Word: superjocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Deliverance. James Dickey's powerful novel has been faithfully translated to the screen by director John Boorman in this very disturbing film. Four good ole boys canoe down a remote country river and find survival in the wilderness to be more than they can handle. As the self-confident superjock who leads the expedition, Burt Reynolds actually gets to act--something he hasn't done since. Jon Voight and Ned Beatty are also excellent. (The latter's "squeal like a pig" scene is a memorably gruesome portrayal of humiliation.) The film has a great deal of violence, and a long...
Deliverance. James Dickey's powerful novel has been faithfully translated to the screen by director John Boorman in this very disturbing film. Four good ole boys canoe down a remote country river and find survival in the wilderness to be more than they can handle. As the self-confident superjock who leads the expedition, Burt Reynolds actually gets to act--something he hasn't done since, even in the much-touted but disappointing "Semi-Tough. Jon Voigt and Ned Beatty are also excellent. (The latter's "squeal like a pig" scene is a memorably gruesome portrayal of humiliation.) The film...
...native talents, which include a good but by no means brilliant mind and a knack for getting along with people, even those who oppose him. He is a team player par excellence; characteristically, he played the selfless position of center in football and did so well that his superjock record at the University of Michigan is now an important part of his persona, a probable political plus...
Usually such rewards go to the soft-handed-like stock market jobbers, suave promoters of semi-useless gadgets-or to some superjock adept at little boys' games. So when a worker can achieve semimillion-aire status by his skill and sweat, I say cheers...
...friend of mine was a superjock at Yale, but in his senior year he quit the varsity ice-hockey team. He organized a hockey team where you had to have a beard to play. He challenged Rhode Island School of Design to a game, and the teams skated to the middle of the hockey rink carrying their jerseys. They made a big pile up there, then chose up sides. That was beautiful. These were friendly, cheerful people and they were doing amusing things. Their goal was to delight themselves, not to defeat each other...