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OH GOD NO!!! *First Time Watching* DELIVERANCE (1972) *Movie Reaction* 50th Anniversary!!
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- **Before you say it , in my intro I say its the 50th Anniversary as of this month (May 2022) . I meant to say year. Sorry for the confusion! ***
Deliverance (1972)
Four city-dwelling friends (Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox) decide to get away from their jobs, wives and kids for a week of canoeing in rural Georgia. When the men arrive, they are not welcomed by the backwoods locals, who stalk the vacationers and savagely attack them in the woods. Reeling from the ambush, the friends attempt to return home but are surrounded by dangerous rapids and pursued by a madman. Soon, their canoe trip turns into a fight for survival.
Initial release: July 30, 1972
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My wife's cousin James Dickey wrote this book...they still own a mountain in north georgia/south tennessee and when you are on that mountain you can easily see how he was inspired to write such a tale.
I love how the Sheriff at the end is played by the author of the book the movie is based on , he made me really nervous he wasn’t going to let them go , thanks again
James Dickey
James Dickey, he did a fantastic job as the sheriff in this movie…totally believable, with that menacing smile. He was one of the great American poets as well (listen to him reading his poems “For the Last Wolverine” and “The Moon Ground” on TH-cam…so passionate!).
@@gammaanteria Great writer, but apparently was a pain in the butt to be around as he was always bragging about stories and always calling the actors by their character names. At one point, the director just said, "Look, you can come back and play the Sheriff, but you need to go now or else, we're just gonna have issues the whole way through." Dickey wasn't happy, but agreed to leave the production alone. Reynolds nearly got into a fistfight with him, but Dickey just laughed when Reynolds threatened him, saying, "That's just what Lewis would say."
@@van8ryan Oh yes, I think Dickey was brilliant, but seems he had his demons (alcohol being a big one). I keep meaning to read his son Christopher's memoir "Summer of Deliverance." I have an autographed copy of "Buckdancer's Choice," his most well-known poetry collection, and "Babel to Byzantium" is a terrific book of poetry criticism.
@@gammaanteria Buckdancers Choice? Didn't the Grateful Dead use that phrase in a song from either Workingman's Dead or American Beauty? Maybe in Uncle John's Band?
The discussion between the men to decide what to do after the attack is the best scene in the film. I also like how the film clearly shows the events will leave their mark for the rest of their lives. Bobby's "I don't think I'll see you for a while" clearly means "ever again" and they will likely all be haunted by nightmares and PTSD.
I got ptsd from seeing this when I was 5 years old. Paddle faster I hear banjo music.
This film is about man vs man, man vs nature, and man vs himself.
Deep man... very deep.
completely agree with you same theme in The Thing and Flight of the Phoenix - Original
This is a very Greek tragedy, and Dickey would have studied the classics. Hubris is the sole cause of classical tragedy because hubris alone is the fault of the individual or society, not a diseased mind or humble origins or a misplaced desire for revenge. And Western Europe has always had hubris to burn. And this carried over to the New World also, and the treatment of indigenous populations.
Lewis compared the group to the first settlers, and our four leads certainly behaved that way, even Ed, who first brings up the notion of a still. That is when the behavior of the mountain men went from verbal and physical bullying to murderous taunting and dominance games and power plays. The mountain men assert their will over Ed and Bobby thru sexual assault.
And the American Experience is about the assertion of our will over others. No, we didn't really colonize but we did establish the Slave South as a form of colony, with African slaves outnumbering Europeans. That was our Hubris. So was becoming involved in WW1, as ridiculous a conflict as there ever was. And Vietnam.
Vietnam has too many parallels with Deliverance to ignore. By the time of the movie, no one really knew why we were even fighting there. It was part of The American Experience of entering a primitive society with our swagger and our technology and our belief in ourselves as the good guys. Like our four leads in Deliverance. But are they really the good guys?
The morality of Deliverance is situational, positional, and material. We are the good guys because we say we are the good guys. Does it matter that none of the leads are active participants in the uprooting of the mountain society? No. Because they probably live next door to the power company execs and lawyers and owners of construction companies AND DEstruction companies that are doing the actual socio-cide. And they probably own stock in the power company and its helping companies. Especially Lewis.
