In 1947, Andy Dufresne, a banker in Maine, is sentenced for killing his wife and her lover. He is given two lifelong incarcerations and sent to the famously brutal Shawshank Prison. Andy always claimed that he was innocent, but his personality led a lot of people to doubt him. Ellis Redding, also known as Red, placed a wager against other prisoners that Andy would be the first one to break, which lost him a lot of money and cigarettes because it wasn’t the case. The first person to break was a prisoner that was beaten up by the prison guards and was left without medical attention. Later on in the movie, Andy confronts Red, who runs contraband inside the walls of Shawshank. He asks Red if he could supply him with a pick axe, and claims that …show more content…
he likes to collect and sculpt rocks. Though other prisoners consider Andy "a really cold fish", Red sees something different in Andy. Red believes that Andy wants to use the hammer to escape Shawshank, but when he saw how small the tool was, Red knew that Andy could ever use it to dig his way out of prison. Andy works in the prison laundry for the first 2 years of his sentence. He attracts attention from "the Sisters", a gang prisoners who sexually assault other prisoners. Red pulls a few strings, and gets Andy and a couple of their common companions a break by getting every one of them on a work subtle element tarring the top of one of the prison's structures. Amid the occupation Andy catches Hadley grumbling about needing to pay charges for an approaching legacy. Utilizing his skill as a broker, Andy tells Hadley how he could shield his cash from the IRS, transforming it into a one-time blessing for his wife. He said he'd aid in return for some cool lagers for his kindred detainees while on the tarring occupation. Despite the fact that he from the beginning undermines to divert Andy from the top, Hadley, the most severe watch in the jail, concurs, giving the men chilly lager before the employment is done. Red comments that Andy may have designed the benefit to construct support with the jail protects to the extent that with his kindred prisoners, yet Red additionally thinks Andy did it basically to "feel free." While viewing a motion picture, Andy requests Red "Rita Hayworth".
Before long, in the wake of approaching Red for "Rita Hayworth", Andy again experienced the Sisters’ brutal beating, which led him to being in the prison infirmary for a month. Boggs, the leader of "The Sisters", was sent to solitary, and after getting out in a week, Hadley and his men beat him so badly that he was left paralyzed, which led to him being transferred to a prison hospital upstate, and the Sisters never bothered Andy again. When Andy got out of the infirmary, he found a bunch of rocks and a poster of Rita Hayworth in his cell that were gifts from Red and his buddies. Warden Samuel Norton heard about Andy helping Hadley and organize a random cell search at Andy’s. The warden meets Andy transfers him to work at the prison library with Brooks Hatlen and gave him a desk in order to help the guards and himself with banking issues. Andy eventually ends up doing Norton's taxes. Not long a while later, Brooks, the old custodian, undermines to slaughter an alternate detainee, Heywood, with a specific end goal to abstain from being paroled. Andy has the capacity talk him down and Brooks is then paroled. Brooks was then allowed to leave the prison which ended up with him committing suicide, as he couldn’t accustom with the outside
word. When Andy gets assigned to work at the warden’s office, he decides to lock himself in and play music for the entire prison, all the prisoners seemed captivated by the music – Red makes a comment about how the prisoners had a temporary feeling of freedom, even for a second, the women’s’ voices made them feel good. Andy was sent to solitary confinement for a while. After getting out he tells them that hope can tolerate them. Andy’s accomplishment of making the library bigger and better with more books made him start a program that helps prisoners get a high school diploma and do the GED exams. Warden Norton takes advantage of Andy's knowledge of bookkeeping and plans a scheme where he put prison inmates to work in public construction sites because of cheap labor. Occasionally, the warden starts to take bribes from contractors so he can benefit from this idea, which led to him making Andy launder money for him, using a fake identity: "Randall Stephens". He only told Red about what Andy was scheming and stated that, "Yeah. The funny thing is – on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook” In 1965, a youthful detainee named Tommy comes to Shawshank. Andy proposes that Tommy take up an alternate line of work other than robbery. The proposal truly gets to Tommy and he chips away at attaining his secondary school equivalency certificate. In spite of the fact that Tommy is a decent understudy, he is still baffled when he takes the exam itself, folding it up and throwing it in the refuse. Andy recovers it and sends it in. One day Red enlightens Tommy concerning Andy's case. Tommy is obviously resentful about listening to Andy's