Deliverance | HAD TO TAKE SOME TIME OFF AFTER THISI First Time Watching | Movie Reaction
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The cemetery scene near the end, they are flooding the valley so they are moving those bodies to a new cemetery that won’t be flooded. Not only so the family of the dead can still visit them, but once the dirt over the caskets becomes wet and loose, the caskets have a tendency to float up through the mud and surface in the water. I live near a huge man made lake that was made from the government building a huge hydroelectric dam, which flooded lots of old towns and communities. I’ve heard stories of caskets that weren’t moved popping up years later after being flooded.
Funny story: Burt Reynolds (Lewis) did his own stunt going over the waterfall. The director wanted to use a dummy, but Reynolds insisted because he thought it would just "look like a dummy going over the waterfall."
So he did the stunt, injured his back, and got washed a mile down stream before he could reach the shoreline. He got out and made his way back up to meet the crew, who were traveling down stream looking for him.
When they finally found each other, he asked the director how it looked and the director said "It looked like a dummy going over a waterfall."
He broke his coccyx in that incident and it bothered him for the rest of his life. He said, "It was a stupid and macho thing to do."
That's hilarious, but also sad. I can attest myself that doing things like this that is a choice and not a necessity because of ego or too many minerals in your diet is a recipe for major issues later. I'm now 62 and many of those old injuries are now either, at the least, daily annoyances or make it impossible to do basic things, along with a load of costs and down time for surgeries. Use your brain, kids, your life consists of more than brief thrill seeking that can result in constant pain decades later.
Awesome 😂
Ooof
Haha!! I never heard that story. That’s hysterical!
This will lighten the mood. I saw a canoeing T-shirt once that said "Paddle faster, I think I hear banjo music." 😂
probably came one of the old stores from where they filmed it around Tallulah Falls & Tallulah Gorge, been there many times as I live just south of there in Athens
Dasha, You had the proper, healthy reaction. This is a shocking movie that hits people pretty hard.
I think this movie, more than any other, gives men a better sense of how horrible and dehumanizing grape is.
This was directed by John Boorman, who also did a film called Excalibur which is worth watching.
These two are his best work.
The sheriff near the end who was suspicious is James Dickey.. He wrote the book; Deliverance. He was an outdoorsman like the Lewis character.
His WWII novel; To The White Sea, is awesome.
They had to throw him off the set because he was getting drunk all the time and telling everyone that "everything in the book happened to me". They called him back for his scenes at the end.
He did a marvelous job acting the part of the sheriff.
This was the most talked-about movie of the year it came out, and it scared loads of people away from hiking and camping in the woods. I’ve hiked and camped all over the U.S. and in Ontario and Nova Scotia, and in truth, wild places are safer than our cities and suburbs. You’ll be fine, if you respect property, animals, and people; don’t act like a d---head; and don’t look cross-eyed at anyone.
I met the author of “Deliverance,” James Dickey, when he came to my elementary school in 1963 (I think). He gave a talk about poetry, read a few of his poems, and answered questions, and he repeated this for several groups of students in the library. I was thrilled when he became Poet Laureate of the U.S. in 1966.
"You’ll be fine, if you respect property, animals, and people; don’t act like a d***head and don’t look cross-eyed at anyone." --- Good advice --- only problem with that is that there may come a time when someone will be looking cross-eyed at _you._ Like in driving, you can't account for the attitudes, recklessness, volatility and mindsets of others. Humanity can, and often will, be a scary thing --- one of the points of this movie I think.
It's kind of like Jaws. The movie scared a whole generation of people from going into the ocean. But the odds of being attacked, let alone killed, by a shark are ridiculously low.
@@norwegianblue2017 Yeah, that's exactly what Amity Island Tourist Board wants you to believe!
@ It was just a boating accident where some bathers were injured.
"DELIVERANCE" is a disturbing film. I found it disturbing when it came out, and it's disturbing now. Kudos to the young woman for struggling through it!
One of the greatest horror movies of all time.
I’ve only seen it once, and I’ll never be able to forget the infamous “squeal like a pig” scene.
Who wanted Dasha to watch this?!
@@squarewave808 It's even worse if you consider why the hillbilly needed him to squeal like a pig while raping him.
Not me. I didn't think she would get it and she didn't. Not her fault she is just too distant from this movie generationally and culturally.
