@@YouMeTheMovies These are the actual filming locations that were used in The Shawshank Redemption. The filming locations found in Ohio were in: Mansfield, Lucas, Butler, Upper Sandusky and Ashland. th-cam.com/video/TDnFzQ-V_WU/w-d-xo.html
@@YouMeTheMovies In Finland movie is called "Rita Hayworth - Avain Pakoon" (= the key to escape) , original book title was , Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption ... gives a bit away , even if you can take it as its Andys mental escape from the prison life .
@@pete_lind In France they sabotaged it totally traducing it by "The prison breakers" (or something, dunno how to translate it back). In short they give the end, WHILE focusing on what the movie is not: it's not a prison break movie.
@@garryiglesias4074 "Les évadés" could be translated "The escapees". But you're right, it does spoil the ending. In Quebec, the french title was "À l'ombre de Shawshank" which could be translated to "Under Shawshank's shadow" which pretty much describes the movie without giving away the outcome.
Favorite scene is when Red says about Andy "I guess I just miss my friend". This was my dad's favorite movie and he'd recite that line no doubt thinking of all his friends and family he outlived. He passed away in April and when I see this movie I think of that line and him. I guess I just miss my friend.
That's so sweet. I felt that way about my Mom; we, too, were good friends. All of us who have been/were blessed with such wonderful parents understand exactly what you're saying. My dear Mom passed in October of 2020, her last year filled with the sad oddities of covid-19. My prayers for you, and all who have lost their wonderful parents in these last few crazy years! God bless you!
I'm sorry for your loss. But sounds like they lived fairly long lives, had a family together all the way and had each other so in the end it doesn't sound too bad for them. Of course they'll be missed but everything in life ends and so does every life. I hope your pain has already moved to the side a bit and your head has some more space to think about a lot more than just the last days of their lives. Lots of love from Finland 🇫🇮 ❤
This movie actually bombed at the box office. And, yet, it is considered one of the greatest movies ever made. That's why when people use box office numbers to indicate quality, I don't value their opinion. By that logic, Avatar is better than The Shawshank Redemption and I just don't think that's so. I got to see this in theatres a couple of years ago. So great.
Yeah it did bomb. But it's absolutely one of the greatest movies ever made. 1994 was a very big year for movies. Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, Ace Ventura, Dumb and Dumber, The Mask. The biggest blockbuster though was The Lion King. It was just short of a billion dollars in 1994, by today's standards it probably would have been like 2 billion dollars.
It came out right around when Clinton pushed through a bunch of punitive crime laws. The public sentiment was very much against convicts and many felt the film was dangerous for sympathizing with them.
Even that moment he hears the police sirens in the distance as he looks up at the stitch his wife made that says "His judgement cometh and that right soon" - You can practically sense the hand of karma looming over him! Incredible!
@@ralphficker167 Kind of. It's spelled correctly, but not for American English. Also, the fact that he hid the hammer in Exodus is just that much sweeter. lol
Your wife is so smart! I watch different reaction videos and always look forward to seeing her guess correct on plots and motives. She would make a true detective 🕵️♀️
@@aternialaffsalot Yeah, I would have thought the poster too flimsy and too easily discovered to hide such a large hole for a decade or more. They should watch Escape from Alcatraz which was based on a real escape, including the stuff they made for the breakout.
The movie is full of cross reference... And just now, I asked myself it there's not something around "rope" and "hope"... That's the kind of stuff King's could do... Andy changed rope for hope.
Not just ANY shitty pipe. The only shitty pipe in the world that produces enough pressure to make a shit-fountain, while being unsealed from at least 1 side))
Morgan Freeman's narration pushes this movie into the Stratosphere! In a movie FULL of great and powerful lines, I think one particularly good & meaningful line that gets mostly overlooked (including by me) is; "Time can draw out like a BLADE."
I've never quite understood why Stephen King pigeonholed himself as a horror writer because he genuinely wrote some great yarns in the mold of good old-fashioned American storytelling. We'll miss him when he's gone.
But he is one of the best horror/thriller/fuck with my mind guy and yet for some insane reason he is a storryteller as well.. kudos to him. Stand By Me, Apt Pupil, Green Mile and many other 'short stories' are just f...... amazing
1- you go with the horse that got you there. if you start doing things differently you aggravate your fans - look at the reception to Metallica's 'St. Anger' or Garth Brooks 'Chris Gaines' music. 2- Stephen King tried to "unpigeonhole" himself early in his career by using a pen name "Richard Bachman" so he could write other genres besides horror like 'The Running Man' and because his publisher did not want to oversaturate the market by releasing more than 1 Stephen King novel a year and to test himself to see if his success was based on talent or luck but it quickly got out that Richard Bachman was Stephen King
@@tomasjohannesson1457 I wish they had released the Green Mile as a TV miniseries on Netflix / HBO because there is SO much more to it than the movie showed but back then before Sopranos was a huge hit and changed the way they make and we watch Television it was financially more viable to make a movie. The books were originally released in a series of 6 which would have been perfect for episodic television. The movie was great but the whole subplot of Tom Hanks' character having an orderly at the old age home mistreat him the way Percy mistreated the prisoners added another level of intrigue and suspense to the story but that would have made it a 4 hour movie to tell that story properly and give it justice.
@@tomasjohannesson1457 there are a few BAD ones too like 'The Lawnmower Man' and 'Sleepwalkers' where someone bought the rights to a Stephen King work and completely changed it so they could release it under Stephen King's name as a vehicle to show off their computer graphic special effects.
I wish the posters, dvd/blu ray covers, thumbnails on streaming sites, etc didn’t have that shot of Andy with his arms outstretched in the rain. I imagine that has ruined the ending for many ppl.
In Greece the name of the film is "Last Escape: Rita Hayworth" (but in Greek). They thought that Shawshank Redemption wouldn't translate well with the name of a place... but Rita Hayworth also doesn't translate. They made it as bad by having a name and they spoiled the poster's significance. All in all real stupid moves. Also yeah spoilers of the outcome everywhere. *Edit* They also named it that because of the novella's name but still...
