"DUELING BANJOS" WITH BILLY REDDEN
In the second most famous scene from 1972's "Deliverance", Ronny Cox plays guitar with Redden's banjo picking "inbred kid". In an interesting note, Redden was the only local cast in Deliverance, and was selected at a nearby school for his so-called "unique look". In 2004, Tim Burton found Redden again to play (you guessed it) a banjo playing character that welcomes Ewan MacGregor's character in Big Fish.
As for comparing his experiences on Deliverance and Big Fish, Redden had this to say:
Another interesting factoid from Wikipedia:
As for comparing his experiences on Deliverance and Big Fish, Redden had this to say:
"He (Tim Burton) was a real nice guy, a lot nicer than Burt Reynolds."And now for what you've all been waiting for... let the "dueling" begin:
Another interesting factoid from Wikipedia:
Redden could not play the banjo or even convincingly fake playing, and thus director John Boorman had another child slip his hand through Redden's sleeve to finger the chord changes.


1 Comments:
This scene or this movie never fails to strike real chills up my spine. One of my very faves...
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