Lewis comes from money. He is a landowner and landlord who lives off the rent he collects. He has no wife or children so he can devote his time to his physical development and survival skills. He understands that the American Deep South is in much the same position as, say, the Belgian Congo was in 1960 or Rhodesia and South Africa were in 1970/1971; it was only a,matter
of time before the sheer weight of numbers brought down Jim Crow. And he wanted to be ready for it.
Do I read too much into Deliverance? I don't think so. Its skeletal plot is made of steel and can support all manner of themes. And the heavy-handed treatment of the locals and the view that their wilderness is a playground for upper middle class males is obvious from the start. And Lewis does bring up the comparison to the first settlers. James Dickey and John Boorman may not have consciously thought out all the possibilities but they were canny enough not to limit themselves or their art by defining what Deliverance was and was NOT about.
This is as much a .art film as Blow-Up or Mulholland Dr or Rashoman or The Virgin Spring. Better, really, except that Lynch will never take a back seat to anyone.
Burt Reynolds “Smokey and the Bandit “ and The original “The Longest Yard” are a couple of his best , thanks
Burt was the man. I was so shocked when he passed.
@@hanoc101 “Sharky’s Machine “ !
“The Longest Yard” for sure.
Celebrity Jeopardy.
Don't forget Boogie Nights.
When Drew falls forwards out of the canoe, the audience is supposed to be as confused as the protagonists. Would you hear a gunshot going thru rapids? Could the protagonists have imagined a gunshot while going through those rapids after a homicide, knowing that the other "mountain man" is still out there? The heart of Deliverance is Burt Reynolds' line, "Now you get to play the game."
The loud noise of the rapids may have concealed the noise of the gunshot
@@dathorndike4908Ronnie Cox said that Drew was too catholic to commit suicide and he theorized that Drew’s oar struck a rock and he got thrown off balance.
River rapids are much louder than you would think and can easily drown out a gunshot.
Great reaction to a great movie.
Cheers!
The actor that played the banjo kid in this film is called Billy Redden. Believe it or not, he is definitely not an inbreed - he just looked that way and that's why he was chosen for the film. Nice reaction.
A regular (and neurotypical) local guy. But he got picked on (in grade school) for his appearance. He also never profited from his role :(
The actual banjo picking was a player tucked behind him, wearing same-pattern sleeves.
I saw this movie in the theaters when it was released while living in eastern Tennessee. It scared the living daylights out of me. We used to Camp around the TVA lakes on weekends and I was looking over my shoulder the whole time. This movie really rings true for this area in Appalachia.
North Georgia has gotten a lot more "civilized" over the decades (Marjorie Taylor Greene excepted).
I don't ever go on a trip with my buddies without thinking of this movie. Always plan your trip and know the possible dangers of your surroundings.
The fact that Dueling Banjoes is the only music in the movie that one scene is what enhances the creepiness. You watch and don't realize what's wrong: no music.
And, in case nobody mentioned it already, the sheriff at the end is the authou, James Dickey.
Congratulations on being the first reactor to plunge balls deep into this movie 👍
I can't believe not one reactor😒 I'm here for it😉
No, there's one other reaction to Deliverance that was already posted
I couldn't agree more!
And to most movies from Hollywood's Golden Age, 66-77. Except for Godfather's 1&2, you only got a few Chinatowns, a couple of Rosemary's Babys and that's it. No Graduate, BlowUp, Bonnie&Clyde, French Connection, you got the Exorcist, no Patton,no Cabaret, no Annie Hall, no SlaughterHouse5, no Conversation, no Boys In The Band, no Woodstock or Gimme Shelter, no Mean Streets, no Midnight Cowboy, no Easy Rider, no Alfie, no You're A Big Boy Now, you got A Clockwork Orange, no If..., No O Lucky Man, no Godspell, no Bound For Glory, no Parallax View, no All The President's Men, No Repulsion, no Joe, no Last Picture Show, no Paper Moon, etc etc etc. Nothing by Woody
Allen, Mike Nichols or Spike Lee. All apparently banned from YT, probably for being too real.
"Balls deep"? EeeeeeeeeeEeeeeeeeeee !!
Boogie Nights is one of my all time favorite films and arguably Burt Reynold's finest performance.
"Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything."
Fun Fact: According to director John Boorman, the gas station attendant's jig during "Dueling Banjos" was unscripted and spontaneous.
