I was Tim Robbins’ personal assistant on this movie. He is by far one of the nicest human beings on this planet He treated me like a normal human being, unlike other celebrities I’ve worked for. My oldest daughter graduated high school during filming, and got we a nice little graduation gift. He would ask my opinion on different things (nothing too serious like religion or politics), and I felt like he was really sincere and what I had to think. I worked on Mystic River nine years later and surprisingly, he remembered me. He asked how my daughter is, and even remembered her name and my wife’s name. A really great guy.
Random fact, in the book, Red was an Irish man with red hair. They kept the name etc despite casting Morgan Freeman. Secondly, Muhammad Ali was actually part Irish.
Brilliant request. One of the best films of the 90s. Unfortunately, many people don't have the attention span, which character development requires. Thanks.
The picture of young Red in his parole file is his son, Alfonso Freeman. He's also the inmate doing the "reeling 'em in" motion when Andy first arrives.
Did you guys never flip past TBS on a Saturday *ever*? Seems crazy this is a 1st time watch. Truly one of the most iconic movies for me because of how often it replayed on basic cable, everyone had seen it and you could discuss. Also, is that I don't think there is a person who dislikes this movie. Close to perfect.
Someone in my family went to prison at 18 yrs old. He went from a kid making drug related mistakes to learning a lot more criminal behavior while incarcerated. It didn’t chg him for the better.
Sadly Rita Hayworth died of Alzheimer's 5 years before this movie came out but the actress on the final poster Raquel Welch was a huge fan of the film. Notice when Brooks leaves we see the inside of the prison, when Red leaves we see the world outside, James Whitmore came out of retirement to play Brooks. Allen Greene was Frank Darabont's agent, he started out as a screenwriter and Shawshank was his first movie as a director, also Greene died of AIDS before the filming ended so he never got to see it completed.
@@jfuzz521 i think his best bad guy was Krugan in Highlander. But my all time favorite Clancy Brown role is Sgt Zim in Starship Troopers. Put your hand on that wall!
During the time that this was in theaters, Brian Shaw and Shaquille O'neal were playing on the Orlando Magic team. Some doofus sports anouncer called an alley oop from Shaw to O'Neal as The Shaw Shaq Redemption.🤦♂️
The movie was shot in a historic Ohio State prison and was based on a Stephen King novella but the director (Frank Darabont) did make certain changes that worked like expanding the characters of Tommy and Brooks.
In the original movie, they stopped at the bus ride. The scene at the beach was done later to do what the first audience wanted. So yes harmonica might have been nice, but it was originally a lot worse.
Clancey Brown played the Prison gaurd in this movie. While this was a big role for him, he also played the Krackon in "Highlander" Also the Drill Sgt in " Starship Troopers" but his most famous role was as .............. Mr Krabs on SpongeBob Squarepants.
Folks don't know that Shawshank Redemption may be the most #1 ranked film of all time when it comes to people's votes... and I can't be mad at that one bit. It's a virtually perfect movie and adaptation of Stephen King's book since Frank Darabont is the final boss of directing those King works for the screen in the best way. The characters, pacing, writing, cinematography, and message are all on point and more, and the irony is it bombed at the box office because it's difficult to market a flick like this to the masses with an odd title like that. I like that the film is about Red as the main character finding hope and Andy, although presented as the main protagonist, is not since Red is the one narrating his journey inside those walls even if Andy is a prominent part of it and obviously a gigantic part of giving him hope again.
Let's give props to Frank Darabont. Besides directing the film, he wrote the screenplay. Stephen King's book was good, but just a short novella. Darabont wrote the best parts.
Some can argue the head guard was being hateful to the inmates because they are 'criminals', but to be upset at your dead uncle leaving you money $30,000 ( half a million today ) is really nasty work. Great reaction!
Clancy Brown, Head Guard, was sure he didn't get the role because the casting director was a very tiny, sweet lady, Deborah Aquila. So during the audition, Brown has to scream all these cruel phrases at this tiny lady, and he couldn't. He apologized and walked out. He had already played the Kurgan in _Highlander_ so Aquila would already know he could carry a movie as a villain. It is my opinion, I do not know, I just guess: every other actor who auditioned actually stood there and screamed at her but Clancy Brown seemed to be the only one who couldn't just be cruel to prove it, he needed to be in the situation where it made sense. He seems like a nice guy, in real life. A hierarchy often develops among actors whose characters are a team where they become as a team, and they generally take their cues from the one with the most lines as to how to portray their characters and how to treat the other actors on and off set, so if Clancy Brown is a decent guy with the other actors, those on his team and off his team, including the prisoners they are supposed to pretend to lord over, it will make a better movie making experience for everyone involved because there is actually basic decency underlying the performance. So, since he was probably the only one to audition for that role who had an existing reel that showed his abilities as a villain AND could not scream at her, I think Aquila felt she was picking not just the right actor but the right human for the job in hiring Clancy Brown as Head Guard.
