The Shawshank Redemption
More Chinese titles Stimulus 1995 The Black Flying Hell promises the redemption of Xiaoxiang Ke.
Film genre plot
Film length 142 min
Country/Region USA
White language English Italian
Color color
Mix Dolby
Rating rated r for language and prisonviolence.
Level Finland: k-16 Netherlands:12 Norway:15 Sweden:15 UK:15 Brazil:14 France: uperu:/kloc. kloc-0/3 USA:R Canada: 13+ Australia:MA Hong Kong:IIB Singapore:NC- 16 Chile: 14 Germany: 12 Singapore:R Argentina: / kloc-0/6 Ireland: 15 Denmark: 15 Portugal:M/ 16 South Korea: 15 Canada: 14A New Zealand:R Japan:PG- 12 Israel:PG
Production cost/kloc-0 1,000,000 (estimated)
Copyright (Castle Rock Entertainment)
CREDIT
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Director Frank Darabont Frank Darabont.
playwright
Stephen King Stephen King (short story Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption).
Frank Darabont Frank Darabont .....(screenplay)
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 Youngblood
producer
Liz Glotzer .....executive producer
David V. Lester .....executive producer (as David Lester)
Niki Marvin .....producer
Original music Thomas Newman Thomas Newman
Photography Roger Deakins Roger Deakins (Director of Photography)
Editing Richard Francis-Bruce Richard Francis-Bruce
Deborah Aquila, casting director.
Juliet is strange, Julie Lichter .....(uncredited)
Terence Marsh, artistic director.
Art design Peter Langston Smith Peter Landsdown Smith ...
As Michael Sierton, the scenery designer ...
Fashion design Elizabeth McBride Elizabeth McBride
Assistant director/assistant director
Michael Lvmu Michael Greenwood ... second second assistant director
Thomas Schellenberg Thomas Schellenberg ..... Key second assistant director
John R. Woodward John R. Woodward ... Bull Horn Tower Guard
Jesse V. Johnson Jesse Johnson ... Third Assistant Director (undecided)
Production and distribution
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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
Canada1September 1994 10 Canada ... (Toronto Film Festival)
1September 23, 994 USA
1995 1 6th, Norway
1February 1995 16 Australia, Australia
1February 1995 17 UK
1February 24, 995 Finland
1Spain, February 24th, 995
1 March 19951day France, France
1March 2, 995 Netherlands
1March 3, 995 Sweden
1March 9, 995 Germany
1March 23, 995 Argentina
1April 1995 16 Poland
1April 28, 995 Denmark
1June 3, 995 Japan
1995126 October Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Plot introduction
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The story took place in 1947. Andy, a banker, was wrongly accused of shooting her and her lover because of his wife's extramarital affairs. Andy was sentenced to life imprisonment, which means that he will spend the rest of his life in Shawshank prison.
Rhett 1927 was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, but his parole was unsuccessful several times. He has now become an "authority figure" in Shawshank 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. Rhett thinks that Andy, who is fragile and bookish, will cry. As a result, Andy's silence makes him lose two packs of cigarettes. But it also makes Rhett 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 Rhett 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. Soon, Rhett 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, Rhett said that he felt free for the first time in many years.
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!
Faced with the cruel reality, Andy became very depressed ... One day, he said to Rhett, "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. At the same time, because of his smart mind about the economy, the warden has been asking Andy to do black accounts and money laundering for him, and transfer the black money he earned with the cheap labor in the prison one by one. Andy put all the black money in the name of a man named Steven. In fact, this Steven is a fictional character of Andy. Andy made various certificates for Steven, such as driver's license and ID card, which is seamless. After Andy escaped from prison, he took part of the black money saved by the prison warden under the pseudonym of Steven, and lived a good life with this large sum. And denounced the truth of corruption and bribery of the warden. The warden saw a Bible left by Andy in the safe where he kept his small ledger. The title page said, "Warden, you are right. Salvation is in it." There is a pickaxe that is almost ground into a round head in the hollowed-out part inside. At this time, the police are coming to the prison to arrest the warden, and finally the warden shot himself.
Rhett was released, and he found a box of cash and a letter left by Andy under the oak tree. Finally, the two old friends met again on the sunny coast of Mexico (Chihuataneo).
Behind the scenes
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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.
Movie music
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The Shawshank Redemption (Stimulus1995) The Shawshank Redemption1994 Nominated by Academy Award for Best Original Score.
By Newman, the master of film soundtrack.
Album tracks:
0 1. May - The Ink Spots
02. Shawshank Prison [Stoic Theme] - The Ink Spots
03. New Fish - The Ink Spots
04. Rock Hammer - The Ink Spots
05. Inch of His Life - The Ink Spots
06. If I Didn t Care - The Ink Spots
07. Brooks Was Here - Thomas Newman
08. His Judgement Cometh - Hank Williams
09. Suds on the Roof - Hank Williams
10. Workfield - Hank Williams
1 1. Shawshank Redemption - Hank Williams
12. Lovesick Blues - Hank Williams
13. Elmo Blatch - Deutsche Opera Berlin
14. Sisters - Deutsche Opera Berlin
15. Zihuatanejo - Deutsche Opera Berlin
16. Marriage of Figaro: Duetto-Sul Aria - Deutsche Opera Berlin
17. Lovely Raquel
18. And That Right Soon
19. Compass and Guns
20. So Was Red
2 1. End Title
Wonderful tidbits
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Do you remember that when the new prisoners who had just arrived in the prison got off the van, there was a young black man in the crowd who laughed at them? The actor is the son of Morgan Freeman, the actor of the leading black Red in the film.
