The Shawshank Redemption

English film title

The Shawshank Redemption

More Chinese titles

Stimulation 1995

The moon is black and flying high.

Hell's promise

The redemption of Xiaoxiang Ke

director

Frank Darabont frank darabont

playwright

Stephen King Stephen King (short story Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption).

Frank Darabont frank darabont (screen play)

performer

Tim Robbins Tim Robbins Andy Dufresne

Morgan Freeman Morgan Freeman ... Ellis Boyd' red' redding

Film type

plot of a play

length of a motion picture (in terms of showing time)

142 min

Country/region

United States of America

Dialogue language

English, Italian

colour

colour

overdub

Dolby

grade

Rated R for language and prison violence.

grade

Finland:K- 16 Netherlands: 12 Norway: 15 Sweden: 15 UK: 15 Brazil: 14 France:U Peru: 1 4 Spain: 13 USA:R Canada: 13+ Australia:MA Hong Kong:IIB Singapore:NC- 16 Chile: 14 Germany: 1 2 Singapore:R Argentina: 16 Ireland: 15 Denmark: 15 Portugal:M/ 16 South Korea: 15 Canada: 14A New Zealand:R Japan:PG- 12 Israel:PG

Production cost

,000,000 (estimated)

property in copyright

(Castle Rock Entertainment)

CREDIT

director

Frank Darabont frank darabont

playwright

Stephen King Stephen King (short story Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption).

Frank Darabont frank darabont (screen play)

performer

Tim Robbins Tim Robbins Andy Dufresne

Morgan Freeman Morgan Freeman ... Ellis Boyd' red' redding

Bob gunton Bob Gunton Warden Samuel Norton

William sadler William Sadler ... Heywood

Clancy brown Clancy Brown ... Captain Byron T. Hadley

Jude ciccolella Jude Ciccolella ... Guard Mert

Ned bellamy Ned Bellamy ... Guard Young Blood

producer

Liz Glotzer .....executive producer

David V. Lester .....executive producer (as David Lester)

Niki Marvin .....producer

original music

Thomas Newman Thomas Newman

take a photograph

Roger Deakins Roger Deakins (Director of Photography)

montage

Richard Francis-Bruce

casting director

Deborah Aquila

Julie Lichter .....(uncredited)

art director

Terence Marsh

artistic design

Peter Landsdown Smith .....(as Peter Smith)

The Spectacle Maker

Michael Seirton .....(as Michael Sierton)

clothes design

Elizabeth McBride

Assistant director/assistant director

Michael Greenwood .....second second assistant director

Thomas Schellenberg .....key second assistant director

John R. Woodward .....Bullhorn Tower Guard

Jesse V. Johnson Jesse Johnson ... Third Assistant Director (undecided)

Production and distribution

Production company

Castle Rock Entertainment [USA]

Columbia Pictures Corporation [USA]

Issuing company

PolyGram Film International ..... ( 1994) (worldwide) (all media) (sales)

Columbia Pictures [USA] (1994) (USA) (theatrical)

Rank Film Organization [UK] (1995) (UK) (dramatic) (as rank film distributors)

Columbia Tristar Home Video (USA) (1995) (USA) (Video) (Laser Disc)

Filmayer S.A. [Spain] ..... (Spain)

Guild Home Video ..... (UK)

Roadshow Entertainment Video [Australia] ..... (Australia) (VHS)

Sandrew Metronome [Denmark] ..... (Australia) (VHS)

Transeuropa video entertainment (TVE) [Argentina] ..... (Argentina) (video)

VCI Distribution [UK] ..... (Argentina) (video)

Village Roadshow Entertainment [Australia] ..... (Australia)

Vídeo Arte [Brazil] ..... (Brazil) (VHS)

Warner Home Video [USA] (1996) (USA) (VHS)

Warner Home Vídeo [Brazil] ..... (2000) (Brazil) (DVD (DVD)

Special effects production company

Motion Pixel Corporation ..... (digital special effects)

Other companies

Redman Movies and Stories [USA] ...

Arlene Fishbach Enterprises ..... music consulting

Bald Eagle Sound Inc. ..... post-production sound

Boston Light and Sound Inc. [USA] ..... dailies projection system

D. Bassett & Associates Inc. [USA] ..... negative cutting

Direct Travel of California Inc. [USA] ..... travel services

Du Art Film Laboratories Inc. [USA] ... production dailies processing

Epic Soundtrax [USA] ..... soundtrack published by

Hollywood Rental Company Inc. [USA] ..... production equipment

International Film Guarantors Inc. ..... completion guaranty

Joe Dunton & Company International ..... Arriflex camera and lenses provided by

Nancy Seltzer & Associates ..... publicity

Pacific Title [USA] ..................................

Preston Camera Systems ..... gyrosphere aerial camera system

Joe Dunton (Cameras) Ltd. (I) (II) [UK] ... camera equipment provided by

Release date

Canada

Canada

1September 1994 10 ... (Toronto Film Festival)

United States of America

USA

1September 23, 994

Norway

Norway

1995 1 6th.

