...This article is aimed at reviewing the movie titled The Shawshank Redemption; we will analyze thepower of hope and optimism of both inmates and warden of Shawshank Prison. The main thing that gives inmates of Shawshank Prison the will to live is Hope. Hope is a deep feeling of expectation towards a certain thing and desire for it to happen. It is usually being optimistic of positive outcomes. Andy is one of the prisoners who is full of hope. Other prisoners like his sense of hope and they believe it is what keeps them going. Hope made Andy survive his 28 years in prison with the idea of escaping which he finally did. With his help, prisoners get beer, which they drink and make them have hope of being free and enjoy it as free men. As years...
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...ASSIGNMENT 1 –ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY The Shawshank Redemption In 1946, a banker named Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of a double murder, even though he stubbornly proclaims his innocence. He's sentenced to a life term at the Shawshank State Prison in Maine, where another lifer, Ellis "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman), picks him as the new recruit most likely to crack under the pressure. The ugly realities of prison life are quickly introduced to Andy: a corrupt warden (Bob Gunton), sadistic guards led by Capt. Byron Hadley (Clancy Brown), and inmates who are little better than animals, willing to use rape or beatings to insure their dominance. But Andy does not crack: he has the hope of the truly innocent, which (together with his smarts) allow him to prevail behind bars. He uses his banking skills to win favor with the warden and the guards, doing the books for Norton's illegal business schemes and keeping an eye on the investments of most of the prison staff. In exchange, he is able to improve the prison library and bring some dignity and respect back to many of the inmates, including Red. Based on a story by Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption was the directorial debut of screenwriter Frank Darabont. After a long discussion, we have agreed that Andy’s act in helping Warden Norton to launder his money is ethical because he has to follow the orders given in order to keep himself from being hurt and to survive in the prison. For example...
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...Shawshank Redemption Paper In society, one of the most popular forms of punishment for deviant individuals who commit criminal acts is to send them to a correctional facility. Although the rest of society has rejected this person as a result of this behavior - in a restricted setting like prison - people begin to adapt to their surroundings. Inevitably, the longer one stays in this setting, the more institutionalized people become. Criminals will soon readily accept their status as a prisoner as well as establish a new identity within this community. In the film Shawshank Redemption, this is further explored as it follows several characters who spend a significant amount of time being incarcerated. Through their time in jail, they learn to adapt to to their surroundings and essentially create a society in which they are functioning and important members. However, as the incarcerated band together, those who are in charge of them may abuse their power in an attempt to further demoralize the prisoners and increase their own personal and economic gain. By attempting to understand sociological theories such as Functionalism, one can better understand the rationale for some of the behaviors shown by the characters as portrayed in Shawshank Redemption. The ability to feel like an active member of a society offers fulfillment not only to the person initiating their role in society, but also to others around them. Without the ability to feel like a productive member of society...
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...The Shawshank Redemption "The Shawshank Redemption" is directed by Frank Darabont and was released the 14 October 1994 in the USA. It has Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne and Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd Redding (also called Red) in the leading roles. Morgan Freeman is known for his slow, deep and peaceful voice, and have been the narrator in many other series and movies, and that is why he of cause also are the narrator in this movie. The character Red tells what there happens in the movie in the time it's happens, so you not only get to see what there happens, but also hear it and what Red is thinking about it. The director and screen writer have been good to show the different persons from all their sides, so you really get the feeling of that you know the persons, and know what there will happened, but yet he still surplices you the one time after another. And specially giving Morgan Freeman space to show his full potential, that he also do. Witch also are the reasons that it have been nominated for 7 Academy Awards, including Morgan Freeman for best actor in a leading role, and best writing and screenplay by Frank Darabont. This movie have giving many meracebles quotes, but there are three there stand a little out: (Andy Dufresne: [in letter to Red]) "Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies." (Andy Dufresne:) "Get busy living, or get busy dying." (Red:) "Same old shit, different day" These quotes are someone that almost any...
