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Classic
intelligent adventure film when 4 townies take a canoe trip down a
river soon to be dammed. At the beginning when the group
first meet Appalachian(?) backwoods people there is the
duelling banjos scene in which one of the group plays with a young
boy with learning difficulties. In fact he never speaks and
it is unclear what his condition is. Almost all the woods people
are portrayed as being "retarded". The intent appears to
be partly to show the group in an alien environment,
partly to build up the horror aspect, and partly because, I
guess, nobody was bothered to represent them otherwise.
Apparently the boy
couldn't play the banjo and we are seeing someone else's hands doing
the plucking. |
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From the
novel by James Dickey (who wrote the script and |
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