@@Zeliek Yes the original Stephen King story is called 'Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption', which doesn't sound very good in English let alone other languages!
Why should it? Before they have seen the movie, that scene could happen anytime in the movie. And when they see the scene in the movie, it has already happened. So, nothing gets given away.
@@YouMeTheMovies This movie is the only film I have ever watched in my lifetime so far that I scored a 10 out of 10. So calling this a "good" movie is understatement big time. The fact that it got robbed out of an Oscar award is due to "fixed" award ceremony back then. It was all about Forrest Gump and his box of freaking chocolates! Forrest Gump gets an 8 out of 10 for me so you guys do the math.
I feel for Brooks. This man has been there since 1904. 1904. Hes probably the only one who was brought to Shawshank in a carriage with iron shackles, not a bus and chain cuffs. He knew nothing about the world he was getting released into.
Yup... Brooks rode to prison in a horse-drawn wagon over dirt roads. The prison had no electricity, no running water, and was likely heated by a coal-fired boiler. Prisoners were filling oil lamps, drawing water from a well, and shoveling coal. By the time they released Brooks, two world wars had happened, the population of the US had doubled, the roads were paved and full of fast shiny cars. There were planes full of people soaring overhead, and he was put up in a well-lit town with neon signs, streetlights, and homes glowing with electric light.
Agreed! Love everything about it. Story, characters, dialog, acting, directing, cinematography.... You name it. And it has one of, if not the most beautiful endings to a movie ever. All in my humble opinion of course. A true classic.
Lots of great scenes in this movie. But my favourite scene i think is the very last shot. The camera pulls back and you just catch a glimpse of Andy and Red embracing after all the decades of shit they went through together and heading into hopefully a much more relaxed and happy life. It just fills my heart and soaks my eyes lol.
It didn't win because it got buried, but it was up against like 15 other absolutely legendary films. 1994 was, without a doubt, THE best year for movies. Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, this, Leon (The Professional), Natural Born Killers, Clerks, The Lion King, Hoop Dreams, The Hudsucker Proxy, Quiz Show, Dumb and Dumber, The Crow....and I'm missing like 30 instant classics, even if they weren't 10/10.
From Andy Dufresne: Get busy living or Get busy dying! Definetly this classic is among the five best movies ever done in the entire cinema's history. Best regards from Belo Horizonte City State of Minas Gerais - Brazil. Stay safe all of you!
Favourite scene - the last one, the culmination of so many events and where Red finally embraces hope and happiness, because of Shawshank prison he got his redemption 😭
The opening shot of shawshank prison at the beginning. That's what drew me into the film back in like 2001, when in was in middle school. it was on in the den one day. The iconic cinematography by Roger deakins and the iconic score from Thomas Newman, in that open aerial shot of the prison, just gets me every time!
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption is the first of 4 novellas in the book Different Seasons. 2 of the 3 others were also made into films. They are:: "Apt Pupil" film of the same name. And "The Body, which was made into the the great Rob Reiner directed film Stand by Me. The only novella from Different Seasons that has never been made into a film is The Breathing Method.
Said it before and I'll say it again. She's quick. "He's got like a giant hole behind Rita Hayworth or something". First time I've seen someone guess it right off the bat.
26:15 they didnt find a gun in the river, which would have been evidence for a murder crime, but they put in the effort in finding a stupid hammer from an escaped prisoner to get a story. good job police
This movie is jampacked with great scenes. You can call me a sucker or whatever else you fancy, but the ending when Red and Andy reunite pulls at my heart strings every time. Those kinds of endings I usually find sappy, but I felt in this movie that it was very much earned and deserved considering the raw brutality and heartbreak they lived through for decades. It's one of two movies in my life where the ending made me shed a tear first time watching it. The other is Terminator 2 if you're wondering lol. The thumbs up is when it got me.
You asked what our favorite scene is I had just gotten out of prison well a few weeks I live in Arizona it was monsoon season and I love going out in the rain so with my ankle monitor on I walked to the circle k in the rain and I get a 40 of Old English and at this time the rain is coming down sideways and I'm just walking through it screaming about how cool it is some guy asked me if I was okay and if I needed a ride and I was like no man I just got out of jail and prison and I love the rain and he just drove away so the part when Andy dufrain comes out of the s*** tunnel has to be my favorite scene lol
The paradox of Andy is that the innocent man no longer killed his wife but in prison he becomes a criminal because he owed money to the prison manager.
Quotable lines: "I'm not supposed to be here!" - Works surprisingly well in many situations. You do have to say it the same way the guy in the movie says it though, them's the rules. "I don't have her stuffed down the front of my pants I'm sorry to say, but I'll get her!" - this one's just fun
Use the desperate, emotional "I'm not supposed to be here!" line to get out of many situations: waiting in line at the post office, on a bad first date, at a relative's funeral. It works like magic!
It's hard for a movie to build suspense when you're so smart you figure everything out long before it happens. When Red said that Andy swam through a river of s**t and came out clean on the other side, he was speaking both literally and metaphorically.
One of my favourite scenes was the bible with the inscription along the lines of - you were right, salvation lies within, and the callback to when the warden hands Andy back his bible and says that line. That was the only scene that didn't make the cut for this upload but man did you edit this upload perfectly. Got all the great dialogue scenes and other important scenes we all know and love.
My Fav scenes: 1) rain scene. 2) ending. 3) when they are against the wall and he says "get busy living or get busy dieing" 4) when andy sits on the rooftop without a beer against the sunset. 5) Dirt falling from pant legs.
