Deliverance: A Screenplay
by James Dickey
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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 show more 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 thatrarer stillavoids 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. " show lessTags
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James Lafayette Dickey, an American poet and novelist, was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1923. He is perhaps best known for Deliverance, his novel about four suburban men struggling to survive a canoe trip gone awry, which was made into a popular movie of the same title, starring Burt Reynolds. Dickey also published several volumes of poetry that show more are marked by his portrayal of a world in conflict. His collected poems (1942-1992) were published under the title The Whole Motion in 1992. After serving as a pilot during World War II, Dickey earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Vanderbilt University. He taught at several universities and worked as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress from 1966 to 1968. He died in 1996. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Black screen. I would like this to be sustained for a while, perhaps even a bit longer than it is in most cases, so that the audience becomes very quiet, wondering if something might not possibly be wrong.
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- Fiction and Literature, Suspense & Thriller
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- 812.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American drama in English 20th Century 1945-1999
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- PN1997 .D423 .D53 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Motion pictures Plays, scenarios, etc.
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