He reloaded. [55] According to the Mansfield/Richland County Convention and Visitors Bureau (later renamed Destination Mansfield),[59] tourism in the area had increased every year since The Shawshank Redemption premiered, and in 2013 drew in 18,000 visitors and over $3 million to the local economy. The piece, "Shawshank Redemption", plays during Andy's escape from Shawshank and originally had a three-note motif, but Darabont felt it had too much of a "triumphal flourish" and asked that it be toned down to a single-note motif. 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Andy approaches Norton with this information, but Norton refuses to listen, and when Andy mentions the money laundering, Norton sends him back to solitary confinement. He felt that it already elicited such strong emotions without music that he found it difficult to compose one that would elevate scenes without distracting from them. [22][41], After being nominated for several Oscars in early 1995,[9] the film was re-released between February and March, earning a further $12 million. [71] One scripted scene, which Darabont described as his best work, was left unfilmed because of the shooting schedule. Over 320,000 VHS copies were shipped throughout the United States, and on the strength of its award nominations and word of mouth, it became one of the top rented films of 1995. Darabont favored more scenic shots, while Deakins felt that not showing the outside of the prison added a sense of claustrophobia, and it meant that when a wide scenic shot was used, it had more impact. [56] Scenes were also filmed in Mansfield, as well as neighboring Ashland, Ohio. While there, he finds a friend in Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding. He befriends a fellow inmate, Red, and a Fandango FANALERT® Sign up for a FANALERT® to find out when tickets are available in your area. [53] The Mansfield Reformatory Preservation Society, a group of enthusiasts of the film, purchased the building and site from Ohio for one dollar in 2000 and took up maintaining it as a historical landmark, both as its purpose as a prison and as the filming site. To convince the studio that Gunton was right for the part, Darabont and producer Niki Marvin arranged for him to record a screen test on a day off from Demolition Man. Freeman's character alludes to the choice when queried by Andy on why he is called Red, replying "Maybe it's because I'm Irish. Over time Andy finds ways to live out life with relative ease as one can in a prison, leaving a message for all that while the body may be locked away in a cell, the spirit can never be truly imprisoned. Norton's appearance and public addresses can be seen to mirror Nixon's. Also sign me up for FanMail to get updates on all things movies: tickets, special offers, screenings + more. [36] Positive recommendations and repeat customer viewings, and being well received by both male and female audiences, were considered key to the film's rental success. 02.00 D.A. [49][65] Of the scene, Robbins said, "when you're doing a film, you want to be a good soldier—you don't want to be the one [who] gets in the way. [35] Philosopher Alexander Hooke argued that Andy and Red's true freedom is their friendship, being able to share joy and humor with each other. Maybe because he was outside the lover's house with a loaded gun the night of the murder. Andy is wrongfully accused of murder and sent to prison at Shawshank. [49] While in the finished film the inmates watch Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946), they were originally intended to be watching Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend (1945), a film about the dangers of alcohol. Robbins said, "I swear to God, all over the world—all over the world—wherever I go, there are people who say, 'That movie changed my life' ". Andy Dufresne is sent to Shawshank Prison for the murder of his wife and her secret lover. [3] In the United States, it became the 51st-highest-grossing film of 1994, and the 21st-highest-grossing R-rated film of 1994. Despite its mainly male cast, it was the most-watched movie on the female-targeted OWN network. [9] Darabont said he cast Robbins after seeing his performance in the 1990 psychological horror Jacob's Ladder. [116][117] It was also number 23 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers (2006) list charting inspiring films. Glotzer claimed that the pair actually sold two tickets outside the theater with the promise that if the buyers did not like the film, they could ask Castle Rock for a refund. At the next day's roll call, the guards find Andy's cell empty. It was in the top 15% of movies among adults between the ages of 18 and 49 on the Spike, Up, Sundance TV, and Lifetime channels. Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency. A man of morals and ideals. [39] He also cited Goodfellas (1990) as an inspiration on the use of dialogue to illustrate the passage of time in the script, and the prison drama Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) directed by John Frankenheimer. "[87] Variety said that the word "Shawshank" could be used to instantly convey images of a prison. He said that the time and precision taken by Deakins, and their limited filming schedule, meant he had to be precise in what he could film and how. [85] Klady said that the length and tone, while tempered by humor and unexpected events, would dampen the film's mainstream appeal, but the story offered a fascinating portrait of the innate humanity of the inmates. "[137] In a 2014 Variety article, Robbins claimed that South African politician Nelson Mandela told him about his love for the film,[9] while it has been cited as a source of inspiration by several sportsmen including Jonny Wilkinson (UK), Agustín Pichot (Argentina), Al Charron (Canada), and Dan Lyle (USA),[138] and Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York. [94], Of Robbins' performance, Gleiberman said that in his "laconic-good-guy, neo-Gary Cooper role, [Robbins] is unable to make Andy connect with the audience". Psychological concepts help drive the plot of this film. [84], The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards in 1995, the most for a Stephen King film adaptation:[95] Best Picture (Marvin), Best Actor (Freeman), Best Adapted Screenplay (Darabont), Best Cinematography (Deakins), Best Editing (Richard Francis-Bruce), Best Sound Mixing (Robert J. Litt, Elliot Tyson, Michael Herbick, and Willie D. Burton),[96] and Best Original Score (Newman, his first Academy Award nomination). Norton, meanwhile, transfers Tommy Williams to another prison out of fear that Andy would expose his money laundering operation if parole… [93] Even Kenneth Turan's Los Angeles Times review, which Glotzer credited with derailing the film's box-office success, praised Freeman, saying his "effortless screen presence lends Shawshank the closest thing to credibility it can manage". [4], Darabont first collaborated with author Stephen King in 1983 on the short film adaptation of "The Woman in the Room", buying the rights from him for $1—a Dollar Deal that King used to help new directors build a résumé by adapting his short stories. The following year, Red is finally paroled after serving 40 years. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne c. [9] Reiner, who had previously adapted King's 1982 novella The Body into the 1986 film Stand by Me, planned to cast Tom Cruise as Andy and Harrison Ford as Red. The shawshank redemption (1994) is a cult classic film which tells us the story of Andy Dufresne. [76] It did not win in any category. The project attracted many stars of the time for the role of Andy, including Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, and Kevin Costner. Darabont responded: "I can think of no greater honor than for The Shawshank Redemption to be considered part of our country's cinematic legacy. [97], Robbins and Freeman were both nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role at the inaugural Screen Actors Guild Awards in 1995. The Shawshank Redemption is a very human story with a lot of powerful, and emotional scenes that have captivated millions of viewers. Just as Andy can be interpreted as a Christ-like figure, he can be seen as a Zarathustra-like prophet offering escape through education and the experience of freedom. Read a plot overview or analysis of the story. "[66] The scene was intended to be much longer and more dramatic, detailing Andy's escape across a field and onto a train, but with only a single night available to film the sequence, it was shortened to showing Andy standing triumphant in the water. [124] In 2014, The Shawshank Redemption was named Hollywood's fourth-favorite film, based on a survey of 2,120 Hollywood-based entertainment industry members; entertainment lawyers skewed the most towards the film. [24] Indeed, the warden does not enforce the general rule of law, but chooses to enforce his own rules and punishments as he sees fit, becoming a law unto himself, like the behavior of Satan. While the film is set in Maine, principal photography took place from June to August 1993 almost entirely in Mansfield, Ohio, with the Ohio State Reformatory serving as the eponymous penitentiary. [30] Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre described freedom as an ongoing project that requires attention and resilience, without which a person begins to be defined by others or institutions, mirroring Red's belief that inmates become dependent on the prison to define their lives. State police arrive at Shawshank and take Hadley into custody, while Norton commits suicide to avoid arrest. It was filmed in one of the actual prison's more confined cells. [39], Freeman was cast at the suggestion of producer Liz Glotzer, who ignored the novella's character description of a white Irishman, nicknamed "Red". [84] Howe said that while the character is "cheesily messianic" for easily charming everyone to his side, comparing him to "Forrest Gump goes to jail", Robbins exudes the perfect kind of innocence to sell the story. Freeman referred to Darabont's requiring multiple takes of scenes, which he considered had no discernible differences. He expanded on elements of King's story. "[2] Darabont was already aware of Freeman from his minor role in another prison drama, Brubaker (1980), while Robbins had been excited to work alongside the actor, having grown up watching him in The Electric Company children's television show. I remember having a bad moment with the director, had a few of those." [2], Marvin spent five months scouting prisons across the United States and Canada, looking for a site that had a timeless aesthetic, and was completely abandoned, hoping to avoid the complexity of filming the required footage, for hours each day, in an active prison with the security difficulties that would entail. [144] It regularly appears on Empire's top 100 films, was named the greatest film to not win the Academy Award for Best Picture in a 2013 poll by Sky UK (it lost to Forrest Gump),[145] and ranked as Britain's favorite film in a 2015 YouGov poll. [41] Many of the rooms and props