Just realize & understood that Andy never intentionally planned on digging out. He honestly got the rock hammer t8 carve chess pieces. Wgen he realized how soft thw wall was..... well, hes a smart fella😂❤❤
You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.
And punk was the FU, y’all gotta check out a band called death. Dudes from Detroit started it. I see your hat and that part is missing. I love to hear their story:
If I remember correctly, this was filmed at Ohio State Reformatory. 6:46 That's a relative of Morgan Freeman...I think it was his son. The one saying "fresh fish". 500 yards is not "just shy of half of a mile" though...that math is wrong at the end. 2,640 feet are in half of a mile and that's 880 yards. Almost twice what Andy actually crawled (500 yards or just 1,500 feet). Also, when he hits that sewer pipe with the rock to escape, it's pressurized. Yet he crawls out of the other end of a straight pipe that simply lead out to a drainage ditch, so there's no way that pipe could have ever been pressurized to begin with. It has some plot holes, but it's still one of my favorites. Notice at the end that Andy hid the rock hammer in the book of Exodus - where the people of Egypt made their way out from under Pharaoh's control. As for the Allen Greene dedication at the end, The Shawshank Redemption was written and directed by Frank Darabont, and Frank's agent and friend was Allen Greene who helped Frank secure the directorial gig. Greene died of AIDS during the production of the film.
Watch Martin Scorsese's ''Mean Streets'' (1973), then you'll see a very young ''Richie Aprile'' (David Proval), and of course Harvey Keitel & (in star making performance) Robert De Niro. It's a masterpiece, and one of my all time favorite movies (& Martin Scorsese films, including ''Taxi Driver'', ''The King of Comedy'', ''GoodFellas'', '''Cape Fear'', 'Casino'' & ''Bringing Out the Dead'').
And the prison i hate to say my brothers did time there. It is the old Mansfield reformatory in ohio here by us in cleveland. Its dark but the place was a scary maybe evil place
Wow, you American guys have never seen "Bull Durham"? I'm Canadian and no big baseball fan but that was a great and funny film, not least for Tim Robbins' incredibly terrible misheard lyric version of Otis Reddings' "Try a Little Tenderness". (Susan Sarandon and Kevin Costner are pretty good too.)
Yeah, I probably should have attached the clip. (I'm still waiting for that woolly feeling.): th-cam.com/video/EroyjPcw3sg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=lssmIQcjwvmIk2vQ
Ok. I love your reactions. But if you could please maybe react to these requests. Just because seems reactors do same movies. But im a movie buff and these are a few must see . 1,place beyond the pines with ryan gosling and Bradley cooper. 2. Pans labyrinth. And 3.upgrade is so good but overlooked. And 2 throwbacks. 1.badboys with sean and the guard from Shawshank.not the will smith movie. And my bodyguard not the bodyguard with whitney. Just check out wont disappoint
Great reaction guys, you can't get a driver's license without an address, not sure how he got around that. He surely would have died by carbon monoxide poison in the shit tunnel
![THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994) [REACTION] Get Busy Livin or Get Busy Dyin! First Time Watching](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ijv-nPWowHw/mqdefault.jpg)
I was Tim Robbins’ personal assistant on this movie. He is by far one of the nicest human beings on this planet He treated me like a normal human being, unlike other celebrities I’ve worked for. My oldest daughter graduated high school during filming, and got we a nice little graduation gift. He would ask my opinion on different things (nothing too serious like religion or politics), and I felt like he was really sincere and what I had to think. I worked on Mystic River nine years later and surprisingly, he remembered me. He asked how my daughter is, and even remembered her name and my wife’s name. A really great guy.
why do people have to point out celebrities are normal?
@@HC-iu1vs because many turn into huge d-bags
@@HC-iu1vs For the same reason why some people feel the need to be sarcastic: because they have something to share.
@@VickiRobison-o8b its not a flex
Can never go wrong with a Shawshank reaction. Can’t wait to see this one!
“Get busy living..or get busy dying”
That’s goddamn right
Bob Dylan
Best line EVER❤❤
My fiance passed suddenly and then I got cancer. That's what I tell myself.
