Redemption

This scene bring so much joy to when watching it again, its shows the character Andy Dufrene after crawling through a sewer pipe the length of 5 football pitch out of prison releasing all that wound up pressure he had on from being in prisoned in Shawshank.

The film genre is Crime/Drama, which is based around two characters played by (Tim Robins and Morgan Freeman) and there strong build they build whilst being inmates together.  The crime part of the genre takes places with Andy Dufrene being wrongfully convicted of murder of his wife and her lover and being sentenced to life in shawshank prison where he meet a soon to be good friend ‘Red’.  The drama consists of the two men and there journey and experiences whilst being locked up.

The director of the film was Frank Darabont a three time Oscar nomine I really enjoyed mood of the story and how the director created the impression that andy had always been up to no good and always one step ahead of everyone. He also produced and developed one of my favorite series at the moment the Walking Dead.

Tony Dufrene played by Tim Robins was originally supposed to be played by Tom Cruise and Red played by Morgan Freeman was supposed to be Harrison Ford, I’m really glad that the director made that risky decision of casting theses two actors because I really paid off in the success of the film. Looking back on the idea I personally can’t see Tom cruise playing the character as ‘Andy’ and having his personality, however I could see Harrison Ford playing the character ‘Red’ even though I really enjoyed Morgan Freeman’s performance in the film and what he brought to the character.        

The film had quiet a lot of memorable quotes that made me laugh, I especially really thought the idea of Morgan Freeman narrating the majority of the film helped bring the structure of the story to life, and come on you cant deny that he voice doesn’t just make you want to stop what ever your doing and just listen. This is one of my favorite quotes from the movie were Andy has out smarted the warden out of his money a the police are about to break into his office and arrest him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWi2QooA51o

  

Red: “I'd like to think that the last thing that went through his head, other than that bullet, was to wonder how the hell Andy Dufresne ever got the best of him”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaiBVqIgMIU

The location used in the film for the prison was not a film set but instead a real prison based in The Ohio State Reformatory which was used in several number of films. It helped some of the scenes in the film to give it a sense of realism.

Andy Dufrene

Andy and Red