I'm watching Deliverance (1972)

[quote]I don't take them as homos.

What do you take them for? Trans?

Ned was asking for it.

Opportunists, R1

I saw it as a teenager in a theater by myself. I haven't seen it since and have no desire to ever see it again.

Talk about a bummer of a getaway.

They're rednecks.

Instead of fucking the sheep and pigs, they fucked Ned Beatty.

They just did it to get off. There doesn't really have to be a reason.

Because he had some nice purdy lips.

He had it coming. Ned was a little cock tease.

You have Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight available, but you choose Ned Beatty? Never made any sense to me.

They were going to rape Voight but Burt killed them just in time.

Burt was a dumb wimpy asshole in Deliverance - just like in real life

Rape is never about sex. It’s about power. They were going to rape all three of the city slickers. They started with the weakest one.

Wrong, r12: rape is primarily about sex - for the rapist. It’s much more complex than we realize.

[quote] please explain, homos

Oh, Karen. You and your trollish threads. I love how the scripted faux argument about rape has started as early as R12 and R13. So stealth.

Now be a good frau and find a Reese Witherspoon rom-com.

^ cray cray

Stay in russia boris, go blow putin.

They wanted a little cushion for the pushin’

Clearly, they were chubby chasers.

[quote]Why were these rednecks raping Ned Beatty?

Because he was dressed provocatively, Rose.

That scene was very shocking for1972. I saw this movie in its first run (I was 11 or12) with my film-buff parents. I'll never forget how mortified my poor mother was during the anal rape scene. She apologized and tried to shield my eyes and I had to tell her that I was OK and not traumatized.

Of course, I also laughed during the grossest parts of The Exorcist, so I was a pretty hard-core tween. But now I'm such a wuss that I can't even watch nature shows about predators.

Were your parents nudists? Did your dad display your mother's vagina and adjacent for sex ed? They sound like terrible parents. But since your story is poorly written bullshit, none of it matters.

Your parents did not take you to either of those films. IOW, no, they didn't.

Why this was never musicalized for Broadway is beyond me.

IIRC, part of the back story was the fact that the guys were canoeing on the river because it was soon going to be dammed, and they wanted to enjoy nature as it was before the area was destroyed by man.

In that sense, perhaps the rape was meant as some sort of analogy to the rape of the land.

(I'm just throwing out a suggestion here. Feel free to roll your eyes.)

Psycho alert at R21. My story is 100% true, "poorly written" or not. Your comments about my late, lovely parents are truly repulsive. Are you off your meds? Drunk? Or do I just not understand your edgy humor?

R14 is the gay men are rapists troll. Dismiss.

R14 is also R21, the "nudists are perverts" troll.

R14/R23 is not only the gay rape troll, he's the women hating "they have special privileges" troll.

Oops, I meant R14 and R21.