Who won the movie
Burt Reynolds
Roger Ebert
“That Guy” Award
Ronny Cox
The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award · 56:46
Bill Simmons: Deliverance is called secretly influential across wilderness and wrong-turn horror; Breakdown is cited and distinguished from the Sean Penn film mentioned alongside it.
The premise of a hostile local jury is questioned by asking whether the relatives would attend jury duty.
The Coach Finstock Award for Best Life Lesson · 1:28:32
Bill Simmons: Never get out of the boat, avoid canoe trips, and know the water are the lessons.
Selected cast credits · Film reference
In the order the hosts got to it. Open a row for the discussion.
The actors reportedly performed dangerous canoe stunts without insurance; Reynolds broke his tailbone. The book-to-film turnaround was two years.
1972 box office top ten
The canoe crash, cliff climb, and “Dueling Banjos”
Dueling Banjos
The banjo child was reportedly cast for his appearance; a hidden player supplied the hands, and later interviews show the child never learned banjo.
Reynolds’s sleeveless wetsuit, the shifting hierarchy after his injury, character archetypes and canoeing’s ominous appeal hold up.
The convincing dead attacker and cucumber lady are initial candidates.
The convincing dead attacker is explicitly floated for Just One Oscar; the response says the possibility was considered. This is a tentative suggestion, not a final award choice.
The final lodge meal
The river, including its opening view
Ed on the cliff and impaled by his own arrow
No
Confusion about car shuttling is resolved, leaving criticism of arriving without a transport plan and trusting insulted strangers.
Drew’s poorly motivated fall (gunshot, nervous collapse, or both disputed)
Throwing away the captured firearms is criticized when more attackers may be nearby.
The campfire interval between the first and second canoe days is suggested.
No — Deliverance
“Sometimes you have to lose yourself before you find anything.”; “What the hell do you want to fuck around that river for?” / “Because it’s there.”
Deliverance is called secretly influential across wilderness and wrong-turn horror; Breakdown is cited and distinguished from U-Turn.
Dickey reportedly wanted a director observed as “Sam Peck and Potter” (candidate Sam Peckinpah, externally unverified) and Hackman as Ed; Boorman wanted Marvin and Brando, then Nicholson tied participation to Brando. Sutherland and Heston were next possibilities.
Sutherland is endorsed as a great Ed and as a possible Drew, distinct from the historical casting-offer account.
Cox and Reynolds shouting about the law are nominated.
The banjo child (Redden)
John Cazale as Drew; Dennis Hopper as a mountain man
The film was shot in northeast Georgia; the fictional river draws on one dammed in the 1970s.
No affirmative selection
Deliverance, with Canoe Trip also offered.
The long debate over the body is criticized as wasting escape time, though the jury concern is defended; keeping the weapons is urged.
Climbing the cliff is debated against continuing downstream; a suspected shooter and Lewis’s injury justify it for some, but another participant wants a different plan.
An all-Black remake
Wayne Jenkins fits as sheriff, Lewis or a Griner brother; impressions imagine arrest, driving the car and coping with the broken leg.
Burt Reynolds or Boorman
Was Drew shot? Disputed and ultimately immaterial
The survivors could awkwardly meet again at adjacent Falcons seats; a ticket-payment advice email is imagined.
Reynolds’s vest.
Never get out of the boat, avoid canoe trips, and know the water
The producer nearly watched with his girlfriend and future mother-in-law and reveals a forthcoming canoe bachelor trip.
Gerard Butler, Liam Neeson, and Paul Dano in a remake
Recorded movie reference
The Rewatchables · aired January 31, 2023
1972 box office top ten: 1 The Godfather; 2 The Poseidon Adventure; 3 What's Up, Doc?; 4 Deliverance; 5 Deep Throat; 6 Jeremiah Johnson; 7 Cabaret; 8 The Getaway; 9 Last Tango in Paris; 10 Lady Sings the Blues