story and tells Andy and Red that he had a cellmate in an alternate jail who gloated about executing a man who was a master golfer at the nation club he worked at, alongside his beau. The lady's spouse, a financier, had gone to jail for those killings. With this new data, Andy, brimming with trust, meets with the warden's, expecting he could help him get an alternate trial with Tommy as a witness. The response from Norton is totally in opposition to what Andy trusted for. Andy says earnestly that he would never uncover the IRS evasion plans he had set up for Norton through the years - the superintendent gets to be irate and requests him to single for a month. The superintendent later meets with Tommy alone and inquires as to whether he'll affirm for Andy's sake. Tommy eagerly concurs and the superintendent has him shot dead by Hadley. At the point when the superintendent visits Andy in lone, he lets him know that Tommy was murdered while endeavoring break. Andy tells Norton that the money related plans will stop. The superintendent counters, saying the library will be obliterated and all the materials blazed. Andy will likewise lose his private cell and be sent to the piece with the most solidified mobsters. The superintendent gives Andy an alternate month in solitary. Subsequently, Andy comes back to the regular everyday life at Shawshank, an apparently broken man. One day he converses with Red, about how despite the fact that he didn't kill his wife, his identity pushed her away, which prompted her unfaithfulness and demise. He says on the off chance that he's ever liberated or escapes, he'd like to go to Zihuatanejo, a shoreline town on the Pacific bank of Mexico. He additionally tells Red how he got ready for marriage. He and his future wife went up to a homestead in Buxton, Maine, to a huge oak tree toward the end of a stone divider. The two made love under the tree, after which he proposed to her. He tells Red that, in the event that he should to ever be paroled, he must search for that field, and that oak tree. There, under a vast dark volcanic shake that would gaze out of spot, Andy has covered a crate that he needs Red to have. Andy declines to uncover what may be in that case. Later, Andy requests a length of rope, heading Red and his mates to suspect he will commit suicide. Toward the end of the day, Norton approaches Andy to shine his shoes for him and put his suit in for dry-cleaning before turning back to his cell. Next morning, Andy was nowhere to be found in his cell. At the same time, Norton was alarmed when he saw Andy's shoes in the shoebox instead of his own. Norton rushes to Andy’s cell and doesn’t find him, Red is then summoned and interrogated by the warden. Red claims that he had no clue about what happened with his friend. Warden throws around the rocks that Andy had sculpt and ended up hitting the poster and ripping it, followed by him finding a man sized tunnel that was used by Andy to escape. Andy escaped during a storm because he broke down a pipe full of shit in order to escape, as said by Red,”Andy Dufresne - who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side.” Andy walks in to the bank as Randall Stephens, and with all the necessary documentation, he walked out check. Prior to leaving, he requests them to drop a package by the mail. He continues his plan while he emptied every single account that he made for the warden and ended up with $370,000. The package contained Warden Norton's account books that were leaked to ‘Portland’s Daily Bugle’ newspaper. Later on, the police rushes over to Shawshank Prison. Where Hadley is arrested for murder; Red said he was taken away "crying like a little girl". Norton opens his safe, that he didn’t touch since Andy escaped, only to find the Bible he had given Andy. As he opens the book of Exodus he finds that the pages had been cut out in the shape of Andy's rock hammer. The warden ends up shooting himself, and Red always wondered if the warden thought before pulling the trigger, how "Andy could ever have gotten the best of him." At Red's next parole hearing in 1967, he conversed with the parole board about how "rehabilitated" was a made-up word, and how he lamented his activities of the past. His parole was approved this time. He then ends up working at the super market and lived where Brooks stayed before he killed himself. Red planned on either killing himself or committing a crime in order to get back to prison, but he remembered the promise that he made to Andy. One day, he used a compass he got from a pawn shop and followed Andy's instructions, hitchhiked to Buxton and arrived at the stone wall that Andy described. As Andy said, there was a big black stone. Below it was a small box contained a great amount of currency and instructions to get to Mexico. He said he required someone "who could get things" for a "project" of his. Red damages parole and goes out, unconcerned since nobody would truly do a broad manhunt for "an old crook like [him]." He then takes a bus to Fort Hancock, where he crosses into Mexico. Where they finally got to meet each other again on the shoreline of Zihuatanejo on the Pacific coast.
