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| Year: | 1994 |
| Rating: | 9.2(518007) |
| Listed in: | Crime, Drama |
| Directed by: | Frank Darabont |
| Actors: | Tim Robbins Morgan Freeman Bob Gunton William Sadler Clancy Brown Gil Bellows |
| "Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free." | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Frank Darabont | |
| Actors | |
| Tim Robbins | as Andy Dufresne |
| Morgan Freeman | as Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding |
| Bob Gunton | as Warden Norton |
| William Sadler | as Heywood |
| Clancy Brown | as Captain Hadley |
| Gil Bellows | as Tommy |
| Mark Rolston | as Bogs Diamond |
| James Whitmore | as Brooks Hatlen |
| Jeffrey DeMunn | as 1946 D.A. |
| Larry Brandenburg | as Skeet |
| Neil Giuntoli | as Jigger |
| Brian Libby | as Floyd |
| David Proval | as Snooze |
| Joseph Ragno | as Ernie |
| Jude Ciccolella | as Guard Mert |
| Paul McCrane | as Guard Trout |
| Scott Mann | as Glenn Quentin |
| John Horton | as 1946 Judge |
| Gordon Greene | as 1947 Parole Hearings Man |
| Alfonso Freeman | as Fresh Fish Con |
| V.J. Foster | as Hungry Fish Con |
| John E. Summers | as New Fish Guard |
| Frank Medrano | as Fat Ass |
| Mack Miles | as Tyrell |
| Alan R. Kessler | as Laundry Bob |
| Morgan Lund | as Laundry Truck Driver |
| Gary Lee Davis | as Rooster |
| Neil Summers | as Pete |
| Ned Bellamy | as Guard Youngblood |
| Joe Pecoraro | as Projectionist |
| Harold E. Cope Jr. | as Hole Guard |
| Brian Delate | as Guard Dekins |
| Don McManus | as Guard Wiley |
| Donald Zinn | as Moresby Batter |
| Robert Haley | as 1954 Food-Way Manager |
| John D. Craig | as 1957 Parole Hearings Man |
| Ken Magee | as Ned Grimes |
| Eugene C. DePasquale | as Mail Caller |
| Bill Bolender | as Elmo Blatch |
| Ron Newell | as Elderly Hole Guard |
| John R. Woodward | as Bullhorn Tower Guard |
| Chuck Brauchler | as Man Missing Guard |
| Dion Anderson | as Head Bull Haig |
| James Kisicki | as Bank Manager |
| Rohn Thomas | as Bugle Editor |
| Charlie Kearns | as 1966 D.A. |
| Rob Reider | as Duty Guard |
| Brian Brophy | as 1967 Parole Hearings Man |
| Paul Kennedy | as 1967 Food-Way Manager |
| James Babson | as Con |
| Dennis Baker | as Old Man on Bus |
| Fred Culbertson | as Police Officer |
| Richard Doone | as Con |
| David Hecht | as Bank Teller |
| Alonzo F. Jones | as Inmate |
| Michael Lightsey | as Con |
| Brad Mavis | as New Fish Con |
| Joe Ragno | as Ernie |
| Brad Spencer | as 1957 Parole Hearings Guard |
| Jodiviah Stepp | as New Fish Con |
| Actresses | |
| Renee Blaine | as Andy Dufresne's Wife |
| Cornell Wallace | as Laundry Leonard |
| Dorothy Silver | as 1954 Landlady |
| Dana Snyder | as 1954 Food-Way Woman |
| Claire Slemmer | as Bank Teller |
| Rita Hayworth | as Gilda Mundson Farrell |
Movie info
| Languages: | English |
| Filming dates: | 16 June 1993 - 10 September 1993 |
| Budget: | USD 25,000,000 |
| Gross: |
UK - 2,344,349 GBP (18 May 1995) |
| Plot: | Andy Dufresne, is sent to Shawshank Prison for the murder of his wife and secret lover. He is very isolated and lonely at first, but realizes there is something deep inside your body, that people can't touch and get to....'HOPE'. Andy becomes friends with prison 'fixer' Red, and Andy epitomizes why it is crucial to have dreams. His spirit and determination, leads us into a world full of imagination, filled with courage and desire. Will Andy ever realize his dreams? |
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"If I Didn't Care" by Jack Lawrence Performed by The Ink Spots Courtesy of MCA Records "Duettino - Sull'aria" from opera "Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)" Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte (uncredited) Performed by Edith Mathis (uncredited) and Gundula Janowitz (uncredited) Chor und Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin Conducted by Karl Böhm Courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon, by arraingement with PolyGram Special Markets "Put The Blame On Mame" by Allan Roberts and Doris Fisher "Lovesick Blues" by Cliff Friend and Irving Mills Performed by Hank Williams Courtesy of PolyGram Special Markets "Willie and The Hand Jive" by Johnny Otis Performed by The Johnny Otis Show Courtesy of Capitol Records Under license from CEMA Special Markets |
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DATE: Federal income taxes were due on March 15th, not April 15th as they are today. FAIR: It's been claimed that when the warden throws the rock through the poster on the morning after Andy's escape, the poster appears to be stuck to the wall at all corners, raising the question of how Andy could have re-stuck the poster from inside the tunnel. However, as shown in a later (flashback) shot, the poster is attached at the top two corners allowing it to be lifted like a curtain while Andy works behind it. With the poster mounted in this fashion, the only requirement for the poster returning to the proper position - after Andy makes his escape - is simple gravity. Continuity: SPOILER: The bullet hole under the warden's chin is in a different location than where he placed the gun barrel a moment before he committed suicide. In the 10th Anniversary release, director Frank Darabont admits that this was an error, it has bugged him for 10 years, and they had it fixed in the 2004 release. CHAR: On the newspaper front page announcing the "corruption" story, the word "indictment" is misspelled as "indictement". DATE: When Tommy goes out into the yard to talk to Warden Norton, Warden Norton offers him a cigarette. The pack of Marlboros that he offers him has Marlboro