67th Academy Awards

“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” Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption. In The Count of Monte Cristo, based on the novel written by Alexandre Dumas and screen played by Jay Wolpert, we learn that Edmond Dantès is an intelligent, honest man who turns bitter after he is framed for a crime he did not commit. When in The Shawshank Redemption, based on the novella Rita Hayward and Shawshank Redemption written by…

Humanity has pondered the meaning of life since its first steps—as doing so provides a confounding sense of purpose among the entropy that is the universe. This purpose can help free individuals from their doubt, and pain, and lead them to overcome that which was considered impossible, and all while inspiring the people around them. Within Frank Darabont 's Shawshank Redemption, these ideas are represented by one of the main protagonists of the story—Andy Dufresne, a successful young bank…

With Reference to the story ‘The Bet’ by Anton Chekhov, trace in detail, the imprisonment of the lawyer, the beginning of the first year right down to the fifteenth year. Justify the changes that the lawyer underwent at various stages of his imprisonment. What changes did you see in the banker during this period? The Bet is a short story written by Anton Chekhov, who writes based on realistic characters and situations. A wealthy banker and a young lawyer make a bet with each other based on…

The Castle Newly out of the penal system This country has an overcrowded prison system show by recent prison related statistics. “The Castle,” an autobiographic production about four ex-convicts, describing from criminal offenders face upon their release. The play is based on the real-life experiences of four ex-convicts by Rory Anderson, Vilma Ortiz Donovan, Thomas Jones, and Victor Rojas who all collaborated with David Rothenberg on the script that telling their true stories. Anderson, who…

The movie The Shawshank redemption was produced by Frank Darabont and based off of the Stephen King book The Shawshank Redemption. The film is based around figures of hope for the inmates as a sense of relief to help them by the difficult times. The theme hope is portrayed throughout the film as objects, and in the protagonists Andy Dufresne and Ellis Boyd ‘Red Redding’. The major moments where hope was developed was scenes with music, specifically the scene of the warden’s office and the record…

Interpretation The concept of desire in Shawshank Redemption is demonstrated by the inmates hope. The inmates in Shawshank redemption exhibit the desire for freedom. They are driven by the hope that strengthens their will to survive in their surroundings. The character Andy struggles to contain and maintain his sense of value towards himself and escape that prevent him from being consumed by depression, stress and anger when he is under solitary confinement. His desire for seeing ‘the light’…

The Shawshank Redemption uses cinematography, editing, and sound design to convey the dramatic plot of the movie. The lighting, editing choices, narration, and music increase the emotions the viewer feels throughout the film. This paper will discuss, cinematography, editing, and sound design used in The Shawshank Redemption. Cinematography used in The Shawshank Redemption helps the viewer to understand what the characters are feeling and the emotions that should be felt. The lighting inside…

In Frank Darabont's screenplay for the film, "The Shawshank Redemption," Andy Dufresne , the protagonist, is sentenced for two consecutive life terms in Shawshank prison for the murder of his wife and her lover . Andy knows that he has not committed these crimes and was somehow framed for their murders. Andy suffered in prison initially because the other prisoners were thinking that he was a snob and especially because of the frequent attacks and rape from a gang of men called " the sisters".…

Shawshank Redemption portrayed such a strong and inspiring theme of hope throughout the course of the movie. As we learned more about the prisoners at Shawshank we saw the hope or lack thereof that many prisoners had. The prisoners of Shawshank had different reasons for being there, they had different ideas of what they wanted to accomplish, if anything at all while incarcerated or after they were released. With compelling evidence Andy had hoped of getting out of prison, Tommy had varying…

In 1991, Manuel Puig published a novel titled Kiss of the Spider Woman. In the novel, the two main characters, Molina, a homosexual window dresser incarcerated for allegedly corrupting a minor, and Valentin, a Marxist revolutionary imprisoned for supposed terrorist activities, are set in an Argentine prison. As the plot progresses, the misery of prison life makes these two cellmates very close friends. By making use of the time both characters are in prison to share films related by Molina and…