Andy Dufresne: Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

Introduction “Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.” Only a select few films ahave been called “the most beloved of all. The Shawshank Redemption movie reviews & Metacritic score: Wrongly convicted, Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is sentenced to two consecutive life terms in in Ma.

1. The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.
2. Tender, funny, and inspirational, The Shawshank Redemption is a well-crafted prison drama and another great movie to add to Frank Darabont's impressive filmography.
3. Cast/credits plus additional information about the film.

The Shawshank Redemption (1. The Film Spectrum. Director: Frank Darabont.

Writer: Stephen King (novella), Frank Darabont (screenplay)Producer: Niki Marvin (Castle Rock, Columbia)Photography: Roger Deakins. Music: Thomas Newman. Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, Mark Rolston, James Whitmore, Jeffrey De. Munn, Larry Brandenburg, Neil Giuntoli, Brian Libby, David Proval, Joseph Ragno, Jude Ciccolella. The Rundown. Introduction“Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things.

And no good thing ever dies.”Only a select few films ahave been called “the most beloved of all time.” Annual TV airings earned the title for The Wizard of Oz (1. It’s a Wonderful Life (1.

Gone With the Wind (1. The Godfather (1. Star Wars (1. 97. But in the internet age, a new generation of Millenials holds up a new contender: The Shawshank Redemption. Bear in mind today’s viewers consume movies in an entirely different way than those who went to see Gone With the Wind. A trip to the movies has taken a backseat to the swarm of Netflix, DVR, On Demand and Hulu+. Within seconds of the end credits, our votes have already been cast on IMDB.

We’ve already “liked” it on Facebook. Hell, we probably Tweeted what we thought of the movie while we were watching it. Only in this new culture of rapid film consumption and instant web response can a film like The Shawshank Redemption rise the ranks of reverence to do war with the listology kings of academic glory. Thus is why I’m opening The Film Spectrum with Shawshank alongside Citizen Kane. In many ways, Shawshank has become the Citizen Kane of IMDB. More than half a million viewers, spawned by positive word of mouth, have flocked to the site to rank the film No. Its 9. 2 rating may be tied for first with The Godfather (my pick), but its 5.

Corleone Family. With hundreds of thousands more votes than any other film on the site, the people have spoken. To them, Frank Darabont’s The Shawshank Redemption is not only a good film, it’s the best of films, and they’ll make sure it never dies. Plot Summary. Originally a Stephen King novella titled Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (from the same 1. Stand By Me‘s source material “The Body”), The Shawshank Redemption introduces us to Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), a sharp banker falsely sentenced to two life terms for the double- murder of his wife and “the fella she was banging.” He’s sent to Shawshank State Prison in 1.

Byron Hadley (Clancy Brown) and made by the corrupt Warden Norton (Bob Gunton), a religious hypocrite who says, “Put your trust in the Lord. Your ass belongs to me.”Andy spends his first two years (unsuccessfully) dodging a gang called the Sisters, led by rapist Bogs (Mark Rolston), who is not even homosexual (“You have to be human first. They don’t qualify”). Throughout the ordeal, Andy confides in Ellis Boyd Redding, known simply as “Red” (Morgan Freeman), a man who knows how to smuggle things inside the prison walls, a “regular Sears Roebuck.” At first, Red doesn’t think much of Andy, calling him “a tall drink of water with a silver spoon up his ass,” but soon they develop a male bond rare to movies. It’s Red whom Andy first opens up to, asking for a tiny rock hammer for his hobby of sculpting stones and, after a screening of Gilda (1.

Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe and Raquel Welch. In the spring of ’4. Red fixes it so that he and the guys are assigned to outdoor detail to resurface the roof of a factory.

It’s there that Andy wins over the rest of the inmates by haggling a round of beers in exchange for giving tax advice to Captain Hadley. Soon, all the guards at Shawshank are coming to Andy for his accounting knowledge, including Warden Norton, who hires Andy to keep the books on his corrupt money- laundering deals. In exchange, Andy convinces the Warden to expand the prison library, run by the institutionalized, bird- loving Brooks Hatlen (James Whitmore).

One day, a fiery young thief, Tommy Williams (Gil Bellows), comes to join them at Shawshank. He claims he once shared a cell with a killer who bragged about killing a banker’s wife and her lover, and laughed at how it was falsely pinned on the banker. Andy brings the story to the attention of the Warden, hoping for his acquittal, but the warden cracks down hard, fearing he’ll be exposed for corruption. At his breaking point, Andy orders a length of rope and decides whether to “get busy livin’ or get busy dyin’.”Career Roles.

The role of Andy Dufresne has made Tim Robbins a household name. Watch Dylan Moran: Monster Online Metacritic. He was plucked for the part after such diverse work as Ron Shelton’s baseball comedy Bull Durham (1. Adrian Lyne’s psycho- thriller Jacob’s Ladder (1.

Robert Altman’s Hollywood satire The Player (1. Producer Niki Marvin said Robbins possessed the sort of enigmatic quality required of Andy, and Robbins even asked to be placed in solitary confinement while he prepared for the role. A)“A lot of people, more than any other movie I’ve done, have come up to me about that movie,” Robbins said. It’s not just, ‘Hey, I liked that movie. You were really good in that movie,’ it’s, ‘That movie was important to me or that’s my favorite movie of all time.'” (A)Morgan Freeman has had a similar experience: “Everywhere I go, people who have seen it react to it fondly.” (A) Though King’s original story had Red as a white Irishman, Darabont liked Freeman so much that he changed the character to an African American. The performance earned Freeman his third Oscar nomination, after Street Smart (1. Driving Miss Daisy (1.

Oscar, he left empty handed. This is likely because he was entered into the Leading Role category and had to go up against Tom Hanks’ career role as Forrest Gump. It would be a full decade before he was nominated again, and the fourth time was the charm. Freeman won for Million Dollar Baby (2. Clint Eastwood, who had fittingly directed Robbins’ first Oscar for Mystic River (2. Robbins’ watery demise made me think of something he had said in Shawshank: “You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory.”When fans called the Oscars overdue, they were no doubt thinking of Andy and Red.

And why not? By that point, Robbins already seemed so familiar, and Freeman had long ago convinced us that he was the voice of God, as we had heard his angelic voice transcend celluloid dozens of times in Shawshank alone. Surely, no script has given him better passages to deliver. Darabont the Writer. Working on a Stephen King adaptation was a dream come true for Darabont, who started in low- budget horror as a production assistant on Hell Night (1.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1. The Fly II (1. 98. He had long admired King, who was already fully entrenched in film adaptations, after hits like Carrie (1. The Shining (1. 98. Misery (1. 99. 0).

Darabont would finally get a chance to work with his idol when King graciously offered to lend young film students his short stories for $1, as long as the films weren’t screened commercially and King retained the rights. Darabont impressed King so much with his adaptation of The Woman in the Room, that the two agreed to work together on a feature film based off King’s Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. A) Turns out this side of King, the humanistic side, was just as fruitful for the screen as the horror, and Darabont was just the man to deliver it. In addition to changing Red from an Irish man to a black man, Darabont collapsed the novella’s three wardens into one — a powerful choice in creating a Nixonian figure.

A) He also introduced a number of powerful scenes that didn’t exist in the novella — case in point, the scene where Andy locks himself in the control room and blares Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro over the prison loudspeaker. It’s the first of many moments when Darabont’s writing chops are poetically on display: RED: I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don’t want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. Watch Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman Of La Mancha Dailymotion on this page.