The Shawshank Redemption film details.

[Edit this paragraph] Basic information

The Shawshank Redemption (Shark Castle)

The Shawshank Redemption

More Chinese titles stimulus 1995. Black fly to hell promises to redeem Xiaoxiang guest.

Film genre, plot/record

The length of the film is 142 minutes.

United States countries/regions

White language English Italian

Color color

Mixed Dolby

The level of language and violence is R.

Level Finland: K- 16 Netherlands: 12 Norway: 15 Sweden: 15 Britain: 15 Brazil: 14 France: u Peru: 14 Spain:. Da: 13+ Australia: Ma Hongkong: IIB Singapore: NC- 16 Chile: 14 Germany: 12 Singapore: R Argentina: 16 Ireland: 15 Denmark: 6 550.

The production cost is 1 1,000,000 (estimated).

Box Office Score Cover (Prisoner)

National premiere box office: $ 1, 968,808.00 (unit: USD)

Cumulative box office in the United States: $28,2465,438+$0,469.00 (unit: USD)

Copyright (Castle Rock Entertainment)

[Edit this paragraph] Credit

Directed by Frank Darabont Frank Darabont.

dramatist

Stephen King Stephen King (short stories Rita hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption).

Frank Darabont Frank Darabont (screenplay)

executant

Tim Robbins Tim Robbins Andy Dufresne

Morgan Freeman Morgan Freeman ... Ellis Boyd Red Reading.

Samuel Norton, warden of bob gunton, bob gunton.

James whitmore james whitmore ... Brooks Hartlon.

William sadler william sadler ... Heywood

Clancy brown clancy brown ... Captain Byron T. Hadley.

Jude ciccolella jude ciccolella ... guards Mert.

Ned Bellamy ned bellamy ... guards Youngblood.

Starring introduction

Tim. Robbins

Tim. Robbins 1958 was born in West Covey, California, and graduated from 1980, majoring in drama. I used to be a professional baseball player, but I have a soft spot for acting. Toy soldier (1984) is his first screen work. 1986 played a supporting role in the film Top Gun; His famous work is the baseball movie Durham the Bull (1988), in which Robbins plays a silly pitcher. Representative works include Different Life, Big Player, Comedy IQ, Black Comedy money empire, Shawshank Redemption of Prisoners' Friendship, Fashion Storm, Ace and Secret Service, etc. Among them, the most acclaimed work is 1995' s The Shawshank Redemption, which was as famous as Forrest Gump in that year, but it was narrowly won by Forrest Gump in that year's Oscar. Robbins is not only an excellent actor, but also an excellent director. 1992, Robbins wrote, directed and acted The Born Winner, which tells the inside story of running for the Senate. The songs he sang in the film showed his various talents. 1994, his second film, Walking on Death Row, won him the Oscar nomination for best director that year. This film shines brilliantly at the Berlin Film Festival, winning four awards, starring Sean? Pan and Susan? Sharan Deng was nominated for the Oscar for Best Actor and won the Best Actress Award. In 2004, he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his outstanding performance in the film Mysterious River.

Morgan. freeman

American actor, who participated in drama performances at school, joined the Air Force at the age of 18. 1959 After leaving the army, he went to the City College of Los Angeles to study drama. 1967, the black version of the musical "I Love Matchmaker" was first staged on Broadway, and it was regularly staged on children's programs of public TV stations for the next six years. In the early 1970s, he set foot in the film industry until he won the attention of Hollywood for his role as a pimp in The Reality of Bad Street from 65438 to 0987, which won the Best Supporting Actor, Golden Globe Award and Oscar nomination from the three major film critics associations in new york, Los Angeles and the United States. 1989 is famous for "driving for Miss Dai". Today, he is one of the few black stars with acting skills.

producer

Liz Gloser ... Executive producer.

David Lester ... Executive Producer (David Lester)

Niki Marvin ... producer.

Original music Thomas Newman Thomas Newman

Photography roger deakins roger deakins (director of photography)

Editor Richard Francis-Bruce Richard Francis-Bruce

Deborah Aquila, casting director.

Juliet is strange, Julie Li Xite ... (unedited)

Terence Marsh, artistic director.

Art design Peter Langston Smith Peter Langston Smith ...

Michael Heaton, set designer ...

