what happened to the kid who played the banjo in deliverance

1972 film past John Boorman

Deliverance
Theatrical release affiche by Bill Gold
Directed by	John Boorman
Screenplay past	James Dickey
Based on	Deliverance by James Dickey
Produced by	John Boorman
Starring	Jon Voight Burt Reynolds Ned Beatty Ronny Cox
Cinematography	Vilmos Zsigmond
Edited by	Tom Priestley
Music past	Eric Weissberg
Production company	Elmer Enterprises
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release appointment	July 30, 1972 (1972-07-30)
Running fourth dimension	109 minutes
Country	United States
Linguistic communication	English
Budget	$2 1000000
Box office	$46.1 million[1]

Deliverance is a 1972 American survival thriller picture show produced and directed by John Boorman, and starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox, with the latter ii making their feature motion picture debuts. The screenplay was adjusted by James Dickey from his 1970 novel of the same proper name. The film was a critical and box office success, earning three Academy Honour nominations and five Gilded Globe Award nominations.

Widely acclaimed every bit a landmark picture, the motion-picture show is noted for a music scene nigh the kickoff, with one of the city men playing "Dueling Banjos" on guitar with a banjo-picking state boy, and for its notorious rape scene. In 2008, Deliverance was selected for preservation in the Us National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."^{[ii] [three]}

Plot [edit]

Four Atlanta businessmen—Lewis Medlock, Ed Gentry, Bobby Trippe and Drew Ballinger—decide to canoe downward a river in the remote northern Georgia wilderness before it is dammed. Lewis, an experienced outdoorsman, is the leader; his shut friend Ed has been on several trips only lacks Lewis's machismo, while Bobby and Drew are novices. En route to their launch site, the men (Bobby in particular) are condescending towards the locals, who are unimpressed by the "urban center boys". At a local gas station, Drew, with his guitar, engages a young banjo-playing boy in a musical duel ("Dueling Banjos"). The duel is mutually enjoyable, and some of the locals break into dance at the sound of it. However, the boy does non acknowledge Drew when prompted for a congratulatory handshake.

The iv friends travel in pairs and their two canoes become separated. Ed and Bobby land, and encounter a pair of mountain men emerging from the woods, one carrying a shotgun and missing 2 front end teeth. Following a exact atmospherics, Bobby is forced by the men to undress. The unarmed man violently sodomizes Bobby, enervating he "bleat like a pig", while Ed is bound to a tree and held at gunpoint. Just equally Ed himself is about to exist raped, Lewis sneaks up and kills the rapist using his bow and arrow; Ed retrieves the gun and the remaining mountain human flees into the wood. After a brief but hotheaded debate betwixt Lewis and Drew, Ed and Bobby vote to side with Lewis's programme to bury the body and proceed on equally if zero had happened. The four continue downriver simply the canoes reach a dangerous stretch of rapids. Equally Drew and Ed reach the rapids in the lead canoe, Drew shakes his head and falls headlong into the h2o — it is unclear why.

The canoes collide on the rocks, spilling the three remaining men into the river. I of the canoes is smashed. Lewis breaks his femur and the others are washed aground alongside him in a gorge. Lewis, who believes Drew has been shot, encourages Ed to climb to the meridian of the gorge and dispatch the other mountain man, whom they believe to be stalking them from in a higher place. Ed reaches an overhang and hides out until forenoon, when a man appears higher up him with a rifle; Ed clumsily shoots and manages to kill him, only falls backwards, stabbing himself with one of his own arrows in the procedure. The dead human seemingly has all his teeth, just on closer inspection, is revealed to be wearing dentures. Ed and Bobby weigh down the body in the river to ensure information technology will never exist plant, and when they meet Drew'south torso downriver, they exercise the same.

Upon finally reaching the small boondocks of Aintry, they take Lewis to the hospital. The men advisedly concoct a cover story for the government about Drew's decease, lying nearly their ordeal to Sheriff Bullard in club to escape a possible double murder accuse. The sheriff does non believe them, but has no evidence to abort them and tells the men never to come up back. The trio vow to keep their story of death and survival a secret for the rest of their lives. In the concluding scene, Ed awakens, startled by a nightmare in which a bloated manus rises from the lake.

Bandage [edit]

• Jon Voight equally Ed Gentry
• Burt Reynolds as Lewis Medlock
• Ned Beatty as Bobby Trippe
• Ronny Cox as Drew Ballinger
• Bill McKinney as Mountain Human
• Herbert "Cowboy" Coward equally Toothless Man
• James Dickey equally Sheriff Bullard
• Billy Redden as Lonnie, The Banjo Boy
• Macon McCalman as Deputy Queen, Whose Brother-In-Police force is Missing

Ned Beatty's wife, Belinda Beatty, and manager John Boorman'due south son, Charley Boorman, have brief appearances as the wife and young kid of Jon Voight's character.

Production [edit]

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Deliverance was shot primarily in Rabun Canton in northeastern Georgia. The canoe scenes were filmed in the Tallulah Gorge southeast of Clayton and on the Chattooga River. This river divides the northeastern corner of Georgia from the northwestern corner of South Carolina. Boosted scenes were shot in Salem, South Carolina.

