Georgia Movie Trivia

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Something to pass the time as we wait for the game. The wait is killing me.

Name the movie where one of the Georgia locals says "I'm gonna make you squeal like a pig. Weeeeeeee!":shaking2:
 
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well, that would be "Deliverance", which boasted a very fine cast indeed. You know, if I could pick and choose, there's one GA city I would take as my own and scratch the rest of the state, and that is Savannah. It has been rated by travellers as one of the WORLD's most beautiful cities. It is the one city General Sherman spared on his march of destruction saying, "Savannah was too beautiful to burn." I lived there for a year. Interestingly, Savannah also has the reputation as "the most haunted city in America." Can you tell me the name of the movie made a handful of years ago, set in Savannah and using as its premise, the dark witchcraft element for which the city has such a heavy reputation?
 
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Could it be "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"? I believe it is set in Savannah.
 
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All Vol! said:
well, that would be "Deliverance", which boasted a very fine cast indeed. You know, if I could pick and choose, there's one GA city I would take as my own and scratch the rest of the state, and that is Savannah. It has been rated by travellers as one of the WORLD's most beautiful cities. It is the one city General Sherman spared on his march of destruction saying, "Savannah was too beautiful to burn." I lived there for a year. Interestingly, Savannah also has the reputation as "the most haunted city in America." Can you tell me the name of the movie made a handful of years ago, set in Savannah and using as its premise, the dark witchcraft element for which the city has such a heavy reputation?
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I can't name the movie, but I'm with ya on Savannah...Brunswick, St.Simons....the entire coast. We gota throw in Augusta,and the blue ridge area.
Now, that's enough kind thinking......Gosh, the clock is NOT moving !!!:whistling:
 
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KSVOL said:
Could it be "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"? I believe it is set in Savannah.
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Indeed it is. Savannah is strange, weird and does not seem to belong in the state of Georgia, culturally at least. The atmosphere there is a holdover from the city's slavery days and the rituals/practices they brought with them to this country. It's truly like a place lost in time.
 
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volbreaker said:
I can't name the movie, but I'm with ya on Savannah...Brunswick, St.Simons....the entire coast. We gota throw in Augusta,and the blue ridge area.
Now, that's enough kind thinking......Gosh, the clock is NOT moving !!!:whistling:
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Love the coast. The mountains are nice, but if I were Governor I think I'd try to give away Augusta to SC.
 
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GAVol said:
Love the coast. The mountains are nice, but if I were Governor I think I'd try to give away Augusta to SC.
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Maybe then I could actually sell something there. I think all of the residents would get an automatic 50 point boost in their I.Q. just for being on the eastern bank of the Savannah River.
 
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GAVol said:
Love the coast. The mountains are nice, but if I were Governor I think I'd try to give away Augusta to SC.
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And if Georgia is so great, and you love the coast, why do you spend all of your time on OUR coast..........in the great state of South Carolina.

Why does Florida not fall off into the ocean....................because Georgia SUCKS!

.......on second thought, you can keep Augusta.
 
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All Vol! said:
Interestingly, Savannah also has the reputation as "the most haunted city in America." Can
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I lived there for many years. My parents still do. I hate to call out a fellow Vol, but that is not true. I've been on the "Ghost" tours. They are lame. Good for tourism, but that's it.

The actual most haunted city is New Orleans.

Still, Savannah is a great place.

Surprised noone mentioned Forrest Gump. Remember during his run across America. He ran over a metal bridge around marshland (When he started in "Alabama"). That was actually a bridge over the Savannah River down the road from my house.
 
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USAF_Vol said:
I lived there for many years. My parents still do. I hate to call out a fellow Vol, but that is not true. I've been on the "Ghost" tours. They are lame. Good for tourism, but that's it.

The actual most haunted city is New Orleans.

Still, Savannah is a great place.

Surprised noone mentioned Forrest Gump. Remember during his run across America. He ran over a metal bridge around marshland (When he started in "Alabama"). That was actually a bridge over the Savannah River down the road from my house.
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I have actually heard the ghost in the Pink House US...but I wasn't exactly sober. The movie Glory was also shot at and around Fort Jackson if I remember correctly.
 
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Lexvol said:
I have actually heard the ghost in the Pink House US...but I wasn't exactly sober. The movie Glory was also shot at and around Fort Jackson if I remember correctly.
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I thought it was filmed at Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island in Charleston. Fort Jackson is in Columbia. That was a cool movie.
 
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Lexvol said:
I have actually heard the ghost in the Pink House US...but I wasn't exactly sober. The movie Glory was also shot at and around Fort Jackson if I remember correctly.
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West Columbia Gamecock said:
I thought it was filmed at Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island in Charleston. Fort Jackson is in Columbia. That was a cool movie.
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They did it at both places if I remember correctly. One of my friends Dad was an extra for Glory. They filmed a city scene in Savannah. Him and his wife were riding in a carriage.
 