Miles on them, which weren't around until the '90s. Continuity: The blood on Heywood's neck changes from shot to shot as Brooks holds a shank to his throat. Continuity: SPOILER: When Red's hat is blown off by the wind, it tumbles almost into the water, and Red walks quite close to the sea. But the next time we see Red, the hat is farther from the sea than Red originally walked. Continuity: SPOILER: When Andy is in the bank withdrawing the warden's money, we can see a man standing at the counter talking to a teller. A moment later when Andy leaves, the same man is walking up to the teller's window. DATE: During the warden's "Inside Out" speech, a CP-16R camera with new style magazine is visible. Additionally, a Pentax k1000 SLR still camera is visible, which was produced in 1975-1997. DATE: The recording of "Le nozze di Figaro" is from 1968 (recorded by Deutsche Grammophon and directed by Karl Bohm). Continuity: SPOILER: When Brooks hangs himself by kicking the table away, his feet barely lower at all, yet in the next shot we see that he should have fallen a considerably greater distance. Also as he is carving his name in the beam, his head is high enough that he would not have to stand on his toes to put the rope around his neck, as he is shown doing. DATE: The full-size photo poster of Rita Hayworth that Red procures for Andy in 1949 comes from a series of celebrity posters that went on sale in the early 1960s. Continuity: When they're tossing the cells, Hadley knocks over the small stone-works Andy has made. The bishop is alternately standing up/knocked over between shots. CHAR: Andy Dufresne is obviously a very intelligent man and fond of playing chess. However if you take a good look at the shot of the (nearly) completed chess board in his cell, you see that he put up the chess board the wrong way. The board should be turned 90 degrees in order to have the pieces stand right. The square on the lower left should be black, the one on the upper right too, which they are not, they are white. Anyone fond of playing chess would never make that mistake. Continuity: When Red and Andy meet for the first time, an extra is seen behind each of them. It is the same scene but as the lines were filmed at different times, the extra is wearing different shirts - one prisoner shirt the day that Red's lines were shot, and a different shirt behind Andy the day his lines were filmed. Continuity: When Red is on the bus, one shot shows all of the windows on the bus open. In fact, Red's arm is hanging outside the window. In the very next shot of the bus (a long shot from a distance), all of the windows are closed. Miscellaneous: There is a typo in the credits of the film. The title for "Additional ADR Recordists" is misspelled as "Aditional ADR Recordists." Fact errors: Andy crawls through 500 yards of an 18" sewage pipe to escape the prison. The ancient sewer pipe would have been filled with methane gas, carbon dioxide and ammonia fumes and too little oxygen to support the exertions of the escapee in the time required to crawl the distance. He should have passed out and suffocated shortly after beginning his escape. Additionally, when he first breaks the pipe it shoots up like water pipe under pressure. Once inside, the water is not moving. And when he gets to the stream that this supposed sewer pipe drains into, the water is pristine. Crew: Towards the beginning of the film, during a beautiful aerial shot of the bus entering Shawshank Prison, the camera flies over the buildings, where we see the prisoners on their way to "greet" in the new inmates. As the camera circles around, at the top of the frame, in an area of green grass, near a building, the shadow of the camera's helicopter is clearly visible. Continuity: When Red is talking to Andy for the first time, he is throwing a baseball between himself and Haywood. Just as Andy stoops down, Red catches the ball and seconds later, catches the ball again without throwing it back. DATE: When they are on the roof during the tar job, Andy tells Hadley that the IRS allows a gift to a spouse tax free. This was supposed to take place in the spring of 1949. At that time, the IRS was known as the Bureau of Internal Revenue, not the IRS. It did not become known as the IRS until the 1950's. DATE: In the scene where Andy has left the bank following his escape, he is seen driving a convertible. The head shot of him shows the profile of the vehicle also. You see no "wind wing" side glass and the windshield is raked on a heavy slant more reminiscent of a car of the period of filming. Then the scene cuts to a stock 60's Pontiac convertible with the correct windshield treatment. Sounds like they shot that scene as needed and then later added the 60's car as an establishment shot. Continuity: SPOILER: When Norton is about to load the revolver you can see a black and white photograph in a white frame on the desk. In the next scene when Norton has shot himself, you can see that the picture has now moved across the desk and is leaning against the lamp. Continuity: When Andy comes out of the cell in his first morning in prison, Red is shown wearing a shirt with a number that begins with 311, not beginning with a 302 which is the number on his shirt in the rest of the movie. CHAR: While describing Andy's jailbreak, Red mentions that Andy crawled through 500 yards of sewer pipe. He refers to it as "just shy of half a mile". But 500 yards is a little over a quarter of a mile. SYNC: When the inmates are at the table discussing the possibility of Andy committing suicide, one of them says "No, no, Andy would never do that." But his mouth movements do not correspond with what he said. His