Fashion design Elizabeth McBride Elizabeth McBride

Assistant director/assistant director

Michael Lvmu, michael green Wood ... Second Assistant Director.

Thomas Schellenberg Thomas Schellenberg ... Second Assistant Director.

John Woodward ... Horn tower guard.

Jesse V. Johnson Jesse V. Johnson ... Third Assistant Director (undetermined)

[Edit this paragraph] Production and distribution

Production company

Castle Rock Entertainment Company [USA]

Columbia Pictures [USA]

Issuing company

Polaroid Film International Company ... (1994) (Global) (All Media) (Sales)

Columbia Film Company [USA] (1994) (USA) (Cinema)

Ranked film organization [UK ]...( 1995) (UK) (drama) (as a ranked film publisher)

Columbia Samsung Home Video (USA) (1995) (USA) (Video) (Laser Disc)

Fiemeyer Company [Spain] ... (Spain)

Guild Family Video ... (UK)

Roadshow Entertainment Video [Australia] ... (Australia) (VHS)

Sandru metronome [Denmark] ... (Australia) (VHS)

Pan-European Video Entertainment (TVE)[ Argentina] ... (Video)

VCI Distribution [UK] ... (Argentina) (Video)

Country Tour Entertainment [Australia] ... (Australia)

Video Alte [Brazil] ... (Brazil) (VHS)

Warner Home Video [USA] (1996) (USA) (VHS)

Warner Home Video [Brazil] ... (2000) (Brazil) (DVD)

Special effects production company

Motion Pixel Company ... (Digital Special Effects)

Other companies

Lederman Films and Stories [USA] ...

Arlene Fiszbach Corporation ... Music Consultation

Condor sound company. ..... Post-production sound

Boston Lighting & Audio Company [USA] ... Sample Projection System

D. Bassett & Associates [USA] ... negative cutting

California Direct Travel Company [USA] ... Travel Service

Du Art Film Laboratory Company [USA] ... Production Daily Processing

Epic sound trax[ USA] ... Music publisher

Hollywood Rental Company [USA] ... produces equipment.

International film guarantor company. ..... Completion guarantee

Joe Denton & International Company ... Arriflex cameras and lenses are provided by.

Nancy seltzer and. Joint ... publicity

Pacific Title [United States] ..................................

Preston Camera Systems ... Gyrosphere Aerial Photography System

Joe Denton (Camera) Co., Ltd. (1) (2) [UK] ... The camera equipment is provided by.

Release date?

Canada1994 September 10 Canada ... (Toronto Film Festival)

1September 23, 994, USA

1995 1.6

Australia, Australia

1995 February 17 UK

1February 24, 995 Finland

1February 24, 995 Spain

1 March 9951France France

1March 2, 995 Netherlands

1March 3, 995 Sweden

1March 9, 995 Germany

1March 23, 995 Argentina

1995 April 16 Poland

1April 28, 995 Denmark

1June 3, 995 Japan

199510126 October Hong Kong

1996 February 12 Republic of Korea

[Edit this paragraph] Introduction to the plot

The story happened in 1947. Andy, a banker, was wrongly accused of shooting her and her lover because of her extramarital affairs. Andy was sentenced to life imprisonment, which means he will spend the rest of his life in Shawshank prison.

Rhett 1927 was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder, and his parole failed several times. He has now become an "authority figure" in Shawshank prison. As long as you can afford it, he can get almost anything you want: cigarettes, candy, wine and even marijuana. Whenever a new prisoner comes, everyone bets on who will cry on the first night. Rhett thinks Andy, who is fragile and bookish, will cry. As a result, Andy's silence made him lose two packs of cigarettes. But it also made Rhett sit up and take notice of him.

For a long time, Andy didn't contact anyone. When everyone was complaining, he took a leisurely walk in the yard, just like in the park. A month later, the first thing Andy asked Rhett to do for him was a stone hammer. His explanation was that he wanted to carve some small things to kill time, and he said that he managed to escape the routine inspection by the prison authorities himself. Soon, Rhett played the chess carved by Andy. Later, Andy made a huge poster of rita hayworth and put it on the wall of his cell.

Once, Andy and several other prisoners went out to work, and he overheard the prison guard talking about paying taxes. Andy said he had a way to get prison officials to legally exempt this large amount of tax. In exchange, he won three bottles of beer for each of a dozen prisoners' friends. Drinking beer, Rhett said that he felt free for the first time in many years.

