An Entire Film Built Around a Rape.....

Go back to bed

If that is all you have to bring to a public discussion maybe you should go to bed ... with the fishes.

Then stay off my thread if you don't like it. I didn't invite you.
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You threw your opinion out there, hoping that people would read it. What were you expecting, everybody to agree with your opinion?

And this isn't a sweet 16 birthday party. This is IMDB. You don't get to decide who shows up or not. Furthermore, there really is no difference between your not liking the movie and somebody else not liking your opinion of the movie. So you are a hypocrite as well.

And this movie is hardly all about a rape, with no message. The rape scene is just the scene that got your attention the most.

I wonder how many people who lived in the backwoods were treated in a discourteous and distrusting manor by the general public after this film was released. I just recently saw a car commercial where two woodsmen were greeting campers in the morning, with the hint of insinuation they're butt fcking sadists that make camping a bad risk for tourists.

Controversy in a film isn't necessarily a good thing, and I know you're not implying that it is, but a best-selling novel could blossom into a prevailing stereotype.

The impoverish back-woods people I've met and seen in documentaries are Christians, and that's pretty much all they have.

No venting targeted at you antonasmodeus, but if you take apart this story, it's simply an expedition that slowly builds up to the rape, then the writer boxing the viewers into a corner with justified murder, and the expedition group simply agrees to not tell anyone and they share a few basic emotions. Simple audience manipulation.

The film wasn't based around rape.

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There's no movie without the rape scene. Other than that tiny point, I totally agree with you!

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Pretty much so. With the MPAA ratings code introduced in the late 60's, the early 70's was big on making the most of that R rating(and sometimes that X rating, which became the NC-17 rating.)

It was also a time to "shatter taboos." In this movie, it was male-on-male rape -- that WAS the whole reason for the movie. (Barbra Streisand requested a copy to view at home saying: "for once I want to see a MAN getting raped.") Two years later, Chinatown would take on the taboo of (consensual) incest.

Deliverance "couched" its main scene in a bunch of outdoor adventure on the rapids scenes, but the squeal like a piggy scene is what it was all about.

In that same brutal summer of 1972, Alfred Hitchcock delivered his only R-rated movie with Frenzy, which had the centerpiece of a man raping a woman and then strangling her with a necktie. Hitchcock later said that "that scene was the entire reason I made the picture." Sadist? Maybe. But Hitchcock also said he felt it was time that people understood how brutal and terrifying rape was.

Here's a thread about Deliverance and Frenzy and 1972:

https://moviechat.org/tt0068611/Frenzy/58c72d745ec57f0478f3e947/Frenzy-and-Deliverance-and-1972