I can just imagine red telling Andy at the end about how the warden was losing his mind in the cell, throwing stuff around. They must have gotten a good laugh out of that 😂
Just to put the tragedy of Brooks into perspective, we have to look at the world events he missed. He came to Shawshank in 1905, likely in a covered wagon. At that time, cars were a gadget for the wealthy, airplanes were a brand new invention and music was still being listened to on the gramophone. By the time he got out in 1955: three wars had occurred (WWI, WWII, and Korea). Cars were owned by anybody who wanted and could afford one (or two). Airplanes were making international flights. Radio had been invented and nearly supplanted by television. Russia went from being a monarchy to a dictatorship. Germany had been ruined by one war and nearly destroyed by another. And the US had gone from being a footnote in world politics to a global superpower. On top of that, weapons of war had gone from single-shot rifles to full on nuclear bombs. And he missed all of it sitting in prison. It would be like someone going into prison in 1972 and being released today. It would be like going to another planet.
The difference is that someone who went in in 1972 would have pretty accurate knowledge of the outside world because of TV and newspapers not to mention internet access once it became available. Brooks would have only had word of mouth and any magazines that happened to get donated to the prison library. The culture shock to me seems unfathomable.
The culture shock wouldn’t be nearly as bad from 1972 to now. The world wars changed so much. Those alone would make anyone feel like Brooks did. He has missed too much there was just no way he could ever catch back up.
The book didn't originally end where they meet, but they added that in for the film to add closure. The real emphasis towards the end is that he now has hope, which was the central theme throughout the entire film.
According to pretty much everybody he's ever worked with, including everybody in this movie, Bob Gunton, the actor who played the warden, is one of the kindest, friendliest people they've ever met, which is interesting considering how often he plays a bad guy. He's generous to the few people who recognize him as an actor when he's out and about, and loves to tell funny stories about the people he's worked with.
The person that played Brooks was James Whitmore. He was an amazing actor who served in WWII in the Pacific. His role as Brooks was performed with simple perfection. Shawshank Redemption is one of the movies that I grew up with and I still enjoy watching it even though I've likely watched it thousands of times.
He is always great! But, even I was fairly gobsmacked by his performance as The Grim Reaper in "Bill & Tedʻs Bogus Journey." Sooner or later you dance with The Reaper!
In the book it ends with Red on the bus and that's perfect for the book. It's Red embracing the hope he'd resisted so long. For the movie, the shot of Red on the beach walking up to Andy captures that same sense of hope cinematically. This director did another Stephen King adaptation - probably the best ones ever done. The Green Mile which you've already seen.
@@Vinniejster. With one of the most controversial endings ever. King loved it, Darabont thought he only did it because he was having so many negative feelings after his divorce and seemed to be torn about it later.
Darabont wanted to end it as in the book; the studio wanted to hold the audiences' hands and show them reuniting. Darabont compromised, showing Red arriving on the beach/
Greetings from Sweden. Great reaction. One of the best movies ever made. Fun fact: When the warden opens the Bible to find the carved hidingplace of the rock hammer it says "EXODUS". Means EXIT.
The sequence at 10:49 is one my all time favorite shot compositions in film. It so simply but perfectly illustrates where the two characters are in terms of their head space with the placement of the shadow of the prison wall on the building behind them.. Andy, we know, is planning on escaping that night. And he gets up walks completely into the light, away from shadow of the prison wall. Andy is already free of that place in his mind. Meanwhile, Red is still of the mind that you shouldn't have hope in those walls and stays in the shadow. But then Andy asks him to do a favor for him if Red ever gets out. So Red walks towards Andy in the light, and we get some OTS shots of Andy telling Red about the rock wall - giving him something to look forward to for when Red gets out. And then we cut back to the wide two shot and we see Red, still mostly in the shadow of the prison wall, but with his head breaking into the lighted section of the wall behind. Andy has just planted a seed of hope in Red's mind.
I often think (but never say) people in the comments are trying too hard and looking too deep to find meaning in a scene. This is *NOT* one of those times. I will never look at that scene the same again. Great job, rookie.
There is one part from the story that I wish they left in. Jake was found, shortly after they found out Brooks died. He had starved to death. Jake was institutionalized as well...
I haven't seen or spoken to my best friend from high school in many years, and the ending to this movie is profoundly meaningful and never fails to make me emotional. I miss my friend.