@@MKowloonBANG!! 👍🏻 "It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding". So Mr. King nicked it, put his own little twist. All good.
Now We know where Richie Aprile did His 10 Years.
Rita Hayworth doin that shit with her hair continues to stand the test of time 🔥
Yoooo. I don't think I ever clicked so fast on a video.
ikr
Same! I will never not watch a reaction to this movie, LOL.
😂 same here😂
@@taneshah.1260 exactly! Especially these guys, I dig their content.
Probably my favourite film of all time. Flawless.
Richie Aprille from the Sopranos is in this movie too lol
It's the JACKEEEEEEET 🤌🏽
The guard is also the voice of mister crabs 🦀
Clancy Brown will always be The Kurgan to me. 🌩⚔⛈
Every time Red says "i hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams" i say it too my voice breaks
You p*ssy
Hey! Congrats on the 10K guys. You deserve a larger following, I miss this channel!
Pig what up bro hope all is well 🙏🏾 ✌🏽
@@FriendRequestReviews Very well! Extremely busy with work and family. I'll be back asap :) Keep up that energy, both of ye!!!!
Random fact, in the book, Red was an Irish man with red hair. They kept the name etc despite casting Morgan Freeman. Secondly, Muhammad Ali was actually part Irish.
Yep! That's why they make that joke when Andy asks why they call him Red.
@@taneshah.1260 his last name is REDDING dolts
So his name wasn't Ellis Boyd REDding?
Brilliant request. One of the best films of the 90s. Unfortunately, many people don't have the attention span, which character development
requires. Thanks.
The picture of young Red in his parole file is his son, Alfonso Freeman. He's also the inmate doing the "reeling 'em in" motion when Andy first arrives.
Shoutout to the OG Killstorm for another 🔥 request! Banger after Banger!
Did you guys never flip past TBS on a Saturday *ever*? Seems crazy this is a 1st time watch. Truly one of the most iconic movies for me because of how often it replayed on basic cable, everyone had seen it and you could discuss. Also, is that I don't think there is a person who dislikes this movie. Close to perfect.
One of them mentions catching some of it on TV in the first minute lol
Glad to see you guys hitting the classics! Your Sopranos reactions were priceless and missed I hanging out. Take it easy 👍
Really enjoyed watching this classic with you gents
Someone in my family went to prison at 18 yrs old. He went from a kid making drug related mistakes to learning a lot more criminal behavior while incarcerated. It didn’t chg him for the better.
I’m sorry to hear that.
This is the one i was waiting for
Filmed in and around Mansfield Ohio.
… I grew up there and always thought that prison look like Dracula’s castle when I was a kid 😅
If you can believe it, this is one of Stephen King’s best short stories! Horror, but the horror of injustice. And such an amazing adaptation.
“Shadow monster “ is when I stopped and smashed “like “ button 😂😂
If y’all haven’t seen “The Count of Monte Cristo”. Another instant classic.👍🏾
Dudes, thank you for the edit at 11:12 ! 🤣🤣🤣
Sadly Rita Hayworth died of Alzheimer's 5 years before this movie came out but the actress on the final poster Raquel Welch was a huge fan of the film. Notice when Brooks leaves we see the inside of the prison, when Red leaves we see the world outside, James Whitmore came out of retirement to play Brooks. Allen Greene was Frank Darabont's agent, he started out as a screenwriter and Shawshank was his first movie as a director, also Greene died of AIDS before the filming ended so he never got to see it completed.
The main prison guard is Clancy Brown. The voice of Mr. Krabs on SpongeBob.
@@Stuck-n-da-90s He plays a villain in just about all his roles. The best being Bad Boys with Sean Penn.
@@jfuzz521 i think his best bad guy was Krugan in Highlander. But my all time favorite Clancy Brown role is Sgt Zim in Starship Troopers. Put your hand on that wall!
STARSHIP TROOPERS
@@Stuck-n-da-90s *The Kurgan
That's the role that defines him for me.
You guys need to check out Blazing Saddles by Mel Brooks. I guarantee you will be laughing the whole time.
That and Tropic Thunder (if they haven't yet). Two movies that couldn't be made today!
“Brooks was here” - proof Steven King is one of the greatest writers of all time.
@@DannyBedo wat
Huh! 'cause he invented the "..was here"!?? NOPE!
Actually that was from the director. Brooks in the novella was a much smaller character who died in a retirement home
“Brooks was here” wasn’t in the book. That was added for the film.
