Victor here, taking up the slack in Jim's blog while ignoring my own. Since it seems no one got the last stealth point (except for me) I thought I'd give you a quick summary of the Academy Award-nominated movie Deliverance, as remembered through a twenty+ year-old filter:
Ok. These four city guys go on a canoe trip down a river in Georgia or Alabama or West Virginia--someplace where there's a lot of hillbillies. One dude meets this weird-looking kid with a banjo so he pulls out his guitar and they play Dueling Banjos. Then the four guys go down the river some more, but they stop because Ned Beatty has to take a dump or something.
Ned is accosted by these two hillbillies (who, between the both of them, have about three teeth) who force him to undress, then they rape him while making him squeal like a pig. Then the four guys decide to hunt down the rapists. I remember one of them was using a bow and arrow, and I think one of them died, but that's about it. The End.
If you want the full, correct story, it might be best if you just bought it.
I think the other guys were Burt Reynolds, one of the original Dukes (of Hazzard County) and Bronson Pinchot.
I saw this on link Boing Boing yesterday, timing is everything. You did a good job with you CliffsNotes version of Deliverance.
Bronson Pinchot? If that were true, the hillbillys would've NEVER let him go. His mouth would've been WAAAY too purty.
Actually, the other character was Ronny Cox.
And I thought the fat guy getting raped was Michael Moore.
I looked up the imdb entry and the principles are Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, Ronny Cox, and Ned Beatty. And a weird-looking kid and a toothless hillbilly. And a river.
I think I'll see if Blockbuster has it. Now I'm all intrigued.
Frick, that's one of the greatest videos ever made! I like the little clip from Deliverance in the middle (the old man dancing; Ned Beatty clapping his hands before he was borehogged, and Burt Reynolds is recognizable in the background wearing a sleeveless shirt). Absolutely fantastic. More from the IMDB entry: That's Ronny Cox's character playing guitar in the "Dueling Banjos" scene. Darned if I can remember what Jon Voight did.
I think Jon Voight paddled the canoe and oh yeah I think he smoked a pipe
Frick's link from BoingBoing is excellent. Thx Frick. Can we all say, "SQUEEL lahk a pig!"? Yikes.