This film gives me chills everytime i watch it 🥹 the moment where he gets out the end of the tunnel and stands in the rain and the moment where they meet on the beach make me cry no matter how many times i watch it ❤
The scene that stands out is the opera music scene, which Stephen King didn't care for. I understand why some people may not care for it, as it kind of turns the movie into a 50's Disney movie. But I remember seeing that for the first time when the movie came out to cable in the 90's, and completely understanding what Andy is about. And it goes without saying, this is my favorite movie ending of all time. Frank Darabont almost didn't put that in there (the scene where Andy and Red are reunited), and was originally going to end with Red's line about the Pacific being as blue as it has been in his dreams. I believe it was one of Darabont's producers who said that he absolutely couldn't rob the audience of that moment, and it's what makes this movie nearly perfect. I simply adore this film. There isn't one bad scene.
oh yeah, that had James Gandolfini in it, i remember liking it a lot the first time i saw it, oddly enough i think i went back and rewatched it and didn't like it as much the 2nd time. I've seen a lot of prison movies and shows evidently, i have the whole series of Oz on DVD. Admittedly, the story isn't always the best in Oz, but the actors are believable and it's intriguing to watch, some pretty good actors in there, i think there's 4 actors that went on to be in Dexter in that show, Maria Laguerta/James Doakes/Batista are in it. idk i have a lot of fav characters from that show, Adabese/Beecher/Schillinger/Kareem Saed. It's a pretty good show.
Favourite scene? The one where Andy plays the song on the gramophone. There one realizes the second plan, namely that Andy is something like a ray of light for the other prisoners, and also that despite many hardships he has lived a valuable life there, perhaps more valuable than if he had stayed outside.
The frienship between Red and Andy is beautiful I love Andy's character. He brings hope and salvation to the prisoners. One of my favoriite movies. The novella is great too.
Forrest Gump, Schindler's List, Shawshank Redemption and Jurassic Park(Re-release)and Pulp Fiction were all in theaters at the same time in 1994. That's insane
Stephen King gets a lot of crap because the movie adaptations of his works usually suck, but when they're not horror stories, they tend to work very well as films because he's very gifted at creating believable characters with interesting relationships. He does that in his horror books, but when he does that in a non-horror story it kind of shines more because there's no monster or catastrophe of weird thing happening to distract from it. He also gets a lot of undeserving crap as a writer from snobbish readers, especially snobbish horror readers, because at some point it became cool to dismiss his whole mountain of a body of work just because some books aren't awesome or just because according to some people he's inferior to Poe or Lovecraft or whomever, when nobody did the comparison in the first place. I mean, say what you want about the guy, but he's a freaking machine at writing tons and tons of books, very few of which are honestly bad, and he has consistently being humble about his career and body of work, usually comparing his books to the equivalent of a Big Mac in the sense that they're not necessarily good but they're enjoyable if you go into them aware that what you're consuming isn't "high art" but simple entertainment. And even then, I think the guy is not giving himself enough credit because he's certainly a better writer than the equivalent of a Big Mac cook as this movie, Stand By Me, the Green Mile, the Stand, Carrie, and so many other of his stories (and movies based on them) show.
Absolutely agreed. I observe above that King pigeonholed himself as a "horror writer" and had the ability to churn out such novels regularly but in works like "The Green Mile" (which has super-natural non-horror elements) and in the collection "Different Seasons" you can see that he could possibly have taken a different direction after his successful debut in the early 70s.
Nice catch. Wylie Dufresne is the mad scientist of food. He owns Du's Donuts. But he used to own WD 50 and Alder in Manhatten, specializing in Molecular Gastronomy. A true culinary visionary.
fave scene - Red walking to the rock wall and finding the obsidian. makes you wonder. makes you think of expectation and hoping something will be there. putting trust into something not truth until found.
7:43 In the novella, the caracher IS irish. Love they didn't change the name. 8:38 In the book, red say "all prisioners in every jail been rape sometimes", they cut that part out. 11:45 The story name is "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption". 15:39 In the book, when Brooks free the raven, Jake, the inmates tell that the raven keep coming back, day after day until finally die of starvation. Like the bird is also institutionalized. Don't know we, but to me is the saddest part of the novella, always make me cry. 17:22 The aria scene is not in the novella, but Stephen Kings loved it! Thanks for all the work you put on the channel, best wishes form Argentina.
@@Cheepchipsable I guess. The ones that were in when Andy first got in were all convicted murderers. Later on, as the warden's initiatives started going through, they started giving him felons like Tommy who had committed other less serious crimes.
Great stuff. It's in my top 3 films of all time. Not many films can break me, but this one always does. On a side note, I managed to get the full season of lost. I thought there was something wrong when you said there was 24 episodes in season 1, and yet my box set only had 12.😂
Good point. THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO is my favorite book of all time. Unfortunately, it has never been accurately adapted by any filmmakers. They either ignore the story altogether or turn the second half into a Zorro story. The book, however, doesn't have a "happily ever after" ending. Edmund Dantes doesn't get his girl (Mercedes) back. Her son is not his son. He doesn't even keep the money. In fact, the book is largely open-ended. It implies that -- finally -- happiness might possibly be on the cards for Dantes. This film (The Shawshank Redemption) kind of captures the ending of Dumas' book quite perfectly.
@@ccchhhrrriiisss100 Agreed. And the novel is one of my favorites as well, complex and satisfying. A personal favorite element is Dantes' anguish when Villefort's wife poisons thier young son, and he (Dantes) agonizes over whether he had exceeded his perceived role of bringing God's righteous vengeance, and now had himself become corrupt. Such a great story.
@@stevengentry9396 Well, that's kind of the point, isn't it? God's righteous vengeance is God's to dish out. He, Dantès, won't get his old life back trying to play God's hand, no matter how much he tries. In fact, he almost destroys what little is left of what he cared for. It's only in finding a new life that he might also find happiness.
Fun fact: The Shawshank Redemption was released in cinemas here in the Philippines under the alternate title "The Prisoner". Why that happened, I have no idea.