Bonus Fact: Billy Redden, the boy with the banjo, liked Ronny Cox and hated Ned Beatty. At the end of the duelling banjos scene, the script called for Billy to harden his expression towards Cox's character, but Billy couldn't pretend to hate Cox. To solve the problem, they got Beatty to step towards Billy at the close of the shot. As Beatty approached, Billy hardened his expression and looked away.
Not a jig. That’s Appalachian clogging.
Finally!! Someone is reacting to Deliverance.
When I watched it, I knew nothing of the plot. I just knew that Burt Reynolds was in it. I was totally surprised by the whole thing. I wasn’t expecting any of it.
The 70s was Reynolds's prime decade. Everything he did then is worth a look.
It's an excellent movie, and highly rated, but that one infamous scene can be a lot to handle.
Just a guy getting banged up the butt, happens every day.
Deliverance is a movie(like most 70s movies)that needs multiple viewings to get at the meaning of the movie & to really let its brilliance settle in. Chinatown & Marathon Man are a couple of others that are like that.
And that monument to paranoia, The Parallax View. And Rosemary's Baby, which upsets people with its ending. But all of these movies between 66 and 76 HAVE to end as badly as possible or they'd be branded "slick Hollywood trash". Vietnam, Watergate, JFK, MLK, RFK, all contributed to the downer vibe. Which is why these movies can't be looked at in a vacuum. You HAVE to know the history and the tenor of the times.
Deliverance is the best, I think, and it makes no concessions to its audience. It IS America. Or America from the first European settlers. As Lewis even says onscreen. I get so fed up with performer/reactors who are Ritalin-deprived Attention Deficit Theater goers who think movies need to spoon-feed the audience and Anything before Star Wars is like a silent film. They can't fathom why Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby and The French Connection and Deliverance HAVE to end the way they do. We know they pre-watch these movies and their reactions are as real as pro wrestling (no insult-pro wrestling is fun) so why don't they research the historicity of these classics?
You need to read som James Dickey poems as well. The opening scene highlights his thoughts on extinction and the destruction of nature.
OMG this film is a true classic Deliverance starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox. Thank you so much bro great reaction excellent👍👍👍👍
Thank you so much for watching!
@@FlixTalk You're welcome bro👍👍
The end of the movie where Ed has the nightmare of a hand coming out of the water to me is extremely disturbing. It tells us that even if they don't get caught they'll have to live the rest of their lives with the fear that someday they will get caught. He'll never have piece of mind again.
Yes. One of the greatest endings even though they got away
Not only fear of being caught but probably some level of guilt, and doubt. Ed could never be a hundred percent sure that the man he killed was actually one of the two who attacked them. There's a lot of ambiguity in the events after the attack. Whether Drew was actually shot. Whether the mountain man Ed killed was one of the rapists.
Great Burt Reynolds movie: Boogie Nights. Nominated for an Oscar for that movie.
The movie itself is in my top 5 all time.
My favourite is Fuzz with Burt playing Lt. Steve Carella from the 87th precinct
Hopper and Smokey and The Bandit.
You wouldn't hear a gunshot when you are down in the canyon and the raging water sounds. All you hear is the sounds of the water bouncing off the canyon walls.
Okay well he didn't have a gunshot and that's kind of my point lol
LOVED this reaction, man, fantastic. Damn good movie! Agreed with everything you said; it's like you there with 'em!/ Burt Reynolds: BOOGIE NIGHTS (1998) and SMOKEY & THE BANDIT (1977). "Boogie Nights" is a frickin' INCREDIBLE movie, one of the best of the 90s....and "Smokey & The Bandit" is so much fun, with great car stunts. Both make fantastic reaction videos and are definite classics. Jon Voight: MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969) and COMING HOME (1978) are the two quintessential Jon Voight movies, also classics. (Midnight Cowboy is also one of the absolute essential Dustin Hoffman movies, Coming Home one of the top three Vietnam movies of the 70s, and which got him his Oscar. "Runaway Train" is another great one. He was nominated for all three, Midnight Cowboy won Best Picture for '69).
Thank you for the amazing comment!
All GREAT suggestions!!
Boogie Nights is such a great film
I'll reinforce Midnight Cowboy as another great 70s classic that would be great for a reaction.
One thing about this movie. Once you see it you can't unsee it.
The ending is pretty accurate to reality as that section of town was really evacuating the flooding river (including actually exhuming bodies from the cemetery).