My wife's cousin wrote the book
A lot of the mountain culture depicted in this film a has more or less disappeared over the last 50 years due to rural electrification, the construction of paved highways into the mountains, advances in telecommunications and the internet, and the gentrification (i.e. rich folk buying mountain land for vacation homes) of the mountain. This means the mountains are nowhere close to being as isolated and insular as they once were. There still are pockets of authentic mountain culture left in most remote reaches of Appalachia, but these days you're more likely to meet a wealthy doctor living in their summer cottage than someone scraping by living off the land.
Yes
well I live in southeast Kentucky and that mountain culture is very much alive here lol
guess you never been around Appalachia
Yep-my folks purchased property (and had a small home) on a mountain outside of Murphy NC in June 1981 and I can tell you, even then, it was rural and un-developed, though we never felt "unsafe." The "mountain folk" we knew were genuine and kind and had a good sense of humor. As city slicker's, we were always gracious to them, and I think they respected us for that. Even Murphy has grown quite a bit since '81 as a lot of Floridians have moved there (though it's not as bad as Asheville and Hendersonville with the Floridians)
@@brandonchamberlain1914 I've heard this about KY
Thanks, Dasha, for committing to films like “Deliverance”. This film, “The Exorcist” and other brutal films from the 70’s are quite challenging for men and women alike. You have my respect! 👍👍
You had a very understanding reaction, don't feel bad. I was a little worried about how you would take it. Good job sticking through it. Love your honest heart felt reactions and how you handled this is just a reflection of what a sweet, caring person you are. Keep up the good work, love ya Dasha!!
Kentucky resident here… before I hear yeah stay out of Kentucky or West Virginia, remember that this takes place in Georgia…. Georgia
"I'm not sure what this movie is about, I assume somebody's going to deliver something" haha, when you said that so matter of fact was funny.
Another good film with John Voight (and Dustin Hoffman) is Midnight Cowboy (1969) which no-one seems to have reacted to.
& southern comfort
Jon Voight, who plays Ed in the film, is the real-life father of actress Angelina Jolie.
I remember seeing this movie as a teen in the 70s and being shocked by it. Still a great movie.
The "natural" look is so refreshing to see. I'll never understand why women cover themselves in makeup products.
9:23
Dasha: "Do you think something crazy is going to start?"
Me: "Ha ha ha ha! You have no idea."
yeah I was chuckling because THE SQUEALING SCENE on deck next. ya know it still is sick in everyway.
Some recommendable titles for this series of yours .. .
Harold and Maud (1971)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Quest For Fire (1981)
The Tenant (1976)
Shogun Assassin (1980)
Santa sangre (1989)
Ms. 45 (1981)
Aguire, the Wrath of God (1972)
Meet the Feebles.
9:24 "Do you think something crazy is going to start?"
I think so. 😬
😂
1972 Deliverance Film Locations:
Tallulah Gorge, Georgia: The bottom of the gorge was used for filming, which features a river with waterfalls and rapids
Chattooga River, Georgia: This river was used for canoe scenes and forms the border between Georgia and South Carolina
Lake Jocassee, South Carolina: The rising waters at the end of the movie were filmed in this lake
Mount Carmel Baptist Church cemetery, South Carolina: This site was flooded and is now underwater in Lake Jocassee
Jocassee Dam, South Carolina: This dam was filmed under construction
Salem, South Carolina: Additional scenes were filmed in this town .
know your stuff about my area
Thru the yrs when ppl would talk about living way out in the boonies they would say ‘oh yeah you can hear the banjos driving through there’. They meant this story. If you’re from a place like that you just laugh along with them hoping they will stay away. Proud you were able to get through it at such a young age. Great reaction Dasha!
A movie that only needs to be watched once. You will notice all sorts of references to Deliverance in shows and movies now that you have seen it.
It was as iconic as The Exorcist back in the 70s. People were horrified back then! Possessed by the devil or butt-graped by hillbilly.
No, that is completely wrong! This movie can - and should be - watched several times.
Squeal piggy!
THANK YOU for reacting to this great movie!, this is highly underrated.
There are such people in this world. Real human horror.
Your reaction is normal, and you were brave to make it through ❤
This movie didn't use stuntmen. The actors did it all themselves. This is a movie about America. All of America.
"The actors did it all themselves" - yes, and one of them died from it. They had to sink his dead body in the river with heavy stones.
"Okay, it's going to be a musical." The hopefulness in your voice at the first sound of a banjo made me want to somehow reach out to you through the computer screen and warn you to brace yourself.
