I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about,Truth is i don't wana know .Somethings are best left unsaid.I like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it cant be expressed in words and makes your heart ache because of it.I tell ya those voices soared higher and further than anybody in a great place dares to dream .It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our trapped little cage and made the walls dissolve away and for the briefest of moments..
You aren't actually looking at "film". Film doesn't have images on it when it's manufactured. No, what you're really looking at is what the rest of the world refers to as a MOVIE.
Maybe some things are better left unsaid but I think the dialogue, even out of context, is so beautiful and somewhat fitting for the scene Susanna: Sull'aria... On the breeze... Contessa: Che soave zeffiretto... What a gentle little Zephyr... Susanna: Zeffiretto... A little Zephyr... Contessa: Questa sera spirerà... This evening will sigh... Susanna: Questa sera spirerà... This evening will sigh... Contessa: Sotto i pini del boschetto. Under the pines in the little grove. Susanna: Sotto i pini... Under the pines... Contessa: Sotto i pini del boschetto. Under the pines in the little grove. Susanna: Sotto i pini...del boschetto... Under the pines...in the little grove.... Contessa: Ei già il resto capirà. And the rest he'll understand. Susanna/ Contessa: Certo, certo il capirà. Certainly, certainly he'll understand.
That film was underrated early on and seems to be more appreciated as time goes on. I watched it for the first time only recently. This was a great movie scene.
So moving. Easily one of the most iconic scenes in film history. And the song itself, an absolute masterpiece.... then, now and forever more. Absolutely ageless. And capped off by the most beatiful words from Morgan Freeman that captured the essence of freedom for each and every prisoner. Truly iconic... it has it all, and so much more.
This film, while little praised by the critics, was one of the top in people's choice - due mainly to this scene: in Shawshank, as in Elvira Madigan 27 years earlier, a success was built on a clever (and honest) use of Mozart. Wed 03 Aug 2011 00:36 GMT
Thank you Stephen King. I never would have heard this without this story. A truly great piece of cinema this was as well. This song enchants me. It grabs my heart and pours compassion out like a dam bursting. God bless.
What a great scene! I love it, the song is sung by a lords wife and a servant girl the lord is lusting after, the two are writing a letter to try to switch the lords lust back to the wife, with the wife singing a phrase and the servant girl repeating it back as she writes it down
I know the speech Dufresne gives is all about NOT knowing what is being said, but if you're interested, read the following explanation of the aria and it's meaning: basically this piece is called "sull'aria .... che suave zeffiretto" (on the breeze ... what a gentle little Zephyr) where Zephyr is one of the cardinal Greek gods of the wind. The thing the two women are singing about is a letter that they are writing, one is the Countess, the other is her most trusted chambermaid, Suzanne. They are writing a letter that aims to set up the Count of the play for a secret rendez-vous with Suzanne (who he wants to be his mistress). In reality she does not want to be with the Count as she is marrying the eponymous character of the play, Figaro, and very much loves him. Having told the Countess of the Count's dishonourable intentions, the two women are setting the Count up. The letter is written by Suzanne but it is the Countess who is going to go to the arranged rendez-vous instead of the Chambermaid, to expose him. The song is thus ironic in the context of The Shawshank Redemption since the song is about exposing infidelity whereas Dufresne's wife's infidelity in The Shawshank Redemption causes his imprisonment. (This much you can get off Wikipedia). However the irony goes a level deeper. The opera this song is taken from (Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro) is in fact based on the 2nd of a trilogy of plays by the incredible French writer Beaumarchais. The first play is also well known in the English speaking world as another opera (Rossini's The Barber of Seville). The first play is set before the Count and the Countess get married. In this first play the Countess woos the Count by dropping a seductive aria over her balcony and letting the wind carry it to him in the street below. For the plays therefore, the action of writing a love-letter in the The Marriage of Figaro is ironic: one letter in the first play initiates a beautiful romance, a second letter in the next play curtails an illicit one. The women are displaying their razor-sharp wit and intelligence: they're using the tool of a previous wooing to undo the Count's wrongdoing against them: a double bitch-slap if you like. Likewise some of the focus of The Shawshank Redemption is about finding intelligent ways of getting around the injustices of the prison system. In fact, the Countess in the first play is physically imprisoned, very much like the characters of The Shawshank Redemption. In both instances the letters are about freeing the Countess: either from a physical prison or from an unhappy marriage with an unfaithful husband (the Countess doesn't intend to divorce the Count, just to humiliate him). The letter of the plays is similar (in symbolic terms) to the song in the film, which also floats on the wind down to the prisoners of Shawshank. The song is doubly ironic: singing of freedom but intoned (by the method of delivery: a song illicitly played over a prison tannoy which usually transmits prison orders) with its own imprisonment. Furthermore both the letter and the aria are about liberation but both also recognise a certain growth of understanding. The women learn a lot, in the time between the letter written in The Barber of Seville and the one written in The Marriage of Figaro, about the capriciousness of men. Likewise although Dufresne now has imprisonment weighing down on him, he too learns a lot about humanity in that prison, in spite of all of its callousness. Perhaps this is the greatest thing of all about the choice of music: it reminds you of what we learn from bitter experience.