Australia

Australia

1Feb. 995 16

Britain

UK

1February 1995 17

Finland

Finland

1February 24, 995

Spain

Spain

1February 24, 995

France

France

1 March 19951day

the Netherlands

Netherlands

1March 2, 995

Sweden

Sweden

1March 3, 995

Germany

Germany

1March 9, 995

Argentina

Argentina

1March 23, 995

Poland

Poland

1April 1995 16

Denmark

Denmark

1April 28, 995

Japan

Japan

1June 3, 995

Hong Kong

Hong Kong

19951October 26th

Plot introduction

The story happened in 1947. Andy, a banker, shot his wife and her lover because she had an affair, so he was accused of shooting her and her lover. Andy was sentenced to life imprisonment, which means he will spend the rest of his life in Shawnk prison.

Ari 1927 was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, but his parole was unsuccessful several times. He has now become an "authority figure" in Shawnk prison. As long as you can afford it, he can get almost anything you want: cigarettes, candy, wine and even marijuana. Whenever a new prisoner comes, everyone bets on who will cry on the first night. Ari thinks that Andy, who is fragile and bookish, will cry, and as a result, Andy's silence makes him lose four packs of cigarettes. But at the same time, it also made Ari look at him differently.

For a long time, Andy didn't contact anyone. While everyone complained, he took a leisurely walk in the yard, just like in the park. A month later, the first thing Andy asked Ari to help him with was a small pickaxe. His explanation was that he wanted to carve some small things to kill time, and he said that he managed to escape the routine inspection by the prison authorities himself. Soon, Ari played chess carved by Andy. Later, Andy made a huge poster of Rita Hayworth and put it on the wall of his cell.

Once, Andy and several other prisoners went out to work, and he overheard the prison officer talking about paying taxes. Andy said that he had a way to make the prison officer legally exempt from this large amount of tax. In exchange, he won two bottles of Tiger beer for each of a dozen prisoners' friends. Drinking beer, Ari said that for many years, he felt the feeling of freedom for the first time.

Because Andy is proficient in the knowledge of financial system, he quickly got rid of the heavy physical labor in prison and the harassment of other abnormal prisoners. Soon, the well-known Andy began to deal with tax issues for more and more prison guards, and even asked him for advice on children's further education. At the same time, Andy has gradually become an important tool for Shawnk warden Walden to launder money. Because Andy kept writing to the governor, he finally applied for a small sum of money for the prison library. Prison life is very dull, and you always have to find something to do by yourself. Andy heard that Ari used to like playing harmonica, so he bought one for him. After the dead of night, you can hear the melodious and slight harmonica sound echoing in the prison.

The arrival of a young prisoner broke Andy's quiet prison life: the prisoner had heard about Andy's case while serving his sentence in another prison before, and he knew who the real murderer was! But when Andy asked the warden to reopen the case, he was rebuffed and severely punished by solitary confinement for two months. In order to prevent Andy from being released, the prison did not hesitate to design and kill the insider!

Facing the cruel reality, Andy became very depressed ... One day, he said to Ari, "If you can get parole one day, you must go somewhere to fulfill a wish for me. That's where I first dated my wife. I dug up a box under a big oak tree there. Then you will know what it is. " That night, it was stormy and thunderous, and Andy, who had been redeemed by his soul, escaped from prison successfully.

It turns out that Andy has been digging holes with that little pickaxe every day for twenty years, and then covering the hole with posters. After Andy got out of prison, he took some of the black money saved by the warden and told on the truth of the warden's corruption and bribery. What the warden saw in the safe where he kept his small account book was a Bible left by Andy, and this pickaxe, which was almost ground into a round head, was placed in the hollowed-out part.

Ari was released, he found a box of cash under the oak tree, and two old friends finally reunited on the sunny beach in Mexico.

Behind the scenes

Comment in one sentence

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

A blockbuster that exposes the shady American justice.

A picture of life painted with friendship and hope

Metaphorical works containing philosophy of life

Behind the scenes production

This film shows the individual's fear of "the passage of time and the transformation of the environment" through the special background of compulsory deprivation of freedom and high emphasis on discipline in prison. The ending of the film has a kind of revenge catharsis in the form of "The Count of Monte Cristo".

"three redemptions" running through the whole line

Redemption, redemption, is not just andy himself. In a sense, he not only saved himself, but also saved his cellmate. His rescue of prisoners is manifested in a kind of spiritual rescue, because he made people around him understand to some extent the value of pursuing freedom and hope-Red is one of them. Two people who hold the same hope for freedom but have different attitudes form the main line of the whole film. The three redemption are as follows:

The first time, he helped HADLEY, a prison guard, evade taxes and won three bottles of beer for each prisoner. “We sat and drank with the sun on our shoulders, and felt like free men. We could'a been tarring the roof of one of our own houses. We were the Lords of all Creation.”... “You could argue he'd done i T to curry favor with the guards. or maybe make a few friends about us cons. me, I think he did it just to feel normal again ... if only for a short while. "At this moment, you saw T.Robbins smile for the first time. After all, freedom is always the happiest, and it also represents the realization of self-worth. Everyone has this need to make themselves feel important.