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...Red Dog is a hilarious, drama filled movie fit for the whole family. The movie Red Dog is a romantic comedy, drama, fit for the whole family. Written by Daniel Taplitz, directed by Kriv Stenders and produced by Nelson Woss and Julie Ryan. The main actors are portrayed by KoKo as Red Dog, Josh Lucas as John Grant, and Rachael Taylor as Nancy Grey. My initial impression of this film was not wanting to watch it as i don’t like animals because they always make me cry. This I was completely wrong about, yes it did make me cry but I would watch this heart melting hilarious film again a the drop of a hat. I enjoyed this film as it hooked you on the characters and storyline, it made me want to keep watching. Set in an old pub in the community of Dampier, Western Australia, in 1971 Stories of how Red Dog helped shape the town and the people in it are being told. The old dog’s story narrated by Jack collins (Noah taylor) tells of how Red Dog “A dog for everyone, but no one in particular” befriended most of the community who were miners working for Hamersley Iron. Some of his story is broken down into individual stories told by different people, about how he saved lives, was the most loyal dog anyone could ask for and how he was “Probably the most famous dog in all of Australia”. It also tells of how he found his one true master, John Grant (Josh Lucas). “And from that day Red Dog would have a master. The only master he would ever have”. John is an American bus driver who at first is...
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...The Shawshank Redemption Directed by Frank Darabont Hope: In Shawshank most of the inmates are afraid to hope. Red says “hope is a dangerous thing”. Andy is the only prisoner who believes that hope is paramount in a place like Shawshank, “you need it so you don’t forget that there are places that aren’t made of stone”. Andy tries to give hope to others through education, willingness to provide a better way of life inside the prison and by talking to Red about the future. It is Red who Andy instils hope into at the end “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things”. By journeying to Mexico Red chooses hope over despair. The idea Darabont is trying to show the audience is that hope is the saving grace in the prison. Those who have the ability to hope are those, in the end, who will be redeemed. It is strongly contrasted with the idea of despair which so many of the prisoners face. Andy, initially, is the only one with the ability to hope and he tries to teach the others how to do this. Only hope has the power to redeem the human spirit. Tagline: Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free. Symbols of hope: harmonica, music, bright light Institutionalism: Red defines being institutionalised “These walls are funny. First you hate them, then you get used to them. Enough time passes you get to depend on them. That’s institutionalised”. His analysis of Brooks foreshadows the man he may become by the end of the film. Red must choose whether or not he...
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...Galvez 1 Brian Galvez Professor Khan Sociology 15 The Shawshank Redemption An important theme in Frank Darabont’s film The Shawshank Redemption is hope. The film demonstrates that hope is a good thing and shows the consequences in having and lacking hope. It is important that Darabont’s film showed the theme of hope as it us also important in our lives today because having or lacking in hope affects people personally, nationally and worldwide. In our everyday lives we are presented with cases of people having hope through our own or someone we knows personal experiences and on the news. In most cases, hope is portrayed in a positive light as it helps people get through tough situations. The film makes its viewers think about how having or lacking hope can effect out lives in reality and makes them conclude that having hope is a good and important thing. In The Shawshank Redemption demonstrates how hope is an important thing to have. We are introduced to Andy du Frense, Red Redding and their fellow prison inmates. Throughout the film Andy has a peaceful and positive disposition and this is because he has hope. Whilst having a conversation with Red, Andy talks about his dreams of what he is going to do with his life when he gets out of prison. Red responds negatively, claiming that “hope can drive a man insane”. Andy replies saying “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best thing and no good thing ever Galvez 2 dies”. This demonstrates that Andy has hope. A consequence of Andy’s...