My favorite scene was the rooftop where Andy got the boys some beers. Can't wait to see your reaction to "The Green Mile", I consider that movie The Ultimate Try Not To Cry Challenge. Another great Stephen King adaptation is "Stand By Me" (1986).
One of the more iconic shots in my opinion is when the warden rips the poster away and the camera frames him and Morgan Freeman looking into the hole. Whoever came up with that knows what they're doing.
My favorite scene is the whole post-prison break tree in Buxton scene. The dynamics between the quiet of anticipation and the swell of the music (both before and after finding the letter) with the cinematography of the fields is stunning. That mixed with the happiness and relief of a happy ending gets me every time.
Great movie, plating the music from the wardens office to the whole compound really stands out and don't worry Red had plenty time to go back and retrieve his hat on the beach.
I live down the street from this prison in Ohio and it brings me great joy to think about how, for a brief moment in 1994, all of these great actors were near my house. The prison is still used for haunted tours and heavy metal concerts in the yard.
When Andy asks Red why his name was Red and Red says “because I’m Irish” is a little Easter egg from the book because Red was actually an Irishman
Ahh... that makes sense. Haha
@@YouMeTheMovies These are the actual filming locations that were used in The Shawshank Redemption. The filming locations found in Ohio were in: Mansfield, Lucas, Butler, Upper Sandusky and Ashland. th-cam.com/video/TDnFzQ-V_WU/w-d-xo.html
@@YouMeTheMovies In Finland movie is called "Rita Hayworth - Avain Pakoon" (= the key to escape) , original book title was , Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption ... gives a bit away , even if you can take it as its Andys mental escape from the prison life .
@@pete_lind In France they sabotaged it totally traducing it by "The prison breakers" (or something, dunno how to translate it back). In short they give the end, WHILE focusing on what the movie is not: it's not a prison break movie.
@@garryiglesias4074 "Les évadés" could be translated "The escapees". But you're right, it does spoil the ending. In Quebec, the french title was "À l'ombre de Shawshank" which could be translated to "Under Shawshank's shadow" which pretty much describes the movie without giving away the outcome.
Favorite scene is when Red says about Andy "I guess I just miss my friend". This was my dad's favorite movie and he'd recite that line no doubt thinking of all his friends and family he outlived. He passed away in April and when I see this movie I think of that line and him. I guess I just miss my friend.
That's so sweet. I felt that way about my Mom; we, too, were good friends. All of us who have been/were blessed with such wonderful parents understand exactly what you're saying. My dear Mom passed in October of 2020, her last year filled with the sad oddities of covid-19.
My prayers for you, and all who have lost their wonderful parents in these last few crazy years! God bless you!
@@sarahfullerton6894 thank you. My mom passed on May and reunited with my Dad ❤️
@@commsense1979 wow, that must have been so tough on you. But what a blessing for them!
@@commsense1979 They'll be happy looking upon you from up there's ✈
I'm sorry for your loss. But sounds like they lived fairly long lives, had a family together all the way and had each other so in the end it doesn't sound too bad for them. Of course they'll be missed but everything in life ends and so does every life.
I hope your pain has already moved to the side a bit and your head has some more space to think about a lot more than just the last days of their lives. Lots of love from Finland 🇫🇮 ❤
One of the greatest movies ever made.
Seriously
Full stop..
Probably the best film ever
*THE greatest movie ever made.
It is the best movie ever made.
This movie actually bombed at the box office. And, yet, it is considered one of the greatest movies ever made. That's why when people use box office numbers to indicate quality, I don't value their opinion. By that logic, Avatar is better than The Shawshank Redemption and I just don't think that's so.
I got to see this in theatres a couple of years ago. So great.
Yeah it did bomb. But it's absolutely one of the greatest movies ever made.
1994 was a very big year for movies.
Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, Ace Ventura, Dumb and Dumber, The Mask.
The biggest blockbuster though was The Lion King. It was just short of a billion dollars in 1994, by today's standards it probably would have been like 2 billion dollars.
@@cryhwks You can't put Ace, D&D or The Mask up against Forrest Gump, though, it's one of the best movies ever made as well.
It came out right around when Clinton pushed through a bunch of punitive crime laws. The public sentiment was very much against convicts and many felt the film was dangerous for sympathizing with them.
Really?! This has always been 9ne of my top 3. I was in 1990 idk when th movie came out
@@LeMaqnifique lol uh no I asked a question lol but ok
"Dear Warden, you were right. Salvation lay within"
Most satisfying moment EVER.
Even that moment he hears the police sirens in the distance as he looks up at the stitch his wife made that says "His judgement cometh and that right soon" - You can practically sense the hand of karma looming over him! Incredible!
My favorite moment is definitely this message from Andy to the warden. Just letting him know how close he got to ruin Andy's entire plan. I love it.
@@philthemovieguy81 Small bit of added negative karma...his wife misspelled "judgment."
@@ralphficker167 Kind of. It's spelled correctly, but not for American English.
Also, the fact that he hid the hammer in Exodus is just that much sweeter. lol
@@StCerberusEngel I didn't know the 'e' was ever proper. Thanks for the correction.
Your wife is so smart! I watch different reaction videos and always look forward to seeing her guess correct on plots and motives. She would make a true detective 🕵️♀️
Glad you like them!
she had totally already seen the movie lol
@@aternialaffsalot Yeah, I would have thought the poster too flimsy and too easily discovered to hide such a large hole for a decade or more.
They should watch Escape from Alcatraz which was based on a real escape, including the stuff they made for the breakout.
@@aternialaffsalotThe “hole behind the poster” thing is a common trope. Stephen King didn’t just invent it out of thin air.
Is that the objective to guess the plot? Why not just enjoy the journey?
My favorite prisoner was Jake. He was a true Jail Bird!
It’s nothing to crow about! 😂
@@michaelc.6532 No need to get your FEATHERS ruffled about it!
Jake should have never been arrested. The police pulled him over without probable caws.
All of you! Get out!
And not peckish about eating.