This movie had the same effect as Jaws. After Jaws people were afraid to swim. After Deliverance people were afraid to go near that part of America. The Bango song was a huge hit! Sold millions of copies.
I was at a campground in the Florida Keys in 1976 - ( the place was awash with people trying to bag a shark and cut the jaws out.) and the Deliverance tune was on the jukebox. Every time it was played, an old staff member, Jessie, would dance a mountain-country dance to it.
The Appalachian mountains of the East and North East coast are beautifully rugged. Many former Scottish immigrants settled these areas. I hiked portions of the famous trail and kayaked with some coworkers on one of the rivers there.
At one point some local boys on a cliff above us were yelling for a girl in the group to take off her top (edited for content) , but just waved and kept going. This movie was in the back of my mind. We ended up going down some rapids and a waterfall that completely submerged my kayak. I told the guy that invited me that he should have told me so I could bring a helmet. He answered that if he had told me the truth I wouldn’t have come.
It is also dangerous to spill out in these rivers. The rocks crack and erode pointing downstream. You have to keep your butt down and your feet up or they can get trapped and the current pushes you under where you drown.
Jaws made everyone scared of beaches; Deliverance made everyone scared of rivers. 😏
Thanks for hanging in there Dasha! It's a rough movie to watch because it is all too similar to trauma happening to men and women all over the world!
The kid that was playing banjo in the film, was an actual local at the filming location. The song is the famous song Dueling Banjos.
Anyways, classic film. This film came out the same year I was born.
The line "Sequel like a pig' was popularized into the public mind from this film. I wonder how often Diddy used it? Kermit the Frog?
You'll never look at banjo music the same way again 🤣
Listen to Foggy Mountain Breakdown by Flatt and Scruggs and you'll be fine.
Very creepy but great film. I am very proud of you young lady. You are not afraid to watch tough films. You are not afraid to watch older films or classic films. Very few of the reactors are like you
Well she had no clue what it was about so...
I saw this movie in the theaters when I was in college, in 1972. There was never anything LIKE IT before. It shocked me to the core. I'll never forget it (scared the crap out of me, lol).
Had anybody spoiled parts of the movie before you watched it?
@@Tehui1974 No. In those days (it seemed) you didn't know much about a film before you went to watch it. I suppose I saw it because it had Burt Reynolds in it. Possibly I was also aware it involved the wilderness. But that's it. I had no idea what it was "about."
Dasha, I just wanted to say your English vocabulary is so good. I know how hard it is to learn a 2nd language and you use words like water "flow," "tourist," "camera crew," "idealogies," "paddling," and "wildlife" among many others. You impress me in many ways, but your reactions are so real and authentic. I understand your disgust with the subject and images of Deliverance. It's been a tough movie since it was released.
Agree. Other than my native language of English, I speak two other languages, 1 at a low-advanced level and the other at an elementary level. I'm super impressed by Dasha's command over the English vocabulary.
She has lived in an English speaking country for a long time and has been reacting to hundreds of English language movies.
@@kellymoses8566 True. However, there are lots of stories about people who migrate to countries and can barely speak the language after a 20 year period.
The difference is that Dasha engages in the language, and puts in work. She didn't stay in her native language bubble like others do. As somebody's who's learnt a second language to fluency, I know how much work that takes.
I lived in Asheville, NC when in the military. It was a midsized town with old world charm. They still had an old fashioned “Malt shop” which had been around since the 40’s or 50’s. It was a college town and fairly progressive, but take a day trip to any small surrounding town and it was a different world, where it was made clear I didn’t belong there. You meet people good and bad wherever you go, and I met both types. To this day, I still think of the region as one of the most beautiful places I ever lived in.
Wikipedia: In 2008, this movie was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"
AN ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE
It just goes to show how powerful a scene like that is, when it's so distubing, even all these years later.
The sheriff is played by James Dickey, who wrote the novel.
Burt didn't like him and had him kicked off the set, but later Dickey came back and played that role, and Burt and everybody else was happy with the job he did.
@teastrainer3604 Yes, Dickey was a serious alcoholic and could be difficult to be around. I read that the entire idea for the book came to him while he was sitting at an outdoor cafe, looking up at a ridge on top of a hill. He found himself thinking, what if there was a guy up there with a gun?