Let's not forget the humour either. 'it pissed the warden off something awful'. Great line. Apart from the almost unbearable intensity of feeling like a human being, for the briefest of moments. We've all been there, one time or another, haven't we ?
What's funny is that Susanna and the Countess are actually just writing a letter to the Count Almaviva to a tryst in a plot to expose his infidelity! But Mozart just makes anything and everything sound beautiful!
Now... Andy MUST have known he'd get in trouble for this... But, hell, if I had the opportunity to introduce a bunch of nothing-to-lose nobodies to one of the greatest operas ever written, I'd do it.
A Stephen King adaptation done right. This and Stand By Me (both cinema masterpieces) are arguably the best films of King's work ever done. The Shining is fantastic, too, but nowhere near as relatable (or quotable). IT (both mini-series and film) is up there, along with others like The Dead Zone, Carrie and Christine, but Shawshank and SBM are sublime, perfect films.
Forget the voice of 'those 2 italian ladies' the voice of Morgan Freeman is awsome...Shawshank must go down as one of the best films of our generation....
Teresa must be very special!! Thank you for posting this!! I've been all over youtube looking for THE one from "Shawshank" without a skip!! Again, thank you.
I will try not to do the same thing in the army in the weeks to come. I can stand without listening classical music for a week i guess but not sure about afterwards but if i do what Andy does on this video, i will probably have the same gesture with him which is at 2:12. Guess there is no huge difference between being in a jail or doing military service sometimes. Some people need music as they need food, it's not a hobby
Dear god I love this movie ... and I think Mozart would have laughed at this prank too. The laughter of divine madness. It's all about freedom in the end, isn't it?
W.A.Mozart "Le Nozze Di Figaro" - cast: Hermann Prey, Edith Mathis, Gundula Janowitz, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Tatiana Troyanos, Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Orchester Der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Conductor Karl Böhm, recording 1968.
Sull'aria || On the breeze Che soave zeffiretto || What a gentle little zephyr Zeffiretto || Zephyr Questa sera spirerà || This evening it will blow Questa sera spirerà || This evening it will blow Sotto i pini del boschetto || Underneath the pine trees in the grove Sotto i pini || Underneath the pines Sotto i pini del boschetto || Underneath the pine trees in the grove Sotto i pini del boschetto || Underneath the pine trees in the grove Ei già il resto capirà || And he will already understand the rest Certo, certo ei capirà || Certainly, certainly, he will understand Certo il resto ei capirà || Certainly, he will understand the rest Canzonetta sull'aria || A little song on the breeze Soave zeffiretto || Gentle little zephyr Sotto i pini del boschetto || Underneath the pine trees in the grove Ei già il resto capirà || And he will already understand the rest Certo, certo ei capirà || Certainly, certainly, he will understand Ei capirà || He will understand Certo, certo ei capirà || Certainly, certainly, he will understand Ei capirà || He will understand Ei capirà || He will understand Ei capirà || He will understand Ei capirà || He will understand Ei capirà || He will understand Ei capirà || He will understand
Neither one of those ladies singing were in fact Italian. Edith Mathis is Swizz and Gundual Janowitz is Austrian. They're still alive and both are 86 year old.
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Probably the most astonishing scene ever filmed
The miracle of song. I fell in love with that the minute I heard it. So happy I rented the movie.
I dunno about that
A gem of beauty, a moment of pure happiness, surrounded by ugliness, pain, ignorance, hate, anger etc…
It looks like my life.
I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about,Truth is i don't wana know .Somethings are best left unsaid.I like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it cant be expressed in words and makes your heart ache because of it.I tell ya those voices soared higher and further than anybody in a great place dares to dream .It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our trapped little cage and made the walls dissolve away and for the briefest of moments..
