Deliverance.

Read the book, watched the movie or both?

You shore gotta pretty mouth, boy

Not one or the other

Didn't know there was a book ... Saw the movie many times when it was on TV ... Bought the VHS many years ago . . .

I've rafted the Chattooga River many times where the movie was filmed . . . The river guides will point out where the Love Scenes were filmed . . . It is a fun river to raft, but I can't imagine going down that river in a canoe ... No Way . . .

The actor that played the inbred kid is named Billy Redden . . . He still lives in Clayton, GA where the movie was filmed . . .

Here's a funny photo of him . . .

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zeroplate/1109001770/ 

I forgot to add that Billy, although butt-ugly, was not and is not retarded . . .

I've done both. Just picked up a book by his Son, Christopher Dickey called Summer of Deliverance. It's about the relationship with his father and will get into the making of the movie.

Thank you, 8. Saved me a google.

That movie stayed with me a long time.

Forgot that there are isolated pockets of American folks that time forgot who are in their own little worlds...

"..Forgot that there are isolated pockets of American folks that time forgot who are in their own little worlds..."

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Quite threadjacking! We are NOT talking about Blackfoot on this one!

LOL! He was so happy with his pompadour, vest, and chinos until you burst his bubble and snapped him out of it with your hip, grunge look, nipple- waisted pants, & garter socks.

My mom said she went to school with a girl named Ophelia Dickey.

Hilarious.

(I think she was just being funny, but it could be true... she was born in 1940 and parents back then were mean)

There was a student in my freshamn class at Our lady of Good Counsel whose name was Grape Jelly.

He married a strawberry tart who spread a lot.

Don't quote me on that part.

Shawn,

During waht years was your mom in high school?

Re: # 6 . . .

That sounds like it will be interesting to read . . .

There were two guys who were "discovered" by the company scouting for places to shoot the movie. They hauled all the equipment for shooting the movie up and down that river in their canoes and were contracted for their local knowledge of the river . . . They then went on to start Southeastern Expeditions, which is the rafting company I use when on the river . . .

The two day, overnight trip is EXCELLENT and best enjoyed with a large group of friends . . .

I work with a girl named Ivory Coast ... Then there's Valencia, too . . .

The canoe used by John Voight and Ronny Cox hangs in the SEE outfitters shop . . .

^ That's cool..

I always liked the Movie.All the actors were good.

wheel,

Interesting stuff, Jet. I'll report back when I get into the book deeper.

I have a first edition of Deliverance.

When I read it years ago, after seeing the movie several times, I was surprised at the meta-physical content of the novel.

The scene where Jon Voight climbs out of the gorge is treated a whole nother way in the book...it's man against nature as well as man against man. But the climber becomes one with the wall and the experience, even though success means murder.

A damn good fiction writer, and a fine poet, James Dickey.

"Don't come 'round here again, doan come up here no mo'; I'd kinda like to see this town die peaceful."

And that black-eyed nurse at the end...hubba, hubba.

Both. I read the book before the movie came out and, while the book is always better, was blown away with how close it came to the book. Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds nailed those characters and I thought the movie really captured the eerie feel of the original story.

when he fell into the river with the dead Hill Billy tangled in the rope it scared the crap outta me the 1st time I saw it.I was probably at 11 or 12...

wheel,,