During the time that this was in theaters, Brian Shaw and Shaquille O'neal were playing on the Orlando Magic team. Some doofus sports anouncer called an alley oop from Shaw to O'Neal as The Shaw Shaq Redemption.🤦♂️
The movie was shot in a historic Ohio State prison and was based on a Stephen King novella but the director (Frank Darabont) did make certain changes that worked like expanding the characters of Tommy and Brooks.
Guys, that is what beaches looked like in the 1960's, back when there where 3.4 billion people on earth. Now that number is over 8 Billion!
In the original movie, they stopped at the bus ride. The scene at the beach was done later to do what the first audience wanted. So yes harmonica might have been nice, but it was originally a lot worse.
The book ended with the bus, but it is much better with the beach scene.
Did you notice the chapter in the bible where the rock hammer was kept was Exodus... LOL
The head guard is Clancy Brown. He's also the voice of Mr. Krabs in SpongeBob.
damn you edited out some of the best parts
Clancey Brown played the Prison gaurd in this movie.
While this was a big role for him, he also played the Krackon in "Highlander" Also the Drill Sgt in " Starship Troopers"
but his most famous role was as
..............
Mr Krabs on SpongeBob Squarepants.
Folks don't know that Shawshank Redemption may be the most #1 ranked film of all time when it comes to people's votes... and I can't be mad at that one bit. It's a virtually perfect movie and adaptation of Stephen King's book since Frank Darabont is the final boss of directing those King works for the screen in the best way. The characters, pacing, writing, cinematography, and message are all on point and more, and the irony is it bombed at the box office because it's difficult to market a flick like this to the masses with an odd title like that. I like that the film is about Red as the main character finding hope and Andy, although presented as the main protagonist, is not since Red is the one narrating his journey inside those walls even if Andy is a prominent part of it and obviously a gigantic part of giving him hope again.
Captain Hadley is also The Kurgan from HIghlander as well as the voice of Mr. Krabs from Spongbob.
“The Green Mile” and “Once Upon a Time in America”
This is where Richie discovered Zen and meditation.
Got a pen made from the oak tree. It is pretty awesome.
One of the best movies of all time!
Tha Jackettt!!! Lmfao fuckin Richie
I think this is the best movie ever made in America
Let's give props to Frank Darabont. Besides directing the film, he wrote the screenplay. Stephen King's book was good, but just a short novella. Darabont wrote the best parts.
Some can argue the head guard was being hateful to the inmates because they are 'criminals', but to be upset at your dead uncle leaving you money $30,000 ( half a million today ) is really nasty work. Great reaction!
I believe it was his brother that died.
@@libertyresearch-iu4fy Oh...I thought he said, uncle. Either way, he's insufferable.
Clancy Brown, Head Guard, was sure he didn't get the role because the casting director was a very tiny, sweet lady, Deborah Aquila.
So during the audition, Brown has to scream all these cruel phrases at this tiny lady, and he couldn't.
He apologized and walked out.
He had already played the Kurgan in _Highlander_ so Aquila would already know he could carry a movie as a villain.
It is my opinion, I do not know, I just guess: every other actor who auditioned actually stood there and screamed at her but Clancy Brown seemed to be the only one who couldn't just be cruel to prove it, he needed to be in the situation where it made sense.
He seems like a nice guy, in real life.
A hierarchy often develops among actors whose characters are a team where they become as a team, and they generally take their cues from the one with the most lines as to how to portray their characters and how to treat the other actors on and off set, so if Clancy Brown is a decent guy with the other actors, those on his team and off his team, including the prisoners they are supposed to pretend to lord over, it will make a better movie making experience for everyone involved because there is actually basic decency underlying the performance.
So, since he was probably the only one to audition for that role who had an existing reel that showed his abilities as a villain AND could not scream at her, I think Aquila felt she was picking not just the right actor but the right human for the job in hiring Clancy Brown as Head Guard.
Plus he was the voice of Mr Krabs.
@@libertyresearch-iu4fy I always forget that!
Great movie! Great reaction!
Just realize & understood that Andy never intentionally planned on digging out. He honestly got the rock hammer t8 carve chess pieces. Wgen he realized how soft thw wall was..... well, hes a smart fella😂❤❤
Wgen he realized how soft thw wall was "Hope"
@FriendRequestReviews exactly. *sorry for the typos. Lol
No worries appreciate the support
Definitely in my top ten. Loved Family Guy's version😂
Awesome choice
The prosecutor was one of the guards in "The Green Mile"
Other Tim Robbins movies. The Hudsucker Proxy 1994 and Nothing To Lose 1997 with Martin Lawrence..