Amazing
It's "gray place" and "drab little cage" and at the end "every last man at Shawshank felt free".
cant believe how a movie can have this much impact... art man
Stephen King he's good
Bravo!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏
"At that moment, every last man at shawshank felt free." Gives me goosebumps everytime. Truly beautiful
The look he has when he turns it back up is just one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen. I laugh, I cry, it’s just perfect. Movie is flawless.
So agree with you sir. Flawless film ever made
Vdd esse é sem dúvida um dos filmes mais belos que já assisti. Depois que ouvi essa música não canso de escutar!
This is the greatest film ever created its so good it's unbelievable
This makes me cry every time I listen and watch this scene.
makes me cry also...
Me too, and i don't know because of that
"Some things are better left unsaid "
Sublime writing, narration and music, and Tim Robbins acting is superb in that scene.
After all these years and having watched this film more times than i can remember, this scene still makes me cry. I love this film so much.
One of the greatest 4 minutes in a film I've ever seen! By far the greatest film of all time.
You aren't actually looking at "film". Film doesn't have images on it when it's manufactured. No, what you're really looking at is what the rest of the world refers to as a MOVIE.
@@TheLAKERSareGodsTeamIn England and it's former colonies, movies are still called film even though the technology is now different.
We all feel like these prisoners when we here this. Mozart has given us a feeling of what it means to be free and beautiful.
Maybe some things are better left unsaid but I think the dialogue, even out of context, is so beautiful and somewhat fitting for the scene
Susanna: Sull'aria... On the breeze...
Contessa: Che soave zeffiretto... What a gentle little Zephyr...
Susanna: Zeffiretto... A little Zephyr...
Contessa: Questa sera spirerà... This evening will sigh...
Susanna: Questa sera spirerà... This evening will sigh...
Contessa: Sotto i pini del boschetto. Under the pines in the little grove.
Susanna: Sotto i pini... Under the pines...
Contessa: Sotto i pini del boschetto. Under the pines in the little grove.
Susanna: Sotto i pini...del boschetto... Under the pines...in the little grove....
Contessa: Ei già il resto capirà. And the rest he'll understand.
Susanna/
Contessa: Certo, certo il capirà. Certainly, certainly he'll understand.
That film was underrated early on and seems to be more appreciated as time goes on. I watched it for the first time only recently. This was a great movie scene.
The Shawshank Redemption...
Great movie!!!
So moving. Easily one of the most iconic scenes in film history. And the song itself, an absolute masterpiece.... then, now and forever more. Absolutely ageless. And capped off by the most beatiful words from Morgan Freeman that captured the essence of freedom for each and every prisoner. Truly iconic... it has it all, and so much more.
How many of you have seen the opera because of this scene? I did. How could this movie not have won the oscar that year?
... in those moments we all feel free!
For my money, the best film ever made. And this moment definitely took it over the top for me.
“Hope is a good thing; maybe the best of things and no good ever really dies”
The officer is taking a shit in the warden's office. Took me years to realise this.
This film, while little praised by the critics, was one of the top in people's choice - due mainly to this scene: in Shawshank, as in Elvira Madigan 27 years earlier, a success was built on a clever (and honest) use of Mozart.
Wed 03 Aug 2011 00:36 GMT
I want Morgan Freeman to narrate my life story.
No sex, No bimbos, No nudes, No bullshit..... this film was a masterpiece at best.
Both, the music and this movie are simply fantastic!!!
Solo 1 Genio pudo hacer tanta Belleza!! W.A.MOZART!!!🙏🙏🙏🎶🎶🎶💯💯💯
Thank you Stephen King. I never would have heard this without this story. A truly great piece of cinema this was as well. This song enchants me. It grabs my heart and pours compassion out like a dam bursting. God bless.
Maravilloso duetto.
No me canso de oírlo.
Truly amazing and beautiful voices 🥀🌹🥀🌹🥀
I believe many of us can relate to this scene in regard to our job situation, and understand Andy's brief opportunity to control the message.
That's exactly what I felt when I watched the film today--in, of all places, my workplace.
@@debojoychanda72 Nice! Imagine playing that music over the PA system 😁
Uma das melhores cenas do filme Um sonho de liberdade!!!
One of my favourite films ever!
"Dufrane, abra essa porta! "
Um sonho de liberdade, é um lindo filme!
What a great scene! I love it, the song is sung by a lords wife and a servant girl the lord is lusting after, the two are writing a letter to try to switch the lords lust back to the wife, with the wife singing a phrase and the servant girl repeating it back as she writes it down
Best movie of all time, hands down. Sorry Godfather, I love you, but it's true
Absolute classic movie scene and beautiful song...
