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    The Shawshank Redemption ENG 225 Sarah Carson May 7‚ 2012 The Shawshank Redemption The Shawshank Redemption (1994) was a remarkable motion picture inspired by Stephen King and Directed by Frank Darabont. It was not a big budget movie with a lot of special effects rather it was a story about two convicts Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman)‚ Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins)‚ and Samuel Norton (Bob Gunton)‚ the self-righteous‚ Bible-carrying Warden (Filmsite‚ 2012) that vowed they’d never

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    Based on the Stephen King novel “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption”. Tim Robbins stars as Andy Dufresne‚ a successful young banker who is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife and her lover. Andy is sent to Shawshank prison‚ place where brutality from both guards and other prisoners is common. Andy makes friends with Red (Morgan Freeman)‚ a lifer who has already spent many years inside. Red smuggles items into the prison for the other prisoners. Red soon discovers that

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    The Shawshank Redemption Essay The movie “The Shawshank Redemption” based on Steven King’s book “Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption” is a classic American film about a life-long honest friendship sprung up in one of the most unthinkable places‚ Jail. In this essay I will be describing and commenting on the scene where Andy Dufresne‚ after years of toil‚ escapes from the haunting wall of Shawshank Prison. The scene starts with a close up of the rope in Andy’s hand‚ the camera slowly

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    The Shawshank Redemption 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 1994 and produced by Niki Marvin. 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

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    Shawshank redemption is more than a film about prison‚ it is a film about hope‚ friendship and inhumanity and among other aspects of society . The main character of the film Andy is being accused‚ tried and convicted wrongly of a double murder that he always confessed his innocent and never lost the hope of that one day his innocent will be proven and he would get his freedom back and he also teaches other prisoners about hope. It is also a film about friendship and human interaction between Andy

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    Review A story of hope is just about the last thing you’d expect to find in a prison movie. But in The Shawshank Redemption‚ that’s exactly what you get. Shawshank is the story of Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins)‚ a man convicted of murdering his wife and her lover and shipped to a maximum-security prison in Shawshank‚ Maine‚ for two consecutive life sentences. Over the next years (two hours‚ movie time)‚ he finds his way to inner peace and self-reliance in the midst of the terror and inequity of

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    The Shanshank Redemption The movie The Shawshank Redemption‚ written and directed by Frank Darabont and based on a novel by Stephen King‚ displays excitement and suspense. Mercifully free of cheap horror and overwrought dialogue‚ this 1994 release celebrates the resilience of the human spirit. The movie opens in 1947 as Andy Dufrense‚ a prominent New England banker‚ stands trial for murdering his wife and her lover. Although Andy insists his innocence‚ the jury finds him guilty. As Andy struggles

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    The movie The Shawshank Redemption is about an innocent man‚ Andy Du Fresne‚ who is sentenced to two life sentences for supposedly killing his wife and her lover. Whilst in the Shawshank prison he discovers the how the presence of hope and fear can dramatically affect the outcome of any situation. People who feel fear often lack self-confidence. People can use fear to control people with intimidation and violence. On the other hand hope is an emotion that can help someone believe in their self and

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    a) Name of text: The Shawshank Redemption b) Composer: Frank Darabont c) Source (Where you got the text from. Include date of publication‚ or date of accessing website): Castle Rock Entertainment‚ September 23rd 1994 d) Type of text Film 2. Summarise the text. In 1947‚ banker Andy Dufresne is sentenced to two life sentences‚ being found guilty of murdering his wife and her lover and to serve his sentence at Shawshank State Penitentiary. He befriends

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    "The Shawshank Redemption" has a religious theme throughout the film as the warden only believes in two things "discipline and the Bible" and when the warden first speaks to Andy he quotes from the Bible "Salvation lies within" which isn’t mentioned again in the film until Andy escapes and the warden reads it in the inner cover of the bible which also Andy kept his rock hammer in which was the tool Andy used to create the hole in his cell for him to escape. Now Andy a character which throughout the

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