This area would become known as Lake Jocassee and there's still tombstones where that cemetery originally was (you can find the videos on YT)
This is the kind of movie you see once and don't need to see again. White Lighting is a good follow-up.
Feel that way about Deer Hunter
Unlike most millennial aged reactors. You seem to be starting to dive into more of the. What many of us who are older call or consider the classics. So many great movies beyond what has been released in the last 20 years. Which seem to always rely on. Superheroes, comic book characters and CGI. There are a lot of great films out there from the 40s to the early '80s or so. Keep up the good work my friend. Stay safe and be well always ! P.S. Maybe something else by Burt Reynolds around the same time frame. Check out the original version of the Longest Yard. And then from a few years later. A great comedy called Smokey and the Bandit
and may i also suggest a pair of cult classics - Roadie and Warriors
The seventies in particular was such a great era for film.
The sheriff at the end was the author of the novel Deliverance. This was very impactful in the theater. I especially liked the scene of them crashing through the trees, then braking into silence except for the sounds of the river. The term is ‘day for night’.
Jon Voight so many great roles, one comes to mind is “Runaway Train” thanks
He was good in "The Rainmaker" and of course "Midnight Cowboy".
But, "The Runaway Train" was best - gave me nightmares, tbh
I really wish more people would react to this.
22:15, another scene was set up showing Drew's body when Ronny Cox took the director aside and showed him he had a condition where he could do this with his arm where it twisted behind his neck like that. That is not a dummy, or prosthetic, that is Ronny Cox showing his thing. Ouch!!!
I will never forget the first time I saw this movie. It was in the early 80s and I was around 16 years old. I was home alone and it came on HBO (uncut). I didn't know anything about this movie at all, but I'd heard it was good. So I watched it. I have never been so riveted and so horrified at the same time! I couldn't stop watching it, even though I was horrified at everything happening. When it was over, I was speechless. Funny how I still remember all this and it's been 40 years.
I'm a couple months late. As a few people have said, the sheriff at the end is the author, James Dickey. He was a real outdoorsman and bow hunter like the Lewis character. He was also a poet and Deliverance was his first novel. Good choice for a reaction.
"The Longest Yard" is a good Burt movie - he played college ball until he hurt his knee and turned to acting. Also "Smokey and the Bandit" is a fun one
Definitely better than that insult of a remake
YES - Burt at least played college ball. Adam Sandler? At best he WENT to see a game live. He'd be knocked into next week if he played any position
Great and disturbing movie. Very shocking for 1972. Outstanding acting by all. Loved your reaction.
A similar film (not as disturbing, you´ll be pleased to hear!) that I recommend is "Southern Comfort".
The BEST PERFORMANCE of Burt Reynolds was in his final movie, “The Last Movie Star”. Burt Reynolds shows what a GREAT ACTOR he was in this production. 🍸
19:22 That's what's called a "day for night" shot.
The film is typically underexposed in-camera or darkened during post-production with a blue tint added. So you were basically correct, good eye👍.
Not only this movie is 50 years old and it also ranked at #63 in the 100 scariest movie moments on Bravo
This is not horror because nothing comfortingly supernatural happens in it.
This movie is horror because nothing comforting happens in it. The only reason it ends is because the film stops. These guys are still paying for it. No one is delivered. You can even make the case that we're not sure who the good guys and bad guys are. Morality is situational. The first encounter with the mountain men turns violent (from "let's fuck with these two city boys") when Ed mentions a still. As in, that's what you think of us? That stereotype? We were just gonna have some fun scaring you but now...
Would they have killed Ed and Bobby? Lewis says yes AFTER he's killed one of them. Who knows? You know in your heart Lewis has been waiting his whole life to kill someone justifiably. He HAS to believe Ed and Bobby would've been killed. The look on his face as Sodomy Man slowly dies is acting of the highest order.
This is horror because it's real. No one Hulks out or gets all Rambofied. This is horror because it kicks in when most most horror movies end, with the saving of the initial victims. Most horror movies would end the war in Vietnam with Ia Drang, Korea with the battle of Seoul, WW2 with Midway (and Hitler never illogically declaring war on America). Slavery would never have been brought to the States. Logic would rule the day. That's why Deliverance is more horror than "horror". It sits besides you in the audience and says "I'm not just on the screen. I'm all around, and you can't turn me off. I'm also insane."
And don't listen to writers or directors. At best they're conduits, knowing when to be vague enough to allow for various interpretations. Never NEVER trust them on their own work.