Do you remember that Bogs, one of the three sisters, was disabled by the captain and sent to an ambulance? During the filming, the old ambulance broke down, and the ambulance movement in the picture was actually pulled by the staff.
Do you remember the shot of Andy driving a red convertible on a mountain road in Mexico? It was a Pontiac GTO made in 1969, and the age in the film was still in 1966. The film crew contacted a Mustang made in 1965, but the owner changed his mind at the last minute.
Do you remember that on Shawshank's first night in prison, the old prisoners kept laughing at the noise in an attempt to scare the new prisoners? In the process of shooting, because there were not enough extras, security guards at the shooting site were also used to create a noisy atmosphere.
Do you remember Andy sitting in his car on the night of the murder with a close-up of bullets in his hands? Actually, those hands belonged to the director Frank Darabont, because this shot was not designed in the original script, but was made afterwards.
Do you remember the first time Andy and the old black Red met on the playground (Red was playing baseball with others)? Because there were countless problems in shooting, it took the director a whole day to shoot the scene repeatedly to make him feel perfect.
Do you remember the scene of Andy walking in the snow? Those snowflakes are actually potato chips.
Do you remember the prison guard who shouted "Lights out" at the beginning of the film? He is also a prison guard in real life.
Do you remember the black prisoner sitting behind Tommy(Andy's student, the one who was shot dead) in the same prison car when he came to prison? In real life, that man is the warden of Ohio juvie.
Do you remember the stone Andy used to break the sewer? In fact, the original design was for Andy to use his small stone hammer, but later it was found that the small stone hammer was not enough to break the sewer, so it was changed into stone.
When ·Andy crawled in the sewer, the stains on his face and pipes were actually chocolate pulp.
Do you remember the line "Some birds aren't meant to be caged"? The script originally designed a plot in which the crow raised by librarian Brooks flew back to Shawshank and was found by Andy and Red after his death (metaphorically, Brooks was only suitable for being caged like this bird and could not survive outside), and also involved a scene in which prisoners held a funeral for the bird in the playground to mourn the old Brooks who committed suicide.
Do you remember the scene where Andy and RED meet and hug on the beach in the last scene? This doesn't exist in the script, because there is no such plot in Stephen King's original novel. This was added by the director against his will at the insistence of his partner, and even after the filming, he tried to cut it off. Fortunately, the audience loved the demo very much, so the director made a concession and decided to keep the plot. Later audiences were lucky enough to watch this joyful and tearful ending scene.
The old man who won his belated freedom played by Morgan Freeman is called RED, which is the first three letters of the English word "Redemption" (also the title of this film).
·Tommy Williams (a young man who was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for stealing TV) was originally prepared for Brad Pitt. Gil Bellows, who plays Tommy, played a similar role in the popular TV series Ally McBeal in 1997.
The shooting place was Mansfield State Penitentiary, Ohio, but the crew had to renovate it before shooting because the prison was too shabby. Indoor scenes are shot in the studio, because it is more expensive to repair the interior of this prison than to set up the same scenery.
The American Humane Association supervised the filming of all crows involving Brooks in the film. In one scene, Brooks fed maggots to his crows. AHA immediately thought that it was inhuman to maggots, and asked them to use a maggot that died naturally, so they had to do it.
The photo posted on Morgan Freeman's parole document is actually Freeman's youngest son, Alfonso Freeman. Alfonso also ran a walk-on in the film, shouting "New prisoner! New prisoners today! " ("Fresh fish! Fresh fish today! We're reeling 'em in!" ) that one.
There is a picture of Einstein on the wall of Andy's cell. Tim Robbins, who plays Andy, once appeared in the fantasy film I.Q. about Einstein (1994).
The film that the prisoners watched by Rita Hayworth, the American god of love, was Gilda the Slut (Gilda 1946).
In the opening court scene, Andy said that he threw his gun into the Royal River. In another novel by Stephen King, Stand By Me, the escaped children crossed the same river.
Stephen King said that the novel is the crystallization of his years of experience in watching prison films.
As shown in the film, the plot of this film has many similarities with Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo.
Walden Norton's tune is "solid guarantee", which is a church hymn written by Martin Luther, the pioneer of Christian reform/founder of Lutheran Church. The lyrics are: God is my strong fortress and my unshakable protection; The Lord is my ready help, so that I can get out of danger and panic; Satan, the enemy of past dynasties, still wants to make waves. He is cunning and powerful, cruel and vicious, and it is hard to prevent.
When Walden Norton opened the Bible with Andy's chisel hammer, the page he opened was Exodus, which described in detail the process of Jews fleeing Egypt.
The film is dedicated to director Frank Darabont's agent and friend Alan Glynn. Green died of AIDS before the film was finished.
Director Frank Darabont watched "Boy" every weekend during filming, and got inspiration from it, using voice-over to make the transition.
The Italian version of the film is less than the American version 15 minutes, and the clip that briefly explains Andy's free life at the end is deleted.
Despite the modest box office results, this film has always been far ahead in the rental video list.