@@MrWillsonx Sometimes its just not possible, even in this modern social media era. One of my friends from high school dropped off the face of the earth as far as I know.
@@BigIronEnjoyer I tried looking up some people from college (91-94) as an experiment who I had not seen since, I found about 60% of them within an hour, males were easier as most keep the name when they get married, after contact picked up college people they were still in touch with. Others seemingly just vanished.
she saw her first Tim Robbins-movie? so i whould really like to recommend "jacobs ladder" as a big silent hill-fan. :D i think this movie is pretty underrated.
Funny how I don't remember him in many movies though just War of the Worlds and this one. Looking it up, oh now I remember him in Cadillac Man. I.Q. some romcom. Nothing to Lose another comedy. How could I forget Erik The Viking, one of my fav movies.
'I guess I just miss my friend' 😭😭..every time And Brooks makes my eyes water some too, but that's so sad I just feel numb and empty - he really should have died there, in his sleep, then Jake could have flown away the next.day. Pretty much a perfect movie, a Stephen King adaptation done right by a great director.
You get major respect for being one of the only people I've seen make the necessary connection to the private prison industry, and the exploitation of prison labor. As for the film, in terms of production and presentation, it is essentially flawless. This film belongs to a tier which is composed of only about half a dozen of the greatest films ever made. It's an excellent example of what has largely been lost in filmmaking over the last 30-40 years.
"necessary connection to the private prison industry" something that didn't even exist until recently. That was all government corruption. Governments refuse to be wrong, but the warden stealing money from the government and they'd quickly put him in the same box. They'd care less about the guards beating or working you to death. Hell even our current VP was like, why let them go after they served their time when they good cheap labor. Her state prisons and $20 billion right there. Back then SCOTUS about to find the state of California in contempt, but contempt would only delay what they're trying to correct, violations of the 8th amendment. Although the manner of the correction might cause more problems it was argued it'd been so put off to be a now or never situation. *That's just how recent the problem still is* if it involves our current VP, SCOUTS, 8th amendment and "needless suffering and death" caused by the state as one Justice put it.
Government problem is "who is watching the watchmen" so it's much easier to get the government to watch a business like a private prison if they do wrong then let them investigate themselves. All those previous abuses, that's an insignificant part of why they allowed some prisons to be private. The biggest part of why was plain and simple. They needed the room. Insane amount of drugs that lead to all the crime that came with. All that getting outta hand. Who was gonna build it? Drugs that built Miami in the 80's. Crack cocaine, 90's turf war, it's what some people grew up with too. Government trying to cheap out when they forget they steal drug money or any money they think is drug money. That's the real reason. Obvious how little the politicians care. So getting down into the stats, I'm looking at the guards. Comparing the two. Well averaged out supposedly public prisons now have way way more amenities attempting to appease those looking at the old wrongdoings. In private prisons guards are safer and criminals might fight themselves more often. Now I'm assuming here based off the public ones being better facilities and having more with even less escape attempts. So why are the guards there targeted more? Probably more abuses from those guards as compared to the private ones. Inmates see other inmates as an enemy in a private prison while in public prisons the guards might be pulling some shit to make them an enemy too. That just my opinion. Also depends on the type of prisoner and the laws bloating the prison population. Like counting a felony, 3 strikes here, but in Cali they'd probably look at misdemeanors too then you're really screwed over for nothing. You could also argue prohibition. They're more lax on the drugs in comparison. Then the crime spree they got for not caring about $999 criminals, that might even be related to the case where they were ordered to reduce the prison population. Refusal to make room or take care of them, lack of staff, no medical care and abusing the mentally ill. Back to violations of the 8th that were so bad and so ignored it's better to have criminals be free than the state be the criminal.
@@jayeisenhardt1337 They all worked out a better plan. The govt. pays corporations for running the prison system, and they pay them with tax dollars, in many cases, paid in by the same people being imprisoned. Then the coporations turn around and drop some campaign donations (or just illegal kickbacks) on the politicians who did as they were told. And yes I agree about the VP and the President. I'm certainly no conservative (no liberal either), and I think it's telling that the Democrats picked the guy who started a lot of this shit with his crime bills, and a lady who argued in favor of the CA death penalty. Lord deliver us from authoritarians, be they red or blue.
I once walked 12 hrs on a broken foot through wilderness on a cold winters night and morning. Never cried, yelled and sworn as much in my life... but I got home. Sometimes you endure hell to survive... having fobias just doesn't matter...