Fun Fact! The "backwoods" area where this was filmed is now a big gated community. It's just fifteen minutes from the University of Georgia. Very snooty. I did some work there. The residents have erased the location's connection with film history.
I have a friend who lives in Georgia. He is a sports fisherman and fishes this river a lot. He told me it was possible to go for an entire day and see not one single person, unless you need to poop. Then there are people everywhere.
Don't let the movie scare you. Camping is a very safe and wholesome activity. Much, much scarier in the city.
Much scarier in the city -- What you talking about? Plenty of people are camping out in say, Skid Row, Los Angeles.
The reason they were digging the bodies up at the end is because it's common practice to relocate cemeteries when flooding the valleys. I have relatives in Tennessee whose graves had to be moved for that reason about 20 years ago. Loved the review, love you, take care and stay safe.
Well done for making it through, as soon as i saw the thumbnail, i said to myself this will traumatize her. Burt Reynolds (Lewis) was originally a stuntman, for more iconic Burt, check out Smokey And The Bandit, more comedy with a lot of car chasing.
Dasha said somebody is going to deliver something, that's putting it mildly.🤣
I had the same exact thought 😂
Well, they wanted to experience "wildlife" before it was all under a huge new lake. Yes, they were digging up graves in order to move the residents to a different cemetery away from the flood.
Their friend who died played the corporate bad guy in "Robocop." He played a similar character in "Total Recall."
Ronnie Cox. He’s an excellent actor and a musician.
At the end of the film they were relocating the coffins because that area was going to be flooded (turned into a man-made lake).
"12 1/2 inches long."
"That's what she said."
🤣🤣🤣 Good one.🤣🤣🤣
I am three years older than "quite old". 😊
I’m seven!
Huh, just pups....18 years here. @@Mark-t9z
I was also released in 1972.
My late wife and I used to take canoe trips that would last for days. It was great. Of course, it was in Canada, so we were in no danger. You and your friend should have gotten me to show you how to canoe. 😇😇
Remember, Dasha, this is the US. Almost everyone is armed.
They were moving the cemetery since the whole area was going to be underwater.
Many rural Canadians are also armed, just not in provincial parks.
31:40 - Since the entire area is going to be under a reservoir, the local government is likely moving the bodies in the cemetery to a new location so relatives can still visit the dead. This is pretty commonplace when some sort of new development displaces a cemetery.
Thank you at least somebody knows why they do that.
Keep up the great work Dasha!
A little bit of trivia for you: In the scene where Drew is discovered dead with his arm twisted behind his head you may have wondered how they achieved that special effect. The actor who played Drew, Ronny Cox, actually dislocated his arm for real. It's something he was able to do and it was he himself who suggested to the director John Boorman to use it in the film.
You can hunt female deer (called Doe, pronounced the same as "dough" or "go") in most places in Canada as far as I know, there might be specific restrictions in certain areas though usually in the form of obtaining a Doe tag through a draw. The same goes for antlerless bucks. Generally however most hunters prefer to hunt bucks with large racks of antlers.
Two things: The man who "shot himself with his own arrow" is Jon Voight. He is Angelina Jolie's dad. Also, because of the traumatic incident (that was hard to watch), and because the movie had a very unique piece of music (Dueling Banjos, with guitar and banjo), and ends with banjo playing, the music has become associated with the incident. And because it is also iconic and easily recognizable, the music has become something of a code for a situation where someone may inflict the same trauma on you as on Warren Beatty's character. So much so that there was a commercial where men were going camping, and as they were finishing setting up camp, they heard the banjo music, so they all looked at eachother and very quickly packed everything back in the car and left! It was a humorous commercial, but it highlighted how iconic the music was, how entangled it had become with the "trauma" and how it had instilled fear in a whole generation of campers! The commercial was for a 2002 Saturn car.
It was Ned Beatty not Warren Beatty. If this film had Warren Beatty in it, that scene in the woods would have had quite a different ending lol!
@@zenarcher9633 Oooops! Thanks for catching that!
I'm sorry, but this movie will live in your memories for... well it's been 40 years for me...
The dueling banjos scene is (in)famous. People do the da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da rif sound and people get the reference.
Also "He's got a purdy mouth" is referenced too .
