Brooks And Red's Leaving Scene Analysis

The Main Idea of Director Frank Darabont’s The Shawshank Redemption is to Illustrate the Illuminating Power of Hope, While his Purpose as a director, in Brooks & Red’s Release from Shawshank scenes I Will be analysing is to Juxtapose Between The Hold of fear of institualization has over us and The Power of hope has of overcoming that fear. Communicate his purpose and main idea across to the audience using a range of techniques.

The Scene in which brooks has been approved for parole, where in which he releases his crow jake into the world from his care, Stating that “I can’t take care of you no more Jake, you go on now you're free, you're free”. Darabont cleverly uses Jake as an extension of Brooks himself, with the dialogue that Brooks cannot
In comparison to Red’s leaving scene in which Darabont blends together Facial Expression, camera Shot and Body language to contract between Fear and Hope Red in this case symbolising Hope. Darabont blends together both Red’s facial expression,Body language and a Zooming mid shot to illustrate the power of hope within red. As Red exits Shawshank prison with an subtle smile brimming across his face, and without hesitating for a moment before stepping out of the Gate of the Prison walls before he pensively looks
This begins with Red first contemplating about “Ways to violate my parole, just so they’d send me back”, this voiceover from red coupled with the mid close up that pans over to a pawn shop window of guns, mirroring the scene in which Brooks considered the same possibility in order to return back to Shawshank “where things make sense”, to illustrate to the that despite having identical thoughts to Brooks, Red’s choice to search for Hope rather than succumb to the fear of institutionalization. Red then decides to travel to Buxton in order to fulfil his promise to Andy to visit the field in search of adn envelope he left red, In this Scene Darabont uses facial expressions, a zooming mid-close up, a prop and a voiceover to emphasise to the audience that red has found Hope. Darabont utilizes the Prop of a old dusty tin box as a prop, to emphasise to the audience the symbolism of the bo as Red’s Hope as it is dusty,old and hidden beneath the surface only to be later to rediscovered which symbolizes red’s journey to rediscovering the Power of Hope due to Andy, Coupled with the zooming close up to give the audience a