The Shawshank Redemption

 

Release date  - September 10, 1994
Country         -  United States
Budget          -  $25 million
Box office     -  $58.3 million

Directed by    -  Frank Darabont

Produced by   - Niki Marvin

Screenplay by - Frank Darabont

Based on    - Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King 

Starring     -  Tim Robbins, 
Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, WilliamSadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, James Whitmore                                        
Music by   - Thomas Newman
Cinematography -  Roger Deakins  

Production company - Castle Rock Entertainment

Distributed by  - Columbia Pictures

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1.   All positive words that are in my head or in the dictionary, you can insert here. Frank Darabont took two brilliant paintings on the novels of Stephen king, but the Oscar for the best film never received. If "the Shawshank redemption" due to the invasion of "Forrest Gump", "the Green mile", for some reason I lose the Oscar to "American Beauty". In this film there is nothing wrong, I did not like just the beginning, dark and discourages to watch this masterpiece. But after 15-20 minutes of the film you're not present in our world. Fully absorb the genius of the picture, you need nothing but to watch it to the end.

  Andy Dufresne, a banker who receives two life sentences for a crime he did not commit. In such situations I want to kill myself, but how much stronger Andy, can know, perhaps only to himself. It is a prison, which is literally impossible to escape.

 Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, perfectly played their roles. Correctly picked up all the actors, everything.

Best of all is that I saw the story. Lamentable, sad, cheerful, unpleasant scenes in this film has it all.

  In my opinion and in the opinion of many other people is the best movie in the history of cinema. "Forrest Gump" is superior to him only in a space game Tom Hanks.

2.  Get busy living or get busy dying

 "The Shawshank redemption" — based on the novel by Stephen king. In my opinion, this is a rare case when the film has surpassed the literary work on which it was created. And, despite the fact that to put the picture on the book is always difficult, this is an example when the film is not only perfectly conveyed on screen, the depth, the atmosphere and the semantic web wonderful books by king, but was stronger, surpassing the original.

 Of course, this film is not so much about the escape and the horrors of prison life, how many are primarily about human relationships and people. And, first and foremost, is the story of a remarkable man told us his friend.

  Andy Dufresne is a young man who worked as Vice-President of a major Bank and unjustly sentenced to two life sentences for the murder of his wife and lover. In fact, he — man caught in a terrible and horrible situation. And passing through all the circles of hell and the test of pride, courage, tenacity, honor and human dignity, he is not broke and has not lost human form, showing himself a solid and strong personality with a strong-willed inflexible rod inside, an incredible character and fortitude. Always calm, balanced, restrained, noble and very intelligent — the only time he showed emotions accumulated inside, lost control and flipped out. Andy is, first and foremost, a man of words and deeds. And one another it does not diverge. Perfectly describe Andy a lot of great episodes: his incredible tenacity and perseverance with which he wrote letters to the state Senate with a request to provide funding for the prison library, his desire to always help another person, his dialogue with Tommy, whom he helped to get an education: "I don't do losers." "I am not a loser." — «Nicely. Because if we're gonna start, it will go to the end — a hundred percent." And of course the famous scene on the roof and the scene where he is locked in the principal's office, turned over the loudspeaker an old gramophone record. This point shows great feelings that kills a prison and that Andy has returned many prisoners, including his friend:

  "I have no idea what he sang those two Italian ladies that day — the truth is, I didn't want to know. Some things are better not to know. I wanted to think that they were singing about something so beautiful that it is impossible to put into words and that often makes the heart beat. The voices were cleaner and lighter than those dreamed of in this grey, miserable place. As if two birds flew and their voices, dispelled the walls of our cells, and for a brief moment every man in Shawshank felt free".

  Shawshank, the majestic, Gothic and gloomy prison, no hope person after the door closed behind him the camera. But many inmates, including red, Andy showed a different perspective on life and gave such a thing as hope because, in the end, red realized that the choice of every person is simple — to live or die, but if you live, then you need to go to the end and, as hard as you may, always remain human, even in prison you can be free and not to lose hope: "It's something they can never take from us. This is the part of your soul and it belongs only to you."

