THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994) FIRST TIME WATCHING - MOVIE REACTION - Tim Robbins & Morgan Freeman
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- THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994) FIRST TIME WATCHING - MOVIE REACTION - Tim Robbins & Morgan Freeman
Join us as we react to this classic. The Shawshank Redemption has been on our radar for a long time now. We've heard for ages about the incredible performances that both Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman deliver in this film. It is safe to say we ended up loving this film! This incredible drama was written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the 1982 Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.
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That's how everybody reacts to the Shawshank
Y'all! I had to pause the video when the narrator stepped in for you when you began to speak about being The Media Knights. HA! Okay, I'll go see where you take this. You're so awesome.
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In Texas this movie would be over in 5 minutes....sentenced...chair...TheEnd
Now you understand why this movie is ranked #1 in the IMDB database. It truly is the greatest film ever made.
Absolutely, makes so much sense. This was a heartfelt, genuine masterpiece.
Its been #1 since like the start of imdb
Casablanca has it covered but kids haven't seen anything before the internet.
@@steve8510 Naw it's good, but this movie rightly deserves the number 1 spot. Also the internet was barely one year old when this film came out.
@@MrCageCat In a 100 years Casablanca will still be the standard, Shawshank will be a classic of it's time, but Casablanca is for all time.
This is among the greatest films ever made. From Wikipedia: "Decades after its release, the film was still broadcast regularly, and is popular in several countries, with audience members and celebrities citing it as a source of inspiration or naming it a favorite in various surveys, leading to its recognition as one of the most "beloved" films ever made. In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Wow! Definitely an impactful film. Glad it's getting the recognition it deserves 👏
I Agree 1000% !! The best movie ever made ! ❤
Of the very few films on this caliber, it's crazy that Steven King short stories appear twice on the list. "The Green Mile" hits this hard, too.
@@yzScott Green Mile is great movie but not at this level. This is truly a perfect movie.
Only few ones like LOTR, Godfather I & II, Schindler List, Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, The Deer Hunter, Singing in the Rain, Cléopâtre, Star Wars.. can compare...at cultural, moviemaking, criticizing or popular scale.
@@samwisehuluberlu2210 You know that Green Mile is same writer and director. Many people disagree.
Andy's escape is so impressive to me. He came up with the idea very early on during his incarceration, and for the next 19 years, he patiently and meticulously worked on it, hiding all the evidence. Then, when the time finally came, he executed his escape flawlessly, vanishing without a trace, robbing the corrupt warden blind, exposing the crimes committed by the prison authorities, and left behind money and a letter for his best friend Red, whenever he was released.
And he accomplished it all without saying a single word about it to anyone, not even his best friend.
It was truly some amazing writing to see all the pieces of the puzzle start to connect and make sense. Such a satisfying ending! What a guy!
@@OfficialMediaKnightsI'm just glad they never made him move to another cell.
Pretty much required viewing for everyone on the planet.
My Uncle worked on oil rigs all his life and was a very practical man with not much interest in the arts. On a flight back from Thailand he got to see this movie as part of the in flight entertainment before it had been released in the cinema and he did not shut up about it the entire week he stayed with us.
As I was a teenager he told me I HAD to see it. Watching that with him at the movie theatre is still the memory that pops in my head every time I see it so this movie will always have a special place in my heart since he passed away
Absolutely agreed. This movie was truly incredible and indeed is a classic. We are sad to hear about your Uncle's passing. It's never really a wound that heals, just one that we learn to make room for. That is a beautiful memory to have of him though, and it's those memories that give us a little smile here and there, despite the grief 🙂
Great movie. Now I know why so many people consider this one of the best movies ever made.
@@jaipoh3965 check out the green mile it’s by the same director with some of the same cast. Also a great one
@@chilairearts4238 I've seen that. If that movie doesn't make you tear up, there is something wrong with you.
Thank you so much for your reaction. This was the last movie myself and dad watched together. Dad was a hard man, grew up in hard times. As the movie ended, I looked over at dad and he was crying like a baby, so was I. Thanks again.
Wow... This comment truly touched us. Thank you for sharing this with us. We are so sorry for your loss - grief is a complicated journey. Sometimes you feel fine, like you've 'moved on', and sometimes it hurts the same as the first day. That's why memories like these are so important to cherish. It's little bits of the ones we love, staying with us somehow. May your Dad rest in peace.