Also Mystic River, Bull Durham, High Fidelity, and The Player.
@@Stuck-n-da-90s
Hudsucker is brilliant!
He's named red because in the book he is a ginger.. And irish
"I thought a shadow monster jumped out his pocket." 😂😂😂 It is written by Stephen King so you never know
King didn't know enough about tax laws. Any inheritance taxes are paid by the estate, not the beneficiaries.
You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory.
That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.
Damn bro I got work right now smh 😢
Let the drinking game begin.
And punk was the FU, y’all gotta check out a band called death. Dudes from Detroit started it. I see your hat and that part is missing. I love to hear their story:
One of stephen king's best non horror novels including the green mile
Great Reaction! Please watch Clint Eastwood, Escape from Alcatraz.
If I remember correctly, this was filmed at Ohio State Reformatory. 6:46 That's a relative of Morgan Freeman...I think it was his son. The one saying "fresh fish". 500 yards is not "just shy of half of a mile" though...that math is wrong at the end. 2,640 feet are in half of a mile and that's 880 yards. Almost twice what Andy actually crawled (500 yards or just 1,500 feet). Also, when he hits that sewer pipe with the rock to escape, it's pressurized. Yet he crawls out of the other end of a straight pipe that simply lead out to a drainage ditch, so there's no way that pipe could have ever been pressurized to begin with. It has some plot holes, but it's still one of my favorites. Notice at the end that Andy hid the rock hammer in the book of Exodus - where the people of Egypt made their way out from under Pharaoh's control. As for the Allen Greene dedication at the end, The Shawshank Redemption was written and directed by Frank Darabont, and Frank's agent and friend was Allen Greene who helped Frank secure the directorial gig. Greene died of AIDS during the production of the film.
Watch Martin Scorsese's ''Mean Streets'' (1973), then you'll see a very young ''Richie Aprile'' (David Proval), and of course Harvey Keitel & (in star making performance) Robert De Niro. It's a masterpiece, and one of my all time favorite movies (& Martin Scorsese films, including ''Taxi Driver'', ''The King of Comedy'', ''GoodFellas'', '''Cape Fear'', 'Casino'' & ''Bringing Out the Dead'').
th-cam.com/video/1lD5SvUdTn8/w-d-xo.html
And the prison i hate to say my brothers did time there. It is the old Mansfield reformatory in ohio here by us in cleveland. Its dark but the place was a scary maybe evil place
Classic
Donnie brasco
Watch 'Collateral' with Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx
It's not common for a reactor to point out the different make up of the parole board. Nice catch
Was Dr Nelson Mandela's favorite movie
Wow, you American guys have never seen "Bull Durham"? I'm Canadian and no big baseball fan but that was a great and funny film, not least for Tim Robbins' incredibly terrible misheard lyric version of Otis Reddings' "Try a Little Tenderness". (Susan Sarandon and Kevin Costner are pretty good too.)
Yeah, I probably should have attached the clip. (I'm still waiting for that woolly feeling.):
th-cam.com/video/EroyjPcw3sg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=lssmIQcjwvmIk2vQ
Avery Stravenue
You guys never seen this? Crazy. Have you guys seen Natural Born Killers? Please please watch it if not.
Neva
@FriendRequestReviews please watch it, no one reacts to it and it's sooooooo good.
Ok. I love your reactions. But if you could please maybe react to these requests. Just because seems reactors do same movies. But im a movie buff and these are a few must see . 1,place beyond the pines with ryan gosling and Bradley cooper. 2. Pans labyrinth. And 3.upgrade is so good but overlooked. And 2 throwbacks. 1.badboys with sean and the guard from Shawshank.not the will smith movie. And my bodyguard not the bodyguard with whitney. Just check out wont disappoint
23:52 The mugshot is Morgan Freeman's real son.
🔥🔥🔥
All i know is that its a jail break movie. That's the one thing you arent suppose to know.
Watch "The Green Mile"
6737 Hane Heights
Awesome reaction/ can you please watch a movie called WE OWN THE NIGHT.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻⚡🥃🇿🇦
Story by Mr Steven King! 🤌🏼
Steve who?
@@dallesamllhals9161 Stephen
5 mins into the vid with the blurred bg which gonna f my eyes up... I'm like nah this vid not for me!
Great reaction guys, you can't get a driver's license without an address, not sure how he got around that.
He surely would have died by carbon monoxide poison in the shit tunnel
19:58 "Home" after 50 years is?