I know the speech Dufresne gives is all about NOT knowing what is being said, but if you're interested, read the following explanation of the aria and it's meaning: basically this piece is called "sull'aria .... che suave zeffiretto" (on the breeze ... what a gentle little Zephyr) where Zephyr is one of the cardinal Greek gods of the wind. The thing the two women are singing about is a letter that they are writing, one is the Countess, the other is her most trusted chambermaid, Suzanne. They are writing a letter that aims to set up the Count of the play for a secret rendez-vous with Suzanne (who he wants to be his mistress). In reality she does not want to be with the Count as she is marrying the eponymous character of the play, Figaro, and very much loves him. Having told the Countess of the Count's dishonourable intentions, the two women are setting the Count up. The letter is written by Suzanne but it is the Countess who is going to go to the arranged rendez-vous instead of the Chambermaid, to expose him. The song is thus ironic in the context of The Shawshank Redemption since the song is about exposing infidelity whereas Dufresne's wife's infidelity in The Shawshank Redemption causes his imprisonment. (This much you can get off Wikipedia).
However the irony goes a level deeper. The opera this song is taken from (Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro) is in fact based on the 2nd of a trilogy of plays by the incredible French writer Beaumarchais. The first play is also well known in the English speaking world as another opera (Rossini's The Barber of Seville). The first play is set before the Count and the Countess get married. In this first play the Countess woos the Count by dropping a seductive aria over her balcony and letting the wind carry it to him in the street below. For the plays therefore, the action of writing a love-letter in the The Marriage of Figaro is ironic: one letter in the first play initiates a beautiful romance, a second letter in the next play curtails an illicit one. The women are displaying their razor-sharp wit and intelligence: they're using the tool of a previous wooing to undo the Count's wrongdoing against them: a double bitch-slap if you like. Likewise some of the focus of The Shawshank Redemption is about finding intelligent ways of getting around the injustices of the prison system. In fact, the Countess in the first play is physically imprisoned, very much like the characters of The Shawshank Redemption. In both instances the letters are about freeing the Countess: either from a physical prison or from an unhappy marriage with an unfaithful husband (the Countess doesn't intend to divorce the Count, just to humiliate him). The letter of the plays is similar (in symbolic terms) to the song in the film, which also floats on the wind down to the prisoners of Shawshank. The song is doubly ironic: singing of freedom but intoned (by the method of delivery: a song illicitly played over a prison tannoy which usually transmits prison orders) with its own imprisonment. Furthermore both the letter and the aria are about liberation but both also recognise a certain growth of understanding. The women learn a lot, in the time between the letter written in The Barber of Seville and the one written in The Marriage of Figaro, about the capriciousness of men. Likewise although Dufresne now has imprisonment weighing down on him, he too learns a lot about humanity in that prison, in spite of all of its callousness. Perhaps this is the greatest thing of all about the choice of music: it reminds you of what we learn from bitter experience.
I knew it was a song about setting up the Count. But thanks for all that added info!!
Beautifully written comment by the way!
Let's not forget the humour either. 'it pissed the warden off something awful'. Great line. Apart from the almost unbearable intensity of feeling like a human being, for the briefest of moments. We've all been there, one time or another, haven't we ?
What's funny is that Susanna and the Countess are actually just writing a letter to the Count Almaviva to a tryst in a plot to expose his infidelity! But Mozart just makes anything and everything sound beautiful!
Gives me chills every time I watch this...
you can chain the man but not his mind - he is free if he wants to be...
Now... Andy MUST have known he'd get in trouble for this... But, hell, if I had the opportunity to introduce a bunch of nothing-to-lose nobodies to one of the greatest operas ever written, I'd do it.
İncredible,perfect scene,masterpiece...
La Musica rende LIberi...dalla testa al cuore
Filme maravilhoso.!! ...e a música então....sublime
I've always wondered if the other inmates could hear Warden Norton shouting at Andy over the tannoy
Amazing scene, amazing movie 👏!
Never forget this
Moment will be forevermore
I dont no idea what this italien ladies are singing....what a beautiful words
A great scene from a truly great film.
Amazing scene, Amazing movie! 03:21: Those eyes! LOVE!
A Stephen King adaptation done right. This and Stand By Me (both cinema masterpieces) are arguably the best films of King's work ever done. The Shining is fantastic, too, but nowhere near as relatable (or quotable). IT (both mini-series and film) is up there, along with others like The Dead Zone, Carrie and Christine, but Shawshank and SBM are sublime, perfect films.