Tim Robbins is really good at who he plays. If you want more of him try "Arlington Road". A very dark and twisted movie, but highly recommended. Also, Jeff Bridges ftw!
Arianna's reactions are always fun to watch. Combine that with the skillful edit and we have another great reaction video! I would like to see her do a reaction to the movie 'Pleasantville'.
@Julio You already know the plot of the movie probably seen it 15 times and a couple of good one liners but she hasn't that's the fun part. She does a good cringe jump and what's with the lobster hands thing? She cracks me up! Reaction of the year award 🏆🤣🤣
The title of this story is ‘rita hayworth and the shawshank redemption’. The first poster andie gets from red was a rita hayworth poster and time in the story is measured by the changing posters - monroe was one and the last one was raquel welch. From memory this story is one of the 4 in the book Four Seasons.
The piece that Andy played on the speakers is an excerpt from the opera "Le Nozze di Figaro" by WA Mozart. One of the greatest operas ever. This is one of my favorite movies ever.
"I had to come to prison to become a crook" What's funny about this movie when it was released was that it did well critically but bombed in theaters because people thought it was too flattering of criminals and too sympathetic to them. Safe to say that mindset didn't last and I would say part of why this film has gotten so much love in recent times is because it was a lot of peoples first idea of how prison and law enforcement can be the bad guys
I remember when this came out and you're right it didn't do well and was out of theaters pretty quick. I watched it on HBO or Showtime a few months later and immediately wondered why it didn't do well at the theater as it was one of the best movies I'd ever seen.
To be fair it does show the crooks to be rather overly sympathetic. Most reactors are so happy when the guard captain is beating the shit out of Bogs. I think it goes to show you that people understand that hard people sometimes need to be controlled by other hard people. The problem is when that force isn't aimed correctly. The guy getting beat down by the captain on his first night vs Bogs getting beat down are essentially the same thing. The only difference being the audience knows for a fact that Bogs is a piece of shit.
I was lucky enough to see this movie in a theatre in NZ, must have been early 1995. I had heard absolutely nada, nothing, zero about it, just decided to go to the movies with my gf and happened to pick this one. I still remember walking out of it thinking how on earth that I'd never heard of it because it was one of the best movies I'd ever seen. The marketing must have been totally abysmal!
@@unknownsword9042 It doesn't matter if it showed the inmates as "overly sympathetic." The American prison system is just legalized cruelty. We throw people in there and leave them to rot. The result is a punishment that is often magnitudes worse than the crime that landed them in prison. We criminalize people for petty wrongs and, if they get out of prison, often come out criminal-ish than when they entered. This movie is special because it reminds us that prison inmates are humans too. It's too easy to discard prison inmates when treat them as a faceless mass with a villianous moniker. It's easy to justify inhumane assaults when they're done to people we believe are evil. Byron Hadley and Warden Norton are the most evil people in this movie and deserve to be in the prison that they purported guard. The only difference is that Norton and Hadley's evil is legal.
That minute or two at the end to summarize thoughts and feelings about the movie is a really nice change. So much more satisfying than an abrupt end of the video at the movie’s credits
I'm 73. I happened to stumble upon the condensed non-pay versions of Chad and Arianna watching Band of Brothers, and looked at others, and decided they were the best of the watchers on that particular series. So then I came across this one with The Shawshank Redemption (1994). What I would recommend, sometime down the road, is the movie The Big Country (1958) with Gregory Peck and Charlton Heston. IMHO it's a top-three all-time western with both the original of The Magnificent Seven (1960) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).
What I love about Shawshank Redemption is what Andy was planning on doing was right there in front of your face the entire movie, but it's not until retrospection kicks in and the movie just outright tells you that he had been planning escape from the day he entered the prison, from his first real conversation with Red about the small pickaxe up to and through the next 20 years, taking the Wardens ill-gotten money, implicating the Warden and the guards in heinous barbarism, etec., etc.. He saw all of that coming and planned for it.
James Whitmore who played Brooks is a veteran actor who goes back to classic movies of the 1940's. He has resume longer than your arm. He can do it all drama, comedy and musical numbers. He even played an ape in the original 1968 "Planet of the Apes" movie.
For me this movie is special because it was filmed in the area where my uncle was living at the time. he got to be an extra in the film. Near the end when Red looks into the shop window, my uncle is the guy that walks by behind him. It's only a couple frames but I can tell its really him and I can't watch this movie without appreciating that shot a little more.