mouth movements actually look like was saying Dufresne, instead of Andy, Dufresne being Andy's surname. DATE: Andy has a poster of Raquel Welch in "One Million Years B.C." on the wall of his cell at the time of his escape in 1966. This movie was not released in the United States until February 1967. Continuity: In the aerial shot where Andy's bus approaches the prison, next to the gate is a red brick building and it's sidewalk is strewn with debris. As the bus pulls in seconds later and we see the gate and same brick building from the vantage point of guards who hurried from a tower, the sidewalk is clean. FAIR: When Andy's climbing out of the hole, just before he's going into the sewer, you see him with his old shoes. But just before that he had put them in the warden's shoebox and replaced them with the warden's. However, at that point, Andy had been in prison for nearly 20 years and enjoyed special privileges. It's possible he had an extra pair of prison issue shoes in his cell, and took the warden's off before making his escape. This makes sense considering that when Andy entered the bank the next day, the shoes were still polished, and clearly had not been worn while wading through a sewage pipe. Crew: Green screen reflected in the warden's glasses when he is in Andy's cell the morning after his escape. DATE: After Andy escapes, we see him driving alone in a red convertible on a coastal highway. While he escaped in 1966, the car is clearly a 1969 GTO. Revealing mistakes: The difference in temperature and humidity between the pipe chase and the cell block would have caused the paper poster to billow and crackle noticeably, making it obvious what had happened. Furthermore, whenever any of the three posters in Andy's cell are shown, they look new, which cannot be the case given that they were removed and replaced almost every night and were switched out only twice during Andy's entire time in prison. Revealing mistakes: When the top of the pipe is broken open, it shoots a fountain, indicating that it is pressurized (if only by gravity). But then the pipe drains nearly empty. It should only have drained to the lowest point in the hole broken at the top. Continuity: At one point, one can clearly see Andy aging - his hair becomes more gray - but a few minutes later, there is less gray and he looks younger again. Revealing mistakes: When the warden reads the headline in the Daily Bugle after Andy's escape, he rushes to the safe and opens the bible. Inside, he sees a perfectly cut out hole of the pick hammer within the pages. Presumably Andy was using this to store the hammer as he dug through the cell wall and tunnel, yet the outline of the hammer in the bible is perfect with no wear marks, and the pages have no dirt whatsoever on them. Revealing mistakes: The warden is clearly almost a foot shorter than Andy, and yet Andy presumably fits perfectly into his suit. Continuity: At the beginning of the scene when Andy Dufresne's cell is about to be searched, as the warden and guards are first approaching the cell, the shot shifts to Andy sitting in his cell holding an almost new indigo blue bible as if reading it. Throughout the scene Andy holds the bible in his hand as the guards ransack the cell. At the end of the scene, the search complete, the warden enters the cell and, facing Andy, notices him holding the bible then asks him about his favorite passages. As the warden and Andy discuss Mark 13:35, the warden reaches for and Andy hands him a worn and stained, black bible. Continuity: When Warden Norton pushes his arm through the poster of Raquel in Andy's cell, the next shot shows only his hand on the poster. Continuity: When Norton is walking to Andy's cell after his escape, he tells the guards to question "that friend of his... him!" and he points to Red with the index finger on his left hand. The shot then cuts to a frontal shot of Red in his cell, and Norton is now pointing at Red with the index finger on his right hand. Continuity: When Red is sitting in his chair in his apartment with the compass you can tell he has done the scene over and over again. When he opens the compass it does not spin. With that type of compass when it is closes it locks the compass needle in place. So when you open it it spins until it settles on North. When he opens it however it is pointing perfectly north and does not spin. Continuity: When Andy crawls through the tunnel you can see the light from the lightning behind him. But when the guards opens his cell the poster is covering the hole. You wouldn't be able to see the lightning that clear if the poster was still up. Furthermore, while Andy repeatedly reattached the poster in his cell after his nightly digging, he could not possibly have done so on the night of his escape from inside the tunnel. Revealing mistakes: Andy is shown breaking into the sewage pipe by simply slamming a large rock against it a few times. Even if the pipe was old and rusty, it would have taken much more effort from Andy than depicted to create a hole large enough to fit his body through. Continuity: Before he escapes, Andy puts the warden's account book and other papers in a plastic bag and ties the bag to his ankle with the six feet of rope he obtained. After Andy escapes and plunges into the flooded creek, he is shown dragging the bag underwater for several steps. No matter how tight Andy originally tied the bag, after he dragged it through the tunnel, the sewage pipe and the creek, there is no way the plastic bag could have remained waterproof (unless Andy had used a large amount of strong tape). At a minimum, the ink on the papers inside would have started to run, and the pages