The writing of the screenplay became an intense and extremely stimulating sort of game in which, with a camera in the hands of God rather than any mortal cinemaphotographer, I wrote the scenes one after the other as I would like to have them be.” from the Afterword
This is the original screenplay that Dickey submitted to Warner Brothers. He had begun it with the idea of creating a work that would stand on its own as a work of art and still enhance and deepen the audience’s apprehension of their individual experience of Deliverance and its special meaning to them. When he sent this screenplay to Warner Brothers it was with a sense of having accomplished that goal I was convinced I had put down on paper what I wanted to happen on the screen, no matter who the director was, or the actors, or any of the rest of the crew.”
But while acknowledging the creativity, bravery, and dedication of John Boorman and the actors and the crew who made the film version of Deliverance, Dickey also states that their realization is not the film as he would have had it. That film exists only in his imagination and within this screenplay. The story as filmed is presented in twenty-two production stills that speak of the undeniable strengths of the production that received nominations from the Motion Picture Academy for its awards of best picture, best direction, and best editing. Arthur Knight described the film as one of those rare films that resonates like a literary work but that rarer still avoids either being or sounding literary.” Dickey concludes his Afterword with an invitation to the reader to show [the screenplay] in the widescreen theater of his mind and compare it with the version he has seen in actual theaters, or on television.”
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James Dickey, who appeared in the motion picture of Deliverance in the role of Sheriff Bullard, is best known as a poet and critic, having received the National Book Award for his 1965 book of poetry, Buckdancer’s Choice.
Matthew J. Bruccoli, Jefferies Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, is editor of the Lost American Fiction series and the Screenplay Library series, both published by Southern Illinois University Press.
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Book Description Paper. 1st Paper. The rarely seen screenplay by James Dickey, adapted from his best selling novel. Includes an afterword by him and 22 b&w stills. Soft top corner crease to the back cover, which is lightly mirrored to some of the corners of the book, otherwise near fine. Book. Seller Inventory # 006433
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