Editing Deliverance (section)

=== Stunts ===
The film is infamous for the cost cutting by the studio in an effort to kill it<ref>{{cite news |date=27 July 2022 |author=Adam Scovell |publisher=[[BBC]] |title=How masterly horror Deliverance set a controversial trend |url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220727-how-rural-horror-deliverance-set-a-controversial-trend }}</ref> and having the actors perform their own stunts, such as Jon Voight notably climbing the cliff himself.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pratt |first=Sean |title=Deliverance {{!}} SBIFF |url=https://sbiff.org/deliverance/ |access-date=2023-05-29 |language=en-US}}</ref> Reynolds requested to have one scene re-shot with himself in a canoe rather than a dummy as it tumbled over a real waterfall.<ref name=":0" /> Reynolds recalled his shoulder and head hitting rocks and floating downstream with all of his clothes torn off, then waking up with director Boorman at his bedside.<ref name=":0" /> Reynolds asked "How'd it look?" and Boorman said, "It looked like a dummy falling over a waterfall."<ref name=":0">{{cite web |date=20 September 2016 |title=That Time Burt Reynolds Tried To Go Down A Waterfall For A Movie Stunt |website=Cinemablend|url=https://www.cinemablend.com/news/1557830/that-time-burt-reynolds-tried-to-go-down-a-waterfall-for-a-movie-stunt }}</ref> Beatty almost drowned and Reynolds cracked his tailbone.<ref>{{cite news |date=17 June 2012 |author=Geoff Boucher |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |title='Deliverance' crew returns to the river |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2012-jun-17-la-ca-deliverance-20120617-story.html }}</ref>

Regarding the courage of the four main actors in the movie performing their own stunts without insurance protection, Dickey was quoted as saying all of them "had more guts than a burglar".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Culture |first=Center for the Study of Southern |title=Revisiting Deliverance |url=https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/study-the-south/revisiting-deliverance/ |access-date=2023-05-29 |website=southernstudies.olemiss.edu |language=en}}</ref> In a nod to their stunt-performing audacity, early in the movie Lewis says, "Insurance? I've never been insured in my life. I don't believe in insurance. There's no risk".