Because Andy is proficient in the knowledge of financial system, he quickly got rid of the heavy physical labor in prison and the harassment of other abnormal prisoners. Soon, the famous Andy began to deal with tax issues for more and more prison guards, and even asked him about his children's further education. At the same time, Andy has gradually become an important tool for Shawshank warden Norton to launder money. Prison life is very dull, so you always have to find something to do by yourself. Because Andy kept writing letters to the state legislature, he finally applied for a small sum of money for the prison library. At the same time, in order to show the charm of music and let more people know it, Andy played a piece of music at the risk of being punished and gave Rhett a harmonica.

The arrival of a young prisoner broke Andy's quiet prison life: the prisoner had heard about Andy's case while serving his sentence in another prison, and he knew who the real murderer was! However, when Andy asked the warden to report the case and tried to retry the case, he was flatly rejected and was severely punished by solitary confinement for one month. In order to prevent Andy from being released, the prison did not hesitate to design and kill the insider!

Facing the cruel reality, Andy became very depressed ... One day, he said to Rhett, "If you can get parole one day, you must go somewhere to realize a wish for me." That's where I proposed to my wife, and I dug a box under a big oak tree there. I gave you something. "That night, it was stormy and thunderous, and Andy, who was redeemed by his soul, successfully escaped from prison.

It turns out that Andy has been digging holes with that pebble hammer every day for twenty years, and then covering the holes with posters. At the same time, because of his shrewd economic mind, the warden has been asking Andy to do black accounts and money laundering for him, and transfer the black money he earned and the cheap labor in the prison one by one. Andy put all the black money in the name of a man named Steven. In fact, this Steven is a fictional character of Andy. Andy made Steven all kinds of certificates, driver's license, ID card, and it was flawless. After Andy escaped from prison, he took part of the black money saved by the warden under Steven's pseudonym and lived a good life with this large sum of money. And denounced the truth of the warden's corruption and bribery. The warden saw a Bible that Andy left in the safe, and he put it in his little ledger. The title page reads: "Warden, you are right. Salvation is among them. " When you see the hollow part inside, you can just put down the pebble hammer. The warden realized that Andy never gave in. At this time, the police were coming to the prison to arrest the warden, and finally the warden shot himself.

Rhett was paroled. After finding a box of cash and a letter left by Andy under the oak tree, he decided to violate the parole and seek freedom. I set out for Chihuahua Tanjo. Andy and Rhett, two old friends, finally meet again on a sunny beach in Mexico.

[Edit this paragraph] Behind the scenes of the movie

Comment in one sentence

Fear will imprison you. I hope I can set you free.

A blockbuster that exposes the shady American justice.

A picture of life full of friendship and hope

Metaphorical works containing philosophy of life

Behind the scenes production

Through the forced deprivation of freedom and the special background of high emphasis on discipline in prison, this film shows personal fear of "the passage of time and the transformation of the environment" The ending of the film has a "Count of Monte Cristo" style of revenge.

"three redemptions" run through the whole line

Redemption, redemption, not just Andy himself. In a sense, he not only saved himself, but also saved his cellmate. His rescue of prisoners is a kind of spiritual rescue, because he makes people around him understand the value of pursuing freedom and hope to some extent-red is one of them. Two people with the same hope for freedom but different attitudes form the main line of the whole movie. The three redemption methods are as follows:

For the first time, he helped prison guard Hadley evade taxes and won three bottles of beer for each prisoner. "We sat together drinking, the sun shone on our shoulders and felt like a free man. We may be tarring our house. We are the Lord of all things. " ... "You could say he did it to please the guards. Or make some friends with us prisoners. I think he just wants to get back to his normal feelings ... even if it's just for a little while. " At this moment, you saw T.Robbins' smile for the first time. After all, freedom is always the happiest and represents the realization of self-worth. Everyone has needs that make him feel important.

