The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) is an impressive, engrossing piece of film-making from first-time director/screenwriter Frank Darabont who adapted horror master Stephen King's 1982 novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (first published in Different Seasons). The inspirational, life-affirming and uplifting, old-fashioned style Hollywood product (resembling The Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) and Cool Hand Luke (1967)) is a combination prison/dramatic film and character study, abetted by the golden cinematography of Roger Deakins, a touching score by Thomas Newman, and a third imposing character - Maine's oppressive Shawshank State Prison itself (filmed at the transformed, condemned Mansfield, Ohio Correctional Institution). Posters for the film illustrate the liberating, redemptive power of hope and the religious themes of freedom and resurrection, with the words: "Fear can hold you prisoner, Hope can set you free." The patiently-told, allegorical tale (unfolding like a long-played, sometimes painstaking, persistent chess game) of friendship, patience, hope, survival and ultimate redemption by the time of the film's finale was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Morgan Freeman), Best Adapte
Effortlessly indicating how prison can drain everything worth cherishing from an inmate, before tossing the empty husk into an uncertain world, Whitmore is memorable. Red: So?Andy: So I'm a rock-hound. Those of us who knew him best talk about him often. (He points and taps his head) It was in here. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. Andy seems to cotton onto this fact pretty quickly, which is why he's not the one who breaks down in a paroxysm of regret; that honour is reserved for Fat Ass (Frank Medrano).
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