remain there, including the false pipe through which Andy escapes,[55] and a portion of the oak tree from the finale, after it was damaged in 2011. [65] While the film portrays the iconic scene of Andy escaping to freedom through a sewer pipe described as a "river of shit", Robbins crawls through a mixture of water, chocolate syrup, and sawdust. [139] Gunton said he had encountered fans in Morocco, Australia, South America,[140] Germany, France, and Bora Bora. [46] In 1996, the rights to The Shawshank Redemption were passed to Warner Bros., following the merger of its parent company Time Warner with the Turner Broadcasting System. [18] Andy is offered as a messianic, Christ-like figure, with Red describing him early in the film as having an aura that engulfs and protects him from Shawshank. Bank Merchant Andy Dufresne is convicted of the murder of his wife and her lover, and sentenced to life imprisonment at Shawshank prison. Andy quickly befriends contraband smuggler Ellis \"Red\" Redding (Morgan Freeman), an inmate serving a life sentence. The production team dammed the stream to make it deeper and used chlorination to partially decontaminate it. [93] Ebert noted that the story works because it is not about Andy as the hero, but how Red perceives him. He is sentenced to two consecutive life sentences at Shawshank State Penitentiary in Maine, run by Warden Samuel Norton (Bob Gunton). [20] Director Frank Darabont responded that this was not his deliberate intention,[21] but he wanted people to find their own meaning in the film. Parents Guide. [22], Ted Turner's Turner Broadcasting System had acquired Castle Rock in 1993, which enabled his television channel, TNT, to obtain the cable-broadcast rights to the film. [72] In the scene, a dreaming Red is sucked into the poster of Rita Hayworth to find himself alone and insignificant on the Pacific shore, saying "I am terrified, there is no way home." [69] The film's first edit ran for nearly two and a half hours, which Glotzer considered "long", and several scenes were cut including a longer sequence of Red adjusting to life after incarceration; Darabont said that in test screenings the audience seemed to be getting impatient with the scene as they were already convinced that Red would not make it. 09.00 1949: Andy Dufresne arrives. [9] Bob Gunton was filming Demolition Man (1993) when he went to audition for the role of Warden Norton. [9][36][110][148][149], This article is about the film. When Andy asks Norton to request a retrial, Norton dismisses Andys claims and puts him in solitary confinement for more than a month on the grain and drain diet of bread and water. The possibility of escaping to Zihuatanejo is only raised after Andy admits that he feels responsible for his wife's death. [91], Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman said that Freeman makes the Red character feel genuine and "lived-in". [9][77] It received a wide release on October 14, 1994, expanding to a total of 944 theaters to earn $2.4 million—an average of $2,545 per theater—finishing as the number-nine film of the weekend, behind sex-comedy Exit to Eden ($3 million), and just ahead of the historical drama Quiz Show ($2.1 million), which was in its fifth week at the cinemas. [44] Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, and Kevin Costner were offered, and passed on the role[9]—Hanks due to his starring role in Forrest Gump,[40] and Costner because he had the lead in Waterworld. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing The Shawshank Redemption (1995) near you. [48] The low box office was also blamed on a lack of female characters to broaden the audience demographics, the general unpopularity of prison films, and the bleak tone used in its marketing. In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". [36][51] The Shawshank Redemption closed in late November 1994, after 10 weeks with an approximate total gross of $16 million. Taglines The Shawshank Redemption is an uplifting, deeply satisfying prison drama with sensitive direction and fine performances. The Shawshank Redemption is considered as one of the best films ever made. [90][91] Gene Siskel said that like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Shawshank Redemption is an inspirational drama about overcoming overbearing authority. A new inmate named Tommy Williams arrives at Shawshank and tells Andy that he served time in another prison with Elwood Blatch, a man who privately admitted to killing tennis pro Glenn Quentin. Plot summary for The Shawshank Redemption (1994), plus mistakes, quotes, trivia and more. In 1998, it was nominated for AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list, and was number 72 on the 2007 revised list, outranking Forrest Gump (76) and Pulp Fiction (94). In 1949, Andy overhears the captain of the guards, Byron Hadley, complaining about being taxed on an inheritance and offers to help him shelter the money legally. [57] The oak tree under which Andy buries his letter to Red was located near Malabar Farm State Park, in Lucas, Ohio;[44] it was destroyed by winds in 2016. The broadcast rights were acquired following the purchase of Castle Rock by Turner Broadcasting System, and it was shown regularly on the TNT network starting in 1997, further increasing its popularity. [44] The surrounding area is also visited by fans, while local businesses market "Shawshanwiches" and Bundt cakes in the shape of the prison. [77] It was also voted as New Zealand's favorite film in a 2015 poll. 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