Terry Yager wrote:
I was just discussing something similar with She yesterday. I wondered how come there's never been a remake, or even a sequel to the (1972?) movie Deliverance? As much money as that thing made, I can't believe no one has followed-up on it's success.
Well now, perhaps First Blood is some kind of a sequel - the layout is pretty much the same! :-D
Just for sh!ts & giggles, I suggested that the sequel should be about a group of hillbillies going to the city and hunting down Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, & (whatsisname, the 'porky' one), to avenge the killin' of thier kinfolk.
Well if First Blood was some kinda of unofficial sequel it's about some drifter coming in and some unhappy coppers simply wanting to nail someone for a couple of Murders in the River country!
Ned Beatty looks a bit like Brian Dennehy. Personally I'm not sure how Deliverance would pull out as a sequel - it's quite bizarre how I came across this film too - obviously I know Bert Reynolds and Jon Voight as well as Ned Beatty (he was so good in those Superman movies) and Ronny Cox too. The first movie book I got (around 2000) just happen to include this film in the top 100 must-see films of all-time, based on that principal and because it was on DVD - I simply had to see what the fuss was all about.
For some reason this film is Rated <R> here (as well as the US - so you need to be over 18 or something in the public to see it unsupervised), though apart from the harpoon guns and funny characters - I thought it was fairly tame (bit like the Wicker Man - which had more nudity, which needs to warrant a higher classification - they thought it was highly violent burning Edward Woodward to the Sun Gods!), anyway my point being Deliverance is no more violent than Thunderball (made prior to classification - classified [PG] for the DVD) - perhaps I should watch Deliverance again cause I've seen lesser classified stuff which makes me highly uncomfortable.
Anyway now I've been through all of that - I've forgotten what else I was gonna say - oh yeah, Deliverance is so different from any other film I've ever seen, I reckon given that perspective any sequel to Deliverance would be overshadowed by Deliverance - there are perhaps been numerous films with the sort of characters you would find in Deliverance - even The Simpson's had a go at Deliverance and characters like Cletis(?) - the slacked jawed yokel.
I was just wondering what others thought about remakes - I guess to a point they work cause there are some fairly well known movies which date back to the Silent period - the introduction of sound was a big thing of course and of course nowadays it's all about computers - well perhaps it's been about the computers for quite some time when I watch some of those early Star Trek films & see what they did - their very technical pieces of film for the period they were done. I'm perhaps a bit purist though that if some great exists why remake it, they do a lot of this nowadays - they also seem to be running out of movie titles as well - e.g. some movie released last year (Bruce Willis was in it) called "The Wrong Man" - at first because I only saw it advertised in the Newspaper, I wondered if it was anything along the lines Alfred Hitchcock's "The Wrong Man" which is based on a true story with Henry Fonda being accused for a crime he didn't commit - a simple case of mistaken identity. Sure enough weeks later when I read about "The Wrong Man (2006)" it had nothing to do with being wrongfully accused.
I was trying to think of some films which characters need to return to - one of them which would be interesting is Michael Caine and the Harry Palmer character. They did these movies in the 60s (3 in all) based on 3 different books. The best of them was the first movie "The Ipcress File", however "Funeral in Berlin" and "Billion Dollar Brain" were good too. I would just love to see a slightly insubordinate character return to the screen back out of retirement complete with Black Glasses - they would have to bring back Guy Doleman too, though I've got a sad feeling he's passed over - I'm unsure they could replace Guy with anybody else. Interesting enough they did some cable TV followups in 1997 - "Bullet to Beijing" and "Midnight in St. Petersburg" that's all I know about them - nothing more about them include who's in them.