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...unjustly arrested by the government which altered her life continues to affect her seventeen years later. In The Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne is a young and successful banker whose life changes drastically when he was unjustly convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife and her lover Tuesday, April 2, 13 In The Death and the Maiden, Paulina was unjustly raped and tortured by The torturer who was the doctor in military abductees. In The Shawshank Redemption, Andy was unjustly assaulted and raped by both guards and other prisoners, The "sisters" , for two years. Tuesday, April 2, 13 In The Death and the Maiden, Paulina wants to do justice by herself, she doesn't listen to her husband who tells her that now there is a commission to solve all these problems She throughly believes that In The Shawshank Redemption, someone needs to be punished for Andy fight back the sisters to what happened to her , So She receive the justice he deserves, kidnaped Dr. Roberto Miranda. Andy then receive justice from the guards.The sisters get assaulted themselves until one of them couldn’t walk and Andy's raping is stopped. . Tuesday, April 2, 13 In The Death and the Maiden, Dr Miranda was unjustly forced to confess that he raped and tortured her even though he was being honest and stubbornly proclaims his innocence. In The Shawshank Redemption, Even though Tommy tells the warden that Andy is an innocent man, Tommy was unjustly killed for...
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...Analyzing Shawshank Redemption Crystal Gayle Frapp January 31, 2014 Analyzing Shawshank Redemption The film that will be analyzed and discussed is the Shawshank Redemption, which was Director by Frank Darabont and is a Story by Stephen King. It is based in 1946, a man named Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of killing his wife and her lover, and him going to prison and dealing with the struggles of prison life as a truly innocent man. . “He's sentenced to a life term at the Shawshank State Prison in Maine, where another lifer, Ellis Red Redding (Morgan Freeman), picks him as the new recruit most likely to crack under the pressure. The ugly realities of prison life are quickly introduced to Andy: a corrupt warden (Bob Gunton), sadistic guards led by Capt. Byron Hadley (Clancy Brown), and inmates who are little better than animals, willing to use rape or beatings to insure their dominance. But Andy does not crack: he has the hope of the truly innocent, which (together with his smarts) allow him to prevail behind bars. He uses his banking skills to win favor with the warden and the guards, doing the books for Norton's illegal business schemes and keeping an eye on the investments of most of the prison staff. In exchange, he is able to improve the prison library and bring some dignity and respect back to many of the inmates, including Red.” After many years and a pick axe Andy manages to escape from prison threw slowly chipping away at the hole in his cell wall where...
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...Mr. Schiavello HRE4M1 April 2, 15 The Shawshank Redemption 1. How does the movie illustrate internal and eternal freedom? In the movie Shawshank redemption, freedom plays a very significant role in the lives of all the inmates; especially Andy Dufresne who is wrongfully convicted to two consecutive life terms in prison for the murders of his wife and her lover. The movie focuses on both the physical (external) and mental (internal) imprisonment of Andy in the maximum-security prison and his journey to overcome the barriers towards freedom make it a story that amazed everyone. When Andy is first locked up in his cell he is separated from society, he looses his physical freedom and is put in a confined space where his every move is watched. He is given a set of rules, which he must follow everyday for the rest of his life, he has to act with due restraint and if he doesn’t he is punished by the officers in charge. He makes efforts to volunteer to paint the rooftops of the prison and also fanaticizes about living by the sea once he gets out the prison. He wants freedom “from” the confinement he is in but his journey for freedom is not just physical he is always seen aspiring to be mentally free. The smallest of things make him the happiest person in the world such as watching his friends drink beer or the peace he gets when he plays music for the whole Shawshank to listen to, at those moments he achieves the spiritual and internal freedom he so desperately longs for....
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...portrayal of the sufferings of the convicts. In 1861, Dostoyevsky published his first long novel, The Insulted and the Injured, also to critical acclaim. It is the story of a young student of middle-class origins, a person of sensibility and talent, whose life is ruined by the ill will of a cynical aristocrat. The novel features a complicated plot with many separate lines and many characters. This book inspired the leftist critic N. A. Dobroliubov to epitomize Dostoyevsky's leading quality as his "pain for man, his impassioned defense of the moral and human worth of downtrodden people." In 1863 Dostoyevsky promptly disillusioned his supporters in the liberal camp with his next work, "Winter Notes on Summer Impressions," an essay concerning his tour of Europe. In this essay, he attacked the west European dream of the triumph of reason. He resisted the idea...
