Academy Award for Best Director

One of the all-time great movies Shawshank Redemption based on Stephen King’s book has some of the most thought provoking and poignant quotes, one of which I think is “Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free”. This sentence has nuances that deserve careful inspection. However, before diving into the quote, let’s pause to define what fear and hope are. Fear is one of the basic and strongest emotions known and can redefine who you are. It has the power to make us curl up in a corner,…

The Shawshank Redemption- Angus Dally Show how the director of The Shawshank Redemption uses recurring symbols as a device to reinforce ideas. In the film The Shawshank Redemption, the director Frank Darabont uses a number of recurring symbols to reinforce ideas. The frequent shots of elements of the prison, the pin up girls in Andy’s cell, and the symbolic use of water all serve to build on the ideas on freedom, change, and deception presented in the film. In the film there are very regular…

It’s Jake and Lydia’s first time to go outside in the wilderness and see all of the beautiful nature out there. They don’t know what they're going to expect out there and there can be very dangerous plants or animals there. They have never ever seen any kind of animal in there whole life except the talking ape. Their parents let them go explore outside even though that might be the last time there going to see them. Jake and Lydia are very excited to go out and see different things. When they go…

"The Shawshank Redemption" starts off with the familiar brutality of a prison movie. Convicted in the late 1940s for the murder of his wife and her lover, banker Tim Robbins is thrown into the slammer (the Shawshank penitentiary in Maine) for two consecutive life sentences. Seasoned inmate Morgan Freeman—the narrator in this story—watches as the soft-spoken, vulnerable prisoner undergoes the inevitable gang rape. Prison, Freeman tells the audience in that inimitably authoritative voice, "is no…

Have you ever wondered what it was like to be a true genius? Good Will Hunting is a movie about just that: a young boy who has experienced a less than satisfactory upbringing, but through reading informational books at a public library in his youth and through having a photographic memory that allows him to remember everything he reads has resulted in him becoming very intelligent. It is shown just how intelligent he is when he solves a proof that is written on a chalkboard at Harvard University…

The movie Shawshank Redemption is a film that was about a banker named Andy Dufresne who was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for murdering his beloved wife and her lover. He knows that he did not commit the crimes, he was being accused of something he did not do. While his stay at prison, he made some friends and lives through the harsh life in prison. This movie has shown what he went through. It shows his difficulties and experiences throughout his many years of confinement in…

A father’s job is to care for his children, to keep them safe from harm. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work out that way as is made clear in two Jess Walter’s stories, “Please” and “We Live in Water” from a book of the same name We Live in Water. In “Please” the son in the story lives with his mom, Carla, and her druggie boyfriend, Jeff in an environment where drugs come first. Tommy, the absentee father, has little control regarding the safety of his child. In “We Live in Water”, it is…

Prison is not a friendly place. Knowing that point, does prison have to be a place where one’s life comes to an end? In the United States, there is an incarceration rate of almost 700 people to every 100,000 people; this means the United States has the highest prison population in the world; over a period of ten years (2000-2010), the number of prisoners has increased from 1.937 million to almost 2.3 million (www.prisonstudies.org). Looking at The Shawshank Redemption (1994), the viewers see the…

despair since his hope of normal life is taboo to him. Andy suggest that the power of hope ignores the hardships of prison and suggest making the best of it. Such example is Andy funding the library with used books and filing tax returns for the security and even a baseball team. Andy had the hope and balls to made used of prison life and made the best of it. Andy also suggest that hope can contribute plentiful for the prison such as giving high school education to Tommy…

Shawshank Redemption takes place in Maine in the middle of the twentieth century. The narrator is known as “the guy that can get it for you (1),” referring to a guy that can get things those in prison might want, like cigarettes, alcohol, or anything else within reason. This makes him a very important man in prison, because in order to get what people want, he has to have connections on the inside and outside. Given that he is the only one the reader knows about that is able to do this, he seems…