(Maggot on the menu.)
Red- "its just shitty pipe dreams."
Andy *escapes through a shitty pipe*
I know right? LOL
The movie is full of cross reference... And just now, I asked myself it there's not something around "rope" and "hope"... That's the kind of stuff King's could do... Andy changed rope for hope.
Jim Croce's "Stone Walls": th-cam.com/video/fPz8aD1MwVY/w-d-xo.html
Not just ANY shitty pipe. The only shitty pipe in the world
that produces enough pressure to make a shit-fountain, while being unsealed from at least 1 side))
@@Antagonopolis We weren't supposed to notice that.
The picture of in Red's prison file is actually a picture of Morgan Freeman's son.
Morgan Freeman's narration pushes this movie into the Stratosphere!
In a movie FULL of great and powerful lines, I think one particularly good & meaningful line that gets mostly overlooked (including by me) is; "Time can draw out like a BLADE."
One of my favourite movies of all time... And probably the best friendship story ever told on screen, truly warms your heart.
I've never quite understood why Stephen King pigeonholed himself as a horror writer because he genuinely wrote some great yarns in the mold of good old-fashioned American storytelling. We'll miss him when he's gone.
But he is one of the best horror/thriller/fuck with my mind guy and yet for some insane reason he is a storryteller as well.. kudos to him. Stand By Me, Apt Pupil, Green Mile and many other 'short stories' are just f...... amazing
1- you go with the horse that got you there. if you start doing things differently you aggravate your fans - look at the reception to Metallica's 'St. Anger' or Garth Brooks 'Chris Gaines' music.
2- Stephen King tried to "unpigeonhole" himself early in his career by using a pen name "Richard Bachman" so he could write other genres besides horror like 'The Running Man' and because his publisher did not want to oversaturate the market by releasing more than 1 Stephen King novel a year and to test himself to see if his success was based on talent or luck but it quickly got out that Richard Bachman was Stephen King
@@tomasjohannesson1457 I wish they had released the Green Mile as a TV miniseries on Netflix / HBO because there is SO much more to it than the movie showed but back then before Sopranos was a huge hit and changed the way they make and we watch Television it was financially more viable to make a movie. The books were originally released in a series of 6 which would have been perfect for episodic television. The movie was great but the whole subplot of Tom Hanks' character having an orderly at the old age home mistreat him the way Percy mistreated the prisoners added another level of intrigue and suspense to the story but that would have made it a 4 hour movie to tell that story properly and give it justice.
@@tomasjohannesson1457 there are a few BAD ones too like 'The Lawnmower Man' and 'Sleepwalkers' where someone bought the rights to a Stephen King work and completely changed it so they could release it under Stephen King's name as a vehicle to show off their computer graphic special effects.
Money. Truckloads full of money.
Impressive. Mrs. is quick. She figured out the poster from the beginning!
She "figures" out every twist. Hmmmmm🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
I promise we only watch movies I haven’t seen or are completely upfront about it if I’ve had exposure to them. This one was a first for me.
Fav scene: when the camera pans away from the warden looking into the tunnel and that score starts playing.
I wish the posters, dvd/blu ray covers, thumbnails on streaming sites, etc didn’t have that shot of Andy with his arms outstretched in the rain. I imagine that has ruined the ending for many ppl.
In Greece the name of the film is "Last Escape: Rita Hayworth" (but in Greek). They thought that Shawshank Redemption wouldn't translate well with the name of a place... but Rita Hayworth also doesn't translate. They made it as bad by having a name and they spoiled the poster's significance. All in all real stupid moves. Also yeah spoilers of the outcome everywhere. *Edit* They also named it that because of the novella's name but still...
@@Zeliek In France, the title was literally "The escapees". Talk about giving away the ending.
In Russia the movie is called "Escape from The Shawshank". Subtle.
@@Zeliek Yes the original Stephen King story is called 'Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption', which doesn't sound very good in English let alone other languages!
Why should it?
Before they have seen the movie, that scene could happen anytime in the movie.
And when they see the scene in the movie, it has already happened. So, nothing gets given away.
I really enjoy your movie reactions - down to earth, no "fake" overreactions and really good movie selections. Keep up the good work!
Glad you like them!
I agree. I really like the vibe of this channel. Hope you guys keep up with this TH-cam thing.
@@YouMeTheMovies This movie is the only film I have ever watched in my lifetime so far that I scored a 10 out of 10. So calling this a "good" movie is understatement big time. The fact that it got robbed out of an Oscar award is due to "fixed" award ceremony back then. It was all about Forrest Gump and his box of freaking chocolates! Forrest Gump gets an 8 out of 10 for me so you guys do the math.
I feel for Brooks. This man has been there since 1904. 1904. Hes probably the only one who was brought to Shawshank in a carriage with iron shackles, not a bus and chain cuffs. He knew nothing about the world he was getting released into.
Yup... Brooks rode to prison in a horse-drawn wagon over dirt roads. The prison had no electricity, no running water, and was likely heated by a coal-fired boiler. Prisoners were filling oil lamps, drawing water from a well, and shoveling coal.
By the time they released Brooks, two world wars had happened, the population of the US had doubled, the roads were paved and full of fast shiny cars. There were planes full of people soaring overhead, and he was put up in a well-lit town with neon signs, streetlights, and homes glowing with electric light.
@@Mr.Ekshin wtf. ive seen this same ass comment copy pasted in every video about this movie
@@RandomPerson-ui3xv - Yup... by me. It's my commentary. If you see anyone else posting it, let me know because they stole it from me.
Definitely one of my top 10 all time movies!!
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Agreed! Love everything about it. Story, characters, dialog, acting, directing, cinematography.... You name it. And it has one of, if not the most beautiful endings to a movie ever. All in my humble opinion of course. A true classic.
Currently, this is number 6, but it may actually jump to number 3 or 4
I’m always amazed how good the Mrs. is at picking the plot points.. ‘what he’s got a giant hole started behind Rita heyworth?’