The second time was the highlight of the film. He showed "The Wedding of Figaro" in the prison guard's office. This clip seems calm as water, but in fact it is passionate and extremely lethal, which can make your eyes hot. "I don't know what these two Italian women are singing. The truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I like to think that what they sing is so beautiful that it can't be expressed in words, which makes your heart ache. " ... "I tell you, those voices soared. Higher and farther than anyone in the gray area dares to dream. It's like some beautiful birds flapping their wings into our monotonous little cage and making the walls disappear ... at that moment-everyone in Shawshank prison felt free. " This time, Andy's smile is a smile with a sense of victory. He used his value in prison guards and the trust he gained from it to make his friends feel free again-even for a moment. "Some things in this world are not carved with gray stones. There is a small place in our hearts that they can never lock, and that place is called hope. "

The third time, he set up a library for the prison. In order to get the first batch of books, he wrote a letter every week for six years. Later, he increased to two letters a week, and in Andy's second decade in prison, the library was built. This is also an epoch-making victory with far-reaching influence. About this time, Tommy appeared and the plot took a turn.

After Tommy was killed, Andy came out of the hole, and the day before he was released from prison, the conversation with Rhett was very intriguing. Before fleeing from here, Andy reflected on his mistakes. He was responsible for his wife's death.

What I have to mention here is that the clips before and after the escape are well handled. Rhett is always worried that Andy will kill himself. In the face of despair, some people choose to die, because it means a kind of liberation-the director also tends to guide the audience to think in the direction of "death" here, as if playing a joke with the audience-but for those who really want freedom, they will choose another road, a real road to freedom.

Later, Norton committed suicide, and the sentence "His trial is coming soon" is very ironic. The scene from Andy's successful escape to Rhett's release from prison is a complete test of M.Freeman's acting skills. M.Freeman's monologues and performances always give people a feeling of seeing through the world of mortals and perfection, which adds a lot of color to the surge. (Wong Kar-wai also used monologues in Chongqing Forest and Spring Scene. But Tony Leung Chiu Wai's performance seems a little immature. ) In prison: "Sometimes Andy's departure makes me sad. I have to remind myself that some birds can't be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright ... "Finally, he opened the box and decided to go to Zihuatanejo to find his friend andy. Say the last monologue in your heart: "I find that I am so excited that I can hardly sit still or have an idea in my mind." I think this is the excitement that only a free man can feel, the starting point of a long journey with an unknown ending ... "You can see his profound skills.

Obviously, this is not a simple and pure commercial film-although it does bring high commercial achievements-1995 national video rental and sales champion. But besides the box office, it also brought a lot of information. For example, "value" is an important message brought by movies. What is the life value of released prisoners? Brooks' escape from prison to suicide is also a tear-jerking episode. As Rhett said, he has institutionalized prison life for a long time. "Humans have lived here for fifty years. He only knows this place. Here, he is an important person, an educated person. Librarian. Outside, he is just an old prisoner with arthritis in both hands. Even if he applied, he couldn't get a library card. Do you understand what I'm saying? " ... "believe what you want. These walls are interesting. First you hate them, then you get used to them. After a long time, you will become dependent on them. That's "institutionalization."

Cherishing your freedom is also one of the themes of this film. Rhett said of himself, "I am the only guilty person in Shawshank prison." He said at the hearing for the last time that he deeply regretted what he had done. "Not a day goes by that I don't regret it, not because I'm here, nor because you think I should. I look back on myself ... the stupid kid who committed terrible crimes ... and hope I can reason with him. Tell him how things are right. But I can't. That child is long gone, only this old man is left, and I have to put up with all this. "

Isn't life itself a prison? Each of us, which one is not the product of social institutionalization? The original poster of the film reads: "Fear can imprison you. I hope I can set you free. " This reminds me of a bestseller some time ago: Who Moved My Cheese: "Overcome your inner fears, change yourself and release yourself."

The Shawshank Redemption, filmed in 1994, is almost always a classic in the eyes of fans, an outdated topic in film forums, a bestseller in video stores and the top three in IMDB websites.

[Edit this paragraph] Movie music

The Shawshank Redemption (Stimulus 1995), The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Oscar nomination for best original score.

Newman, the master of film soundtrack.