This is one of the greatest movies ever made. Now you know why it was so highly recommended.
Red's mugshot is actually Morgan Freeman's son.
Whaaat, no way?! That is awesome haha we were wondering about the resemblance!
As for this movie it truly is a classic. You all were so right for recommending this and we're so lucky to have watched it. What a masterpiece!
No film has a more satisfying and EARNED ending. It just wrap up so perfectly. So hopeful and uplifting but not at all cheap or cliched. I also think it's cool how we spend the whole moving thinking the "redemption" in Shawshank Redemption is going to be about Andy, but it's really Red's redemption in the end (which is also why he is the narrator). Red is the man who did the crime for which he was doing the time. Red is the one who came to feel genuine regret about his past ill deeds and take ownership of those crimes. Red was the one who thought he was too institutionalized to survive outside of prison. But he pushed ahead and found that hope to carry on and get to enjoy his twilight years in earned freedom and in the company of a good friend. What a movie.
This movie is truly a gem, and we love how they played with perspectives and the entire concept of protagonists in writing! It's so stunning to see how they've added such humanity to Red, to see how he's changed over time and how he's grown to dare to hope. It's so heartwarming and beautiful!
As for the music, there is one amazing detail. When Red comes to the wall with the tree at the end, for the first time in the whole movie, there's a harmonica on the soundtrack. As a symbol of Red and Andy's connection, as a symbol of hope, as a reminder that the harmonica was once part of Red's life of freedom and that he's free again.
Oh my goodness you're right!!! What a stunning detail! Honestly we're having this little dream that Red has mastered the harmonica and they just sit by some porch, as Andy listens to him play, both drinking Iced Tea and hanging out, watching the ocean, at peace.
I acted in Shawshank for two months the summer of 93. Great experience! 😮🙂
Whoooa that's amazing!! Can only imagine that must've been a great one, you must have some great stories!!
You were the one who kept “accidentally” dropping the soap
@@DWQJVB well... I was naked in the shower scene.
@@PeteGeorge those buttcheeks could crack an acorn.
I always hated you Warden.
One of my all-time favorites. Pretty much a perfect movie.
Absolutely agreed, it has so much heart!
One of the cool things about having now seen The Shawshank Redemption, (besides seeing one of the best movies ever made of course) is that you now get to go watch other people's reaction videos to the film and enjoy them taking all the same emotional gut punches you just went through. No one makes it through this movie for the first time without it hitting you at some point in some way.
Yes!!! It's such a great thing to see how a film can universally affect people like this - this film has so much heart, so much hope. Such a masterpiece and pleasure to watch!
James Whitmore, who played Brooks, was an established actor since the 1950s. This was his last major role, and an iconic one
One of the few perfect films ever made.
We all know that Morgan Freeman is a fantastic actor but Tim Robbins is a great actor too and so underrated. He played the perfect role in this movie and I also loved him in "Nothing to lose".
Another good one of his is The Hudsucker Proxy
And Mystic River.
The other Frank Darabont film that most reactors see before/after "Shawshank Redemption" is "The Green Mile" with Tom Hanks. Another great film that you will really like/love. This 1999 film was nominated for four Oscars (including Best Picture). Highly recommend it.
Putting it on our list! A lot of people have been recommending that one as well! 😄
@@OfficialMediaKnights You will become speechless as The Green Mile movie progresses, and stunned trying to figure out how the movie transforms from what you think you are watching into what actually transpires. One minute you'll laugh, the next you'll be so angry you could attack the screen, then the next you'll be crying your eyes out, to laughing again. It's a must watch AT LEAST ONE TIME IN YOUR LIFE. Just remember the time period the movie is set in!
Well, should finish with The Mist then 😂
Both from Stephen King’s books
I live about an hour away from where they filmed this. Saw this the last day of my Sr. year. Teacher of my Econ class asked some of us to bring in movies to watch the last week. One of my classmates brought in this
The picture of young Red in his prison file is actually a picture of Morgan Freeman's son, Alfonso. Also, the prisoner in the yard doing the "reeling them in" motion when Andy arrives, is also Alfonso Freeman.