SCTV did parody of this movie called "Carl's Cuts" starring Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis as brothers Fred and Carl Scutz who have pig snout-like noses and, as professional butchers and movie editors, are experts in cutting meat and cutting movies. When they travel up river to deliver some movies and head cheese in a segment called "home deliveries," they encounter a boy playing a banjo, and some hillbillies who accost Fred and tell him to squeal like a pig. The part I always remember is Fred shooting an unarmed fleeing hillbilly in the back then calmly turning to the camera and explaining "You see, I had to do that because I couldn't make the same mistake they made in 'Deliverance.'"
🤣🤣🤣 SCTV was better than SNL.
@@reesebn38yes it was
Never looked at Ned Beatty the same again.
Down boy!
He was in the Richard Pryor movie “The Toy” and there’s a scene where his boss tells him to pull his pants down in order to prove a point about people doing anything for money.
I never even thought about it until just now that they were probably making a nod to this movie.
If you want to see a classic film that shows the nature of man, i would recommend
"HELL IN THE PACIFIC".
It portrays humanity very well.
The great Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune giving a powerful two actor performance done largely in pantomime because the two characters don't speak each other's language in an anti-war movie with an alternate ending. I'd love to see Dasha react to this fascinating movie.
This is a very difficult movie. I watched it when I was 15. It's still difficult now at 55.
The Greaseman often had a lot to say about Deliverance, one that it was metaphor for life. One moment you may be paddling along, enjoying the scenery and next moment, you're bent over a log, squealing like a pig.
Deliverance is one of the few movies that I watched only once. There’s not many movies that I watched only once, but this made that very short list.
Requiem for a Dream (2000)?
@@positivelynegative9149 oof.. I watched that one through all the way once. Then I watched someone react to it and regretted it. That's up there in the top disturbing movies of all time.
"This movie is from 1972... So it's quite old"😢 I was 9 my heart just broke into a million pieces... I'd bend down to pick them up ... But I can't my back hurts 😎
Good reaction Dasha. I had a hard time watching this movie the first time. For a first time watching, you did very good. 👍👸❤
In college, we had to read the book "Deliverance", by James Dickey. Interesting choice by the professor. Dickey actually has a cameo in this movie as the sheriff.
I applaud your courage in tackling this one. It is supposed to hit hard, it challenges you to go to some very dark places.
The sheriff was played by the man who wrote the novel, James Dickey, a renowned American poet.
Ronny Cox could play the instrument
He played a good guy in Beverley Hills Cop franchise but was the baddie in Robocop and Total Recall
The odd thing is it's called Dueling Banjoes but there's only one banjo
0:10 I assume someone is going to deliver something 😂
It gets lost in the controversy, but Deliverance is a beautifully made film. It all flows together superbly well, great soundtrack, the pace of the camera setups, shot choices, well cast and acted. Plus the social commentary in the film. But all anyone remembers it for is a banjo tune and one specific scene.
The song there playing is called Dueling Banjos. It was a huge hit . Back in the day 🎉.
I love this movie! I used to get my friends to watch it with me before we went on camping trips. Haha!😂
A good movie you should add to your list is Blue Thunder(1983) starring Roy Scheider. It completely relates to what’s happening in the US today.❤
And Jaws before going to the beach,🤣
@Orange-Jumpsuit-Time Yes! The only movie to make the younger kids watch for the first time before going on summer vacation at the beach.
This is one of the movies that you can probably mention from time to time.
White Lightning is also another great movie of Burt Reynolds.
A car ride along movie ... "Smokey and the Bandit".
Thanks for the movie reaction video ‼️🖖
Dasha, always appreciate your reviews and insights. You hit on the main point here. What was supposed to be an adventure trip to remember turned into a traumatic experience that they wish they could forget.
I love all that you do. ❤😊
Dasha, Deliverance was originally a novel, first published in 1970. The author, James Dickey, said in an interview I heard on the radio that he wanted to write a novel about the greatest fear of modern society, and that fear would be to fall into the hands of lawless people and be helpless. I have not yet read the book, but the movie was, and remains now, shocking.
There’s been lots of ebb and flow about US rural/backwoods culture in pop culture. In the 1960s, it was fun-loving, with TV shows like the Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, Andy Griffith Show, etc., making non-urban areas seem idyllic. Then it turned dark in the early ‘70s as TV shifted toward urban settings, and films like this one, “Walking Tall,” and “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” scared people to death, until around the mid-70s, when it shifted back as the “urban cowboy” and CB trends began, and you had great country songs like “Rhinestone Cowboy” on the radio, fun-loving films like “Nashville” and “Smokey and the Bandit” (also with Burt Reynolds), and TV shows like “Dukes of Hazzard” making it seem like a party out yonder way for the rest of the decade and into the early ‘80s, arguably culminating with the movie “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” in ’82 (yet again, with Burt Reynolds).
