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...True Dickey did according to the credits wwite the screenplay; he was even present on location throughout filming and is featured in the bit role of a hick Georgia sheriff; he plays it well. But the differences between book and novel are too essential to have come from mere revision. The prodding of an intelligence far-removed from Dickey's experience must have triggered the transformation...
...Dickey is lucky that Boorman was the triggerman. Though he does not yet have the kind of reputation that immediately arouses expectations, the British-born filmmaker has shown a willingness to take on hackneyed material and push its freshest-elements to their most complex conclusions throughout his unheralded career. From Having a Wild Weekend to Point Blank to Hell in the Pacific to Leo the Last he has made poignant romance from rock group fantasy, existential comedy gangster shoot-em-up, psychological examination from World War II melodrama, revolutionary parable from absurdist fantasy. His record is not consistently successful...
...James Dickey wrote his book from the viewpoint of Ed Gentry, a middleaged commercial artist cognizant of his own limitations, living a comfortable life in suburbia with a wife and some but occasionally moved to greater passion than the bounds of his society normally permit His friend Lewis Medlock, is a wealthy landlord (by inheritance and physical-conditioning freak who compensates for the colorlessness of his contemporary existence by making frequent sojourns into nature. Gentry sometimes accompanies him. And the plot of Deliverance centers on one such trip...
...journey's end, however. Dickey's narrator feels enriched by the experience. (And, even if Ed has had to subscribe out of necessity to Lewis's eithics on the trip's last legs, such a complete change is amazing.) He has taken on risks at a brute level which he hasn't dared in his work and home. The image of the river, we are told, becomes a core to his actual rootlessness, and is echoed in new collages which Ed attempts at his office and a new acceptance of his family. Even Medlock, never before so close to death...
...airplanes, because nobody can leave"). After that, Reynolds was invited to air his gift of glib on a flock of other talk shows and comedy hours. After seeing him on the tube, Director John Boorman asked him to read for a leading part in the movie version of James Dickey's Deliverance. Boorman found his "power and vulnerability" perfect...