History Film / Deliverance

* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: The Mountain Man and the Toothless Man]] are nasty and dangerous people, but they cannot compare to the savagery of the wilderness itself.

A 1970 novel by James Dickey, adapted into a 1972 film directed by Creator/JohnBoorman and starring Creator/JonVoight, Creator/BurtReynolds, Creator/NedBeatty, and Creator/RonnyCox. It's #15 on AFIS100Years100Thrills list.

A 1970 novel by James Dickey, adapted into a 1972 film directed by Creator/JohnBoorman and starring Creator/JonVoight, Creator/BurtReynolds, Ned Beatty, and Creator/RonnyCox. It's #15 on AFIS100Years100Thrills list.

When the two boats they take are separated, Bobby and Ed encounter two local men who force them into the woods with a shotgun. In the film's most infamous scene, Bobby is forced to undress and "squeal like a pig" and then forcibly sodomized by one of the men. As the duo prepares to do the same thing to Ed, Lewis shows up and kills the rapist with a recurve bow. After a brief but heated discussion about what to do about the rapist's body, the four elect to bury him and carry on like nothing happened. Unfortunately, the dead man's accomplice got away, and is now hunting them down like animals, throwing all of them into a struggle to survive.

When the two boats they take are separated, Bobby and Ed encounter two local men who force them into the woods with a shotgun. In the film's most infamous scene, Bobby is forced to "squeal like a pig" and then forcibly sodomized by one of the men. As the duo prepares to do the same thing to Ed, Lewis shows up and kills the rapist with a recurve bow. After a brief but heated discussion about what to do about the rapist's body, the four elect to bury him and carry on like nothing happened. Unfortunately, the dead man's accomplice got away, and is now hunting them down like animals, throwing all of them into a struggle to survive.

When the two boats they take are separated, Bobby and Ed encounter two local men who force them into the woods with a shotgun. Bobby is raped in an infamous scene where he is forced to "squeal like a pig". As the two men prepare to do the same thing to Ed, Lewis finds them and kills the rapist with a recurve bow. After a brief but heated discussion about what to do about the rapist's body, the four elect to bury him and carry on like nothing happened. Unfortunately, the dead man's accomplice got away, and is now hunting them down like animals, throwing all of them into a struggle to survive.

* CorruptHick: The film would seem to be both played straight and subverted. On the one hand, the rapists themselves play this deadly straight. On the other, [[spoiler: we never see the rapists again]] and while the rest of the hillbilly town is set up to be creepy and/or evil, they never really do anything, good or bad. There's one police officer who mentions that his brother-in-law went missing recently and is suspicious of the protagonists, but the sheriff rightly says they don't have sufficient evidence to arrest them and instead advises that they leave the town and never return. Especially subverted in the case of the mentally challenged banjo player (probably the most famous character in the film), whose playing provides a creepy soundtrack but who is otherwise benign.

* CorruptHick: The film would seem to be both played straight and subverted. On the one hand, the rapists themselves play this deadly straight. On the other, [[spoiler: we never see the rapists again]] and while the rest of the hillbilly town is set up to be creepy and/or evil, they never really do anything, good or bad. There's one police officer who mentions that his brother-in-law went missing recently and is suspicious of the protagonists, but the sheriff rightly says they don't have sufficient evidence to arrest them and instead advises that they leave the town and never return. Especially subverted in the case of the [[IdiotSavant mentally challenged banjo player]] (probably the most famous character in the film), whose playing provides a creepy soundtrack but who is otherwise benign.

* CorruptHick: The film would seem to be both played straight and subverted. On the one hand, the rapists themselves play this deadly straight. On the other, [[spoiler: we never see the rapists again]] and while the rest of the hillbilly town is set up to be creepy and/or evil, they never really do anything, good or bad. There's one police officer who mentions that his brother-in-law went missing recently and is suspicious of the protagonists, but the sheriff rightly says they don't have sufficient evidence to arrest them and instead advises that they leave the town and never return. Especially subverted in the case of the mentally challenged banjo player (probably the most famous character in the film), whose banjo playing provides a creepy soundtrack but who is otherwise benign.

* HoYay: In Dickey's novel, it's made clear that narrator Ed is subconsciously attracted to Lewis.

The film involves four middle-class suburbanites from UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}} who decide to spend a weekend canoeing in the wild countryside of Georgia, hoping to have fun and witness the area's unspoiled nature before the Cahulawassee River valley is flooded by construction of a dam. Two of the guys in question, Lewis Medlock (Reynolds) and Ed Gentry (Voight), are experienced in the ways of the outdoors, while the other two, Bobby Trippe (Beatty) and Drew Ballinger (Cox) are completely new to this.