 Red — the closest and best friend Andy is no less dramatic character. Received a life sentence for murder in Shawshank and spent most of his life, he became a "prison" man. A man for whom life has meaning only in the context of prison, because here he is a person and a significant person who can get them out, and he is a nobody and useless, and in order to buy something, simply open the phone book. Red is very precisely formulated the idea of deprivation of liberty and his life in prison: "It is a strange wall: first you hate them, then you get used to them, and then begin to depend on them".

 Red — not a stupid man, but he is not comprehended and not understood completely the meaning of his stay in prison and his "re-education" so every ten years he gets a denial from the parole Board. And only with the arrival of Andy, he slowly begins to change and rethink his life and, in the end, he fully understands the meaning of "hope" and the lack of meaning in the word "re-education" and come to understanding and forgiveness. Forgiveness himself.

 Wonderful and brilliantly shows the relationship between these two people, began with mutual distrust and dislike: "I Tell you, kept apart from everyone. You think your shit smells better than others?"and which ended with the reassessment of life values and yourself and this friendship a long and storied life that has withstood all trials and obstacles.

 Acting in the film is worthy of the highest praise — all the actors played great, but Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman beautifully and very naturally played their characters, demonstrating a very strong and deep game and the fact that Tim Robbins wasn't even nominated for "Oscar" — a blatant injustice on the part of the Academy.

 In addition to the two main roles, the movie has a lot of very interesting secondary characters: humorous Heywood in the performance of William Sadler, a young okhlamanov and Mr. rock-n-roll Tommy Brooks is a very deep and dramatic character, whom Frank Darabont said, "It's a very touching character and if he leaves you indifferent, so in this life you will not touch nothing."

 And, of course, brilliantly played negative role Clancy brown and Bob Gunton, who perfectly played warden Norton. His character is a terrible, cold-blooded and ruthless man who only believes in two things discipline and the Bible. The latter is very symbolic, because, believing himself a "shepherd of the lost sheep and the light of the world", he heartlessly and cruelly destroys what Andy builds over the years, but, in the end, the biblical text on the painting in his office turns out to be prophetic: "the court is coming, and it will be quick and soon."

 Besides the wonderful acting and brilliant screenwriting adaptation of the book the king, some of which can be safely quoted, it is worth noting technical execution of the work: great camerawork and editing, good sound and work of the artist, unobtrusive, dramatic, soft and very beautiful music by Thomas Newman, which perfectly fits the style of the film and captures the atmosphere Shawshank, the inner world and experiences of the characters in the picture.

 The film contains many memorable, sometimes shocking, and sometimes very touching moments when tears keep almost impossible, and, of course, we must mention the incredibly strong scene of escape from prison through the eyes of Andy and is told by the Red — it gives you shivers on the skin and admirable triumph of human courage and fortitude:

 "The police have combed all around, but the only thing they managed to find is the set of prison clothes, a bar of soap and an old rock hammer, damn near worn down to the base. I thought that it will take six hundred years to dig them a tunnel. Andy did it in less than twenty. I imagine sometimes, as he rides in his car with the top down and then can't help smiling. Andy Dufresne went through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side, Andy Dufresne, headed for the Pacific»…

  The final film, in spite of the preceding tragic story, is an upbeat and life-affirming, and one of the final moments of the picture is incredibly beautiful and is one of the strongest scenes in the film: he goes across the field to a huge, spreading oak tree, shining in soft sunlight, surrounded by the beautiful nature, grass, flowers and flying bees to them, harmony and silence, break only by chirping of birds and the chirping insects in the grass is a place very much like Paradise.

 And the final dialogue when red reads the letter from Andy: "Remember, red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best, and good things never die." "I hope I will be able to cross the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as I've seen him in my dreams. I hope so."

 I've seen this movie countless times, but with each new view I see it like the first time, reliving and reinterpreting events of the life along with the characters in the movie. After watching, I still have a long sitting in meditation, with tears in his eyes, and soul at this moment is peace and some ease. This film should look at each and even if you are a big movie buff, after watching "the Shawshank redemption" you have a lot to gain. One of the most powerful and profound dramas in film history.