Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption in 1994. In 1994, he produced many excellent films, such as the true story of Forrest Gump, Living, The Killer Is Not Too Cold, The East Evil and the West Poison, The True Lies (directed by Cameron, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger), The Lion King, etc.
Can you believe it? This classic, which has dominated the top ten for a long time in the history of film, was created by a rookie. Before Shawshank's redemption. Frank, director. Delabond is just an unknown screenwriter in Hollywood. However, at the age of 35, we did not know what kind of elixir he ate. He has compiled and exported such a masterpiece.
The film is adapted from the novel of the same name included in Stephen King's Four Seasons. The theme of the film is "Hope". Through the prison, a special background of forced deprivation of liberty and high emphasis on discipline, the film shows the individual's fear of "time passing and environmental transformation". The ending of the film is the Revenge of the count of Monte Cristo.
It's hard to say what kind of movie it is. On the surface, it's a prison movie, but it has a strong sense of horror and suspense. After I watched it numerous times, I was more inclined to go with it as a fake growth movie.
Andy is a mature man in his 30s. At this time, he is not facing the growing pains of young people, but the theme of "self rebirth". In the first half of life, Andy Dufresne is the winner of life in the eyes of outsiders: success in career and admiration. But from the moment the judge dropped his gavel, he went from a life winner to a prisoner without any excess. Andy is like a baby when he comes to prison. Whether he was rich or not before he entered this prison. Shawshank prison, however, is another world. Frank rarely describes Andy through his inner monologue, usually through the words of Rhett, the onlooker. This technique is a very clever foreshadowing of the director.
Rhett said. I admit that when I first met Andy, I didn't have any special feeling. He looked like he would fall down after a stroke. This is my first image of him. Andy, who has just been in prison, is very careful, for fear of mistakes. The first night after he was in prison, the timid fat man just cried a little louder and was killed by C.O. Haley. After he died, no one was responsible. It was as peaceful as if he had never been born in the world.
Andy began to learn how to live in the new world. Shawshank prison is a microcosm of the society. Apart from being unable to walk out of the wall, it is an ecosystem with five internal organs. Cigarettes are hard goods in circulation. There is a mature commercial logistics system and the distribution of interests between the upstream and downstream. Most of the people here are melon eaters.
They form a power division around a few opinion leaders. At the same time, just like there are so many hooligans in every block, there is an ecological chain belonging to the prison. At first Andy was at the bottom of the food chain. In his first year, Andy was in a miserable situation. In this sad sun and moon, Andy ushered in the first chance in his life. In the process of success, it's a small promotion: during an outing, Andy overhears the complaint of the C.O. that the taxing government is just a robber, trying to suck up the heritage he has.
At this time, Andy risked being pushed down the roof and stepped forward. He successfully grasped the pain point of the upper members of the food chain, which is the so-called rich and rich risk seeking. Then there's a beautiful scene in the film: on the roof, the inmates are enjoying the beer he's fighting for, but he refuses their kindness. Enjoy this brief moment of freedom alone - the sun is shining on your shoulders, as if you are your own person, as if you are repairing the roof of your home. We are as free as the creator.
As for Andy, he lives in the shade, with a strange smile on his face, watching us drink their wine. You might say that Andy is trying to flatter the guards, or win the friendship of his fellow inmates. However, I think he just wants to relive the feeling of freedom, even if only for a short time.
After that, Andy gained respect from others, and more importantly, he found the way up the ladder. Even in prison, people still have to deal with money. What he has learned in his whole life has now been greatly demonstrated. Andy makes himself a very useful tool. It is because of this utilization value that he has obtained a series of privileges.
He harassed his son of a bitch and was beaten as a pig by the prison guards and transferred to a more relaxed post. Began to build the library by writing letters. Red said: birds with bright wings can't be locked. Even in prison, Andy can still realize the value of life.
Of course, just like all the people who have made small achievements in their careers. He also had moments of complacency, such as when he locked the C.O. in the toilet and ran to the studio to put Mozart's "Figaro's wedding". According to Chairman Mao, you cultural people just can't get rid of the petty bourgeois sentiment. ~~~///(^ V ^) \ \ ~ ~ to be honest, even though I have seen this film many times and listened to Figaro's wedding many times, I still don't understand what these two Italian women are singing, maybe everything is in silence!! But I fully believe that they are singing about the most beautiful, indescribable, beautiful thing in the world
Their singing is so loud, so elegant, so beautiful that people can't reach it. It's like a beautiful bird that has been nameless flying into this high wall, making you forget the shackles of the iron fence. At this moment, all the people of Shawshank have realized the freedom that they haven't seen for a long time.
After years of struggle, Andy has been a veteran here, and gained good reputation and credibility. You're thinking? ——Why can Andy turn over? What is the most important element in his process of "self rebirth"? I think it has the following points: first of all, as a banker, he studies finance and understands the importance of "time".
Although it seems that every time he makes little profit, as long as he keeps on doing it for many years and months, he will get a great return, that is, the so-called "compound interest". For example, when he wrote to the governor once a week asking for money, people laughed at him at the beginning. But after a few years of writing, he even asked for the money unprecedented. In the process of digging the escape passage, it is not the tools and courage but patience that play a decisive role.
It is the most rare that he can persist for 20 years as one day. It's not a miracle. It's Andy who understands the power of time. It's also an important reason why he can succeed. The other is the spiritual element, which is hope. When red reminds him that hope is a dangerous thing in prison, Andy says that hope is the best thing in the world. He doesn't want to live here. He chooses to live or die for freedom - busy living or busy dying.
Hope is also the most obvious theme of the film. Andy kept the hope of freedom for 20 years, and finally he was able to taste it. These people in prison have been institutionalized over time. The institutionalized wall is very strange. At first, you hate it, and then you will get used to it. In the past, you can't live without it. This is institutionalization.
No matter how brilliant the intention of the movie is, without good movie technique, everything is in vain. Countless films are expressing the theme of hope, but it is difficult to reach the height of shawshank redemption. First, the director's first problem is how to keep the suspense. Frank breaks down a big suspense through careful arrangement, revealing his true appearance like a cocoon. There is no expression of Andy's subjective will in the film.
He has never had any inner monologue from the beginning to the end. All the information is obtained from Rhett's mouth. This intention is to keep the suspense of the story to the maximum extent. If Andy's inner monologue is involved, there is no reason why he doesn't say what he thinks, so there is no charm in the film. The audience who saw the film for the first time must be very surprised by the ending.
Andy's trick held for two hours, but the audience didn't see it, and the director didn't deliberately hide the information, didn't give people a sense of mystification. For example, before Andy picks up the stone hammer and digs the wall, the camera gives a wall full of names, which will give the audience a kind of: Andy just wants to carve his own name and leave a memorial, but he doesn't know that the camera has dual meanings, and finally the director gives the second half of the movie to the audience.
Another pun plot design: when the warden inspects Andy's cell, he sees Andy reading the Bible. The warden says: the way to be saved is in it. This seems to be seeking consolation in religious belief, but at the end of the film, when the warden opens the Bible, the audience suddenly realizes. At this time, the chapter opened in the Bible is the Old Testament Exodus, which indicates Andy's escape with Moses' escape from Egypt. Another plot is that the poster in Andy's cell is the actress Rita Hayworth, the American full name goddess in the 1940s, symbolizing the bright and free life.
A good movie will let us all see our own figure in it. I sometimes wonder why "Shawshank Redemption" can move the world so much, maybe because we are all in a helpless wall, but we haven't given up the effort to fly. It is Andy, the incomparable free bird, who gives us a little warm comfort!!!
