Deliverance - 40th Anniversary

Am I the only one who noticed? Cr cared?







I have a weird-o buddy(avid hunter), who obsessed on, and used to quote this movie in like Jr High, and I finally had to watch it in High school. Being around him for the last 20 years, I can now quote that movie too.....lucky me!!

Talk about edge of your seat? Fantastic performance by Burt Reynolds, and Von Viogt. That was Ned Beatty's first film too I believe....


This movie scared the crap out of me back then, and still affects me today. I'm an avid fisherman, and I can't go into the woods fishing alone without being "on guard"!!

Weird, just recorded it last night. I haven´t seen it in years, but it sure beats a lot of those newer hillbilly horror movies of today.

I was just thinking about all the Bows in movies lately. This one did it 40 years ago.



Looks like Hawkeye. Or rather Hawkeye looks like him.

I saw this film in its initial theatrical run (yeah, I'm old). The last time I saw it, probably about ten years ago, it was still just as frightening. Terrific film.

Ned Beattys' first screen role as well. A very brave performance.

Paddle faster! I think I hear banjos!

I remember reading that Ronny Cox could dislocate his shoulders at will, and did so for one scene.

Ouch.

Jon Voight was awesome in that movie. Actually the whole cast was, but watching Vought's character grow as a man......just plain great acting.

It's a shame it's known to many only for the 'squealing like a pig'.

Shall I start quoting now?

..."He got a real perdy' mouth, aint he...?

I need to watch this...being a asian 26 yr old banjo player, who just got a new banjo in this week , this is probably the movie most people talk to me about in relation to banjos.

I have yet to see this movie and it does seem to have made the banjo rather notorious.

Thats on t-shirts that the local river guides sell where the movie was shot.

They had an annual celebration for the first time with ronny cox a few weeks ago

been on that river many times and the some of the locals are indeed scary

CB2001 said:

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Paddle faster! I think I hear banjos!

apollo said:

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Thats on t-shirts that the local river guides sell where the movie was shot.

They had an annual celebration for the first time with ronny cox a few weeks ago

been on that river many times and the some of the locals are indeed scary

The funny thing is that when I went canoeing with my family, I told them how funny it would be to own a house on the river we were going down, and wiring a sound system up to play the Dueling Banjos and see how people canoeing past would react.

A classic

And another thing...

The film's structure defies standard formulas. The climax occurs somewhere around the end of the second third of the film. What follows is a strange entropy as the characters digest what has happened to them. We stay with them long after the action's over, and are forced to share their exhaustion and mental fragmentation, expressed not through histrionic scenes, but often obliquely by strange poetic images ( the church being transported down the road etc.), images which at the same time quietly underpin the film's ominous environmental theme...until finally we come to the film's final image. Unlike in other thrillers and horror movies where you're released after the climax, it is this prolonged 'postscript' that makes you feel you've really been through something...

Films in the 70s used to do things like this, get away from the dog-tired formulas. Picnic at Hanging Rock is similar. The main event there happens in the first third, then there's nothing but entropy for the rest of the film, yet it's a masterpiece.