On Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 3:57:33 PM UTC-7, gggg gggg wrote:
On Saturday, September 8, 2018 at 4:40:03 PM UTC-7, Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
Deliverance
By Mark Steyn
Mark at the Movies
Steyn Online, steynonline.com
Saturday, September 8, 2018
Burt Reynolds gases up for a quiet weekend in the country
In a line much quoted since his death on Thursday, Burt
Reynolds observed, "I may not be the best actor in the
world, but I'm the best Burt Reynolds in the world." And he
was. It made him a huge box-office star in the Seventies,
and thus the best Burt Reynolds in the world cruised
amiably through Smokey and the Bandit, Cannonball Run and
variants thereof for a hugely lucrative decade. He took his
bankability and invested it in things he liked - a football
team, a petting zoo, and a lovely little theatre in
Jupiter, Florida. Squire to an impressive variety of
desirable women (Judy Carne, Dinah Shore, Sally Field, Loni
Anderson), Burt Reynolds was indisputably the best Burt
Reynolds he could be, until various health issues took
their toll in recent years. Nevertheless, before he became
Burt Reynolds in full but after a long apprenticeship in
"Gunsmoke", "Flipper" and far worse, he turned in a pretty
terrific acting performance in the 1972 film that made him
a bona fide star.
In 1970 the poet James Dickey wrote a first novel about a
canoeing trip in the wilds of Georgia that goes awry. The
British director John Boorman read it, liked it, and made a
film of it two years later, roping in Dickey for the
screenplay and a cameo as the sheriff of a condemned rural
county about to be buried underwater by a new dam. John
Boorman has made several splendid films in the years since;
James Dickey went back to poetry and didn't write a second
and third novel until half a decade before his death; but
neither man ever again planted something in the popular
consciousness the way they did with this picture, and its
instantly recognizable one-word title. . . .
Continues at:
https://www.steynonline.com/8803/deliverance
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
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(2022 article):
https://www.inentertainment.co.uk/the-dark-heart-of-deliverance-the-story-behind-the-film-released-50-years-ago-this-month/
According to that article:
- Similar to Lord Of The Flies it shows the horrendous things that humans can do when their survival is threatened.
But the characters in LORD... were not threatened by survival so that sentence should read:
- Similar to Lord Of The Flies it shows the horrendous things that humans can do EVEN when their survival is NOT threatened.
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