The second time was the most wonderful part of the film. He showed "Le Nozze de Figaro" in the prison guard's office. This clip seems calm as water, but in fact it is passionate and extremely lethal, which can make your eyes hot. “I have no idea to this day what them two Italian ladies were singin' about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I like to think they were singin' about something so beautiful it can't be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it.”...“I tell you, those voices soared. Higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage And made the walls dissolved away ... and for the briefest of moments-every last man at Shawshank felt free. "This time, andy's smile is a smile with a sense of victory. He used his value in prison guards and the trust he gained from it to give his friends a sense of freedom again-even for a moment. “There are things in this world not carved out of gray stone. That there's a small place inside of us they can never lock away, and that place is called hope.”

The third time, he set up a library for the prison. In order to get the first batch of books, he wrote a letter once a week for six years. Then he increased it to two letters a week, and during andy's second decade in prison, the library was completed. This is also an epoch-making victory, and its influence is far-reaching. It was about this time that Tommy appeared and the plot took a turning point.

After Tommy was killed, andy came out of hole, and the day before he was released from prison, the dialogue with red was very intriguing. Before fleeing here, andy reflected on his mistakes, and he was responsible for the death of his wife.

"I killed her, red." ... "I didn't pull the trigger. But I lost her away. That's why she died. Because of me, the way I am." When it comes to future plans, after nearly 40 years of suffering, Red seems very depressed (and if you compare 20 years, 30 years and 40 years, “I couldn't hack it on the outside. Been in here too long. I'm an institutional man now. Like old Brooks Hatlen was.”... “In here I'm the guy who can Get it for you. Out there, all you need are yellow pages. I would n't know where to begin. "He is afraid of hope-because he once had hope. But he knew that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. Many times, this is also the reason why we hold back and have negative thoughts. Then andy ended their conversation with an incisive and powerful sentence: "Get busy living－－or get busy dying." This sentence can even be regarded as the central idea of the whole play.

What I have to mention here is that the clips before and after the escape are well handled. Red is always worried that andy will kill himself. In the face of despair, some people choose to die, because it means a kind of liberation-the director also tends to lead the audience to think in the direction of "death" here, as if to play a joke on the audience-but for those who really want to be free, they will choose another road, a real road to freedom.

Later, norton committed suicide, and the sentence "His Judgment Cometh and That Right Soon." was very ironic. The scene from andy's successful escape from prison to red's release from prison is a complete test of M.Freeman's acting skills. M.Freeman's monologues and performances always give people a sense of seeing through the world of mortals and perfection, which adds a lot of color to the play. (Wong Kar-wai also used monologues in Chungking Forest and Spring Scenes, etc., but Tony Leung Chiu Wai's performance seems to be a little immature. ) from prison: "some times it makes me sad, through, Andy being gone. I have to remind myself that some birds are' t mean to be caged, That's all. Their feathers are just too bright ... "At last he opened the box and decided to go to Zihuatanejo to find his friend andy. Say the last monologue in your heart: "I find I am so excited I can bare sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a free man can feel, A free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is unknown ... "You can see his profound skill.

Obviously, this is not a simple, pure commercial film-although it does bring high commercial achievements-1995 America's video rental and sales champion. But besides the box office, it also brings a lot of information. For example, "value" is an important message brought by the film. What is the life value of prisoners released from prison? Brooks' from being released from prison to committing suicide is also a tear-jerking fragment. As red said, he has institutionalized prison life for a long time. “Man's been here fifty years. This place is all he knows. In here, he's an important man, an educated man. A librarian. Out there, he's nothing but a used-up old con with arthritis in both hands. Couldn't even get a library card if he applied. You see what I'm saying? ”...“Believe what you want. These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. After long enough, you get so you depend on 'em. That's "institutionalized."”

Cherishing your freedom is also one of the themes of this film. Red said of himself like this: "I'm the only guilty man in Shawshank." What he said in the HEARINGS ROOM for the last time, he deeply regretted what he had done. “Not a day goes by I don't feel regret, and not because I'm in here or because you think I should. I look back on myself the way I was...stupid kid who did that terrible crime...wish I could talk sense to him. Tell him how things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone, this old man is all that's left, and I have to live with that.”

In fact, isn't life itself a prison? Each of us, which one is not the product of being institutionalized by society? The original poster of the film reads: "Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free." This reminds me of a best-selling book some time ago: "Who moved my cheese": "Overcome your inner fear, change yourself and release yourself."

The The Shawshank Redemption, which was filmed in 1994, is almost always a classic in fans' minds, an outdated topic in movie forums, a best seller in video stores and the top three on IMDB website.