A scene was also shot at the Mountain Carmel Baptist Church building cemetery. This site has since been flooded and lies 130 anxiety (40 m) under the surface of Lake Jocassee, on the border between Oconee and Pickens counties in S Carolina.^{[four] [5]} The dam shown nether construction is Jocassee Dam.

During the filming of the canoe scene, writer James Dickey showed up inebriated and entered into a biting statement with producer-director John Boorman, who had rewritten Dickey'south script. They allegedly had a brief fistfight in which Boorman, a much smaller homo than Dickey, suffered a broken nose and four shattered teeth.^{[half dozen]} Dickey was thrown off the set up, but no charges were filed against him. The ii reconciled and became skillful friends, and Boorman gave Dickey a cameo role every bit the sheriff at the end of the motion-picture show.

The inspiration for the Cahulawassee River was the Coosawattee River, which was dammed in the 1970s and independent several dangerous whitewater rapids earlier being flooded by Carters Lake.^[vii]

Casting [edit]

Casting was by Lynn Stalmaster. Dickey had initially wanted Sam Peckinpah to direct the moving picture.^{[half dozen]} Dickey also wanted Gene Hackman to portray Ed Gentry whereas Boorman wanted Lee Marvin to play the role.^[6] Boorman also wanted Marlon Brando to play Lewis Medlock.^[6] Jack Nicholson was considered for the role of Ed,^[6] while both Donald Sutherland and Charlton Heston turned downwards the role of Lewis.^[six] Other actors who were attached to the project included Robert Redford, Henry Fonda, George C. Scott and Warren Beatty.^[six]

Stunts [edit]

The movie is infamous for cutting costs past non insuring the product^{[ commendation needed ]} and having the actors perform their own stunts (well-nigh notably, Jon Voight climbed the cliff himself^{[ commendation needed ]}). Reynolds requested to take one scene re-shot with himself in a canoe rather than a dummy as it tumbled over a existent waterfall. Reynolds recalled his shoulder and caput hitting rocks and floating down stream with all of his clothes torn off, so waking up with director Boorman at his bedside. Reynolds asked "How'd it look?" and Boorman said, "Information technology looked similar a dummy falling over a waterfall."^[viii] Beatty nearly drowned and Reynolds cracked his tailbone.^[9]

Regarding the courage of the iv main actors in the picture show performing their own stunts without insurance protection, Dickey was quoted equally proverb all of them "had more guts than a burglar." In a nod to their stunt-performing audacity, early in the movie Lewis says, "Insurance? I've never been insured in my life. I don't believe in insurance. At that place's no risk".

"Squeal like a pig" [edit]

Several people have been credited with the phrase "squeal similar a pig", the at present-famous line spoken during the graphic rape scene. Ned Beatty said he idea of information technology while he and actor McKinney (who played Beatty's rapist) were improvising the scene.^[10] James Dickey's son, Christopher Dickey, wrote in his memoir about the film production, Summertime of Deliverance, that because Boorman had rewritten and so much dialogue for the scene ane of the crewmen suggested that Beatty's character should just "squeal like a pig".^[11] Boorman, in a DVD commentary he made for the film said the line was used because the studio wanted the male person rape scene to exist filmed in two means: i for cinematic release and ane that would be acceptable for television. Every bit Boorman did not want to exercise that, he decided that the phrase "squeal similar a pig", suggested by Rabun County liaison Frank Rickman, was a good replacement for the original dialogue in the script.^[12]

Soundtrack and copyright dispute [edit]

The picture's soundtrack brought new attending to the musical piece of work "Dueling Banjos", which had been recorded numerous times since 1955. Only Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandel were originally credited for the piece. The onscreen credits state that the song is an organization of the song "Feudin' Banjos", showing Combine Music Corp as the copyright owner. Songwriter and producer Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, who had written "Feudin' Banjos" in 1955, and recorded it with v-cord banjo player Don Reno, filed a lawsuit for songwriting credit and a pct of royalties. He was awarded both in a landmark copyright infringement case.^[13] Smith asked Warner Bros. to include his name on the official soundtrack list, but reportedly asked to exist omitted from the film credits considering he constitute the picture offensive.^[14]

No credit was given for the film score. The movie has a number of sparse, heart-searching passages of music scattered throughout, including several played on a synthesizer. Some prints of the film omit much of this actress music.