Whaaaat holy crap!!! Gotta rewatch that part now, that is awesome!!
I always comment this on any Shawshank reaction.. but this is my all time favourite movie! Thanks for reacting, I love getting other people’s reactions to something I love so much. ❤
Woow thank you for your comment! Honestly this movie has easily become one of our favorites, it's such a stunning piece of art... Truly a masterpiece!
I remember as if it was yesterday. I was 13 and at that time you could ask for home delivery in the local VHS rental store if your house was close enough. I asked for "Stargate" and the guy at the other side of the phone said that if i picked two movies I could spend the weekend and bring them back only on Monday... I couldn’t think of any other that I wanted to watch so he just said "I´ll send you a good one...". And a good one it was...
Even at 13 I could understand I was watching a classic.
Wooow that's such a great story 🙂 Good thing they sent you this one. And Stargate too?! Huge fan!
This movie was truly wonderful - we laughed, we cried, and we hoped. Indeed a classic!
Great reaction! And as cool as all of today's streaming services are, we lost something special when we lost the local video store. 😕
@@abelaberdeen3757 oh man, it was such a blast going there and spend what felt like hours just to pick one movie…
Seriously though!!! I remember how much of a highlight and ritual it was to go to the store with my mom and pick out a movie... It was just different! Streaming makes life easier, yes, but there's just something about going to the store and looking through the aisles, trying to find that movie that will just hit the spot!
Another of my top 5 lifetime favorite films. Perfect from start to finish, performances, direction, cinematography, art direction and such a hauntingly beautiful score. If this is on, I stop whatever I'm doing and watch it again! It never fails.
A wonderful subtlety: when Brooks is paroled, the camera is shooting from the outside to the inside, showing that's where Brooks still was mentally. When Red is paroled, the shot is from the inside of the prison to the outside.
The oak tree is no longer there. Tree rot took some of it and then it got struck by lightning years later. I do have a pen made from the wood of that tree.
Me too! I have a pen. And a metal mess hall tray and cup.
What a great analysis, thank you for sharing this one with us! It's truly incredible what Darabont did with this story, what a stunning film indeed! Sad to hear about that Oak Tree though...
Yes! I just recently picked up on that contrast myself after watching a reaction to this movie a million times.
Wohhhh, as a collector of fountain pens, I'm very gratified to learn those are available! Thanks for making that known!
It wasn't shown on this reaction but when Andy was talking to Red about getting out, Red said "that''s some shitty pipe dreams".
And that's exactly what Andy did to get out, crawled out of the shitty pipe to freedom.
Brilliant foreshadowing there.
I came across this movie when one day, in a video shop,dispirited by what was on offer, asked the shopkeeper, did he know of any good movies. Yes you guessed it,it was Shawshank. A Stephen King script is the basis of this exceptional film. Never won any awards but became the all time classic that it now is. Everybody needs to see this movie, if only to realise what a movie SHOULD be. Not like todays offerings, where you have worked the ending before you even get in the cinema. I would rate this movie as no.1 with the The Green Mile 2nd. This a very rare event, when everything comes together, the acting, sound, visuals together with the golden voice of Morgan Freeman as narrator, not forgetting the most important, the script. The best movie I have ever watched.
it did win many awards, but lost the Oscar Best Picture to Forrest Gump
My all time favorite, rewatching it with newbies was an enjoyable experience.
One of the best movies ever made and one of my all-time favorites. Glad you guys enjoyed it.
Absolutely agreed, definitely in our top list!! Thanks for the support and comment!
So glad you guys got around to seeing this. One of my favourite movies of all time. Great reaction, as always!
Aw thank you so much, we truly appreciate your support! This movie was truly incredible and is easily amongst our favorites as well!
@@OfficialMediaKnights Totally agree! The one thing though that I find a lot of people seem to mistake after watching this movie is thinking this movie is about Andy and that it was him seeking redemption. But Andy had nothing to redeem himself for and he knew it. He knew he was innocent and just needed to be free. The movie is really about Red and him needing to find redemption in himself for his past mistakes and regaining hope. Andy was the hope Red needed to see and learn from in order to allow himself to forgive himself and to give himself permission to live again.The movie is also one of the few great examples out there of true, deep platonic love between 2 men. Simply a masterpiece!
