I found an article called “The Body: Revisiting Deliverance” from the website Critics at Large. The writer gives a vague overview of the movie and discusses the physicality of it, mostly commenting on each individuals awareness of their own body, whether that is confidence or not. The writer compares Lewis’s manly confidence and Bobby’s fleshy, fake stoicism. He writes about each character, the rape, the effect the film has on the audience, and the overall outlook… but he doesn’t touch the general Appalachian stereotyping in the movie. He writes a critique of a movie that could have been set just about anywhere in the world with a river. The only reference he makes to the area is a description of the locals. “The locals they encounter are also deeply reserved folks isolated from the world these suburban males inhabit and some – like the young boy who duets with Drew on the famous “Duelling Banjos” – are part of inbred families.” Anything this writer took away from the movie had nothing to do with Appalachia, and he doesn’t concern himself with it. Perhaps it’s ignorance, but the “mountain men” don’t seem to have enough significance to be remarked on for more than a sentence. The most enticing scene of the movie in regards to this article was Bobby’s rape scene; and even so, the writer focus’ on Bobby and his comfort in his own skin rather than anything have to do with Appalachia.