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    Based on the Stephen King novel “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption”. Tim Robbins stars as Andy Dufresne‚ a successful young banker who is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife and her lover. Andy is sent to Shawshank prison‚ place where brutality from both guards and other prisoners is common. Andy makes friends with Red (Morgan Freeman)‚ a lifer who has already spent many years inside. Red smuggles items into the prison for the other prisoners. Red soon discovers that

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    Task: Examine how the themes of hope and power are depicted in "The Shawshank Redemption". You should make reference to at least two of characterization‚ setting‚ key scenes‚ mise-en-scene (including lighting‚ costume‚ ect) music‚ camera angles or any other feature you feel is important. In the film "The Shawshank Redemption" Frank Darobont has used characterization‚ camera angles and mise-en-scene to depict the themes of hope and power. Now the film is about a man called Andy and he is wrongly

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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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    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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    Amber McDaniel Shawshank Redemption Shawshank Redemption portrayed the existence of systems and ways of living that can slowly encroach and ultimately dictate one’s course of life. It is stunning to see how the film was able expose a seemingly slow and excruciating. Yet‚ also a life-changing process of being confined inside a prison. The film had captured how routine and drear the life of a prisoner is. Their seclusion can be as simple as being alienated from the outside world. But as it turns

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    The Shawshank Redemption is an inspiring story about Andy Dufreine and his efforts to maintain hope and his own survival. The film begins with the story of Andy Dufresne‚ a young vice president of a prestigious Portland bank‚ is wrongfully convicted of killing his wife and her lover. He is then sent to a jail where he learns the lessons about life from a few of the inmates‚ which eventually leads to him being a part of a corrupt scheme to launder money for the warden. But after nineteen years‚ Andy

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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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    Bodily-Kinesthetic‚ Interpersonal‚ Intrapersonal‚ and Naturalist. The main character of “The Shawshank Redemption”‚ Andy Dufresne‚ is a very intelligent man. The first type of intelligence Andy has is‚ Linguistic. This type of intelligence would be explained as a person’s ability to understand and use words. It also is how well a person produces it‚ as in the way they talk and they respond to other’s words. In the movie Andy is teaching an inmate‚ Tommy Williams to read and write. Tommy Williams: I don’t

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    critics would consider Shawshank Redemption to be the greatest movie of all time. Although the film has been given this title‚ director and writer Frank Darabont knows the true genius behind this story is writer‚ Stephen King. Stephen King is mostly known for his horror‚ suspense books‚ but this time he wrote a book about Andy Dufresne‚ a banker from Maine who is wrongly charged with murdering his cheating wife and her lover. King writes “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption” in the first person

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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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