Don't you understand what I'm saying? They're gonna stop the river up. There ain't gonna be no more river. Just gonna be a big dead lake.
8 seconds sound clip from the Deliverance (1972) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:00:30 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- They're gonna flood a whole valley, that's why.
- Damn it, they're drowning the river. They're drowning the river, man.
- All right, man, all right. All right. We're talking to you.
- Just about the last wild, untamed, unpolluted, unfucked-up river in the South.
- That ain't progress, that's shit.
- It's a very clean way of making electric power.
- And those lakes up there provide a lot of people with recreation...
- My father-in-law has a houseboat on Lake Bowie.
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