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January 17, 2004
Banjo Boy Returns
Long before Paris, Nicole and "The Simple Life" confirmed Arkansas to be the center of the hick universe, the world took a pretty dim view of Georgia due to John Boorman's 1972 film "Deliverance". Possibly Burt Reynolds' only decent film, Deliverance struck nerves where we didn't even know they existed. Along with ruining Ned Beatty in any film thereafter (for me), its dueling banjos scene at the gas station remains one of my faves in all of filmdom.
Last fall I Tivo'd an unedited version of Deliverance off of TNT and was perusing through it last night. I watched dueling banjos a few times and started wondering about the sad little banjo kid and what happened to him. Surprisingly I found that after 31 years of anonymity, Billy Redden has returned in Tim Burton's "Big Fish". Read about it in this New Yorker article.
Posted by Mitch in Movies & Books