Even Freidkin said the Exorcist was more documentary than horror.
Deliverance can carry America.
@@cwdkidman2266Horror doesn’t tie to just supernatural causes. Horror is about fear, relating to realism and supernaturalism.
Oh no? Oh yes, bro! I already know what you're referring to, and I haven't seen the reaction yet! 🤣 Frickin' GREAT movie with virtually NO reactions....and this is DEFINITELY a movie that gives reactions! Great choice, thanks for the leading the way! Going to watch now; see you on the other side!
For another Burt Reynolds movie, watch the ORIGINAL version of the "Longest Yard".
Ned Beatty had nightmares for years after this, it really messed him up. I recently found that out, I feel bad for him.
😯😲
The banjo kid was found at a local school. He was just a normal kid. Herbert told me the stunt guy would not do the gorge scene. He asked the director how much he would pay him to do it. It was like $1200. So that is really Cowboy, no special effects. I've known him over 55 years. I love this movie. Watching you was priceless. Cowboy Coward and Bill McKinney were in another movie in 2007 called Dean Teaster's Ghost Town. I worked on the movie too. Got to hang out with a lot of interesting people. 😎
Make no mistake about it, "Deliverance" was a great movie. The sheriff at the end of the film was played by James Dickey. The wonderful writer who wrote the book and the screenplay.
I hope you get a chance to read this because DELIVERANCE is one of the great movies of/about America. It's timeless. Nothing in here dates this film. And its storytelling has only grown among film critics since. Man vs. Nature. But then it became a parable about American involvement in Vietnam. As we got out with barely our lives, critics and historians noted how the movie became a story of arrogance and our smug belief that we were better & smarter than the natives (the Vietnamese, the mountain people) and how in Vietnam and Appalachia, outsiders were wary of intruders, and actively hostile toward outsiders with notions of superiority to the Other. And in Vietnam and Appalachia in the movie, we looked on these people as less than human. And notice things like the air mattresses and Lewis's composite bow. And remember how America thought little guys in black pj's would run at the first glimpse of our technological superiority.
Which, as people started to notice, was how the first settlers (& remember Lewis comparing the 4 city guys to the first settlers) looked upon the Indians. And how the U.S. Army treated the Plains Indians when we moved west. And now people notice that nothing in this film says when it was made. Not clothes or haircuts or language or any references to events outside the mountains. Nothing was said about the Civil Rights movement. Aeschylus could have written this. Aaron Sorkin could've written it. Then critics saw how spare Deliverance was with people. There weren't any characters who didn't need to be there. It made the film even more of a Greek tragedy about America.
I've seen gore and torture porn but it stayed onscreen. This movie, so subtle and underplayed, comes off the screen and sits beside you. It says "We're real. And you're not going to treat us like bad guys. You're the bad guys. And we will not be side characters or people on the edge of the screen. We're going to show you how real we are." And I have never in my life wanted bad guys to die so much. Killing them once wasn't enough for me..I wanted them killed again. But then after a decade or two, I started to wonder who the bad guys were. Finally it just seems that these four city guys were either killed, maimed, raped, or traumatized. Or raped AND traumatized the two mountain men. And remember that it wasn't until Ed mentioned a still that they got REALLY violent. Like "is that what you think we are? Is that what you think we DO?" And that's when the mountain men decided to assert their power over Ed and Bobby.
And Drew kept talking about the law when he had no stake in this. You know in your heart that Bobby would have to get on a witness stand and tell in excruciating detail what happened to him and what was said and whether or not he tried to fight back. Rape victims encounter this every day. "You didn't fight back? So you wanted it to happen? If I were in your shoes they'd have had to kill me first." Which is what guys would think. You know that. But given the choice of rape or death, most humans would choose rape and maybe life. And Ed would have to tell why he 'stood by' and watched his friend get sodomized. Guys would think, I'd've gotten free somehow and helped my friend. And Lewis?
What did Lewis know when he shot the rapist. He saw his friend tied to a tree. He saw the shotguns and maybe the hunting knife. And that is honestly all he saw. He could say he saw the knife and that it was about to be used on Ed. He'd probably be believed, but he'd be lying. The rapist didn't have the knife or gun. Not when Lewis saw him. Lewis saw his friend in a bad situation and instantly got his bow and killed the guy. He saw no sexual assault. Neither did Drew. Of course they found out later. But the cops would say " You killed a man who may or may not have tied your friend to a tree. Maybe they came upon your two friends already tied up and were freeing them. Did you get think about that? No. And you didn't see your friend in any lethal danger. You saw him tied up and you killed a man who may have been there to help him. You don't know. That could still be the case. It's your friends' word against the word of a man I've known his whole life." Lewis would probably get manslaughter at least.
