Deliverance (1972)

Jon Voight: Ed

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• [preparing to bury Drew in the river] 

  Ed : Drew was a... a good husband to his wife Linda, and... you were a wonderful father to your boys, Drew... Jimmy and Billy Ray. And if we come through this, I promise to do all I can for 'em.

  [pause] 

  Ed : He was the best of us.

• Ed : Look, what is it that you require of us?

  Mountain Man : What we, uh, "re-quire" is that you get your god-damn asses up in them woods.

• [Ed just killed a man believed to be the second rapist] 

  Bobby : That's him? I mean... he wasn't just some guy out hunting, was it?

  Ed : [shouts]  You tell me!

• Lewis : Why do you go on these trips with me, Ed?

  Ed : [somewhat defensively]  I like my life, Lewis.

  Lewis : Yeah, but why do you go on these trips with me?

  Ed : You know, sometimes I wonder about that.

  Ed : [Lewis accurately shoots a fish in the river with an arrow; Ed raises his beer can in salute]  Here's to you, Lewis.

• Ed : Night has fallen. And there's nothin' we can do about it.

• Ed : No matter what disasters may occur in other parts of the world... or whatever petty little problems arise in Atlanta... no one can find us up here. Good night, Lewis.

• Lewis : Your name Griner?

  First Griner : What you wanna know for?

  Lewis : Can you and your brother drive two cars down to Aintry for us?

  First Griner : Drive 'em down there for what?

  Lewis : Me and my buddy here are taking a canoe trip down the Cahulawassee. We'd like our cars to be down in Aintry when we get there. Be there about Sunday noon.

  First Griner : [sarcastically]  Canoe trip?

  Lewis : That's right, a canoe trip.

  First Griner : What the hell you wanna go fuck around with that river for?

  Lewis : Because it's there.

  First Griner : It's there all right. You get in there and can't get out, you gonna wish it wasn't.

  Ed : [to Lewis, whispering]  Look, Lewis, let's go back to town and, ah... play golf.

  Lewis : [ignoring Ed]  I'll give you thirty dollars to take those cars down to Aintry.

  First Griner : I'll take fifty.

  Lewis : Fifty, my ass.

  Ed : Lewis, don't play games with these people!

  First Griner : Whud you say?

  Lewis : I said "fifty, my ass."

  Ed : [whispering urgently]  Lewis!

  First Griner : I'll do it for forty.

  Lewis : Mm-hmm...

  [to Ed] 

  Lewis : You good for ten?

  Ed : Sure.

• Bobby : I had my first wet dream in a sleepin' bag.

  Ed : How was it?

  Bobby : Great.

  [pause] 

  Bobby : There's no repeatin' it.

• Lewis : Can that chubby boy handle himself?

  Ed : Bobby? He's rather well thought of in his field, Lewis.

  Lewis : Insurance? Shit. I never been insured in my life. I don't believe in insurance. There's no risk.

• [last lines] 

  Ed : [waking from a nightmare]  No!

  Martha : Ed? What's the matter?... It's all right... it's all right... shhh... go to sleep... go to sleep...

• Lewis : This is the one! There she is.

  [Lewis pushes aside tree branches and we see the river for the first time] 

  Ed : Looks good. Looks good.

  Lewis : [mournfully]  Couple more months, and she'll all be gone.

  Bobby : [offscreen]  Ed! Lewis!

  Ed : Even up as far as here?

  Lewis : From Aintry on up. One big, dead lake.

  Lewis : [to Bobby, angrily]  OVER HERE!