would have been damp and stuck together. Even after being dried, the pages would have been stained, warped and wrinkled, and possibly illegible. Yet when Andy sends the book to the authorities it looks like it was bone dry the entire journey. CHAR: When Andy talks to Red for the first time, several prisoners in the background can be seen wearing khaki trousers. All other prisoners in the movie are wearing dark trousers, possibly jeans. DATE: The stamp used by the parole hearings people in 1947 prints in the Helvetica font, which was not invented until 1957. Continuity: After Andy escapes and is celebrating with upraised arms, the clothes he had just taken off (as narrated by Red when he said, "...the only thing they found was a set of prison clothes...") are gone, when he had just stripped them off and dropped them right next to him only seconds before. |
Quotes
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[Red places his bet on Andy] Red: That tall drink of water with the silver spoon up his ass. Red: [narrating] I wish I could tell you that Andy fought the good fight, and the Sisters let him be. I wish I could tell you that - but prison is no fairy-tale world. He never said who did it, but we all knew. Things went on like that for awhile - prison life consists of routine, and then more routine. Every so often, Andy would show up with fresh bruises. The Sisters kept at him - sometimes he was able to fight 'em off, sometimes not. And that's how it went for Andy - that was his routine. I do believe those first two years were the worst for him, and I also believe that if things had gone on that way, this place would have got the best of him. Warden Samuel Norton: Do you enjoy working in the laundry? Andy Dufresne: No sir, not especially. Andy Dufresne: You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? Red: No. Andy Dufresne: They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory. [Boggs sizes Andy up] Boggs: Hey, anybody come at you yet? Anybody get to you yet? [Andy looks at him in puzzlement] Boggs: Hey, we all need friends in here. I could be a friend to you. [Andy walks away] Boggs: Hey... Hard to get. I like that... Red: [narrating] But then, in the spring of 1949, the powers that be decided that... Warden Samuel Norton: The roof of the license-plate factory needs resurfacing. I need a dozen volunteers for a week's work. As you know, special detail carries with it special privledges. Red: [narrating] It was outdoor detail - and May is one damn fine month to be working outdoors. [Andy after Warden Norton refuse to appeal his case] Andy Dufresne: It's my life. Don't you understand? IT'S MY LIFE! 1967 Parole Hearings Man: Ellis Boyd Redding, your files say you've served 40 years of a life sentence. Do you feel you've been rehabilitated? Red: Rehabilitated? Well, now let me see. You know, I don't have any idea what that means. 1967 Parole Hearings Man: Well, it means that you're ready to rejoin society... Red: I know what *you* think it means, sonny. To me it's just a made up word. A politician's word, so young fellas like yourself can wear a suit and a tie, and have a job. What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did? 1967 Parole Hearings Man: Well, are you? Red: There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, or because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then: a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try and talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone and this old man is all that's left. I got to live with that. Rehabilitated? It's just a bullshit word. So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time. Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a shit. Warden Samuel Norton: I have to say that's the most amazing story I've ever heard. What amazes me most is that you were taken in by it. Andy Dufresne: Sir? Warden Samuel Norton: It's obvious this fellow Williams is impressed with you, he hears your tale of woe and naturally wants to cheer you up. He's young, not terribly bright, it's not surprising he wouldn't know what a state he put you in. Andy Dufresne: Sir, he's telling the truth. Warden Samuel Norton: Let's say for the moment this Blatch does exist. You think he'd just fall to his knees and cry: "Yes, I did it, I confess! Oh, and by the way, add a life term to my sentence." Andy Dufresne: You know that wouldn't matter. With Tommy's testimony I can get a new trial. Warden Samuel Norton: That's assuming Blatch is still there. Chances are excellent he'd be released by now. Andy Dufresne: Well they'd have his last known address, names of relatives. It's a *chance*, isn't it. [Norton shakes his head] Andy Dufresne: How can you be so obtuse? Warden Samuel Norton: What? What did you call me? Andy Dufresne: Obtuse. Is it deliberate? Warden Samuel Norton: Son, you're forgetting yourself. Andy Dufresne: The country club will have his old time cards. Records, W-2s with his name on them. Sir, if I ever get out, I'd never mention what happens here. I'd be just as indictable as you for laundering that money. [Norton slaps the table] Warden Samuel Norton: Don't you ever mention money to me again, you sorry son of a bitch! Not in this office, not anywhere! Brooks: [to Andy] Son, six wardens have been through here in my tenure, and I've learned one immutable, universal truth: Not one of them born whose asshole wouldn't pucker up tighter than a snare drum when you ask them for funds. Red: The man likes to play chess; let's get him some rocks. Warden Samuel Norton: I believe in two things: discipline and the Bible. Here you'll receive both. Put your trust in the