Boorman was given a gilt record for the "Dueling Banjos" hit single; this was later stolen from his house by the Dublin gangster Martin Cahill. Boorman recreated this scene in The General (1998), his biographical film virtually Cahill.^[15]

Charts [edit]

Chart (1973)	Position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[16]	61

Reception [edit]

Deliverance was a box role success in the United States, becoming the 5th-highest grossing film of 1972, with a domestic accept of over $46 million.^[1] The moving-picture show's financial success continued the following year, when it went on to earn $18 million in Due north American "distributor rentals" (receipts).^[17]

Disquisitional reception [edit]

Deliverance was well received past critics and is widely regarded equally i of the best films of 1972.^{[18] [19] [20]} On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the picture show holds an 89% rating based on reviews from 62 critics, with an boilerplate rating of viii.xl/10. The site's consensus states: "Given cardinal verve by John Boorman's unflinching direction and Burt Reynolds' star-making functioning, Deliverance is a terrifying adventure."^[21] On Metacritic it has a weighted average score of 80% based on reviews from 15 critics, indicating "more often than not favorable reviews".^[22]

Factor Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film four stars out of four and wrote, "It is a gripping horror story that at times may force you to look away from the screen, merely information technology is and then beautifully filmed that your eyes will eagerly return."^[23] Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times called it

"an engrossing take chances, a demonstrable labor of honey whose pains have largely paid off in making united states of america sympathize with stirring deeds in a setting of cruel dazzler. Reynolds suggests that given the right cloth he is more than than just another pretty mitt and Voight, in the about substantial role he has had since 'Midnight Cowboy' proves again what a versatile thespian he is. Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox are first-class in the briefer roles as the other voyagers."^[24]

Gary Arnold of The Washington Post wrote that the film was "certainly a distinctive and gripping piece of piece of work, with a deliberately brooding, ominous tone and visual style that put you in a grave, fearful frame of mind, well-nigh in spite of yourself."^[25]

Not all reviews were positive. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote:

"Dickey, who wrote the original novel and the screenplay, lards this plot with a lot of significance – universal, local, whatever happens to be on the market. He is clearly under the impression that he is telling u.s.a. something about the nature of human being, and particularly civilized man's power to survive primitive challenges[…] But I don't call back information technology works that style.[…] What the picture show totally fails at, still, is its attempt to make some kind of significant statement about its action.[…] [Due west]hat James Dickey has given united states of america here is a fantasy near violence, non a realistic consideration of it.[…] It's possible to consider civilized men in a confrontation with the wilderness without throwing in rapes, cowboy-and-Indian stunts and pure exploitative sensationalism."^[26]

Arthur D. Tater of Variety wrote that the setting was "majestic" just information technology was "in the fleshing out that the script fumbles, and with it the direction and acting."^[27] Vincent Canby of The New York Times was likewise more often than not negative, calling the film "a disappointment" considering "so many of Dickey'south lumpy narrative ideas remain in his screenplay that John Boorman'due south screen version becomes a lot less interesting than information technology has any right to exist."^[28]

The instrumental piece, "Dueling Banjos", won the 1974 Grammy Accolade for Best State Instrumental Performance. The pic was selected past The New York Times as one of The All-time 1,000 Movies E'er Fabricated, while the viewers of Channel 4 in the United Kingdom voted information technology #45 on a list of The 100 Greatest Films. Reynolds later called information technology "the best film I've always been in".^[29] Yet, he stated that the rape scene went "too far".^[30]

Awards and nominations [edit]

Nominated

• Academy Accolade for All-time Picture
• Academy Award for Best Director — John Boorman
• University Honour for All-time Motion picture Editing — Tom Priestley
• New York Movie Critics Circle for Best Film and Best Managing director
• Golden Earth Laurels for All-time Motion Movie – Drama
• Golden World Award for All-time Director – Motion Flick — John Boorman
• Golden Globe Award for All-time Actor – Motility Picture Drama — Jon Voight
• Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song — Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, Eric Weissberg, and Steve Mandel
• Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay — James Dickey

American Pic Institute lists [edit]

• AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills—#15

Legacy [edit]

Following the picture show's release, Governor Jimmy Carter established a land pic commission to encourage television and picture show production in Georgia. The state has "get ane of the top five production destinations in the U.S".^[31] Tourism increased to Rabun County by the tens of thousands after the moving-picture show's release. By 2012, tourism was the largest source of acquirement in the county, and rafting had developed as a $20 million manufacture in the region.^[31] Jon Voight's stunt double for this film, Claude Terry, later on purchased equipment used in the picture show from Warner Brothers. He founded a whitewater rafting take chances company on the Chattooga River, Southeastern Expeditions.^[32] Payson Kennedy, the stunt double for Ned Beatty, established the Nantahala Outdoor Middle with his married woman and Horace Holden along the Nantahala River in Swain County, Due north Carolina in 1972, the same twelvemonth that Deliverance was released.^[33]

Run into besides [edit]

• List of American films of 1972
• Survival moving-picture show, nearly the moving picture genre, with a list of related films

References [edit]

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Further reading [edit]

• Tibbetts, John C., and James M. Welsh, eds. The Encyclopedia of Novels Into Moving-picture show (2nd ed. 2005) pp 94–95.^{[ ISBN missing ]}

External links [edit]

• Deliverance at IMDb
• Deliverance at the American Movie Establish Catalog
• Deliverance at the TCM Movie Database
• Weekend in Aintry! James Dickey and The Making of Deliverance
• Pictures of some deleted scenes
• Deliverance essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Pic Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, A&C Blackness, 2010 ISBN 0826429777, pages 686-688 [1]

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