Why did HBO Max cancel Burt Reynolds "Deliverance?"

[jmdrake]

So it turns out HBO Max has cancelled the movie Deliverance.

https://popculture.com/movies/news/hbo-max-removes-iconic-burt-reynolds-movie-deliverance/

So...why? Is it because the villains were gay rapists? Was it because pretty much every major character, good or bad, was a white male? Was "Banjo boy" seen as offensive to the mentally challenged savants?

 

[acptulsa]

All that, and the music actually had a melody too.

 

[Anti Globalist]

A combination of all the reasons you gave.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Seems to be entirely inline with the LGTBQSMHB+ agenda at HBO.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Voted "Other" as meaning "All of the Above".

This is a manly film...so much so that binge watching may result in making yourself pregnant.

So I can see how it is "problematic" for the soy boys and electric hair colored queers that undoubtedly make up HBO's Diversity Compliance wing, to have this film in rotation.

Banjo Boy's real name is Bill Redden, and he is normal and alive and well.

 

[RJB]

$4.99 for a tank of gas? That's another reason.

 

[donnay]

All of the above.

 

[jmdrake]

Voted "Other" as meaning "All of the Above".

This is a manly film...so much so that binge watching may result in making yourself pregnant.

So I can see how it is "problematic" for the soy boys and electric hair colored queers that undoubtedly make up HBO's Diversity Compliance wing, to have this film in rotation.

Banjo Boy's real name is Bill Redden, and he is normal and alive and well.

Wow! I didn't know there was someone else playing the banjo through a fake shirt. Back in those days before the power of CGI special effects guys had to have some real imagination.

 

[jmdrake]

$4.99 for a tank of gas? That's another reason.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to RJB again

That's like a gallon today?

 

[Anti Federalist]

Wow! I didn't know there was someone else playing the banjo through a fake shirt. Back in those days before the power of CGI special effects guys had to have some real imagination.

Watch 2001 - A Space Odyssey if you haven't already.

Shot over three years from 1965 to 1968, it was the first of the "epic" special effects films.

"Not one foot of this film was made with computer-generated special effects. Everything you see in this film or saw in this film was done physically or chemically, one way or the other." — Keir Dullea (2014)

And it is, almost 60 years now gone by, just as good, if not better than the very best CGI shit coming out of ChinaWood today.

These people knew their craft, and what they produced was stunning.