Deliverance opening scene

We watched the opening scene of the film during lessons. Deliverance is a 1972 American thriller film produced and directed by John Boorman. Four Atlanta businessmen decide to canoe down the fictional Cahulawassee River in the remote Georgia wilderness, expecting to have fun and see the glory of nature before the river valley is flooded over by the upcoming construction of a dam and lake.

From the start, it is clear the four are aliens drive into the mountains with two canoes in this unknown location. They come off from those canoes and looking around, they shouting to see are anyone there or not. The locals are crude and unimpressed with the presence of outsiders, they laugh at the man, talk to him in an unpleasant way. And the film implies that some of them are inbred. One of the guy is not crucial as others, he seems doesn’t have any comments of the outsider. While attempting to secure drivers for their vehicles (to be delivered to the takeout point), the man is standing next to theirs canoe and plays the guitar, suddenly there is a little boy joins to play his banjo briefly connects with the man by joining him in an impromptu bluegrass jam. They are playing their parts quicker and quicker, at the start they boy just copied the man’s melodies, after they play quicker, the man starts to play a song, then the little boy followed him to plays another part of the song. They are well-matched together, the song is melodious. While they are playing, the old man who wears dirt There has a lot of camera technical shots been taken like reverse shots, low angle shots and high angle shots, etc. But when the song ends, the boy turns away without saying anything, refusing the impressed the man plays the guitar’s handshake. Whether the boy is in fact blind is possible but never revealed. The four "city boys", as they are called by one of the locals, exhibit a slightly condescending attitude toward the locals; the man with the hat on, in particular, is patronizing.