303WX Prompt 12

For this prompt I found an article on IndieWire talking about Deliverance, and for the most part in a condescending way.  The article, 5 Things You Might Not Know About ‘Deliverance’, Released 40 Years Ago Today,  author Oliver Lyttelton states, “Deliverance still maintains a real power to horrify…it follows four friends who go for a canoeing trip together in the Georgia wilderness, only to come into terrifying conflict with some inbred locals. And that plotline taps into very primal fears — man vs. nature, town vs. country — and perhaps most memorably, it preys on masculinity, thanks to film’s unforgetabble rape sequence” (Lyttelton 1).  Here the author definitely takes a negative connotation to the movie and the rape scene that seems to, for its time, put the film over the edge.  He laters goes on to talk about how the film has three Oscar nods, and a couple other nominations at the Golden Globes, so he draws the contrast with how “we” think that the film would’ve been perceived by people in the mid 70s, but the academy awards seem to disagree.  The article does not go into the effects of the film on Appalachian stereotypes, yet uses one in calling the two mountain men that the characters run into “inbreds”.   This shows to me that even without the author talking about the subject, he shows where the majority of people in film industry that represent the common movie/entertainment stand as far as using stereotypes to describe the film and its plot line.  For the time that the movie was made, the scene that everyone seems to remember is definitely the rape scene.  That was definitely very graphic for the movie norms during that time.