Yesss!!! 100% agreed on all of it, what a great analysis, thank you! It's funny because that's how we saw it as well. Red was the narrator the entire time - our secret protagonist - Andy was that glimmer of hope, that spark, that Red needed to fight for his freedom, alongside what you said! You notice how, after Andy leaves, is when he changes what he says at the Parole hearing? It was him coming to terms with himself, and letting go of the person he used to be that committed that crime. He was, indeed, rehabilitated after all, even though it's just a word to him. It was his recovery from his own self-punishment. What a beautiful movie this was, holy cow!
@@OfficialMediaKnights wow, u guys tear me up 😢 It's amazing how this film can bring us all together and share the deeper meaning of it.
Indeed! Any great movie/show/book has the power to do that 🙂
Considering how many movies drop the ball in the third act, it's incredible how the third act is arguably the best part of this movie. It just pays off on so many levels, resolves every character satisfactorily, and makes you feel every feeling.
So glad you guys watched this movie. It's one of my favorite films of all time. The emotional reunion at the end almost never happened. The film originally ended with the shot of the Pacific, test audiences were furious that the two friends might not see each other again so they added the last scene. This was also the first film Morgan Freeman ever narrated. In fact, the director said it was his voice that got him the part as well as his talent. And the rest as they say, is history.
Wooow no way, we didn't know that!!! Honestly, we needed the catharsis of that reunion, the movie would have felt incomplete without it! Morgan Freeman is such an incredible talent, and we're so lucky to have him to look up to!
@@OfficialMediaKnights I agree, seeing them hug at the end is the perfect place to end it. Some movies are better with an ending thats more left up to the imagination but in this one, I needed the proper closure with them meeting at the end.
Exactlyyy!! Knowing when to choose a more finite ending vs a more open one is what can make or break a movie!
You guys had the best reaction to the end of the movie I’ve ever seen in any reaction video. Loved it!
Whoaaa thank you so much!! This comment means the world to us, truly, it made our day!!
This is one of my favorite movies of all time. I've probably watched it 150 times minimum. I WISH Mr. Morgan Freeman could be the narrator for my life. He was one of my favorite people on TV, as a child in the 70's, and still love him in everything he's done since.
Morgan Freeman (the coincidence of his last name for this movie...) is such a great actor. There are multiple scenes where his face conveys the emotion of the situation so effortlessly.
Nice to see 2 great human beings enjoying a classic masterpiece.! Your good people i can tell. Best wishes to you both n i absolutely loved watching you 2 enjoying it very much. Stay golden!
Aw thank you soo much!!! You're so kind, you truly made our day with this comment! You stay golden too, we appreciate you! 🙂
Someone once pointed out that when Brooks leaves, the shot is facing back toward the prison, and when Red leaves, it is looking out toward the future. 🙂
Easily one of the best movies of all time. I agree with everyone who is recommending following this up with Green Mile, another Stephen King prison story that is different enough to be a unique story while still sharing the heart and soul that make Shawshank such an amazing experience.
Yess, we're loving that there are so many who are recommending that! Heard fantastic things about it and we'll be reacting to it very soon!
I will never ever get tired of this movie. Perfection!
Just discovered you guys a week ago. I'm not a huge fan of the "react videos" genre, but what has stood out for me with your videos the most, is your ability to study the script, the plot lines, the acting, real-time and it's not generic commentary either, you guys are picking subtleties that only a trained eye can pick.
Really like your content! Keep up the fantastic work.
Wow this is so kind of you, what a huge compliment!! We're so glad you're enjoying our content and that you are joining us!
I just found your channel thanks to the algorithm, and I'm a new fan. This was an excellent reaction, you two. The true, raw emotions you feel and show while reacting will set you apart from the average reactors. I'm so happy you did this one. I hope you'll consider reacting to "The Green Mile" soon. It's also a Stephen King adaptation, and it's just as amazing as this one. They both kinda go hand in hand even though they are not related in any way specifically. Other than being Stephen King novels.
Anyway, I really enjoyed your reaction and I look forward to what you have coming next.
Thank the RUclips Lords! We appreciate this video reaching you guys but more than anything we are so glad you guys are enjoying the reaction. It means the world to both of us. The Green Mile is on our radar now. We will definitely watch it! Thank you for showing some love 😁😀
@The Media Knights I'm excited for you to see it. I look forward to it!
