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    The Shawshank Redemption The Shawshank Redemption filmed in 1994‚ directed by Frank Darabont bases a story around the life of prisoners in the Shawshank Prison. The captivating film revolves around the strong friendship that is built between two prisoners‚ Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) a smart banker‚ and Red (Morgan Freeman) a long-term inmate‚ who becomes Andy’s closest accomplice. The storyline is narrated by Red who reflects on Andy’s adjustment and life at Shawshank. Darabont skillfully explores

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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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    Task: Examine how the themes of hope and power are depicted in "The Shawshank Redemption". You should make reference to at least two of characterization‚ setting‚ key scenes‚ mise-en-scene (including lighting‚ costume‚ ect) music‚ camera angles or any other feature you feel is important. In the film "The Shawshank Redemption" Frank Darobont has used characterization‚ camera angles and mise-en-scene to depict the themes of hope and power. Now the film is about a man called Andy and he is wrongly

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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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    Amber McDaniel Shawshank Redemption Shawshank Redemption portrayed the existence of systems and ways of living that can slowly encroach and ultimately dictate one’s course of life. It is stunning to see how the film was able expose a seemingly slow and excruciating. Yet‚ also a life-changing process of being confined inside a prison. The film had captured how routine and drear the life of a prisoner is. Their seclusion can be as simple as being alienated from the outside world. But as it turns

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    The Shawshank Redemption is an inspiring story about Andy Dufreine and his efforts to maintain hope and his own survival. The film begins with the story of Andy Dufresne‚ a young vice president of a prestigious Portland bank‚ is wrongfully convicted of killing his wife and her lover. He is then sent to a jail where he learns the lessons about life from a few of the inmates‚ which eventually leads to him being a part of a corrupt scheme to launder money for the warden. But after nineteen years‚ Andy

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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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    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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    Bodily-Kinesthetic‚ Interpersonal‚ Intrapersonal‚ and Naturalist. The main character of “The Shawshank Redemption”‚ Andy Dufresne‚ is a very intelligent man. The first type of intelligence Andy has is‚ Linguistic. This type of intelligence would be explained as a person’s ability to understand and use words. It also is how well a person produces it‚ as in the way they talk and they respond to other’s words. In the movie Andy is teaching an inmate‚ Tommy Williams to read and write. Tommy Williams: I don’t

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    Identify what you consider to be the director’s main purpose and explore‚ in depth ‚ one or two main visual/ oral techniques used to achieve this purpose. An important theme in Frank Darabont’s film ‚ The Shawshank Redemption is hope in humanity. The film demonstrates that hope is a good thing . The director’s main purpose was to convey this idea through the film to the audience by using visual and verbal techniques. In Darabont’s film the theme of hope in mankind is important as it enables the

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