'The Shawshank Redemption": A tale about Hope, Friendship, and "The Count of Monte Cristo! 12:25 A little-known song for Andy Dufresne: ruclips.net/video/5-fcvnYDEJ0/видео.html 16:10 Warden Norton's song: ruclips.net/video/JDNd81-QQHs/видео.html 17:26 Red's last word on "rehabilitated." 19:56 Red's song: ruclips.net/video/i1LvlKvr3B4/видео.html 20:09 Test audiences wondered what happened to Andy and Red, so this scene was added.
A couple of pieces of trivia about the movie ... the main guard, Captain Hadley, is played by Clancey Brown. He is also the voice of Mr. Krabbs on Spongebob ... second piece of trivia ... when Red is asked why they call him Red, he responds "Maybe it's because I'm Irish" ... In the novel the movie's bringing to live, Red is actually an Irish guy ... so Morgan Freeman saying that is a shout out to the original Red in the novel.
Fun Fact: at 11:21 the actor who says "and you gave it to him." Was Silvio Dante from the Sopranos and was the guitarist in Bruce Springsteen's "E Street band." Also this is a case where the movie is far superior to the source material. Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption was a short story King wrote in college. The entire arc of Andy getting the wardens ill gotten gains is absent. In the book there are multiple wardens and Andy gets his money from investments a friend made for him while he was in prison. Needless to say the addition of one warden and his money laundering truly ties the story together.
That's crazy, I didn't know Steven Van Zandt was in this movie?! I didn't see his name on IMDB cast for this movie? Did he go by a different name? That film isn't even listed on his IMDB filmography. You must have him confused with someone else.
The character Andy Dufrain was played by Tim Robbins, who has also been in "Bull Durham", "The Player", "Bob Roberts", and "Mystic RIver". He was also the producer of "Dead Man Walking" and he was married to actress Susan Sarandon for a long time.
Hadley the psychopath cop is the voice actor for Mr. Crabs in SpongeBob SquarePants. Also the bible that hid the rock hammer opened to the book of exodus which means exit. When the warden was in his cell the first time he takes Andy’s bible and gives it back at the last second and says your salvation lies within. The salvation was The Christian Salvation and the Rock Hammers salvation. Great Review, Great Movie.
Shawshank is a fantastic film. Great in every way, it plays on emotions amazingly and the story is incredible. Genuinely one of the greatest movies of all time. Also, anything starring Morgan Freeman is a win haha
The whole creating a person out of thin air can still apparently be done. Valuetainment did an interview with Matthew Cox who detailed some of what he did.
I mean it's quite easy with identity theft. Then you got somebody they trust and you in. I remember having that conversation with my cousin ages ago and he was talking about security. A wall of encryption and how hard it is, of course he was right and that does deter you. So you either go the long way around or find somebody who is allowed in and use them. It's kinda laughable as the decades went by thinking of a billion customers where they have to issue a security breach notice about their information. So many keys in one place easier to take them all than just one or two.
That Warden is like a plantation owner. And they still walk amongst us today. With Judges on the pay roll. No wonder we're the most incarcerated county on the planet.
One of the best movies ever made! It was nominated for 7 Oscar’s, one of them was for the best movie, but didn’t win a single one. The reason: Forrest Gump, was nominated for 13 and won 6. The Lion king won 3 and Pulp fiction won 1. 1994 was a awesome movie year💪🏻
"Andy" was played by Tim Robbins. He Played "Merlin" in Top Gun and was in "Bull Durham" and "the Hudsucker Proxy". "The Green Mile" and "the Shawshank Redemption" should be watched together, but Shawshank First.
If you read the book, as he worked in the library, he got hold of plans to the prison. He timed it for that night as they were planning on changing the sanitation system and putting bars on the end of the pipes.
This movie is so brilliant and so were the 90s. This and the green mile have the same feel and were written by king and directed by darabont. Both incredibly beautiful films
1) Red's mug shot photo is Freeman's son. 2) Red lectured Andy about a "shitty pipe dream". Andy escaped through a "shitty pipe". 3) Andy hid the rock hammer in the Bible, specifically in the book of Exodus (which means, "exit").
Such a great movie. So many states in the north/northeast have rock walls/stone fences. The were used for property division/marking and even for detaining livestock. To me it adds to the beauty of the countryside.
