The entire cast is sterling‚ but the two leading players‚ Robbins and Freeman‚ are particularly fine. Robbins‚ with his slightly dented‚ vaguely asymmetrical face‚ gives Dufresne a prep school spruceness with a core of steel. Robbins helps preserve Shawshank’s tension by making Dufresne a man potentially vulnerable to a despair that he is determined to resist. As Red‚ Morgan Freeman has an even more difficult role: the benevolent narrator trying to understand the hero for us
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ABOUT THE FILM In 1997‚ Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman offered to pay for the senior prom at Charleston High School in Mississippi under one condition: the prom had to be racially integrated. His offer was ignored. In 2008‚ Freeman offered again. This time the school board accepted‚ and history was made. Charleston High School had its first-ever integrated prom - in 2008. Until then‚ blacks and whites had had separate proms even though their classrooms have been integrated for decades
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the relationship between original film noirs and the Hollywood studio system and contemporary production contexts in the North American Film Industry. The first film I’m going to be looking at is Double Indemnity‚ a classic noir film which follows Walter Neff‚ an insurance salesman who meets Phyllis Dietrichson and is roped into a murderous scheme to kill her husband and live off the accidental death claim. Insurance investigator Barton Keyes looks into the case‚ uncovering the truth. The
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A Higher Power Is there a higher power? How mighty is this power? These two questions do not have a right or wrong answer but for many people‚ they are definitely hard questions to answer. However‚ for me‚ these two questions still remain unanswered and I hope to discuss it further in this essay with relating to the film Bruce Almighty. Is there a higher power? Higher power is defined as an absolute being or divine nature and has the synonyms of deity‚ god‚ goddess‚ lord and many more. [1]
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and is in the same time period of the film (1994). The film stars Tim Robbins‚ who plays a young and successful banker‚ Andrew “Andy” Dufresne‚ sentenced to life term at Shawshank State Prison in Maine‚ for murdering his wife and her lover. Morgan Freeman‚ who plays the Character Ellis “Red” Redding‚ a prisoner in the same jail‚ narrates Andy’s story to the audience. The film also stars Bob Gunton who plays the warden of the prison. The Film begins with a flash back‚ where the protagonist sitting
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Literature Argument: gives a writer’s point of view about an issue or a problem. Evidence: supports a writer’s idea with facts‚ statistics‚ data‚ and quotations. Persuasive appeals: used by writers to convince readers that their ideas are true by using logic‚ emotions or beliefs. They use words that create strong feelings in the reader. Logical or rhetorical fallacy: an appeal that doesn’t use evidence or logic. Evaluate evidence: Is the evidence biased‚ or prejudiced‚ by the writer’s own
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growth and advancement of technology. He believes that these people are too caught up with their own lives and the present that they fail to think about what could be waiting for their ancestors in years to come. “Can Science Be Ethical” ¬¬--- Freeman Dyson Summary: Describes the relationship between the different brands of science and their inherent ability to improve the well being of humanity. He describes how in times of great discovery‚ great men like Henry Ford can go against the entrepreneurial
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Frank Darabond and based on Stephen King’s first non-horror novel. Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins play two convicts serving time in a New England prison named Shawshank in the 1940’s. Tim Robbins plays a man named Andy Dufresne‚ a banker‚ who is wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and her lover and is sentenced to two life sentences. Andy gradually develops a friendship with a fellow convict by the name of Red (Morgan Freeman) who has a knack for “getting things” for people for the right price
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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 (Morgan Freeman)‚ 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. This is about how he spreads his message of hope through the Shawshank Redemption!!!
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Robbins as Andy Dufresne and Morgan Freeman as Red is an adaptation of Stephen King’s novella "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" by director Frank Darabont. The movie screenplay is generally loyal to Stephen King’s novella‚ however‚ there are some differences‚ and among the more salient ones are the following: Firstly‚ in the novella Red is a white red-haired Irish man who was doing time for a double murder and in the film he is portrayed by Morgan Freeman who is a black actor. Secondly‚ the
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