Drew? He argued for the right thing. He'd have to tell how he talked his 3 friends into NOT covering everything up. And you know Drew would do that. He'd tell everything he saw and heard. no matter how it made anyone else look. "Sure, my friends wanted to cover killing a man up. But I wouldn't let them. And if Lewis goes to the chair, well, I've put my faith in the law my whole life. I'll continue to do so no matter how many lives I have to ruin. It is a matter of the truth, and I never lie. And I trust Lewis. He acted too fast for me to see what happened, but I believe him. He did what he felt he had to, regardless of how little information he and I had about what was going on. Me, I'd never take a human life until I knew all the facts and there was no choice. Lewis did what he felt he had to. And I believe my friends said about Bobby being raped. I made them do the right thing but they weren't thinking straight at the time. And don't hold it against them that they wanted to bury the dead man and never tell anyone what they had done.". You know Drew would gladly tell every detail. He did the right thing, after all. I doubt if he would tell anything that made HIM look bad, though. People aren't like that.
I grew up in rural Kentucky during the 1960s and 70s and I knew lots of folks like the 'mountain' people portrayed in this movie. I even knew a couple of inbred children, but they weren't nearly as severe as the one lying down next to the old woman. They required a 'special education', but they were functional, could communicate effectively and even work manual labor jobs. So, the 1972 reality of this movie hits fairly close to home and was very relevant to that time.
It's really a shame that Burt Reynolds ended up doing movies for just the cash and fun. He was a quality actor when he wanted to be, and it would be nice to have seen him do more serious roles in his career.
Part 2. The actors really did all their own stunts, even Ed scaling the side of the cliff (with a hidden harness and cables) and yes, a day-for-night lens filter was used, something in common use for a time when you needed to see the actors at night. Truffaut even made a classic about it called Day For Night. It's a lot like shooting scenes in the rain, where the cinematographers have to shine a light on the rain in order for the cameras to "see" the rain. Otherwise it won't show up except for when it hits the street or puddles. And if you see a scene where the characters in the background are as in focus as the characters in the foreground, know that a shitload of extra lighting was used to accomplish that. Especially indoors. And the sound of a gunshot would never be heard over the roaring rapids, especially from a great height. Boorman brought in the ambiguity where the novel was clear about Drew's fate.
This was filmed right by my grandmother's home. The loveliest country.
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MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969)
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Peace -
The guy who did the rape was played by character actor Bill McKinney who Clint Eastwood used in a couple of his earlier movies including The Gauntlet, The Outlaw Josey Whales etc. He also played in First Blood and, believe it or not, John Wayne's last movie, The Shootist among a whole bunch of others.
The other guy was a guy Burt Reynolds recommended and his story how he was in this movie is an amazing story.
Bill McKinney was also one of the prison guards in The Green Mile
This is a very good analysis. I agree with the analyst at 18:09.
All timer can’t wait excellent film , thanks again
Burt Reynolds in his autobiography "But Enough About Me" said that this was one of his favorite films. If I remember correctly all scenes were shot in sequence from beginning to end. And it was all on location with no studio sets used. I thought Jon Voight did such a great job in this movie. Especially two scenes: Where he was on his knees waiting (begging) for Lewis to kill his tormentor. And at the dinner table where he started crying. Great.
Whatever happened to Voight takes nothing away from his decade of brilliance, Midnight Cowboy to Coming Home. He was perfect for ten years, and how many actors get to say that? Look at Ed's and Lewis's faces as the first mountain man dies. Both are shocked as eff. Lewis has been waiting his whole life to kill someone with impunity and he's temporarily devastated when he thinks he's done it. But then he realizes he will have to stand trial. (And think about this: what did Lewis ACTUALLY see when he quickly acted to save his best friend. Bobby was further up in the woods, Ed had been.untied (unbelted?) and Lewis couldn't have heard anything. If he could've counted on Drew to keep his mouth shut, he and Ed would've sworn Lewis saw the rape. But holier than thou Drew would tell precisely what he and Lewis could/couldn't have seen and what he and Drew could actually hear. Even if the authorities had believed their story Lewis would be the one to stand trial. Bobby would've been called a fat homo for not fighting back, and Ed would've been painted as a coward for not turning into Rambo or John Wayne and saving Bobby. Which is exactly what other guys would say and think).