The Shawshank Redemption is one of my all time favourite movies. To me the story is allegorical in nature, and it always reminds me to keep pushing myself no matter how hard life gets and to keep having hope. Keep going and get through those difficult times, things will get better if you hold on and don’t give up.
This is one of my all time favorite movies. If you want to see Tim Robbins in an entirely different type movie, see Erik The Viking. It's a comedy-fantasy movie. It's British made, so it has little bit of a Monty Python vibe to it. John Cleese from Monty Python is also in the movie.
Jacob's Ladder has to be my favorite of Robbins' movies. Won't put details in the comments for the sake of avoiding spoilers, but if you know, you know.
Should've included more of Tommy being taught by Andy. You become more invested in the character and then you understand the shocked reaction when he's killed. You can literally see a bright future cut short and it is utterly heartbreaking.
The head guard is played by Clancy Brown...the voice of Mr. Crabs. I first saw him in a movie called BAD BOYS with Sean Penn. He played a character named "Viking". Check it out if you get a chance. Also, a little fun fact, in Stephen King's story "Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption",the character Red actually was Irish, not Black, So they threw in that little joke for the movie 😁
I felt the difficulty of reentering society after 4 years when I was a younger man. Brooks 50 years and his suicide makes sense for such a shock. The repetition and normalcy of jail gets comfy in weird ways after awhile. Took me a few years to get over the desire to ask to use the restroom...
3:30 It isn't just that the music is beautiful, in fact that is seen as one of the best recordings of that particular song by two of the best singers of their era. You have to remember that most of these men have not physically seen a woman in years or even decades. And they have been without recorded music almost as long. Radio is something you never miss until it is gone completely.
To add to the fear of Andy climbing down that claustrophobic pipe, in the book it describes how he didn't know if the end of the pipe was open or not, maybe with some sort of grate on it. If so, he would not have been able to go back the other way. Gives me shivers every time I think about it.
Nice reaction. Fun fact the actor who plays Byron Hadley, the head guard, is played by Clancy Brown. And he is none other than the voice of legendary cheap skate Mr. Krabs from Spongebob. True story. MONEY!
I can't help but notice Andy is personally profiting off of prison labor. Not only does he help the warden steal from the public, he makes off with the money at the end. Something to think about.
It might interest you to know, that the sociopath prison guard is played by Clancy Brown, who is known for the voice of Mr.Crabs on "SpongeBob SquarePants"
You did so well by splitting this into two parts. One of the best reactors on RUclips, you include the good lines and don''t skip dialogue, some people cut all the good parts and you can't even follow the flow of the movie. Well done!
Andy is played by Tim Robbins. He's in another great movie called Mystic River. Also if you want to laugh he's in Nothing To Lose starring with Martin Lawrence.
You did a magnificent job reacting to this classic. It was great watching it with you. As though I was seeing it for the first time. Look forward to future movies on this channel.
When Red tells Andy that going to Mexico is "shitty pipe dreams", it foreshadows Andy crawling through a pipe of shit to escape.
There is a lot of well written foreshowing in the script, salvation lies within, etc
I can just imagine red telling Andy at the end about how the warden was losing his mind in the cell, throwing stuff around. They must have gotten a good laugh out of that 😂
Yeah over a game of chess perhaps
You want a good laugh? There is a Shawshank Deleted scene...ruclips.net/video/vqf21jrfCRM/видео.html
That would be amazing LOL
Pinch a loaf = Not enough fiber in the diet.
Just to put the tragedy of Brooks into perspective, we have to look at the world events he missed. He came to Shawshank in 1905, likely in a covered wagon. At that time, cars were a gadget for the wealthy, airplanes were a brand new invention and music was still being listened to on the gramophone. By the time he got out in 1955: three wars had occurred (WWI, WWII, and Korea). Cars were owned by anybody who wanted and could afford one (or two). Airplanes were making international flights. Radio had been invented and nearly supplanted by television. Russia went from being a monarchy to a dictatorship. Germany had been ruined by one war and nearly destroyed by another. And the US had gone from being a footnote in world politics to a global superpower. On top of that, weapons of war had gone from single-shot rifles to full on nuclear bombs. And he missed all of it sitting in prison. It would be like someone going into prison in 1972 and being released today. It would be like going to another planet.
The difference is that someone who went in in 1972 would have pretty accurate knowledge of the outside world because of TV and newspapers not to mention internet access once it became available. Brooks would have only had word of mouth and any magazines that happened to get donated to the prison library. The culture shock to me seems unfathomable.