Deliverance here means that they were delivered from the terrible things they went through.
"Deliver us from evil..."
This movie came out about the same time as the Exorcist, and they both had an impact on the audience. Same thing with Jaws a couple of years later.
Deliverance starts out as fun, and then turns into something horrible. Even after the canoe trip is over, the horror goes on. Those guys will have to live with the memory of what happened. They'll be second guessing about what they did, or didn't do.
Funny thing about my first time watching this movie in the late 1980's when I was a kid. Watching it at a friend's house, my friend was sitting in front of the TV in the "nintendo chair," when that final hand scene came up, my friend's dad had snuck up behind him and grabbed him. If he wasn't held down, my friend would've ended up going through the roof.
Trivia: The man who played the sheriff was the man who wrote the novel that the movie is based on.
We watch all kinds of graphic horror films these days, many of which are ridiculous and unrealistic.
This film was realistic. It could happen to real people. That is what makes it so horrible. It’s why we avert our eyes and feel horrible afterwards. Real people can and do commit these horrible crimes.
Everyone was traumatized, including Dasha....
An intense movie. I saw it blind the first time, the only way to see it. The confusion, was he shot or did he just jump, was that other guy on the mountaintop the original assailant or somebody else. I don't know if these are clarified in the book, I hope not. The ambiguity adds to the hellishness.
Cold sweat nightmares are in their futures for the rest of their days. Get flashbacks at the sound of rushing water.
And 53 years later, we still make reference to this movie when we're camping.
Dasha: At the end, they were digging up graves to move them because their current cemetery was going to be flooded when they damn the river.
More movies in the late 60's to the early 80's became more raw and realistic. They did not always end on a happy note or there were ambiguous endings just like in real life.
Remember the song dueling banjoes was a popular song being played in my favorite bar back then. Some of the best acting of Burt Reynolds. Ned Beatty was actually thrown overboard and was sucked under by a whirlpool for 30 seconds in the white water rafting scene. No stuntman for that!
Back when Burt Reynolds from mid 60s to early 80s, biggest movie star on the planet! The guitar banjo scene was a real impromptu thing, with that handicapped kid! Tall guy in Beverly hills cop, Robocop and total recall! Ned Beatty a long time character actor, who gave the Oscar winning speech of a lifetime in the movie, Network!! And of course, Jon voight been in tons of movies and is Angelina Jolie dad!! Burt's biggest movie from this era was proly The Longest Yard!
They were digging up the cemetery at the end because it would be covered by the lake that is going to be there. They were moving the graves to higher ground. That's also why we say the trucks moving the church.
As soon as I saw this thumbnail, I knew that Dasha would never be the same again. 😢
Dasha, America had the same shocked reaction as you did about this movie and it quickly became a cultural phenomenon, I think kind of like trying not to look at a car crash but not being able to turn away. Burt Reynold actually did a very funny SNL comedy skit based on the movie. I can't find it on UA-cam, probably because it's way too politically incorrect for things today.
One member suffers a compound femur fracture. One member gets killed. When you think about it, Ned Beatty came out of this whole thing relatively unscathed.
Now watch Southern Comfort. Came out about the same time period.
I agree with everyone! Great reaction Dasha!! 👍🏻
Clowning on small town America, especially Southern,
Dates back Many decades in film and television. CBS had built A huge amount of its Prime time tv lineup in the 1960s For example, based on depicting people in these areas as simple.And the lives being the basis of jokes. But with the release of The film easy rider, it now became open season to depict these people as dangerous to any outsiders who entered. Beside
this film following that trend, I remember quite a few network Television films where the premise was northerners Are passing through the South and crooked Southern Sheriffs or deputies frame them for something so that they can be taken to one of the prison camps in that state. So the writer of this film was just willing to take it to some new extremes. In Mayberry this depiction of this culture was not so damaging I suppose, and Mr Douglas and his wife on Green Acres were not forced to work in a field in chains.But the depiction of small town Amerca turned a very wicked corner later.
Not surprising since Pedowood Bolsh eviks hate working class Whites
Thank you so MUCH for reacting to this neglected movie. It was the 4th highest grossing movie of 1972. More people should do this movie!