Lord; your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank. Red: [narrating] I must admit I didn't think much of Andy first time I laid eyes on him; looked like a stiff breeze would blow him over. That was my first impression of the man. Brooks: Easy peasy japanesey. Captain Hadley: If I hear so much as a mouse fart in here the rest of the night I swear by God and sonny Jesus you will all visit the infirmary. Every last motherfucker in here. District Attorney: And that also is very convenient, isn't it, Mr. Dufresne? Andy Dufresne: Since I am innocent of this crime, sir, I find it decidedly *inconvenient* that the gun was never found. Captain Hadley: Uncle Sam. Reaching into your shirt and squeezing your tit till it's purple. Captain Hadley: What is your malfunction, you fat barrel of monkey spunk? Red: Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. Red: [narrating] The first night's the toughest, no doubt about it. They march you in naked as the day you were born, skin burning and half blind from that delousing shit they throw on you, and when they put you in that cell... and those bars slam home... that's when you know it's for real. A whole life blown away in the blink of an eye. Nothing left but all the time in the world to think about it. Red: These walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That's institutionalized. Heywood: Shit. I could never get like that. Prisoner: Oh yeah? Say that when you been here as long as Brooks has. Red: Goddamn right. They send you here for life, and that's exactly what they take. The part that counts, anyway. Red: [narrating] His first night in the joint, Andy Dufresne cost me two packs of cigarettes. He never made a sound. Red: [narrating] 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. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can't be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free. Andy Dufresne: That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you... Haven't you ever felt that way about music? Red: I played a mean harmonica as a younger man. Lost interest in it though. Didn't make much sense in here. Andy Dufresne: Here's where it makes the most sense. You need it so you don't forget. Red: Forget? Andy Dufresne: Forget that... there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside... that they can't get to, that they can't touch. That's yours. Red: What're you talking about? Andy Dufresne: Hope. Warden Samuel Norton: [after Andy escapes] I want him found. Not tomorrow, not after breakfast - *now*. Red: [narrating] In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All they found of him was a muddy set of prison clothes, a bar of soap, and an old rock hammer, damn near worn down to the nub. I remember thinking it would take a man six hundred years to tunnel through the wall with it. Old Andy did it in less than twenty. Oh, Andy loved geology. I imagine it appealed to his meticulous nature. An ice age here, million years of mountain building there. Geology is the study of pressure and time. That's all it takes really, pressure, and time. That, and a big goddamn poster. Like I said, in prison a man will do most anything to keep his mind occupied. Turns out Andy's favorite hobby was totin' his wall out into the exercise yard, a handful at a time. I guess after Tommy was killed, Andy decided he'd been here just about long enough. Andy did like he was told, buffed those shoes to a high mirror shine. The guards simply didn't notice. Neither did I... I mean, seriously, how often do you really look at a mans shoes? Andy crawled to freedom through five hundred yards of shit smelling foulness I can't even imagine, or maybe I just don't want to. Five hundred yards... that's the length of five football fields, just shy of half a mile. Andy Dufresne: If they ever try to trace any of those accounts, they're gonna end up chasing a figment of my imagination. Red: Well, I'll be damned. Did I say you were good? Shit, you're a Rembrandt! Andy Dufresne: Yeah. The funny thing is - on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook. Red: Ever bother you? Andy Dufresne: I don't run the scams Red, I just process the profits. Fine line, maybe, but I also built that library and used it to help a dozen guys get their high school diploma. Why do you think the warden lets me do all that? Red: To keep you happy and doing the laundry. Money instead of sheets. Tommy Williams: I don't read so good. Andy Dufresne: Well. [pause] You don't read so *well*. Uh, we'll get to that. Red: [narrating] Andy Dufresne - who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side. Red: [narrating] Forty years I been asking permission to piss. I can't squeeze a drop without say-so. Andy Dufresne: What about you? What are you in here for? Red: Murder, same as you. Andy Dufresne: Innocent? Red: [shakes his head] Only guilty man in Shawshank. Heywood: [talking about Fat Ass] Hey Tyrell. You pulling infirmary duty this week? Tyrell: [nods] Yep. Heywood: How's that winning horse of mine doing? Tyrell: Dead. Hadley busted up his head pretty good. Doc went home for the night. Poor bastard laid there till this morning. By then, there was nothing we could do. Fat Ass: You don't understand! I'm not supposed to be here! Inmates: Me neither! They run this place like a fucking prison! Warden Samuel Norton: Salvation lies within. Andy Dufresne: [in letter to Red] Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. Fat Ass: I don't belong here! I want to go home! I want my mother! Another Prisoner: I had your mother, she wasn't that great! Captain Hadley: What the Christ is this happy horseshit? Prisoner: Hey, he took the Lord's name in vain! I'm tellin' the