@@cydrych there is no internet in prison
@@Klaas_L how do you know lol?
Ya crazy. I like how in detail u went. I never thought so much into what he missed
The culture shock wouldn’t be nearly as bad from 1972 to now. The world wars changed so much. Those alone would make anyone feel like Brooks did. He has missed too much there was just no way he could ever catch back up.
So glad you included Red's last "I hope." So many reactors don't include it, and it's the entire point of the movie.
The book didn't originally end where they meet, but they added that in for the film to add closure. The real emphasis towards the end is that he now has hope, which was the central theme throughout the entire film.
those are the last two words in the book
I often put in the disc and just watch the last 15 min of this movie again.
The ocean was, in fact, as blue as it was in his dreams.
Hope IS the reason.
That is all.
"I guess I just miss my friend....".....gets me teary-eyed every time. Wonderful reaction, as usual. Thanks for posting.
According to pretty much everybody he's ever worked with, including everybody in this movie, Bob Gunton, the actor who played the warden, is one of the kindest, friendliest people they've ever met, which is interesting considering how often he plays a bad guy. He's generous to the few people who recognize him as an actor when he's out and about, and loves to tell funny stories about the people he's worked with.
"I will cast you down with the sodomites!" Great guy, wonderful attitude🤩! Just kidding, JK, he has an awesome portrayal as an actor in this film!❤
yeah but then again he is classed as a celeb and as we all know 90% of celebs are pedos. So he is more then likely a child rapist.
Bob Gunton is a helluva actor, the disgust he makes us feel towards his character is mostly due to his talent
The person that played Brooks was James Whitmore. He was an amazing actor who served in WWII in the Pacific. His role as Brooks was performed with simple perfection. Shawshank Redemption is one of the movies that I grew up with and I still enjoy watching it even though I've likely watched it thousands of times.
It's crazy to think he lived 20 years after the movie was made... he looked like was in his late 90's
He played the President of the Assembly (the orangutan) in the first Planet of the Apes film.
I liked him as the scientist in the movie THEM
I love how much younger Andy looks when he's free
Everyone is great but I gotta shoutout William Sadler, always a delight in everything he does. What a great character actor.
He is always great! But, even I was fairly gobsmacked by his performance as The Grim Reaper in "Bill & Tedʻs Bogus Journey." Sooner or later you dance with The Reaper!
In the book it ends with Red on the bus and that's perfect for the book. It's Red embracing the hope he'd resisted so long. For the movie, the shot of Red on the beach walking up to Andy captures that same sense of hope cinematically.
This director did another Stephen King adaptation - probably the best ones ever done. The Green Mile which you've already seen.
Darabont also directed The Mist, another Stephen Kind adaptation.
Really good movie
@@Vinniejster. And really scary!
@@Vinniejster. With one of the most controversial endings ever. King loved it, Darabont thought he only did it because he was having so many negative feelings after his divorce and seemed to be torn about it later.
@@Vinniejster. and developed the walking dead for AMC, as well as directing the first season, and wrote a draft for nightmare on elm street 2
Darabont wanted to end it as in the book; the studio wanted to hold the audiences' hands and show them reuniting. Darabont compromised, showing Red arriving on the beach/
Red's final monolog is among my favorite 4 or 5 movie speeches ever. "I hope the pacific is as blue as in my dreams... I hope...." [CUE:waterworks]
Glad you kept the line about the Pacific being so blue.....not in any other reaction I have seen on RUclips.....
kills me every time
Greetings from Sweden. Great reaction. One of the best movies ever made.
Fun fact: When the warden opens the Bible to find the carved hidingplace of the rock hammer it says "EXODUS". Means EXIT.
The sequence at 10:49 is one my all time favorite shot compositions in film. It so simply but perfectly illustrates where the two characters are in terms of their head space with the placement of the shadow of the prison wall on the building behind them.. Andy, we know, is planning on escaping that night. And he gets up walks completely into the light, away from shadow of the prison wall. Andy is already free of that place in his mind. Meanwhile, Red is still of the mind that you shouldn't have hope in those walls and stays in the shadow. But then Andy asks him to do a favor for him if Red ever gets out. So Red walks towards Andy in the light, and we get some OTS shots of Andy telling Red about the rock wall - giving him something to look forward to for when Red gets out. And then we cut back to the wide two shot and we see Red, still mostly in the shadow of the prison wall, but with his head breaking into the lighted section of the wall behind. Andy has just planted a seed of hope in Red's mind.