This was my first watch of your channel folks and I will definitely come back. I loved your reaction. Thoughtful, not overreacting and I could feel your emotions as you watched the heartbreak and joyful things in the movie. Great job friends. Look forward to seeing your next reactions. Peace
Welcome! Thank you for watching with us. We hope you enjoy future reactions as well 😄
Great reaction, you two! I'm glad you noted the film's score as it is a key element in Shawshank that often gets overlooked.
Thank you so much for the support and kind words! Thomas Newman is a genius and always manages to write the most delicate and heartwrenching scores! Such a fantastic movie!
An Easter Egg a lot of people miss, when The Warden opens Andy's Bible it opens to the Book of Exodus, the story of the Israelites escape to freedom.
Whooaa nice catch!!! Thank you for sharing!!
The end scene on the beach was not in the book or the original script, it ended on the bus. The studio insisted that they have to meet and have closure.
This is right up there with my favorite movies of all time. I can't count how many times I've seen it. TV airings, my personal copy, on various streaming services...just way too many to count.
I'm glad you guys loved it and it's better late than ever that you watched it! Lol
Haha agreed! Movie is truly phenomenal, we're so glad we got around to watching it!
Red: "That's just a shitty pipe dream"
And Andy escapes via a shitty pipe.
Love it !!!
Hahaha so witty and well written!!! Love Stephen King!!!
Thanks to RUclips algorithm suggestions assisting to explore your content....Having watched a ton of reactions to this gem of a Stephen King adaptation by the highly talented Frank Darabont, your reaction was the crème de la crème, certainly one of the best I've viewed at the end of the movie (though it was short which I can fathom)...was in my 20's when I first got the chance to relish this masterpiece & now having reached 40, lost count the number of times I've savored it...this one of those rare kind of film that I'll carry to my grave...!!
Thank you so much for your kind words and support, we are so glad you found us!! Darabont and King is definitely a match made in heaven, and this movie epitomizes that perfectly!
@@OfficialMediaKnights you’re welcome❤ …a key highlight in the reactions is both of you compliment each other beautifully making it special..certainly keen to explore your reactions to other great classics…for now a humble suggestion from me would be Spielberg’s 1975 “Jaws” the first summer blockbuster…!!
I couldn’t believe it when I found out Stephen King wrote the Novella this film was based on.
What a writer,
In the end, Red hopes for three things. All three of them come true. The ocean really was as blue as it was in his dreams.
Ah yes!!! It was so heartwarming to see that... Glad he found some peace in the end!
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“Salvation lies within”
my favorite movie of all time. it's literally perfect in every way.
I shed tears of joy with you both! Great reaction to a modern-day classic!
I just came across your channel and love it. You two seem like such awesome and genuinely kind people. Peace and love
Aw man thank you!!! What a compliment, that's so kind! We're so glad to have you among us here at TMK! Much peace and love back to you!
One of my favorite all-time movies
Great selection. If your patrons are typical, they're going to have you watching A LOT of stuff that's gonna make you cry, so be ready.
We can see a trend already haha! But you guys have amazing taste!
Now you should read the book, and I guarantee you that you'll read it in Morgan Freeman's voice.
Haha absolutely!! Huge King fan, now I have to pick this one up also!!
All 4 stories in Different Seasons are amazing.
This is one movie that every single time makes me cry three times at least when I watch. Absolutely masterpiece. And one of the best plot twists and endings of the history. Simply beautiful. The escape scene gives me goosebumps with the soundtrack progressively growing.
A cool, genuine reaction!
Thank youu! 🙂🙂🙂
One movie you 2 should watch, that Denzel was nominated for, is "Malcolm X".
You may not get many requests but it is AWESOME!
ive watched this movie 100 times. and there isnt one time the ending doesnt have me balling my eyes out
Guys I love the way you reacted this!! It´s a wonderful movie..
Aw thank you so much!!! This movie truly is incredible, we were so glad that this was recommended to us!
... Seriously when you two start tearing up it's impossible not to get hit by the feels 😢
One of the best movies, ever. Thanks.