Uhhh yup.
She's amazing at ferreting out plots, and motivations.
I love that even the warden knows that Red is Andy’s friend 🙂
Merely the greatest movie ever. Next you must do Green Mile and then The Mist.
Is the mist the2000s King one? 07?
This #1
Green Mile #2
Then Spaceballs, cause I need a laugh.
Mystic River...
I completely agree, The Shawshank Redemption is the greatest film ever made.
Lots of great scenes in this movie. But my favourite scene i think is the very last shot. The camera pulls back and you just catch a glimpse of Andy and Red embracing after all the decades of shit they went through together and heading into hopefully a much more relaxed and happy life. It just fills my heart and soaks my eyes lol.
My favorite Morgan Freeman movie. Love this one. Great story about friendship between some dudes
When Brooks leaves, the prison is in the forefront. When Red leaves, the outside is.
Red: "I hope I can make it across the border"
Mr Movie: "If the bus stays on the road"
Lmao!!
It didn't win because it got buried, but it was up against like 15 other absolutely legendary films. 1994 was, without a doubt, THE best year for movies. Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, this, Leon (The Professional), Natural Born Killers, Clerks, The Lion King, Hoop Dreams, The Hudsucker Proxy, Quiz Show, Dumb and Dumber, The Crow....and I'm missing like 30 instant classics, even if they weren't 10/10.
From Andy Dufresne: Get busy living or Get busy dying! Definetly this classic is among the five best movies ever done in the entire cinema's history. Best regards from Belo Horizonte City State of Minas Gerais - Brazil. Stay safe all of you!
Favourite scene - the last one, the culmination of so many events and where Red finally embraces hope and happiness, because of Shawshank prison he got his redemption 😭
It’s such a beautiful story, Red narrating also adds soo much depth to it
The opening shot of shawshank prison at the beginning. That's what drew me into the film back in like 2001, when in was in middle school. it was on in the den one day. The iconic cinematography by Roger deakins and the iconic score from Thomas Newman, in that open aerial shot of the prison, just gets me every time!
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption is the first of 4 novellas in the book Different Seasons. 2 of the 3 others were also made into films. They are:: "Apt Pupil" film of the same name. And "The Body, which was made into the the great Rob Reiner directed film Stand by Me. The only novella from Different Seasons that has never been made into a film is The Breathing Method.
Haven't seen a better movie yet in 34 years on earth, don't anticipate on anything surpassing it, especially now.
In the book Red tells you at the beginning that Andy escapes, also Jake the bird dies after being let go not knowing how to survive on his own.
Said it before and I'll say it again. She's quick. "He's got like a giant hole behind Rita Hayworth or something". First time I've seen someone guess it right off the bat.
yes she was spot on MAybe they can watch 6th sense and see if she has feelings of what is happening and the SECRET
But didn't she also say she'd seen the iconic picture of Andy in the rain after escaping? So she probably had an inkling of what was going to happen.
Also kinda ruins the reaction a bit.
Great flick! With Clancy Brown, as Bryon Hadley…Clancy is gonna be in the new season of Dexter! Can’t wait!
There can be only one...
He's also the voice of Crusty Crabs, in SpongeBob.
I prefer to remember him as Ace Space Mechanic "John Danziger" in the TV show, "Earth 2." th-cam.com/video/fPz8aD1MwVY/w-d-xo.html
Favorite scene : Andy turning the volume way up, smiling at the warden, and sitting back to enjoy...lol.
Smiles at the guard, but yes :)
this film has been for a number of years now the highest ranked IMDb film ever
26:15 they didnt find a gun in the river, which would have been evidence for a murder crime, but they put in the effort in finding a stupid hammer from an escaped prisoner to get a story. good job police
This movie is jampacked with great scenes. You can call me a sucker or whatever else you fancy, but the ending when Red and Andy reunite pulls at my heart strings every time. Those kinds of endings I usually find sappy, but I felt in this movie that it was very much earned and deserved considering the raw brutality and heartbreak they lived through for decades. It's one of two movies in my life where the ending made me shed a tear first time watching it. The other is Terminator 2 if you're wondering lol. The thumbs up is when it got me.
Favorite scene: Red's final parole hearing. They approved his parole for the same reason you can't beat up your dad.
@Meanie Panini I like to think of Ron Swanson delivering the same speech
You asked what our favorite scene is I had just gotten out of prison well a few weeks I live in Arizona it was monsoon season and I love going out in the rain so with my ankle monitor on I walked to the circle k in the rain and I get a 40 of Old English and at this time the rain is coming down sideways and I'm just walking through it screaming about how cool it is some guy asked me if I was okay and if I needed a ride and I was like no man I just got out of jail and prison and I love the rain and he just drove away so the part when Andy dufrain comes out of the s*** tunnel has to be my favorite scene lol
Mine too
Play this little-known song: th-cam.com/video/5-fcvnYDEJ0/w-d-xo.html
“I guess I just miss my friend.” This is one of the very few movies that transcends the book it’s based on. 👍🏻
Can you imagine being Andy having that hole in your cell and then being put in solitaire for 2 months
Can you imagine spending years on it and then being moved to another cell...away from that end wall?
He had to stop working on it for a year when he got a cell mate. If you can read the book, please do.
13:30 - "He's got like a giant hole started behind Rita Hayworth or something, I don't know."
😳😂
The guy who wanted to be friendly is Drake from "ALIENS"
The paradox of Andy is that the innocent man no longer killed his wife but in prison he becomes a criminal because he owed money to the prison manager.
The movie paid respect to cinematographer Roger Deakins by naming Andy's first prison tax client Deakins.
Quotable lines:
"I'm not supposed to be here!" - Works surprisingly well in many situations. You do have to say it the same way the guy in the movie says it though, them's the rules.