I often think (but never say) people in the comments are trying too hard and looking too deep to find meaning in a scene. This is *NOT* one of those times. I will never look at that scene the same again. Great job, rookie.
An absolutely beautiful film and story telling at its finest.
When a Stephen King story is done right, it really hits.. god hes awesome
And Forrest Gump won Oscar and Shawshank got nada
@@jimrichardson3078 in fairness that’s a terrific movie as well, in my opinion, but Shawshank is in a league of its own.
@@frightenedsoul I feel Shawshank should have won best picture at least, that year
There is one part from the story that I wish they left in. Jake was found, shortly after they found out Brooks died. He had starved to death. Jake was institutionalized as well...
Whilst I think that's a cool bit of trivia it would be a bit cheesy
They also have like 5 wardens in the book
That would be too much if they left it in... And I know that I know that, I'm never going to be the same, that's heartbreaking...
@@416TreasureHunters The one more obtuse than the next.
I haven't seen or spoken to my best friend from high school in many years, and the ending to this movie is profoundly meaningful and never fails to make me emotional. I miss my friend.
It's never too late to reconnect
@@MrWillsonx Sometimes its just not possible, even in this modern social media era. One of my friends from high school dropped off the face of the earth as far as I know.
@@BigIronEnjoyer I tried looking up some people from college (91-94) as an experiment who I had not seen since, I found about 60% of them within an hour, males were easier as most keep the name when they get married, after contact picked up college people they were still in touch with. Others seemingly just vanished.
I do recommend this as often they have photographs of those bygone days they are happy to share.
omg the warden is whistling "a mighty fortress is our god" at 11:50. the irony
she saw her first Tim Robbins-movie? so i whould really like to recommend "jacobs ladder" as a big silent hill-fan. :D i think this movie is pretty underrated.
Funny how I don't remember him in many movies though just War of the Worlds and this one. Looking it up, oh now I remember him in Cadillac Man. I.Q. some romcom. Nothing to Lose another comedy. How could I forget Erik The Viking, one of my fav movies.
I would put his performance in Jacobs Ladder above this one, though the movie is just v.v. good and not the masterpiece this is.
For me the best Tim Robbins movie is by the Coen Brothers.... "The Hudsucker Proxy" (1994).
'I guess I just miss my friend' 😭😭..every time
And Brooks makes my eyes water some too, but that's so sad I just feel numb and empty - he really should have died there, in his sleep, then Jake could have flown away the next.day.
Pretty much a perfect movie, a Stephen King adaptation done right by a great director.
You get major respect for being one of the only people I've seen make the necessary connection to the private prison industry, and the exploitation of prison labor. As for the film, in terms of production and presentation, it is essentially flawless. This film belongs to a tier which is composed of only about half a dozen of the greatest films ever made. It's an excellent example of what has largely been lost in filmmaking over the last 30-40 years.
"necessary connection to the private prison industry" something that didn't even exist until recently. That was all government corruption. Governments refuse to be wrong, but the warden stealing money from the government and they'd quickly put him in the same box. They'd care less about the guards beating or working you to death.
Hell even our current VP was like, why let them go after they served their time when they good cheap labor. Her state prisons and $20 billion right there. Back then SCOTUS about to find the state of California in contempt, but contempt would only delay what they're trying to correct, violations of the 8th amendment. Although the manner of the correction might cause more problems it was argued it'd been so put off to be a now or never situation. *That's just how recent the problem still is* if it involves our current VP, SCOUTS, 8th amendment and "needless suffering and death" caused by the state as one Justice put it.
Government problem is "who is watching the watchmen" so it's much easier to get the government to watch a business like a private prison if they do wrong then let them investigate themselves. All those previous abuses, that's an insignificant part of why they allowed some prisons to be private.
The biggest part of why was plain and simple. They needed the room. Insane amount of drugs that lead to all the crime that came with. All that getting outta hand. Who was gonna build it? Drugs that built Miami in the 80's. Crack cocaine, 90's turf war, it's what some people grew up with too. Government trying to cheap out when they forget they steal drug money or any money they think is drug money. That's the real reason.
Obvious how little the politicians care. So getting down into the stats, I'm looking at the guards.
