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    Shawshank Redemption Sarmad Syed Hum. 150 October 27‚ 2011 Hilary Clay Hicks Shawshank Redemption is a film‚ directed by Frank Darabont adapting it for screen‚ based on Stephen king novella “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank redemption.” This film takes the audience on a journey of despair and hope of individuals in Shawshank prison. Constant routine‚ forced conformity‚ power abuse and the struggle of hope. The use of lighting‚ camera angles‚ music and different shots are

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    Frank Darabont’s mysterious film “The Shawshank Redemption” is a deep meaningful representation of friendship within a prison. It shows us how hope can be encountered in a dark and deceitful place‚ how both literal and figurative walls trap Andy. To the end‚ Darabont uses symbolism in his description of setting‚ in his use of camera angles and Lighting. The setting of “The Shawshank Redemption” is replete with potent symbolism.The shawshank prison is a dark‚ deceitful place of confinement where

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    The Shawshank Redemption ENG 225 Sarah Carson May 7‚ 2012 The Shawshank Redemption The Shawshank Redemption (1994) was a remarkable motion picture inspired by Stephen King and Directed by Frank Darabont. It was not a big budget movie with a lot of special effects rather it was a story about two convicts Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman)‚ Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins)‚ and Samuel Norton (Bob Gunton)‚ the self-righteous‚ Bible-carrying Warden (Filmsite‚ 2012) that vowed they’d never

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    Shawshank redemption is more than a film about prison‚ it is a film about hope‚ friendship and inhumanity and among other aspects of society . The main character of the film Andy is being accused‚ tried and convicted wrongly of a double murder that he always confessed his innocent and never lost the hope of that one day his innocent will be proven and he would get his freedom back and he also teaches other prisoners about hope. It is also a film about friendship and human interaction between Andy

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    "The Shawshank Redemption" has a religious theme throughout the film as the warden only believes in two things "discipline and the Bible" and when the warden first speaks to Andy he quotes from the Bible "Salvation lies within" which isn’t mentioned again in the film until Andy escapes and the warden reads it in the inner cover of the bible which also Andy kept his rock hammer in which was the tool Andy used to create the hole in his cell for him to escape. Now Andy a character which throughout the

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    The Shanshank Redemption The movie The Shawshank Redemption‚ written and directed by Frank Darabont and based on a novel by Stephen King‚ displays excitement and suspense. Mercifully free of cheap horror and overwrought dialogue‚ this 1994 release celebrates the resilience of the human spirit. The movie opens in 1947 as Andy Dufrense‚ a prominent New England banker‚ stands trial for murdering his wife and her lover. Although Andy insists his innocence‚ the jury finds him guilty. As Andy struggles

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    The Shawshank Redemption The Shawshank Redemption is a very unique movie which involves many different personalities and underlying themes. The personalities of the inmates are very interesting and when they are combined they create a very fascinating plot which looks at prison life in a interesting and different perspective than one normally thinks. The main characters are Andy Dufrense (Tim Robbins) and Eliss "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman). These characters are well complimented by the wise

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    Analysis of The Shawshank Redemption While there often appears to be just a story line in a movie‚ many different techniques are used to give a deeper meaning to the scenario. This is evident in the movie‚ The Shawshank Redemption. The story begins when Andy Dufresne‚ a young vice president of a prestigious Portland‚ Maine bank‚ is wrongfully convicted of killing his wife and her lover. He is then sent to jail where he learns lessons about life through his friends and becomes part of a corrupt

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    Review A story of hope is just about the last thing you’d expect to find in a prison movie. But in The Shawshank Redemption‚ that’s exactly what you get. Shawshank is the story of Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins)‚ a man convicted of murdering his wife and her lover and shipped to a maximum-security prison in Shawshank‚ Maine‚ for two consecutive life sentences. Over the next years (two hours‚ movie time)‚ he finds his way to inner peace and self-reliance in the midst of the terror and inequity of

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    The Shawshank Redemption For my film analysis‚ I chose the movie The Shawshank Redemption. Frank Darabont directed Shawshank and wrote the screenplay based on the novel Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by author Stephen King. The movie was made in 1994 and produced by Niki Marvin. The movie stars Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins as two convicts serving time in a New England prison named Shawshank. Tim Robbins plays a man named Andy Dufresne‚ a banker‚ who gets convicted of murdering his wife

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