IIRC, the bald headed banjo kid is still around and owns a country store in North Ga.
Today, he has a pet squirrel.
He was on some episodes of Moonshiners not too long ago. Add a keen sense of taste and perceptive insights into the distilling process to his list of talents:)
Terrible movie.
“Squeal like a pig” is the one that gives me nightmares.
Machines are gonna fail...
Squeal like a pig was the big one
We used that line in hazing of all incoming varsity players in high school. Luckily I made varsity the year before and only had to endure toilet dunking
What a great story. Thanks.
It was a liberal yankee movie. Liberals tend to think with their genitals and worship homosexuality. Southerners don’t.
I think the movie was great, and important for America. It showed what homosexuality is. Not the loving, in touch with emotions, family oriented monogamous relationship between two men. It is a violent predatory perversion of the family structure where mental illness is king. I think the movie helped keep the sodomites in the closet a few more years. Thus giving our kids a few more years to be kids without being groomed…
I went to my Aunt’s funeral way up in the moutains northwest of Asheville a couple weeks ago.
That mountain culture shown in deliverance— died with the pill back in the 1960’s. Before then the mountain men would have 20-30 kids by several wives. They’d wear out one wife and get another. Their front yards showed every car they’d ever driven for the previous 50 years. The schools were filled with children.
With the pill —all that went away.
Now things are different. Given a choice the mountain women won’t have but a couple kids or less. So a lot of schools have shut down in the mountains. The mountain hollows are not rural ghettos. They’re not rich but they all show a sense of self respect.
An interesting comment made by thomas sowall is that that pre 1960’s white hillbilly rural ghetto culture is what blacks emulated when they come north in the first six decades of the 20th century. The hill billy whites exported all their surplus population to the cities of the north where they had a terrible reputation. That is, their reputation was about the same as that of urban blacks today because the blacks coming north immitated the ghetto ways of the mountain ghetto whites.
Now that culture has disappeared from the mountains—again in part because of the pill—but also because technology has broken the isolation of the region. and of course, new money has come into the area from all over. Now, there is a net inflow of people.
I hate this movie. It is terrible. I simply don’t understand how anyone likes it.
yes it was disturbing....
although thousands of woman have been raped on tv shows and movies and nobody seems to object....
but have one guy get it and all of a sudden its "disturbing"....
Deliverance was written by a city guy to scare city people of rural people/areas.