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"The writing of the screenplay became an intense and extremely stimulating sort of game in which, with a camera in the hands of God rather than any mortal cinemaphotographer, I wrote the scenes one after the other as I would like to have them be.”—from the Afterword
This is the original screenplay that Dickey submitted to Warner Brothers. He had begun it with the idea of creating a work that would stand on its own as a work of art and still enhance and deepen the audience’s apprehension of their individual experience of Deliverance and its special meaning to them. When he sent this screenplay to Warner Brothers it was with a sense of having accomplished that goal—"I was convinced I had put down on paper what I wanted to happen on the screen, no matter who the director was, or the actors, or any of the rest of the crew.”
But while acknowledging the creativity, bravery, and dedication of John Boorman and the actors and the crew who made the film version of Deliverance, Dickey also states that their realization is not the film as he would have had it. That film exists only in his imagination and within this screenplay. The story as filmed is presented in twenty-two production stills that speak of the undeniable strengths of the production that received nominations from the Motion Picture Academy for its awards of best picture, best direction, and best editing. Arthur Knight described the film as "one of those rare films that resonates like a literary work but that—rarer still—avoids either being or sounding literary.” Dickey concludes his Afterword with an invitation to the reader to "show [the screenplay] in the widescreen theater of his mind and compare it with the version he has seen in actual theaters, or on television.”
Anonymous
Posted August 7, 2000
This book follows the movie completley, but you will not get the whole idea if you do not read this book. The well respected southern poet, J.Dickey, wrote an uncomparable imagary filled novel of a graphic consultant being thrusted into a world he is unprepared for. Their first day of their weekend trip is great, the next day, they are brutally attacked (Ed, the main character, and one of his three friends) by cruel mountain men and must become judge, jury, and excecutioner to one of them. Their last day, Ed must gain control of his emotions and murder the remaining revengeful/crazed backwoodsman...or they will be slayed one-bye one. This book makes us city seasoned, office working, unprepared to leave the man world hot shots really think hard.
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"The writing of the screenplay became an intense and extremely stimulating sort of game in which, with a camera in the hands of God rather than any mortal cinemaphotographer, I wrote the scenes one after the other as I would like to have them be.”—from the Afterword
This is the original screenplay that Dickey submitted to Warner Brothers. He had begun it with the idea of creating a work that would stand on its own as a work of art and still enhance and deepen the ...