"I don't have her stuffed down the front of my pants I'm sorry to say, but I'll get her!" - this one's just fun
Use the desperate, emotional "I'm not supposed to be here!" line to get out of many situations: waiting in line at the post office, on a bad first date, at a relative's funeral. It works like magic!
The song at the beginning is "If I didn't care" by the Ink Spots 1959
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30:24 "Is he gonna find it?"
"Oh, he will find it." "He made a promise."
Me: Oh, that's cute.
By that point it would be areal plot twist if he didn't.
13:28 we just gonna let that prediction go unnoticed?
and her other predictions are on point
She is really smart.
..if you believe that she hasn't heard of this movie.
You managed to guess pretty much every important plot point. Very impressed!
The whole joke about Red being Irish came about because in the novella Red is an Irishman with red hair.
That always makes me chuckle because my uncle is black and Irish. 😂
1994 - Forrest Gump > Pulp Fiction > Shawshank Redemption
When Red tells Andy that hope is "just shitty pipe dreams," it foreshadows Andy crawling through a shitty pipe to escape.
Here's a little-known song for "Andy Dufresne": th-cam.com/video/5-fcvnYDEJ0/w-d-xo.html
The greatest bromance ever.
It's hard for a movie to build suspense when you're so smart you figure everything out long before it happens.
When Red said that Andy swam through a river of s**t and came out clean on the other side, he was speaking both literally and metaphorically.
"Hope it's a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies ...." ❤️ Best movie ever
One of my favourite scenes was the bible with the inscription along the lines of - you were right, salvation lies within, and the callback to when the warden hands Andy back his bible and says that line. That was the only scene that didn't make the cut for this upload but man did you edit this upload perfectly. Got all the great dialogue scenes and other important scenes we all know and love.
My Fav scenes: 1) rain scene. 2) ending. 3) when they are against the wall and he says "get busy living or get busy dieing" 4) when andy sits on the rooftop without a beer against the sunset. 5) Dirt falling from pant legs.
It should have beaten everything at the Oscars in the year it came out and every other year.
I'm so ready for this reaction.
Great! I love this movie! And your reactions are really fantastic!!
This film gives me chills everytime i watch it 🥹 the moment where he gets out the end of the tunnel and stands in the rain and the moment where they meet on the beach make me cry no matter how many times i watch it ❤
the ''Mrs'' nailed the twist inside the first two mins ''what's he gonna do dig a tunnel'' yes yes he is lol that gets you a sub right there.
Take a look at The Last Castle starring Robert Redford and James Gandalfini
FIRST TIME WATCHING THE 6TH SENSE: 4 minutes into the movie - "I bet he's dead."
The scene that stands out is the opera music scene, which Stephen King didn't care for. I understand why some people may not care for it, as it kind of turns the movie into a 50's Disney movie. But I remember seeing that for the first time when the movie came out to cable in the 90's, and completely understanding what Andy is about. And it goes without saying, this is my favorite movie ending of all time. Frank Darabont almost didn't put that in there (the scene where Andy and Red are reunited), and was originally going to end with Red's line about the Pacific being as blue as it has been in his dreams. I believe it was one of Darabont's producers who said that he absolutely couldn't rob the audience of that moment, and it's what makes this movie nearly perfect. I simply adore this film. There isn't one bad scene.
The Last Castle with Robert Redford would be another great watch, same kind of subject matter, great film!
oh yeah, that had James Gandolfini in it, i remember liking it a lot the first time i saw it, oddly enough i think i went back and rewatched it and didn't like it as much the 2nd time. I've seen a lot of prison movies and shows evidently, i have the whole series of Oz on DVD. Admittedly, the story isn't always the best in Oz, but the actors are believable and it's intriguing to watch, some pretty good actors in there, i think there's 4 actors that went on to be in Dexter in that show, Maria Laguerta/James Doakes/Batista are in it. idk i have a lot of fav characters from that show, Adabese/Beecher/Schillinger/Kareem Saed. It's a pretty good show.
@@w33d533d I totally forgot that was Jams Gandolfini! I myself thoroughly enjoyed the film, never seen Oz though!
Favourite scene? The one where Andy plays the song on the gramophone. There one realizes the second plan, namely that Andy is something like a ray of light for the other prisoners, and also that despite many hardships he has lived a valuable life there, perhaps more valuable than if he had stayed outside.
When you realize Byron Hadley is the voice of Mr. Krabbs....
The frienship between Red and Andy is beautiful I love Andy's character. He brings hope and salvation to the prisoners. One of my favoriite movies. The novella is great too.
I’m so proud of you guys yall we’re just at 6k already almost at 9k congrats
Forrest Gump, Schindler's List, Shawshank Redemption and Jurassic Park(Re-release)and Pulp Fiction were all in theaters at the same time in 1994. That's insane
Stephen King gets a lot of crap because the movie adaptations of his works usually suck, but when they're not horror stories, they tend to work very well as films because he's very gifted at creating believable characters with interesting relationships. He does that in his horror books, but when he does that in a non-horror story it kind of shines more because there's no monster or catastrophe of weird thing happening to distract from it. He also gets a lot of undeserving crap as a writer from snobbish readers, especially snobbish horror readers, because at some point it became cool to dismiss his whole mountain of a body of work just because some books aren't awesome or just because according to some people he's inferior to Poe or Lovecraft or whomever, when nobody did the comparison in the first place. I mean, say what you want about the guy, but he's a freaking machine at writing tons and tons of books, very few of which are honestly bad, and he has consistently being humble about his career and body of work, usually comparing his books to the equivalent of a Big Mac in the sense that they're not necessarily good but they're enjoyable if you go into them aware that what you're consuming isn't "high art" but simple entertainment. And even then, I think the guy is not giving himself enough credit because he's certainly a better writer than the equivalent of a Big Mac cook as this movie, Stand By Me, the Green Mile, the Stand, Carrie, and so many other of his stories (and movies based on them) show.
