Deliverance director's secrets - near deadly stunts, gruesome tricks and tragic legacy
dailystar.co.ukREAD MORE: Squealing 'inbred' family whose eyes point in different directions 'like in Deliverance'So it's perhaps surprising that the movie went on to generate a tourist boom at the location where it was predominantly filmed.And in an exclusive interview with the Daily Star, legendary director John Boorman revealed the decision to take to the dangerous stretch of river would tragically cost some fans their lives.In the years following the release of the film, there were reportedly 22 deaths of fans visiting the area.The fictitious Cahulawassee River in the film is, for the most part, the real-life Chattooga River in Rabun County in northern Georgia.Boorman selected the location specifically for its remoteness and the dangerous white water stretches.
And he tried his best to make the area look even more ominous."I looked up various places and eventually found that one," he said."Unfortunately there were a lot of pretty wild flowers growing along the river edge, so in the river scene I desaturated the colour."It was very difficult to do it but I wanted to make the river look as dangerous as possible."When the picture came out, a lot of people went up there with their canoes and some of them lost their lives."I was asked if I felt responsible for that."I'd made the river look as dangerous as possible.
Read more on dailystar.co.uk
