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Was "SQUEAL, PIGGY!" the most controversial scene?


If so, I've already seen it on YouTube and so I don't feel I need to see the rest. Come to think of it, nor do I want to.

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It's a shame if you don't want to watch Deliverance in it's entirety. It's really a very clever game of survive or die for these out of towners, all the while getting churned by the river white water. I saw a heavily edited version on a 13 inch black and white TV back in 1980 and still think it's a great movie.

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You should watch the entire film. It's an excellent film. It should be on the IMDB top 250 for sure.

And yes, its the most controversial scene but what happens afterwards is some really damn good film-making.

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I think the only scene I'd watched before was the banjo one at the beginning, but I just watched the movie last night for the first time, and I'm so glad that I did. It was so much different than I'd anticipated, but in a good way. I feel like I never knew what it was actually about because everything I'd heard was so pinpointed on that one scene and banjos.

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I remember watching the network tv version when I was a kid.

The whole "squeal like a pig" thing confused me. I didn't know what was going on.

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