War Like Life - Is Not A Movie (Mark Steyn Reconsiders "Deliverance" In 2007 Alert)

Orange County Register ^ | 10/27/2007 | Mark Steyn

[weegee]

The book and the film were written by the same author.

I must’ve missed something here, did the author recently go on record to try to draw comparisons between the book/film and the Iraq (or even Vietnam) war?

Or did his son recently do this?

It is a rape and revenge story as were common at the drive-in in those days. The rape occurs and the perps are hunted down one by one and killed. In some instances the blowback even takes out those standing in the way of that task (for example 1970s Thriller/aka They Call Her One Eye).

The Burt Reynolds character isn’t battling nature, it is man against man. He is singular in his objective.

[weegee]

I had to read some snooty Canadian authors circa the same time of Deliverance for the same class (although I took the course in the 1980s). The entire US is portrayed as the Southerners were in Deliverance.

[weegee]

Ted Rall recently had a comic strip where he admitted that a significant number of the soldiers dead in “Iraq” (which extends to deaths in Kuwait, Germany, and elsewhere) are from accidents (traffic, industrial, or helicopter).

But it is “Bush’s fault” and our military servicemen are “dumb”.

[weegee]

So the Little Dick was trying to get some press and maybe some more sales of his dad’s book/fim?

[SWO]

I had to read some snooty Canadian authors circa the same time of Deliverance for the same class (although I took the course in the 1980s). The entire US is portrayed as the Southerners were in Deliverance.
Except for New York, DC and Los Angeles, that pretty much covers almost all of "old Europe's" conception of us too

[sinanju]

Dickey Jr.’s “Deliverance” metaphor in Newsweek goes beyond reaching. “Deliverance” wasn’t remotely a war movie.

[johnny7]

If Cheney is Burt Reynolds, and the rest of America is Jon Voight...

Europe is Ned Beatty?