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There are people living in northern Georgia who still feel scarred by the 1972 film Deliverance and its depiction of locals as inbred, rapist backwoodsmen. But it took a documentary, 2012’s The Deliverance of Rabun County, to bring those feelings to the surface a full four decades after John Boorman borrowed the sublime American scenery of the Chattooga river for his harrowing thriller, starring Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight and Ned Beatty.
No one in the far-flung region of the Appalachian mountains cared to complain publicly, and it’s unlikely their voices would have been heard if they had, so disconnected was Rabun County from the media hubbub in the 1970s. But in an era where a single tweet can push a grievance into a maelstrom of publicity,...
There are people living in northern Georgia who still feel scarred by the 1972 film Deliverance and its depiction of locals as inbred, rapist backwoodsmen. But it took a documentary, 2012’s The Deliverance of Rabun County, to bring those feelings to the surface a full four decades after John Boorman borrowed the sublime American scenery of the Chattooga river for his harrowing thriller, starring Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight and Ned Beatty.
No one in the far-flung region of the Appalachian mountains cared to complain publicly, and it’s unlikely their voices would have been heard if they had, so disconnected was Rabun County from the media hubbub in the 1970s. But in an era where a single tweet can push a grievance into a maelstrom of publicity,...
- 6/8/2015
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
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