Editing Deliverance (section)

==="Squeal like a pig"===
Several people have been credited with the phrase "squeal like a pig", the now-famous line spoken during the graphic rape scene. Ned Beatty said he thought of it while he and actor Bill McKinney (who played Beatty's rapist) were improvising the scene.<ref>Burger, Mark. (March 19, 2006). "[https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/journalnow/access/1005939731.html?dids=1005939731:1005939731&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+19%2C+2006&author=Mark+Burger+JOURNAL+ARTS+REPORTER&pub=Winston+-+Salem+Journal&edition=&startpage=1&desc=BEATTY+GIVEN+MASTER+OF+CINEMA+AWARD+%3B+CHARACTER+ACTOR+IS+A+VETERAN+OF+MORE+THAN+200+FILM+AND+TELEVISION+PRODUCTIONS Beatty Given Master of Cinema Award; Character Actor Is a Veteran of More than 200 Film and Television Productions] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090323002208/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/journalnow/access/1005939731.html?dids=1005939731:1005939731&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+19%2C+2006&author=Mark+Burger+JOURNAL+ARTS+REPORTER&pub=Winston+-+Salem+Journal&edition=&startpage=1&desc=BEATTY+GIVEN+MASTER+OF+CINEMA+AWARD+%3B+CHARACTER+ACTOR+IS+A+VETERAN+OF+MORE+THAN+200+FILM+AND+TELEVISION+PRODUCTIONS |date=March 23, 2009 }}", ''[[Winston-Salem Journal]]'', Page B1<br />"Regarding his debut film, ''Deliverance'' (1972), in which his character undergoes an unforgettably vivid sexual assault, Beatty said: 'The whole "squeal like a pig" thing ... came from guess who.' As the audience laughed, he theatrically put his head in his hands and silently pointed to himself, before elaborating how director Boorman encouraged him to improvise the scene with his onscreen tormentor, Bill McKinney."</ref> James Dickey's son, [[Christopher Dickey]], wrote in his memoir about the film production, ''Summer of Deliverance'', that because Boorman had rewritten so much dialogue for the scene one of the crewmen suggested that Beatty's character should just "squeal like a pig".<ref>{{cite book|title=Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son |first=Christopher |last=Dickey |author-link=Christopher Dickey |publisher=Simon and Schuster|year= 2010|isbn=978-1439129593|page=186}}</ref> Boorman, in a [[Audio commentary|DVD commentary]] he made for the film said the line was used because the studio wanted the male rape scene to be filmed in two ways: one for cinematic release and one that would be acceptable for television. As Boorman did not want to do that, he decided that the phrase "squeal like a pig", suggested by Rabun County liaison Frank Rickman, was a good replacement for the original dialogue in the script.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rabunhistory.org/history-sketches/frank-rickman-red-clay-michelangelo/|title=Rabun County Historical Society|publisher=www.rabunhistory.org|access-date=September 10, 2018|archive-date=July 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715181240/https://www.rabunhistory.org/history-sketches/frank-rickman-red-clay-michelangelo/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Reynolds later recalled the scene as so uncomfortable cameramen avoided watching, and Reynolds opted to interrupt the filming. Reynolds said, "I asked John Boorman, the director, 'Why did you let it go that long?' He said, 'I wanted to take it as far as I could with the audience, and I figured you'd run in when it got too far.'"<ref name="ContactMusic2008"/>