We were the lords of all creation. As for andy he spent that break hunkered in the shade, a strange little smile on his face, watching us drink his beer." This quote shows how little things teh prisoners get can make them happy.Another example would be when he used the hammer to escape from prison. It started when he asked Red to get him a rok hammer, which he said he would use to shape rocks. He calms Red's conscious as he tells it would take him a thousand years to break out of prison with a rosk hammer.When he received the rosk hammer he started to shape rocks as soon as he could and hidden that hole with a poster.After he had the hole big enough to crawl throught, he asked Heywood for a six-foot piece of rope.
Hope is a huge recurring theme in both of these movies, most of which happened in a similar manner. Andy Dufresne, during his 28 years at Shawshank prison,
Andy goes to psychologist, Dr. Carrothers, to discuss his depression about Rob's death. He does not think he needs to be there because he is fine in school and he is fine at home. Andy talks about why the accident is his fault. He realizes he needs help with his depression and wants to come back for another visit to discuss what is going...
Calvin Johnson (along with co-writer Greg Hampikian) begins his memoir, Exit to Freedom (The University of Georgia Press; 2003), with this inhumane description of prison life. He finds himself in this situation one year after being wrongfully convicted of raping a woman in Clayton, GA. His story, the self proclaimed “only firsthand account of a wrongful conviction overturned by DNA evidence," soon leaves the swamp and takes the reader inside the prison itself. The “code of prison etiquette” is related through adages such as “never to get between fighting dogs” and “only dead men broke up fights, and only snitches talked to guards.” These jailhouse proverbs are backed up by anecdotes of brutal fights, broken prison rules, and punishments, such as a transgressor who is brutally stabbed in his sleep. Characters such as Lefty, a prisoner who signals a fight by removing his glass eye and placing it on the sink,...
The Shawshank Redemption is an inspiring story about Andy Dufreine and his efforts to maintain hope in horrible situations. The directors used many effective methods that displayed signs of hope in such a horrible place. Andy maintained hope by distracting his mind and always staying occupied. Andy was also inspired to survive by helping others find hope in life.
The movie Shawshank Redemption depicts the story of Andy Dufresne, who is an innocent man that is sentenced to life in prison. At Shawshank, both Andy and the viewers, witness typical prison subculture.
More of this bad treatment is brought to our attention when the writer talks about his visit to see his brother. His brother describes how things were in the prison. “Grown men treated like children by other grown men. Inmates yanked out of line and punished because a button is undone or hair uncombed.” (439) This was just an example of how they treated these men all the time in prison. Robby was even told by guards that they would get him next and he would soon join his friends in the hole. A man named Leon Patterson became another victim of these guards. The man appeared to be having an asthma attack. Him and the rest of the men tried to get the attention of the guards for help but the crude guards came to help after an hour later. Sadly the man was pronounced dead at the jail. These men are just few of the many African American who get this type of abusive treatment
One morning when the guards are checking the cells, they discover that Andy is not in his cell. The warden throws rocks out of anger and throws one at the poster of a female Andy had taped on his cell wall. The rock goes straight through once they take down the poster, they see a hole in the wall. Andy had been digging this hole for twenty long years and used it to escape the prison. In the film, there is a scene of Andy in which he stands in the rain with his hands in the air as a free man. He takes in the rain on the other side of the prison and we see the happiness he feels knowing his plan worked. This scene shows us the success and accomplishment he feels knowing that due to his hard work over the years, he is now a free man. Once Andy escapes, he goes to Zihuatanejo, Mexico to start a new life, like he had told Red earlier on in the film. Once Red is granted parole, he is sent to the same hotel as Brooks and works at the same grocery store as well. The difference between Brooks and Red is that Red has a reason to keep going once he is out of the prison. He states “Only one thing stops me. A promise I made to Andy.” (). As he sits in his hotel room. This shows that Andy left a lasting impression on Red and also instilled hope in him to not give up like Brooks had. In the prison, Red was a man who had nothing to look forward to and gave up on ever getting parole but after being exposed to Andy and his beliefs, Red changed his thinking. When Red goes to finally meet Andy in Mexico, he says “I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams … I hope. “ (). This shows that someone who had said that hope is a dangerous thing now hopes for so many things, all because of Andy and his
