For my film analysis, I chose the movie The Shawshank Redemption. Frank
             Darabont directed Shawshank and wrote the screenplay based on the novel Rita
             Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by author Stephen King. The movie was made in
             The movie stars Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins as two convicts serving
             time in a New England prison named Shawshank. Tim Robbins plays a man named
             Andy Dufresne, a banker, who gets convicted of murdering his wife and her lover
             and is sent to prison in Shawshank. Andy eventually becomes good friends with a
             fellow convict by the name of Ellis Boyd Redding(Morgan Freeman) who is able to
             get anything for anyone within reason. The story follows the prison life of
             Andy Dufresne and his eventual escape from Shawshank's walls.
             The movie follows a formalistic style of direction under Frank Darabont.
             He interweaves scenes with nice fluid shots. The shots are not jarring or rough
             cut. Darabont tends to take the story at a distance allowing the characters to
             establish their traits to the audience instead of pushing a barrage of angles
             at the audience. The position of the camera is intricately placed in all scenes.
             The movie is a perfect example of classical cinema.
             The most unique part about the style of the movie is in the
             cinematography by Roger Deakins. The whole story looks like it was filmed with
             a blue filter. The filters give a special beauty to the scenes, which in turn
             causes more dramatic feelings for the audience. With this filter the movie
             tends to bring out the two different colors of blue and brown. The blues of the
             uniforms are all the more dramatic compared to the drab brown buildings
             surrounding the prisoners. The colors also produce dramatic irony in the last
             scene of Red and Andy on the beach. The blue and brown colors that once gave
             feelings of confinement and despair in the prison are now colors of freedom and
             The lighting that goes along with the scene...