The film involves four middle-class suburbanites from UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}} who decide to spend a weekend canoeing in the wild countryside of Georgia, hoping to have fun and witness the area's unspoiled nature before the Cahulawassee River valley is flooded by construction of a dam. Two of the guys in question, Lewis Medlock (Reynolds) and Ed Gentry (Voight), are experienced in the ways of the outdoors, but the other two, Bobby Trippe (Beatty) and Drew Ballinger (Cox) are completely new to this.

The film involves four middle-class suburbanites from UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}} who decide to spend a weekend canoeing in the wild countryside of Georgia, hoping to have fun and witness the area's unspoiled nature before the Cahulawassee River valley is flooded by construction of a dam. Two of the guys in question, Lewis Medlock (Reynolds) and Ed Gentry (Voight) are experienced in the ways of the outdoors, but the other two, Bobby Trippe (Beatty) and Drew Ballinger (Cox) are completely new to this.

The film involves four middle-class suburbanites from UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}} who decide to go canoeing in the wild countryside of Georgia, hoping to have fun and witness the area's unspoiled nature before the Cahulawassee River valley is flooded by construction of a dam. Two of the guys in question, Lewis Medlock (Reynolds) and Ed Gentry (Voight) are experienced in the ways of the outdoors, but the other two, Bobby Trippe (Beatty) and Drew Ballinger (Cox) are completely new to this.

A 1970 novel by James Dickey, adapted into a 1972 film directed by Creator/JohnBoorman and starring Creator/JonVoight, Creator/BurtReynolds, Ned Beatty, and Creator/RonnyCox. #15 on AFIS100Years100Thrills list.

The film involves four middle-class suburbanites from UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}} who decide to go canoeing in the wild countryside of Georgia, hoping to have fun and witness the area's unspoiled nature before the Cahulawassee River valley is flooded by construction of a dam. Two of the guys in question, Lewis Medlock (Reynolds) and Ed Gentry (Voight) are experienced in the ways of the outdoors, but the other two, Bobby Trippe (Beatty) and Drew Ballinger (Cox) are completely new to this. When the two boats they take are separated, Bobby and Ed encounter two local men who force them into the woods with a shotgun. Bobby is raped in an infamous scene where he is forced to "squeal like a pig". As the two men prepare to do the same thing to Ed, Lewis finds them and kills the rapist with a recurve bow. After a brief but heated discussion about what to do about the rapist's body, the four elect to bury him and carry on like nothing happened. Unfortunately, the dead man's accomplice got away, and is now hunting them down like animals, throwing all of them into a struggle to survive.

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The film involves four guys from UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}} who decide to go canoeing in the wild countryside of Georgia, hoping to have fun and witness the area's unspoiled nature before the Cahulawassee River valley is flooded by construction of a dam. Two of the guys in question, Lewis Medlock (Reynolds) and Ed Gentry (Voight) are experienced in the ways of the outdoors, but the other two, Bobby Trippe (Beatty) and Drew Ballinger (Cox) are completely new to this. When the two boats they take are separated, Bobby and Ed encounter two local men who force them into the woods with a shotgun. Bobby is raped in an infamous scene where he is forced to "squeal like a pig". As the two men prepare to do the same thing to Ed, Lewis finds them and kills the rapist with a recurve bow. After a brief but heated discussion about what to do about the rapist's body, the four elect to bury him and carry on like nothing happened. Unfortunately, the dead man's accomplice got away, and is now hunting them down like animals, throwing all of them into a struggle to survive.

* CrazySurvivalist: Lewis plays around with this. He adores doing the whole MountainMan thing, scorns people who he thinks rely on or are products of civilization, and believes that at some point society will break down and we'll all have to rely on our wilderness survival skills -- Ed suggests that Lewis actually can't wait for that to happen. At the same time, it's implied that Lewis isn't actually as good a survivalist as he thinks he is, and he takes everyone canoeing down that river without finding out if it was safe first, and even after a local warned him it was extremely dangerous. [[spoiler:This comes back to bite him in the ass big time when the canoes hit some major rapids, tossing them all out and breaking his leg.]]

* TheSavageSouth: The film did ''not'' do any favors for mountain people in Georgia, or in general, the south, despite their being good (or at least harmless) characters and relatively few antagonists. Ironically, the author actually had a good experience with the mountain men; see below.

->->''"Kin ye squeal like a piggy?"''

->''"Kin ye squeal like a piggy?"''

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* DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale: The very word "deliverance" has become a punchline because of this trope.

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[[caption-width-right:350: [[WesternAnimation/TitanMaximum "The worst sound your anus ever heard!"]]]]