It is also all part of the economic and social scene of the correctional facility (jail) system, where it forms a great part of the management of the jail. It helps to keep the harsh rules the warden and guards apply to the inmates in place. Systemic corruption is not a special type of corrupt practice, but rather a situation in which this jail and process of rehabilitation of the prisoners is routinely dominated and used by the corrupt warden and the guards. The prisoners have no alternatives to dealing with the corrupt jail staff. Letters are censored of not delivered, visits are controlled and when a prisoner is a threat, the warden and guards get rid of them. Tommy Williams who could have given the warden information to prove that Andy Dufresne was actually innocent, was removed by the Warden when he had Captain Hadley shoot him while he tried to escape. This was a false claim but no-one could prove it. In the end the warden is caught out when Andy gives all the evidence he collected during the years in jail against the Warden to a newspaper for publication. The warden takes his own life and in a sense it is retribution for all the terrible things he did against the prisoners and the
This defiance is what makes his character so likable. Red is a good man that did a terrible thing. He gives gifts to Andy and is a good friend to him when he needs him. He is very smart, not ever getting caught while smuggling everything in. He is a likable man because of his sincerity. At the start of the film he can even be considered the archetype of the wise old man. The wise old man of a film “possesses knowledge and often serves as a mentor to the hero” (Seger 392). He becomes Andy’s mentor and takes him under his wing, shows him the ways to do things and teaches him how to survive behind bars. He gets him what he needs from the outside world, like the hammer and the posters, and he gives him valuable advice. The stereotype of the African American is not seen as a respectable man, nor as an individual who bears intelligence and charm, as Red does. Andy Dufresne helps Red grow as a person and to defy the stereotype that he was born by the color of his skin. This sort of African American image can be seen in other movies as
The film stars Tim Robbins as Andrew 'Andy' Dufresne and Morgan Freeman as Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding. The film portrays Andy spending nearly two decades in Shawshank State Prison, a surreal house of correction in Maine and his friendship with Red, a fellow inmate, which gradually develops over the years. Consequently the three reasons that the director wanted to produce this movie are to reveal hope, despair and integrity. Red describes the reasons eloquently: “All I know for sure is that Andy Dufresne wasn’t much like me or anyone else I ever knew. . . . It was a kind of inner light he carried around with him.”
The Green Mile is one of Stephen King’s best works, which all take place in prisons. The film's title refers to the pristine green floors of Cold Mountain Penitentiary, a Deep South, Depression-era prison. The film stars Tom Hanks as prison warder Paul Edgcomb, in charge of the death row (nicknamed “the green mile”) at a southern penitentiary i...
In the book Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption written by Stephen King, Andy Dufresne becomes wrongly imprisoned in Shawshank State Prison for the murder of his wife and her lover. Andy becomes engulfed in the prison life as he makes friends. As the book, as well as the movie, transpire you see Andy becoming one of the prisoners. The movie describes it perfectly when Andy says: “On the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.” Andy and the other inmates are all locked up metaphorically as well as literally, hiding from themselves. Shawshank uses the isolation to submerge their prisoners to be unable to function past the prison walls.
Cold blooded murder is the accusation of the trial. Andy Dufresne, who is played by Tim Robbins, is charged with the murder of his cheating wife and tennis pro, Glenn Quentin. Andy is sent to the Shawshank prison, and is eventually friended by the character “Red,” aka Ellis Boyd Redding, a guy that could get items. Red is played by the well-known actor Morgan Freeman. Andy has asked for Red to retrieve a rock hammer for him, because he was a rock enthusiast. Dufresne is instantly liked by a large majority of the prison, maybe a tad too liked. He was beaten, hazed, and raped by a group known as the Sisters. Before Andy Dufresne was sentenced two life terms in prison, he was a successful banker.