I "discover" your channel a few days away and I devour all your content. I love your reactions and comments. This is my favourite movie of all time btw ❤
Fun fact Andy's part was supposed to go to Tom Hanks but he was busy either filming Forrest Gump are cast away I can't remember I like Tom Hanks but I can't see anybody else playing Andy but this dude
Trivia 2!! The baseball throwing scene lasted nine straight hours and the next day Morgan showed up in a sling!
Whaaaat?! That's insane, did not know that!! Thanks for sharing!!
This has to be the best movie never to win an Oscar, I have seen it over 25 times, and never fail to have a smile on my face at the end.
It's not often that a movie can make people cry because of happiness
So true, the catharsis was handled so powerfully!!
Shawshank Redemption is in my top 5 movies of all time.
Great reaction and tears of joy . So happy you loved this film .
When Red tells Andy going to Mexico is "shitty pipe dreams", it foreshadows Andy crawling through a pipe of shit to escape.
Your reactions to this film were just like mine so many years ago. I love seeing people's humanity. Cheers to you both.
One of my all time fav movies, but I kept getting distracted by your awesome ring, Denise!!!
As a Patreon member, as much as I love the movie, I initially didn't want to spend the two hours watching with, and instead thought I'd wait for the cut down youtube edit. When I saw this was edited down to only 23 minutes, I regretted my decision but went forward and just watched this anyway. GREAT editing and capturing much of the greatness and pretty much the essence of the whole movie. Super job.
Lord Crispen!! Awesome to see you comment again! We wanted to keep this one longer but copyright on this one was hell! Sorry it is so short, but we're glad you gave it a go regardless! We truly appreciate your support!
Now you know why this is my favorite movie. A Stephen King short story. So is The Green Mile. Frank Darabont wrote the screenplay for both and directed them. This movie was overlooked at the Oscars because of a little movie called Forrest Gump. 1994 was a great year for film.
The movie isn't Andy's story, it's Red's, and the redemption was his.
I love this movie, anybody who said the first time watching this movie they knew what was going on, I call them a liar, absolutely brilliant
Absolutely agreed! This movie is a masterpiece!
Love both of you! You're both so fun! How awesome is that movie? If you don't cry happy tears by the very end of that, what movie are you waiting for? When you beautiful young people hear us old people talk about "the good ole days", this movie is what we are talking about. Every actors, the filming, the music, the dingy prison and above all the writing... They don't make them like they used to. See you soon!
Stephen King is SUCH a good story teller. I need to read him again.........
Yess!!! I (Denise) have a whole collection of his books, been a huge fan since I was a kid! He's truly one of a kind!
I remember when I first saw this movie I kept stopping and starting in places so I could write down the poetic lines of Andy's letter and Red's narrative. before then I hadn't realized King was such a beautiful novelist.
I really enjoyed watching and feeling the feels with yall.
I read "Different Seasons" (Stephen King) back in 1982 when it came out and was thrilled to see the novella "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" come to life on the big screen.
The movie really does the book justice! I really enjoyed your reaction, I'm very pleased to see that not much gets past you guys and nothing really goes over your heads. I'm glad I found your channel and will be tuning in for more reactions!
this has been my absolute favorite film since 1998. the end.
I was a resident at Mansfield Reformatory. in 1989 and 1990, in Mansfield Ohio. Mansfield Reformatory would be shut down a short time later, and then this film became the setting for one of the greatest prison movies ever made, the Shawshank Redemption. I was a kid then, sentenced to three months for stealing a car. A lot of people, when I tell them about this little bit of my history, find it hard to believe, but I have my prison records to prove it. Of course, being in prison isn't exactly the kind of thing one brags about, but my checkered past doesn't change the fact of my having been part of cinematic history.
A few little interesting facts: The perspective of Andy, when he is walking into Shawshank for the first time, looking up at the windows above the entrance (it is one of several), is the exact same perspective I had. Walking into that door, I looked up at the windows, terrified, but also wondering about the building, its architecture. Upon arriving at the place, the prison looked like a veritable castle. So yes, I was looking at everything, taking everything in.
