The famous dueling banjos scene from the 1972 thriller Deliverance

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Fun fact:

I grew up in one of the towns they filmed Deliverance in.

That kid playing the banjo used to do tours in the area.

It’s a beautiful place,

But there are some real strange people crawling around that mountain.

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I dont enjoy this film.
Or straw dogs anyone seen that one?

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I like both films.

Deliverance is superior by far,

But the original Straw Dogs was good stuff.

I think I appreciate it more having lived where I did.

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Just a question from a British person - was Deliverance filmed in South Virginia? Or Virginia on a whole? I heard that is the poorest part of the states?

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You are thinking of West Virginia and no it was not filmed there.

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Its pretty poor but also rural. Some city ghettoes are worse probably.

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I watched a movie about teflon company poisoning the water and land in Virginia. Scary!!!

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Thanks for movie clip @san_pedro

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I just watched the scene again and noticed something hilarious.

2 actors are smoking RIGHT NEXT to the gas pumps.

Wow.

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Come on! Squeal now! Weeee!

:joy:

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Someone was going to say it,

Just didn’t know who.

Haha!

Seriously though, disturbing scene.

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You promised not to tell others about that.

:sob:

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Yep!

A friend of mine said that scene ruined Ned Beatty’s career. Idk. Maybe and maybe not.

-S

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The author of the book DELIVERANCE came to my house right before my first psychotic episode. His name is James Dickey and he was a friend of my mom’s.

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