Forget the voice of 'those 2 italian ladies' the voice of Morgan Freeman is awsome...Shawshank must go down as one of the best films of our generation....
such a great movie
I never knew this song on shawshank redemption was a song of mozart's...
Damn...👌👍👌👍👌👍👌
The most beautiful song ever written
Exceptionally beautiful
Best Film ever
После просмотра фильма специально прочитал книгу, которая очень понравилась. Всем советую прочитать книгу Побег из Шоушенка и Зеленая миля.
Я прочитал ваш комментарий на английском языке через google translate, и я перевел этот комментарий через Google translate тоже :)
Mozart at his best mood!
Absolute beauty
w l' italia e l' opera. Che soave zeffiretto, stasera spirerà, sotto i pini del boschetto...
The Movie of all time..........PERIOD
great movie and great song
Thank’s Mozart,
ShawShank=The Marriage of frigano
Family Guy Version=Ain’t no Holla Back girl
That was movie making magic
This movie bombed when it was released. Wtf
Teresa must be very special!! Thank you for posting this!! I've been all over youtube looking for THE one from "Shawshank" without a skip!! Again, thank you.
de verdad uno se siente libre. me gustaria saber de quienes son esas voces
Gundula Janowitz y Edith Mathis. Dos tremendas cantantes del siglo 20
Ömrümün sonuna kadar unutmayacağım bu sahneyi.
Still 2020 !! Andy Dufresne. Classic !!
2:53 Open the door!!!
I will try not to do the same thing in the army in the weeks to come. I can stand without listening classical music for a week i guess but not sure about afterwards but if i do what Andy does on this video, i will probably have the same gesture with him which is at 2:12. Guess there is no huge difference between being in a jail or doing military service sometimes. Some people need music as they need food, it's not a hobby
awfulguitarplaying
I love andy's face at 3:03
hermosa cancion, en la pelicula me hizo extremecer, creo que es la mejor escena. Sencillamente una obra de arte...
Dear god I love this movie ... and I think Mozart would have laughed at this prank too. The laughter of divine madness. It's all about freedom in the end, isn't it?
Timeless
W.A.Mozart "Le Nozze Di Figaro" - cast: Hermann Prey, Edith Mathis, Gundula Janowitz, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Tatiana Troyanos, Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Orchester Der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Conductor Karl Böhm, recording 1968.
Check here the verry same recording: Edith Mathis aria "Deh vieni non tardar" "Le Nozze di Figaro" W.A.Mozart.
geeeeeeeeeenial!!! me encantó, no vi la película, pero ahora mismo la busco =)
the greatest of all time
Sull'aria || On the breeze
Che soave zeffiretto || What a gentle little zephyr
Zeffiretto || Zephyr
Questa sera spirerà || This evening it will blow
Questa sera spirerà || This evening it will blow
Sotto i pini del boschetto || Underneath the pine trees in the grove
Sotto i pini || Underneath the pines
Sotto i pini del boschetto || Underneath the pine trees in the grove
Sotto i pini del boschetto || Underneath the pine trees in the grove
Ei già il resto capirà || And he will already understand the rest
Certo, certo ei capirà || Certainly, certainly, he will understand
Certo il resto ei capirà || Certainly, he will understand the rest
Canzonetta sull'aria || A little song on the breeze
Soave zeffiretto || Gentle little zephyr
Sotto i pini del boschetto || Underneath the pine trees in the grove
Ei già il resto capirà || And he will already understand the rest
Certo, certo ei capirà || Certainly, certainly, he will understand
Ei capirà || He will understand
Certo, certo ei capirà || Certainly, certainly, he will understand
Ei capirà || He will understand
Ei capirà || He will understand
Ei capirà || He will understand
Ei capirà || He will understand
Ei capirà || He will understand
Ei capirà || He will understand
you only uploaded one video but this one is most epic!
Splendida
Best movie ever made
Best smug face in the history of smug faces
Мozart - duettino sull aria from the marriage of figaro
EXCELENTE FILM, NO ME CANSO DE VERLO
Neither one of those ladies singing were in fact Italian. Edith Mathis is Swizz and Gundual Janowitz is Austrian. They're still alive and both are 86 year old.
Лучший момент фильма для меня
an amazing story of human life
scena sublime
Has it really been 25 years?
sublimissime.....💖
Heavenly
questa canzone si avvicina talmente al significato di libertà...
Well, for a couple minutes at least, no one got shanked.
The nozze di gigarro
💗