The cells in the film are not the cells of Mansfield, that is, Shawshank. They actually built a set for that part of the film because by the time the movie was made, the cells were in disrepair and unusable. You can search "Mansfield Reformatory" in RUclips and see what the cells were really like. They were tiny, claustrophobic. You had a metal footlocker that you shared with your roommate, there was a tiny sink and above it was a polished piece of steel for a mirror. The toilet was porcelain, stained brown with rust and age, looking like a small stool in the corner of the room.
The shower room wasn't as it was portrayed in the movie. In reality, the Mansfield showers was nothing more than a single pipe hanging from the ceiling and running the length of the tiled room, and the water was always cold, there was no hot water. In fact, in order to get hot water in your cell, like for making the instant coffee you got from the inmate commissary (store), you had to wait for the single scheduled daily delivery of hot water by inmate trustees.
When Andy and the other inmates are lined up for orientation, that is, the little pep talk from the warden, that was not inmate intake at Mansfield. That is actually one of the many dayrooms at Mansfield that served many functions, including religious services. The chow hall where Andy finds the meal worm in his oatmeal looks to be the same dining area of Mansfield's Reformatory.
The bus coming into the prison through that single gated entrance is the entrance prisoners came through at Mansfield, exactly the same thing. The same route. It was pretty much the way it was depicted in the Shawshank Redemption.
Since the cell block depicted in the movie isn't the actual cell blocks of Mansfield, the image of the inmates marching single file down to the dining area isn't how it was at Mansfield. In fact, the walk to the chow hall was very cramped, the walkway in front of the cells barely as wide as a man, and contained from floor to ceiling with bars. And when you got to the end of the walkway you walked down these stairs in a zigzag pattern. The stairs had brass rails that is was my job to polish. Huge brass rails the size of one's arm. I didn't get paid for it, I volunteered so I could get out of my cell every day.
Shawshank was a dark and depressing place.
The film has a peculiar -- and dare I say -- special meaning to me. It represents one of the darkest periods of my life, for a number of reasons of which, none the least of which is my time at Shawshank prison.
Literally a perfect movie
Love the brief passing through the movie! 25 minute videos are perfect
Thank you!! Glad you enjoyed it!
One of the all time greatest for sure, glad you loved it!!!
Such a freaking good movie.
You two! My favorite film-reactors!
Great movie! A nice surprise to see you react to it.
Haha glad to hear we got to surprise you! It's a fantastic movie!
@@OfficialMediaKnights yeah, been so long since I last saw it!
Loving each and every reaction. 😊
Every man's favorite movie. The worst seen though is the last scene, i wanted to see them greet each other up close....now for part 2.
All i can say, is imagine the changes in the world in the past 10 years of your life...relationships, buildings, businesses, technology...and imagine coming back to it 20 plus years later.
Probably the most satisfying ending in film history.
Yesss, agreed!!! Such a beautiful ending!
Beautiful reaction, you two.
Thank you so much, your support means everything!
I loved your reaction 👍🏻 one of the best and I saw almost 100 reactions of this movie 😁
Wow, thanks so much!! We appreciate your support!!
I have seen this many many times..but I love to see the newbies react..hope you enjoyed.
We absolutely adored this movie!! Thanks so much for the comment and support!
Loved your reactions. I still get emotional watching this one.
Thank you so much, we're so glad you enjoyed our reaction 🙂 This movie was an emotional rollercoaster, in the best sense!
By far the best film ever made, the second favourite going to the Green Mile but this too doesn’t come close, Shawshank is that great.
Shawshank is truly phenomenal! We actually have a Green Mile reaction on the way so stay tuned!
19:40 notice how he's presented with a choice here. The gun to break his parole, or the compass to show him the way forward.
I was just saying this about Groundhog's Day earlier; this is a movie I've come to kind of taken for granted. I grew up watching it, I've seen it (or parts of it) dozens of times. It's comfortable, familiar, and wholly expected. I wish I could watch it for the first time with my current level of awareness and appreciation for media. Glad you guys got to.
Also, if you haven't seen Groundhog's Day, it's a similarly great film. A comedy, well worth the watch.
That's so true, there are so many films we adore where we wish we could forget them just so we could watch them again for the first time! This movie was such a wonderful surprise, it made us feel so many feelings simultaneously!
Love the soundtrack to this movie
I love the way you guys do the reaction I will be tuning in again
Wow thank you so much, we truly appreciate having you here with us!