch it later.
Supposedly the 4 leads, the main griner brother, and the rapist were the only trained actors. All the rest were locals, except for Dickey who played the sheriff.
Posted on 1/16/25 at 11:18 am to Trailer Trash
This scene, like so many others in the movie, just just perfect.
The pan of John Voight's line of sight from the two hilbillies to Burt taking aim is glorious. And the tension as the shotgun waivers right at his throat. Burt waits until he has the perfect shot while Voight is trying not to shite his pants.
Then the death of the hillbilly is drawn out, not bang and he's dead like is so often done in Hollywood. The graphic seconds as life leaves his body. Jesus. How much of that was the director's vison, how much of it was the actor? Even the sounds he's making. Ghastly.
Perfection.
The pan of John Voight's line of sight from the two hilbillies to Burt taking aim is glorious. And the tension as the shotgun waivers right at his throat. Burt waits until he has the perfect shot while Voight is trying not to shite his pants.
Then the death of the hillbilly is drawn out, not bang and he's dead like is so often done in Hollywood. The graphic seconds as life leaves his body. Jesus. How much of that was the director's vison, how much of it was the actor? Even the sounds he's making. Ghastly.
Perfection.
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