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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

This Movie is the Reason Why I Will Not Go Camping

Deliverance
Plot
-4 city guys: Lewis Medlock, who is a leader type, laid back Ed Gentry, slight know it all Bobby Trippe, and curious Drew Ballinger, decide to go on a camping and canoeing trip on the Cahulawassee River before a giant dam is put there. Everything goes fine until they run into backwoods country and a couple of moonshine-making rednecks who sexually assault one of them. They now fight to survive and also keep their friendship intact



Cast
-Jon Voight: Ed
-Burt Reynolds: Lewis
-Ned Beatty: Bobby
-Ronny Cox: Drew
-Billy Redden: Lonnie
-Bill McKinney: Mountain Man
-Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward: Toothless Man

Did You Know?
-The actors did their own stunts, such as Jon Voight actually climbing the cliff
-"Dueling Banjos" was the first scene filmed
-Actor Ned Beatty's first film
-The infamous "rape scene" was done in one take. Ned Beatty did not want to do it repeatedly
-The scene where Bobby (Ned Beatty) is raped and ordered to "squeal like a pig" was improvised.

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