warden! Captain Hadley: You'll be tellin' the warden about my baton up your ass! Captain Hadley: [to Andrew Dufresne] You're gonna look real funny sucking my dick with no teeth. Red: [narrating] We sat and drank with the sun on our shoulders and felt like free men. Hell, we could have been tarring the roof of one of our own houses. We were the lords of all creation. As for Andy - he spent that break hunkered in the shade, a strange little smile on his face, watching us drink his beer. Red: [narrating] And that's how it came to pass that on the second-to-last day of the job, the convict crew that tarred the plate factory roof in the spring of forty-nine wound up sitting in a row at ten o'clock in the morning drinking icy cold, Bohemia-style beer, courtesy of the hardest screw that ever walked a turn at Shawshank State Prison. Captain Hadley: Drink up while it's cold, ladies. Red: [narrating] The colossal prick even managed to sound magnanimous. Red: [narrating] You could argue he'd done it to curry favor with the guards. Or, maybe make a few friends among us cons. Me, I think he did it just to feel normal again, if only for a short while. Captain Hadley: Dufresne! [to Dekins] Captain Hadley: That's him. That's the one. Guard Dekins: I'm Dekins. I was thinking about setting up some kind of trust fund for my kids educations. Andy Dufresne: Oh, I see. Well, why don't we have a seat and talk it over. Brooks, do you have a piece of paper and a pencil? Thanks. So, Mr. Dekins... Brooks: [at lunchtime to the other prisoners] And then Andy says, "Mr. Dekins, do you want your sons to go to Harvard... or Yale?" Floyd: He didn't say that! Brooks: God is my witness! Dekins just looked at him a second and then he laughed himself silly and afterwards he actually shook Andy's hand. Heywood: My ass. Brooks: Shook his hand! I near soiled myself, I mean all Andy needed was a suit and a tie and a little jiggly hula gal on his desk and he woulda been *Mister* Dufresne, if you please. Red: Making a few friends, huh Andy? Andy Dufresne: I wouldn't say friends. I'm a convicted murderer who provides sound financial planning - it's a wonderful pet to have. Red: [narrating] The following April Andy did tax returns for half the guards at Shawshank. Year after that he did them all including the warden's. Year after that they rescheduled the start of the intra-mural season to coincide with tax season. The guards on the opposing teams all remembered to bring their W2s. Andy Dufresne: So Moresby prison issued you your gun but you actually had to pay for it. Moresby Batter: Damn right. The holster too. Andy Dufresne: You see that's tax deductible, you can write that off. Boggs: Now, I'm gonna open my fly and you're gonna swallow what I give ya to swallow. And after you swallow mine you're gonna swallow Rooster's cause ya done broke his nose and I think he oughta have something to show for it. Andy Dufresne: Anything you put in my mouth you're gonna lose. Boggs: Naw, you don't understand. You do that and I'll put all eight inches of steel in your ear. Andy Dufresne: All right. But you should know that sudden serious brain injury causes the victim to bite down hard. In fact, I hear the bite reflex is so strong they have to pry the victims jaws open with a crowbar. Boggs: Where do you get this shit? Andy Dufresne: I read it. You know how to read, you ignorant fuck? Warden Samuel Norton: Lord! It's a miracle! Man up and vanished like a fart in the wind! [last lines] Red: [narrating] I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope. [Andy has asked Red to procure Rita Hayworth] Andy Dufresne: Can you get her? Red: Take a few weeks. Andy Dufresne: Weeks? Red: Well yeah, Andy. I don't have her stuffed down the front of my pants right now, I'm sorry to say, but I'll get her. Relax! [watching Rita Hayworth in Gilda] Red: This is the part I really like, when she does that shit with her hair. Andy Dufresne: Get busy living, or get busy dying. Floyd: Red, I do believe you're talking out of your ass. Red: [narrating] Sometimes it makes me sad, though... Andy being gone. I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend. Andy Dufresne: She was beautiful. God I loved her. I just didn't know how to show it, that's all. I killed her, Red. I didn't pull the trigger, but I drove her away. And that's why she died, because of me. Red: You're gonna fit right in. Everyone in here is innocent, you know that? Heywood, what you in here for? Heywood: Didn't do it. Lawyer fucked me. [after Tommy told the story of how he got arrested] Andy Dufresne: Maybe it's time for you to switch careers. Tommy Williams: Huh? Andy Dufresne: What I mean is, you don't seem to be a very good thief, maybe you should try something else. Tommy Williams: Yeah, well, what the hell do you know about it Capone? What are you in for? Andy Dufresne: Me? My lawyer fucked me. Everybody's innocent in here. Didn't you know that? Fat Ass: You don't understand, I'm not supposed to be here! Captain Hadley: I'm not gonna to count to three. I'm not even gonna count to one. You will shut the FUCK up or I'll sing you a lullaby! Red: I could see why some of the boys took him for snobby. He had a quiet way about him, a walk and a talk that just wasn't normal around here. He strolled, like a man in a park without a care or a worry in the world, like he had on an invisible coat that would shield him from this place. Yeah, I think it would be fair to say... I liked Andy from the start. Prisoner: When do we eat? Captain Hadley: You eat when we say you eat. You shit when we say you shit. You piss when we say you piss. You got that, you maggot dick motherfucker? [Playing checkers] Red: