I found an article published in garden and gun magazine that offered an interesting perspective on the movie as it included interviews of people with of perspective even some that knew the author James Dickey. some accounts were positive and some were very negative. I seemed that those that didn’t actually live in Appalachia liked the movie and thought the book was an expert literary work. Those who lived in Appalachia however were really pissed off . One such person stated “You can go up to the mountains with my people and we may kill you, but we’re not going to f*** you.” (gun and garden). The Appalachians are mad because Dickey is an outsider and he basically calls them stupid brutish and even predatory, which they know isn’t true. He brought really negative stereotypes about Appalachians into the theaters and homes of millions of Americans who would have no reason to think negatively of Appalachians otherwise. It seems that the most memorable and most horrifying scene for Appalachians in deliverance was the rape scene as it portrayed them as rapists which is absolutely false. while this scene is probably the most memorable scene but those who do not live in the mountains seem to remember the cliff scene and the banjo scene the best.