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USAF_Vol said:
They did it at both places if I remember correctly. One of my friends Dad was an extra for Glory. They filmed a city scene in Savannah. Him and his wife were riding in a carriage.
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1.) You are correct it was at both places........and Jeykll Island.

2.) Are you talking about when they are potraying a northern city at the beginning, or where the soldiers are looting the southern city toward the middle/end?
 
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Trivia for
Deliverance (1972)

  • Director John Boorman's son Charley Boorman appears near the end of the movie as Ed's little boy.
  • To minimize costs, the production wasn't insured -- and the actors did their own stunts. (For instance, Jon Voight actually climbed the cliff.)
  • To save costs and add to the realism, local residents were cast in the roles of the hill people.
  • Author of the novel and screenplay James Dickey appears at the end of the film as the sheriff.
  • Burt Reynolds broke his coccyx while going down the rapids when the canoe capsizes. Originally, a cloth dummy was used, but it looked too much "like a dummy going over a waterfall". After Reynolds was injured and recuperating, he asked, "How did it look?" The director replied, "Like a dummy going over a waterfall."
  • According to Turner Classic Movies, John Boorman wanted Lee Marvin and Marlon Brando to play Ed and Lewis, respectively. After reading the script, Marvin suggested that he and Brando were too old, and that Boorman should use younger actors instead. Boorman agreed, and cast Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds.
  • An alternate ending was shot, but cut from the final version. This other ending apparently takes place a few weeks (or perhaps months) after the events of the movie, since it shows Lewis (Burt Reynolds) walking with a crutch. The ending has Ed (Jon Voight), Lewis (Reynolds) and Bobby (Ned Beatty) meet Sheriff Bullard (James Dickey) near the dam in Aintry. The sheriff shows them a body placed on a stretcher and uncovers it, so that they can look at its face. No identifiable details of the body are shown, which was a deliberate choice, to make the audience uncertain whether the dead man is Drew (Ronny Cox), Don Job (Bill McKinney) or the Toothless Man ('Herbert Cowbox Coward' ). The body was played by Christopher Dickey (James Dickey's son), who writes about the scene in his memoir, "Summer of Deliverance" - and even HE doesn't know whose body it was supposed to be.
  • When John Boorman was looking for an actor to play the toothless man, Burt Reynolds suggested 'Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward' , who had no front teeth, stuttered, and was illiterate. Reynolds had worked with Coward in a Wild West show in Maggie Valley, North Carolina.
  • Billy Redden (the boy with the banjo) did not know how to play banjo and was incapable of faking the playing sequence convincingly, and eventually another youngster was hidden behind his chair, with the sole task of providing the hand movements on the banjo.
  • Originally, Sam Peckinpah wanted to direct the movie. When John Boorman secured the rights, Peckinpah directed Straw Dogs (1971) instead.
  • Ned Beatty was the only one of the four main actors to ever have paddled a canoe prior to shooting the movie. The others learned on set.
  • "Dueling Banjos" was the first scene shot. The rest of the movie was almost entirely shot in sequence.
  • Billy Redden, the boy with the banjo liked Ronny Cox, and disliked Ned Beatty. When at the end of the dueling banjos scene, the script called for Billy to harden his expression towards Drew Ballinger, Cox's character, he was unable to fake dislike for Cox. To solve the problem, they got Beatty to step towards Billy at the close of the shot. As Beatty approached, Billy hardened his expression and looked away - exactly as intended.
  • The movie was shot on the Chattooga River, dividing South Carolina and Georgia. The year following the release of the movie, 31 people drowned attempting to travel the stretch of river where the movie was shot.
  • The cliff climbing scene was shot "day for night", meaning that the footage was shot during the day and underexposed with a bluish tint (in post-production). Because film stocks were so slow (up until the late 1970s), and the anamorphic lenses were slow (didn't let in as much light as spherical lenses), and a plethora of lights were often needed, day for night was common practice for many films with night scenes during that period of filmmaking. Faster film stock has made the technique less common.
 
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OrangeEmpire said:
1.) You are correct it was at both places........and Jeykll Island.

2.) Are you talking about when they are potraying a northern city at the beginning, or where the soldiers are looting the southern city toward the middle/end?
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The northern city at the beginning. They used an area that had cobblestone roads and stuff.
 
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Forrest Gump tells his story in Savannah on a bench in one of the squares in the downtown area.
 
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Invasion USA, another quality film, was made partly in GA.....as well as Six Pack. My Cousin Vinny as well....
 
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Driving Miss Daisy - actually her house is a part of Fernbank Science Center. I had a few classes there for a quarter program in junior HS.
 
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3. Glory Starring: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes ...
The Parade Street in Savannah
[Other Filming Locations: The Fort Wagner Battle Site, Skirmish of James Island, Darien Burning Site, Plantation Encampment, Training Camp, Recruiting Speech location, Battle of Antietam etc]
 
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