King me. Andy Dufresne: Chess. Now there's a game of kings. Red: What? Andy Dufresne: Civilized. Strategic... Red: ...and a total fuckin' mystery. I hate it. Tommy Williams: So I'm backing out the door, right, and I got the TV, like this; it was a big old thing, I couldn't see shit; suddenly I hear this voice, "Police, kid, hands in the air." You know, I was standing there, holdin' on to that TV, so finally the voice says, "You hear what I said, boy?" And I say, "Yes sir, I sure did, but if I drop this fucking thing you got me on destruction of property too." Red: [narrating] Tommy Williams came to Shawshank in 1965 on a two-year stretch for B&E. That's breaking & entering to you. Cops caught him sneaking TV sets out the back door of a JC Penney. Young punk. Mr. Rock and Roll. Cocky as hell. Tommy Williams: Hey, c'mon, old boys! You're movin' like molasses! Makin' me look bad! Red: [narrating] We liked him immediately. Red: [narrating] There's a harsh truth to face. No way I'm gonna make it on the outside. All I do anymore is think of ways to break my parole, so maybe they'd send me back. Terrible thing, to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time. Only one thing stops me. A promise I made to Andy. Red: Well, if it was a toothbrush I wouldn't ask questions, I'd just quote a price, but then a toothbrush is a non-lethal object, isn't it? Heywood: The Count of Monte Crisco... Floyd: That's "Cristo" you dumb shit. Heywood: ...by Alexandree Dumb-ass. Dumb-ass. Andy Dufresne: Dumb-ass? "Dumas". You know what it's about? You'll like it, it's about a prison break. Red: We oughta file that under "Educational" too, oughten we? [after Brooks held a knife to Heywood's throat] Andy Dufresne: I just don't understand what happened in there. Heywood: Old man's crazy as a rat in a tin shithouse, is what. Red: Oh Heywood, that's enough out of you! Ernie: I heard he had you shittin' in your pants! Heywood: Fuck you! Red: Would you knock it off? Brooks ain't no bug. He's just... just institutionalized. Heywood: Institutionalized, my ass. Red: The man's been in here fifty years, Heywood. Fifty years! This is all he knows. In here, he's an important man. He's an educated man. Outside, he's nothin'! Just a used up con with arthritis in both hands. 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. Red: One day, when I have a long gray beard and two or three marbles rollin' around upstairs, they'll let me out. [Tommy and Red are talking about Andy] Tommy Williams: What's he in here for, anyway? Red: Murder. Tommy Williams: [Impressed] The hell you say! Andy Dufresne: I have no enemies here. Red: Yeah? Wait a while. Word gets around. The Sisters have taken quite a likin' to you. Especially Boggs. Andy Dufresne: I don't suppose it would help if I told them that I'm not homosexual. Red: Neither are they. You have to be human first. They don't qualify. Floyd: Takin' bets today, Red? Red: Smokes or coins, better's choice. Floyd: Smokes. Put me down for two. Red: All right, who's your horse? Floyd: That little sack o' shit. Eighth, eighth from the front. He'll be first. Heywood: Aw, bullshit. I'll call that action. You out some smokes, son, let me tell you! Floyd: Well, Heywood, you so smart, you call it! Heywood: I'll take the chubby fat-ass there. Fifth from the front. Put me down for a quarter deck. Heywood: It's a fine morning, ain't it? You know why it's a fine morning, don't ya? Come on, set 'em down. I want 'em all lined up, just like a pretty little chorus line. [the cons pull out cigarettes and hand them over to Heywood, who lines them up in front of him. He takes a long whiff] Heywood: Ah, yes. Richmond, Virginia. Floyd: Smell my ass. Andy Dufresne: What was his name? Heywood: What did you say? Andy Dufresne: I was just wondering if anybody knew his name. Heywood: Fuck do you care, new fish? Doesn't fuckin' matter what his name was. He's dead. [Warden Norton finds the bible in his safe after Andy escapes and finds the message Andy left for him] Andy Dufresne: Dear Warden, You were right. Salvation lies within. [Norton flips through a couple of pages to find the outline of the rock hammer that was hidden in the Book of Exodus within the Bible, and then drops it on the floor in shock] Red: [narrating] Two things never happened again after that. The Sisters never laid a finger on Andy again... and Boggs never walked again. They transferred him to a minimum security hospital upstate. To my knowledge, he lived out the rest of his days drinking his food through a straw. [first lines] District Attorney: Mr. Dufresne, describe the confrontation you had with your wife the night that she was murdered. Andy Dufresne: It was very bitter. She said she was glad I knew, that she hated all the sneaking around. And she said that she wanted a divorce in Reno. Heywood: Red? You saying Andy's innocent? I mean *for real* innocent? Red: Yeah, it looks that way. Heywood: Sweet Jesus. How long's he been in here? Red: Since '47, what is that... 19 years. [Tommy receives a letter from the Board of Education] Red: You gonna open it, or stand there with your thumb up your butt? Tommy Williams: Thumb up my butt sounds better. Andy Dufresne: Red. If you ever get out of here, do me a favor. Red: Sure, Andy. Anything. Andy Dufresne: There's a big hayfield up near Buxton. You know where Buxton is? Red: Well, there's... there's a lot of hayfields up there. Andy Dufresne: One in particular. It's got a long rock wall with a big oak tree at the north end. It's like something out of a Robert Frost poem. It's where I asked my wife to marry me. We went there for a picnic and made love under that oak and I asked and she said