Album tracks:

0 1. May-Ink

02. Shawshank Prison [Stoic Theme]-Ink

03. New Fish-Ink Spots

04. Stone Hammer-Ink

05. An inch in his life-ink.

06. If I don't care-ink dots

07. Brooks is here in Thomas Newman.

08. His trial is coming-hank williams.

09. Foam on the roof-hank williams

10. Work site-hank williams

1 1. The Shawshank Redemption-hank williams

12. Acacia Blues-hank williams

13. Elmer blatch-German Opera House in Berlin

14. Berlin Sister German Opera House

15.Zihuatanejo-German Opera House in Berlin

16. The Wedding of Figaro: duet of southern aria-German Opera House in Berlin

17. Lovely Raquel

18. Soon

19. Compass and gun

20. So is red.

2 1. closing caption

[Edit this paragraph] Highlights

Remember when the new prisoners who had just arrived in prison got off the van, a young black man in the crowd laughed at them? This actor is the son of Morgan Freeman, the actor of the main character Black and Red in the film.

Remember Boggs, one of the three sisters, was beaten by the captain and sent to the ambulance? During the filming, the old ambulance broke down, and the ambulance action in the picture was actually pulled by the staff.

Remember the shot of Andy driving a red convertible on a mountain road in Mexico? It's a Pontiac GTO made by 1969, and the age in the film is still 1966. The film crew contacted a mustang produced by 1965, but the owner changed his mind at the last minute.

Do you remember the first night Shawshank went to prison, when the old prisoners kept laughing at the noise in an attempt to scare the new prisoners? In the process of shooting, because there were not enough extras, the security guards at the shooting site were used to create a noisy atmosphere.

Do you remember the close-up of Andy sitting in the car with a bullet in his hand on the night of the murder? In fact, those hands belonged to director Frank Darabont, because this shot was not designed in the original script, but was made later.

Do you remember the first time Andy and Lao Heihong met on the playground (Hong was playing baseball with others)? Because there were countless problems in shooting, the director spent a whole day shooting the scene repeatedly, which made him feel perfect.

Do you remember Andy walking in the snow? Those snowflakes are actually potato chips.

Do you remember the prison guard who shouted "turn off the lights" at the beginning of the movie? He is also a prison guard in real life.

Do you remember the black prisoner sitting behind the same van when Tommy (Andy's student, the one who was shot) came to prison? In real life, that man is the warden of Ohio juvie.

Do you remember the stone Andy used to break the sewer? In fact, the original design was to let Andy use his small stone hammer. Later, it was found that the small stone hammer was not enough to break the sewer, so it was changed to stone.

When Andy crawled in the sewer, the stains on his face and pipes were actually chocolate pulp.

Do you remember the sentence "Some birds are not meant to be caged"? The script originally designed the plot that the crow raised by librarian Brooks flew back to Shawshank and was discovered by Andy and Rhett after his death (metaphorically, Brooks was only suitable for being caged like this bird and could not survive outside), and also involved the scene that the prisoner held a funeral for the bird in the playground to mourn the old Brooks who committed suicide.

Do you remember the scene where Andy and Rhett meet and hug on the beach in the last scene? This does not exist in the script, because there is no such plot in Stephen King's original novel. This was added by the director against his will at the insistence of his partner, and he even wanted to cut it out after filming. Fortunately, the audience loved this demo, so the director made a concession and decided to keep the plot. Later audiences were lucky enough to watch this happy and tearful ending scene.

The old man who won his belated freedom played by Morgan Freeman is called RED, which is the first three letters of the English word "Redemption" (also the title of this film).

The role of Tommy Williams (a young man who was sentenced to two years for stealing TV) was originally prepared for Brad Pitt. Gil bellows, who plays Tommy, once played a similar role in 1997' s popular TV series ally mcbeal (the Hong Kong version translated Ellie's fantasy world, and the Taiwanese version translated ally mcbeal, a popular TV series similar to Friends).

The shooting location was Mansfield State Prison in Ohio, but the crew had to renovate it before shooting because the prison was too shabby. The indoor scene was shot in the studio, because repairing the interior of this prison is more expensive than setting the same set.

The Humane Society of America supervised the filming of all crows involving Brooks in the film. In one scene, Brooks feeds maggots to his crows. Aha immediately thought that the maggots were inhuman and asked them to use a natural death maggot, so he had to do it.

The photo posted on Morgan Freeman's parole document is actually Freeman's youngest son, Alfonso Freeman. Alfonso is also a walk-on in the film, shouting "new prisoners! New prisoner today! " ("fresh fish! Fresh fish today! We got them involved! " ) That one.