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Post by hi224 on Dec 17, 2018 21:11:11 GMT
Thoughts on cast here.
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Post by petrolino on Dec 17, 2018 21:16:12 GMT
Definitely. Kudos to John Boorman for getting those four leads together, all of whom deliver deeply affecting characterisations of men in absolute peril. And the peripheral characters are just perfect - the "duelling banjos" kid, the backwoods rapists, author Jim Dickey in a cameo.
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Post by mattgarth on Dec 17, 2018 21:23:16 GMT
sure were!
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Dec 17, 2018 21:40:20 GMT
Yes the casting was perfect.
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Post by telegonus on Dec 18, 2018 9:37:42 GMT
Yes it was. Flawless, I'd say. It wasn't always a matter of talent. In some of the smaller parts it's the choice of faces, many, maybe even most, extras; just local folks along for the ride. A great movie, and a masterpiece that has yet to received the recognition it deserves.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Dec 18, 2018 11:10:23 GMT
10/10 across the board, so yes as regards the cast, one of the best films of the decade.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Dec 18, 2018 17:23:25 GMT
Possibly one of the most perfectly casted movies of all time.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Dec 19, 2018 13:52:02 GMT
It was. Ronny Cox with his super-flexible arm contributed to the scene where they find his mangled body. All the cast seemed ideal, wouldn't replace any.
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Post by alexhurricanehiggins on Dec 20, 2018 2:03:01 GMT
Yes it was. Flawless, I'd say. It wasn't always a matter of talent. In some of the smaller parts it's the choice of faces, many, maybe even most, extras; just local folks along for the ride. A great movie, and a masterpiece that has yet to received the recognition it deserves. What do you mean recognition it deserves from what I understand everybody considers it a classic or good movie at the very least? |
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Post by telegonus on Dec 20, 2018 20:45:16 GMT
I agree that Deliverance is highly regarded, but somehow it seems somewhat out of the spirit of its time, the Seventies. It does capture the mood of the earlier years of the decade, but somehow, when people talk of the Seventies it sort of becomes synonymous with Disco, Saturday Night Live, Star Wars and the middle to later years. The earlier years, the Nixon era, was something else; and I remember it as near to a hungover Sixties period, with Nixon replacing LBJ as the Bad Guy, especially for Boomers. Or maybe I'm over-analyzing.  |
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