yes. Promise me, Red. If you ever get out... find that spot. At the base of that wall, you'll find a rock that has no earthly business in a Maine hayfield. Piece of black, volcanic glass. There's something buried under it I want you to have. Red: What, Andy? What's buried under there? Andy Dufresne: [turns to walk away] You'll have to pry it up... to see. Andy Dufresne: [reading letter from Brooks] "I doubt they'll kick up any fuss. Not for an old crook like me. PS: tell Heywood I'm sorry I put a knife to his throat. No hard feelings, Brooks." Red: [pause] He should've died in here. Warden Samuel Norton: [after Andy escapes] Well? Red: Well what? Warden Samuel Norton: I see you two all the time, you're thick as thieves, you are. He musta said *something*. Red: Honest, Warden, not a word. Warden Samuel Norton: [frustrated] Lord, it's a miracle! Man up and vanished like a fart in the wind! Nothing left but some damn rocks on the windowsill. And that cupcake on the wall! Let's ask her, maybe she knows. Warden Samuel Norton: [to poster] What say you there, fuzzy-britches? Feel like talking? Aw, guess not. Why should she be any different? [hefting one of Andy's rocks] This is a conspiracy, that's what it is. [throwing rocks] One... big... damn conspiracy! And everyone's in on it, including *her*! [Throws a rock at the poster, the rock goes right through it and they hear it clattering. Norton puts his arm through the torn poster and rips it away from the wall, revealing Andy's escape tunnel] Heywood: Hey, Fat Ass. Fat Ass! Talk to me boy! I know you're there I can hear you breathin'. Don't you listen to these nitwits you hear me? This place ain't so bad. Tell you what, I'll introduce you around, make you feel right at home. I know a couple of big old bull queers that'd just love to make you're acquaintance. Especially that big, white, mushy butt of yours. Fat Ass: God! I don't belong here! I want to go home! Inmates: We have a winner! Heywood: And it's Fat Ass by a nose! [Warden Norton visits Andy in solitary] Warden Samuel Norton: I'm sure by now you've heard. Terrible thing. Man that young, less than a year to go, trying to escape... Broke Captain Hadley's heart to shoot him, truly it did. We just have to put it behind us... move on. Andy Dufresne: I'm done. Everything stops. Get someone else to run your scams. Warden Samuel Norton: [icy] Nothing stops. Nothing... or you will do the hardest time there is. No more protection from the guards. I'll pull you out of that one-bunk Hilton and cast you down with the Sodomites. You'll think you've been fucked by a train! And the library? Gone... sealed off, brick-by-brick. We'll have us a little book barbecue in the yard. They'll see the flames for miles. We'll dance around it like wild Injuns! You understand me? Catching my drift?... Or am I being obtuse? [beat] [to Hadley] Give him another month to think about it. Andy Dufresne: I was in the path of the tornado... I just didn't expect the storm would last as long as it has. Andy Dufresne: I understand you're a man who knows how to get things. Red: Same old shit, different day Heywood: [sizing up the new inmates] I ain't seen such a sorry lookin' heap o' maggot shit in all my life. Red: I don't know; every man has his breaking point. Red: Get busy living, or get busy dying. Andy Dufresne: Bad luck, I guess. It floats around. It's got to land on somebody. It was my turn, that's all. I was in the path of the tornado. I just didn't expect the storm would last as long as it has. Head Bull Haig: Dufresne? Get your ass out here, boy! You're holding up the show! [no answer] Don't make me come down there now! I'll thump your skull for you! [Still no answer. Glaring, Haig stalks down the tier, clipboard in hand. His men fall in behind] Dufresne, dammit, you're putting me behind! You better be sick or dead in there, I shit you not! [They arrive at bars. Their faces go slack. Stunned. Softly] Oh my Holy God. [the guards find the cell empty] Red: [narrating] Not long after the warden deprived us of his company, I got a postcard in the mail. It was blank, but the postmark said Fort Hancock, Texas. Fort Hancock... right on the border. That's where Andy crossed. When I picture him heading south in his own car with the top down, it always makes me laugh. Andy Dufresne... who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side. Andy Dufresne... headed for the Pacific. Andy Dufresne: [in a letter to Red] Dear Red. If you're reading this, you've gotten out. And if you've come this far, maybe you're willing to come a little further. You remember the name of the town, don't you? Red: Zihuatanejo. Andy Dufresne: I could use a good man to help me get my project on wheels. I'll keep an eye out for you and the chessboard ready. Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. I will be hoping that this letter finds you, and finds you well. Your friend. Andy. Andy Dufresne: I want to know, how the score comes out. Tommy Williams: I'll show you, how the score comes out [crumbles test paper] . TWO POINTS! THERE'S YOUR GODDAMN SCORE! Cats crawling on trees, five time five is twenty-five. [shouts] FUCK THIS PLACE! FUCK IT! [Smacks book off the library table, and stormed out] [Andy is comforting a sobbing Brooks after he held a knife to Heywood's neck] Heywood: Hey, what about me? Crazy old fool goddamn near cut my throat! Red: Aw Heywood, you've had worse from shaving! Heywood: [Andy has returned after solitary for the record playing stunt] Couldn't play somethin' good, huh? Hank Williams? Andy Dufresne: [smiling] They broke the door down before I could take requests. |
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