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Deliverance - Just watched for the first time.

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Leggo My Elko
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10:00p, 7/8/19
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I just watch Deliverance for the first time last night and have some thoughts. If you haven't seen it, quit reading. It's on Netflix right now.

Anyway, it wasn't clear to me if the audience is supposed to believe if the Drew character was shot or not. I'm leaning towards that he was not shot and he just decided to end it after having the guilt of burying the dead hillbilly. The other characters believe he was out of fear and justified paranoia.

Meaning the hillbilly on the cliff, who Ed (Jon Voight) killed was definitely the wrong guy.

I'd heard it was a dark movie, but sheesh. Rape, justified killing, cover up, paranoia, unexpected/ambiguous suicide, killing of the wrong guy, more cover up, guilt. All set to the impending disappearance of beautiful wilderness. Dark.

All in all great movie, beautifully shot, excellent use of music in film.
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Fat Bib Fortuna
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11:02p, 7/8/19
spoiler alert - the hillbilly kid wasn't really playing the banjo
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expresswrittenconsent
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11:10p, 7/8/19
It's a great movie. I haven't seen it in a while but you're saying you think he chose to kill himself by taking a header from the canoe into the river? Were they in major rapids at the time?
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In reply to expresswrittenconsent • 11:19p, 7/8/19
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Yeah they were headed right into them, and prior to him going in the river Ed was yelling at him to put on his life jacket and then says something about the look in his eyes.



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OldArmy71
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11:54a, 7/9/19
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He was shot.
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Duncan Idaho
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11:58a, 7/9/19
A Beautiful love story that basically ruined Ned Beatty's career.
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12:09p, 7/9/19
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It was incredibly boring with one memorable scene for obvious reasons.
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In reply to Duncan Idaho • 12:29p, 7/9/19
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Duncan Idaho said:
A Beautiful love story that basically ruined Ned Beatty's career.
Maybe, but he did have a visible role in the first two Superman movies and Spielberg cast him as an idiot homeowner in 1941.
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In reply to Cinco Ranch Aggie • 12:48p, 7/9/19
Cinco Ranch Aggie said:
Duncan Idaho said:
A Beautiful love story that basically ruined Ned Beatty's career.
Maybe, but he did have a visible role in the first two Superman movies and Spielberg cast him as an idiot homeowner in 1941.


That's all he ever played after this movie was idiot betas.
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Belton Ag
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3:36p, 7/9/19
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Ned Beatty was never going to be anything more than a character actor, regardless of being raped by hillbillies. If anything, that scene gained him some fame he may not have otherwise gained.
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In reply to Cancelled • 3:42p, 7/9/19
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queso1 said:
Cinco Ranch Aggie said:
Duncan Idaho said:
A Beautiful love story that basically ruined Ned Beatty's career.
Maybe, but he did have a visible role in the first two Superman movies and Spielberg cast him as an idiot homeowner in 1941.


That's all he ever played after this movie was idiot betas.
It was his first movie, and it didn't "ruin his career".

He was nominated for a freaking Oscar two years later for Network!

He has 166 credits as an actor. Most actors would literally kill someone for that kind of career.

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4:22p, 7/9/19
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FYI, interesting fact. James Dickey who wrote the book is Sheriff Bullard, at the end he tells them "do not to come back here".
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In reply to MAROON • 5:38p, 7/9/19
Next you are going to tell me it wasnt a love story
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In reply to Birddog • 8:45p, 7/9/19
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Birddog said:
FYI, interesting fact. James Dickey who wrote the book is Sheriff Bullard, at the end he tells them "do not to come back here".

Didn't know that. Memorable scene.
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