Voight was easy to imagine as a real cowboy, always the test of how good an AMERICAN actor is since the western is what America tells itself about itself; mob movies are great but not Americana. DeNiro and Pacino would never be believable in a western. Hoffman bravely tried it with Little Big Man, but that was a black comedy. Burt, Clint, and Nicholson and Brando were all in westerns. But it's ridiculously easy to imagine him as a heroic gunfighter or sheriff.
And damn he was good-looking!!
Great book and great movie. Love how it shows the catharsis of a man who was a follower and turns into a leader.
A timeless classic and that banjo scene still gives me the creeps, even when I watch it to this day :)
I can recall watching this movie throughout my childhood. I watched this movie while the pig scene was edited out. I did not fully understand what was happening during the pig scene. I was too young to see this movie in the theaters, but this was a classic movie when I was growing up. I've seen it 20 times.
I recommend a Burt Reynolds movie that he liked and isn’t so obvious: STARTING OVER.
And Jon Voight- CONRACK.
By the way, the sheriff in the end was a cameo by Deliverance author James Dickey who was a jerk when I met him at a business conference.
“The Longest Yard” is a good Burt Reynolds movie.
I recommend the 1977 film "Smokey and the Bandit" and its sequel the 1980 film "Smokey and the Bandit 2". RIP Burt Reynolds.
Excellent review sir. Not over the top yelling,fake emotional jumping up and down. Appreciate it. Definitely liking and subscribing
Boogie Nights. Definitely. Burt Reynolds is marvelous, as is the rest of the cast. Great movie.
I Would totally recommend you watching his film that he also directed called Sharky‘s machine excellent film.
I agree that you should watch the original "The Longest Yard." It's so much better than the remake.
the guy that played the banjo works in a walmart today in rabun county georgia,near me, where they filmed this movie
G-d bless the late Ned Beatty: He added things to this scene. Trying to run away, squealing like a pig. This was his FIRST FILM!!
I went to a rather large university here in the south. It was an excellent university and we'd get a lot of students from north east and west coast etc. Kids that had often never been out of a city before. We'd ask them to hang out and watch movies, and always slip in Deliverance into the VCR, then tell stories about disappearances and crazy stuff as we drank beer. We'd then suggest going on a hike the following day, and ride up into the mountains and lose them in the woods. They were more terrified then if we'd had a guy with a chainsaw. We didn't actually leave them though and would always be just out of sight making sure they didn't get hurt, but they probably still need counseling. After that though they were apart of our crew, and they'd usually be eager to give the next batch the same experience. It was a sort of rite of passage. May the good lord and those old friends forgive us. 😂
I agree 100% with your commentary at the end. It's not a re-watch movie Butt the movie has a point and that point is "where is the law Drew?" When you're out in the boonies... In other words, YOU are the law. And that point is true today as much as back then. Great review. Thank you.
Thank you for the awesome comment and thank you so much for watching. A really well made movie overall..the tension was insane
Love this one. Great reaction video for it.
Almost forgot: The scene with the hand rising from the river was actually used on the poster promoting the film.
I hike a lot and kayak the only thing that really scares me in the woods are #1 people #2 mooses and #3 bears
Sharky's Machine, Gator and White Lightning. Good Burt Reynolds.
I love that i found you reacted to this. I remember seeing it when I was growing up. Terrifying, unique & I bet this shite really happens in some places.
Welcome! Please subscribe. I watch movies from this era all the time
Amazing someone actually reacted to this classic... 👍
Yep. subscribed right at the "I've seen a lot of cinema".
Jon Voight movies?
"Runaway Train" The greatest in his career IMO.
Ned Beatty?
"Network" His career greatest performance IMO. And he only had ONE SCENE!
If you want to go down the Burt Reynolds rabbit hole. I recommend
Smoky and the Bandit
Cannonball Run
Gator
White Lightning
The Longest Yard
Hooper(really underrated. Written by his best friend and stunt man Hal Needham. Loaded with almost all of Burts friends)
This movie was chilling and it was entirely true to conveying the feel and the tension throughout of James Dickey's novel "Deliverance".