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...English 3 Mrs. 1 June 2015 Hope in the Shawshank Redemption As strange as it might sound, Emily Dickinson and the Shawshank Redemption is a story about hope. The Shawshank Redemption expresses the story of Frank Darabont, a gentleman who has remained wrongly sentenced of murder and must tolerate life in the harsh and corrupt Shawshank prison, but regardless of this he never loses hope of finding freedom. The storyteller of this story is a man named Red; he had a very different understanding than Andy held about hope. Red continuously spoke about the dynamics of prison and the process of being established. And in Emily Dickinson’s poem is by means of metaphor of a small bird to carry her\him theme that hope stays alive inside us in spite of all of our difficulties. Frank Darabont uses methods such as lighting, tune and camera shots in his film “The Shawshank Redemption” to effectually provoke a state of mind inside the viewers. Brooks is a significant character as he helps us to comprehend the central theme of hope. Brooks understands that the freestanding world is distant to him, in addition has no hope for life on the outside. Darabont customs lighting to show in what way Brooks has nowhere to be found hope and how prison life has taken its toll on him. Brooks is frequently seen in areas of darkness and shadow, on behalf of how he has no hope left whatsoever. For instance when he releases Jake the crow, he is more or less in complete darkness. In this poem, Emily Dickinson...
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...Kellyn Lamore Professor Yates Film Appreciation 14 October 2015 Shawshank Redemption The Shawshank redemption is an American drama film that starred Tim Robbins and the amazing Morgan Freeman. The banker Andy was convicted for murdering his wife and her secret lover and was sentenced two consecutive life-sentences. When I watched this movie, I was speechless because I couldn’t believe how the prison guards treated these inmates. Yes, they did something bad, but the way those inmates were treated was so incredibly awful to see. The two major visual components of mise-en-scene are design and composition. Design is the process by which the look of the settings, props, lighting, and actors is determined (Looking at Movies). While composition is the organization, distribution, balance, and general relationships of actors and objects within the space of each shot (Looking at Movies). At first, there was a lot of design in The Shawshank Redemption. For example, the outside world from the prison seems nice lots of freedom. It seems as if at the beginning Andy was a pretty wealthy man by the way he dressed and his job title, a banker. Once he commits his crime, he has to take a scary looking bus into the prison, Shawshank Redemption. Shawshank redemption is a dark, unsafe prison that Andy ended up being placed in. The actors who acted as the prisoners did a good job “greeting” these new inmates by cheering and letting them know that this not the best place to live in. The actors...
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...her loved one's death. The DA asks Andy, “Do you mean to tell this court that your wife did not recognize your brand-new Plymouth sedan behind Quentin’s car?” Andy had calm responses to majority of the many questions the DA was asking. Andy was found guilty at the end of the case on a snowy Wednesday afternoon. Andy was sentenced his life to prison. He was taken into the Shawshank...
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...This film is about when Andy Dufresne an innocent banker, is sent to prison for a double life sentence. He makes friends while inside, his closest friend becoming Ellis Boyd Redding or ‘Red’ as his friends call him. Andy suffers with quiet dignity. To keep this under control, he continues with his favorite hobby, which just so happens to be geology. After 20 years of his sentence, he becomes the first prisoner to ever escape from Shawshank. Also he manages to have the Warden found out for all of his crimes. There are three main characters in this film. The first is Andy Dufresne. He starts off as being the newbie who is thought to be the weakest of the bunch but turns out actually to be one of, if not the strongest characters in the film. Andy adds tension because the audience expects him to act like the new guy. When it turns out he didn’t it, a whole new impact is put on the film. The second is Red. Not only is he the narrator of the film but he is the leader of the group. He appears as clever because he is the person who can ‘get stuff’ from the outside. Red adds tension because when the audience is looking from the narrator’s point of view, they are also looking from the view of Red, Andy’s friend. When Red is worried, scared, or upset, so is the audience The narration is spoke by Red. He has been in prison for a lot longer than Andy; therefore he presumes that he knows what will happen because he has seen it all before. His predictions conflict with what happens. Again...
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