Alas, there’s no behind-the-scenes documentary on Deliverance akin to those on Apocalypse Now or Fitzcarraldo, but director’s commentary is nonetheless exhilarating enough. “Jon Voight keeps saying that I saved his life with this movie and then spent three months trying too kill him” — John Boorman.
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Deliverance 1972
— It is a matter of the law!
— The law? What law? Where’s the law, Drew? Huh?One of those rare, precious movies that provide you with so powerful an experience that you end up in a state of severe derealization—conjointly with the characters. The technical complexity of such an endeavor leaves one to wonder how the crew even survived until the last day of shooting. Deliverance belongs to the same category of vast philosophical canvases portraying the relation of…
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