The director of this film, John Boorman, is an excellent and very underrated director. He made two absolute classics with Lee Marvin - "Point Blank" & "Hell in the Pacific", both are must watches. He later made some pretty offbeat films, "Zardoz" is one of the strangest movies you'll ever see. Sean Connery running about in a red diaper, it's really out there. He also made the amazing "Excalibur", easily one of the best King Arthur films. Helen Mirren is something else in that one, and it also stars a very young Liam Neeson.
And worse, Sean Connery wearing a wedding dress in Zardoz.
That scene where they find Drew's twisted/mangled corpse:
Actor Ronnie Cox had a bout of POLIO as a kid.
As a (relatively young) adult, he could then HYPER-EXTEND his shoulder joint, flopping his entire left arm over to the right .
He told/showed it to Director Boorman, who LOVED it.
That shot of dead Drew (and later, his river "burial") was done without ANY prosthetics/practical effects.
Yep: They did ALL of their own stunts.
if this movie isn’t bad enough, around 15-20 years ago, 40 minutes of this wonderful movie that were initially removed, were restored in a very special edition. 😬 who needed that?!? jesus h christ! RIP ned beatty. great actor. 😞 he voiced lots o huggin bear in toy story 3.
Not certain about Cox, Voight and Beatty, but Burt Reynolds was famous (or infamous) for performing his own stunts.
React to Burt Reynolds - White Lightning 1973
Burt Reynolds in 'Sharky's Machine' and 'The Longest Yard'.
“MIDNIGHT COWBOY”‼ (The only X - Rated movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture🍸).
Reynolds broke his femur which is said to be the worst pain a human can endure, even worst that childbirth. Just a great movie all around, Ned Beatty was teased about his squealing scene for years after this.
I remember as a kid the music from this was on the radio all the time at the time.
John Boorman who wrote the book and directed the movie, is the actor playing the sheriff.
James Dickey wrote the book & played the sheriff. Boorman was the director though.
@@sparky6086 thanks Sparky....I got my names mixed up.
the guy that played the sheriff is the guy who wrote the book
No doubt that it's a very intense movie, but it's one of my favorites. And Jon actually climbed that cliff.
ok you're killing me! one last canoe trip before they DAM up the river and it turns into a lake.
This is from the mind of a famous 'southern/gothic' poet James Dickey --he plays the sheriff at the end of the film.
The premise is > you think you are such a sophiticated, modern 'man' in 'murica' with all of its 'stuff' and comforts---well, what are you prepared to do when the 'primitive' s&*t hits the fan....what are you capable of to survive and what are you prepared to 'live' with............
In his story he takes a 'modern' 'murican man and splits him into 4 parts to 'examine' how each would react to a primal/feral threat that NEVER goes away & has been around since 'life' began': (a)- the primal/action man. (b)- the rational/cerebral man. (c)- the submissive man. (d)- the 'middle'/indecisive man.
Epic movie. The really sad thing is that the kid that played the banjo boy never received much money for his role and ended up working at a WalMart trying to make ends meet in 2012.
Incredible movie, great performances and I have to say you have a shocking resemblance to Burt Reynolds.
As others have no doubt pointed out, the sound of going through Class IV and V Rapids can be deafening. It's completely believable that they wouldn't have heard a shotgun blast. Especially from someone shooting at the top of the mountain. Also, I've got relatives who live deep in the country surrounded by mountains and the lighting at dusk looks pretty much exactly like that. It's a beautiful effect caused by the mountains. The sun hasn't gone down yet. It's just the terrain is reducing the amount of sunlight reaching into the small valleys between the mountains.
Jon Voight is a true American Patriot God bless him.
Top ten movie imo, each character was beautifully defined and evolved, Reynolds character will forever be remembered as one of the best lead roles in this outstanding classic!
They all did their own stunts in this movie. No doubles.
The effect is called "day for night" and uses underexposed film with a tinted screen to simulate dark. It's laughably obvious but here it seems to make the scene even scarier.
Ive Fished and Canoed many wild rivers and you never know what's up ahead and have to pay attention to everything. I spun out in some rapids and we all flipped over and lost all our gear. We found most of it but Rivers like this are very tricky and scary at times for sure.
Burt movies try the longest yard, Smokey and the bandit or Boogie nights. Think you would enjoy them all!