Absolutely agreed. I observe above that King pigeonholed himself as a "horror writer" and had the ability to churn out such novels regularly but in works like "The Green Mile" (which has super-natural non-horror elements) and in the collection "Different Seasons" you can see that he could possibly have taken a different direction after his successful debut in the early 70s.
Have you read his short stories or his novels like The Talisman, Duma Key and The Stand and Lisey’s Story?
IT (the book) is an absolute masterpiece.
@@HobGungan IT is? Is IT?
THE greatest drama film of all time, IMO.
Nice catch. Wylie Dufresne is the mad scientist of food. He owns Du's Donuts. But he used to own WD 50 and Alder in Manhatten, specializing in Molecular Gastronomy. A true culinary visionary.
fave scene - Red walking to the rock wall and finding the obsidian. makes you wonder. makes you think of expectation and hoping something will be there. putting trust into something not truth until found.
I love the little story ark of Andy annoying the board so much they just gave him a budget for the library to make him stop.
Your wife is pretty intuitive, in this movie she was pretty spot on about almost every little thing so that was impressive.
Glad you’re going to watch The Green Mile as well. Just realized myself that the D.A. In this movie is also in The Green Mile. It’s the little things.
Yes, there are a few familiar faces in both movies. Apart from the D.A. Heywood, Tyrell and Floyd also appear in bit roles in TGM.
7:43 In the novella, the caracher IS irish. Love they didn't change the name.
8:38 In the book, red say "all prisioners in every jail been rape sometimes", they cut that part out.
11:45 The story name is "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption".
15:39 In the book, when Brooks free the raven, Jake, the inmates tell that the raven keep coming back, day after day until finally die of starvation. Like the bird is also institutionalized. Don't know we, but to me is the saddest part of the novella, always make me cry.
17:22 The aria scene is not in the novella, but Stephen Kings loved it!
Thanks for all the work you put on the channel, best wishes form Argentina.
Red also is guilty of what Andy was convicted of, killing his own wife, which the movie never mentions
the book and the original script did not have the scene of Andy and Red meeting each other again at the end in Mexico
@@billymuellerTikTok Yes, these inmates are such wonderful human beings, except for those people they murdered...
@@Cheepchipsable I guess. The ones that were in when Andy first got in were all convicted murderers. Later on, as the warden's initiatives started going through, they started giving him felons like Tommy who had committed other less serious crimes.
RE-TITLE this vid. "Keeping a Straight Face for the Entire movie of Shawshank."
Great stuff.
It's in my top 3 films of all time. Not many films can break me, but this one always does.
On a side note, I managed to get the full season of lost.
I thought there was something wrong when you said there was 24 episodes in season 1, and yet my box set only had 12.😂
This movie is a great modern take on The Count of Monte Cristo. It's fun the way they work the novel into a story that is a retelling of the novel.
Good point. THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO is my favorite book of all time. Unfortunately, it has never been accurately adapted by any filmmakers. They either ignore the story altogether or turn the second half into a Zorro story. The book, however, doesn't have a "happily ever after" ending. Edmund Dantes doesn't get his girl (Mercedes) back. Her son is not his son. He doesn't even keep the money. In fact, the book is largely open-ended. It implies that -- finally -- happiness might possibly be on the cards for Dantes.
This film (The Shawshank Redemption) kind of captures the ending of Dumas' book quite perfectly.
@@ccchhhrrriiisss100 Agreed. And the novel is one of my favorites as well, complex and satisfying.
A personal favorite element is Dantes' anguish when Villefort's wife poisons thier young son, and he (Dantes) agonizes over whether he had exceeded his perceived role of bringing God's righteous vengeance, and now had himself become corrupt. Such a great story.
It's also a really good sandwich.
@@stevengentry9396 Well, that's kind of the point, isn't it? God's righteous vengeance is God's to dish out. He, Dantès, won't get his old life back trying to play God's hand, no matter how much he tries. In fact, he almost destroys what little is left of what he cared for. It's only in finding a new life that he might also find happiness.
@@ohauss yep, hence "his perceived role".
Fun fact: The Shawshank Redemption was released in cinemas here in the Philippines under the alternate title "The Prisoner". Why that happened, I have no idea.
My favorite scene was the rooftop where Andy got the boys some beers. Can't wait to see your reaction to "The Green Mile", I consider that movie The Ultimate Try Not To Cry Challenge. Another great Stephen King adaptation is "Stand By Me" (1986).
One of the more iconic shots in my opinion is when the warden rips the poster away and the camera frames him and Morgan Freeman looking into the hole. Whoever came up with that knows what they're doing.
soo glad you guys finally reacted to this absolute masterpiece :)), I could tell you were genuinely engaged with what was going on there
Skippy! Popcorn! Shawshank! Get it!😎💕🍷🍻🚬👍💪
There are multiple reasons this is #1 on IMDB.
Pick one, and then watch again for all the others.
Pulp Fiction was the other great film that year and as much as i Love Forest Gump i think Shawshank and Pulp Fiction are far superior movies
My favorite scene is the whole post-prison break tree in Buxton scene. The dynamics between the quiet of anticipation and the swell of the music (both before and after finding the letter) with the cinematography of the fields is stunning. That mixed with the happiness and relief of a happy ending gets me every time.
This is one of my favourite films off all time !
“He was a fat drink of water…the kind that you know your friend got from the bathroom and not the sink”
"I hope"
Most powerful last words
Great movie, plating the music from the wardens office to the whole compound really stands out and don't worry Red had plenty time to go back and retrieve his hat on the beach.
I think I saw this movie the first time at twelve Or 14 and man it really gave me a whole new perspective of life and I’ve loved it ever since
I live down the street from this prison in Ohio and it brings me great joy to think about how, for a brief moment in 1994, all of these great actors were near my house. The prison is still used for haunted tours and heavy metal concerts in the yard.
the Brooks part break my heart
Andy sure is lucky he got a corner cell and that the guards never checked their cells at night.