Comparing the two. Well averaged out supposedly public prisons now have way way more amenities attempting to appease those looking at the old wrongdoings. In private prisons guards are safer and criminals might fight themselves more often. Now I'm assuming here based off the public ones being better facilities and having more with even less escape attempts. So why are the guards there targeted more? Probably more abuses from those guards as compared to the private ones. Inmates see other inmates as an enemy in a private prison while in public prisons the guards might be pulling some shit to make them an enemy too. That just my opinion.
Also depends on the type of prisoner and the laws bloating the prison population. Like counting a felony, 3 strikes here, but in Cali they'd probably look at misdemeanors too then you're really screwed over for nothing. You could also argue prohibition. They're more lax on the drugs in comparison. Then the crime spree they got for not caring about $999 criminals, that might even be related to the case where they were ordered to reduce the prison population. Refusal to make room or take care of them, lack of staff, no medical care and abusing the mentally ill. Back to violations of the 8th that were so bad and so ignored it's better to have criminals be free than the state be the criminal.
@@jayeisenhardt1337 They all worked out a better plan. The govt. pays corporations for running the prison system, and they pay them with tax dollars, in many cases, paid in by the same people being imprisoned. Then the coporations turn around and drop some campaign donations (or just illegal kickbacks) on the politicians who did as they were told. And yes I agree about the VP and the President. I'm certainly no conservative (no liberal either), and I think it's telling that the Democrats picked the guy who started a lot of this shit with his crime bills, and a lady who argued in favor of the CA death penalty. Lord deliver us from authoritarians, be they red or blue.
I loved this movie and when I found that it was based on a novel by Stephen King. I was amazed.
As a kid I recorded this entire movie onto a tape and played it on my walkman going to sleep. I can practically recite it word for word still.
Thomas Newman's music is the perfect accompaniment to this amazing film. When Red finds the tree in Buxton, is my favourite piece.
I once walked 12 hrs on a broken foot through wilderness on a cold winters night and morning. Never cried, yelled and sworn as much in my life... but I got home. Sometimes you endure hell to survive... having fobias just doesn't matter...
Tim Robbins is really good at who he plays. If you want more of him try "Arlington Road". A very dark and twisted movie, but highly recommended. Also, Jeff Bridges ftw!
Don't forget his breathtaking performance in that paragon of cinema, "Howard the Duck"!
Great in Top Gun also!
Dude Arlington Road is amazing. That intro is fucked up.
Arianna's reactions are always fun to watch. Combine that with the skillful edit and we have another great reaction video! I would like to see her do a reaction to the movie 'Pleasantville'.
Agreed
Loved her reaction in the first predator 😂👍🏿
@Julio You already know the plot of the movie probably seen it 15 times and a couple of good one liners but she hasn't that's the fun part. She does a good cringe jump and what's with the lobster hands thing? She cracks me up! Reaction of the year award 🏆🤣🤣
@Julio I will take the talker over the one that sits there with a blank expression on her face for almost the entire movie.
The title of this story is ‘rita hayworth and the shawshank redemption’. The first poster andie gets from red was a rita hayworth poster and time in the story is measured by the changing posters - monroe was one and the last one was raquel welch. From memory this story is one of the 4 in the book Four Seasons.
3 of the 4 stories were made into movies.
What a good movie, satisfying, real, classic!
The portrayed friendship between those two characters, is really something. I love it~
And the happy ending was well earn
_"I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams.."_
Oh GOD I cried, fr 😫
“I hope…” still gets me every time 😭
The piece that Andy played on the speakers is an excerpt from the opera "Le Nozze di Figaro" by WA Mozart. One of the greatest operas ever.
This is one of my favorite movies ever.
This is the most accurate impression of the prison experience I have ever seen
Thank you Arianna for taking in my favorite film of all time. This movie hits and only a few others come close. Forrest Gump, The Green Mile.
"I had to come to prison to become a crook" What's funny about this movie when it was released was that it did well critically but bombed in theaters because people thought it was too flattering of criminals and too sympathetic to them.
Safe to say that mindset didn't last and I would say part of why this film has gotten so much love in recent times is because it was a lot of peoples first idea of how prison and law enforcement can be the bad guys
I remember when this came out and you're right it didn't do well and was out of theaters pretty quick. I watched it on HBO or Showtime a few months later and immediately wondered why it didn't do well at the theater as it was one of the best movies I'd ever seen.
To be fair it does show the crooks to be rather overly sympathetic. Most reactors are so happy when the guard captain is beating the shit out of Bogs. I think it goes to show you that people understand that hard people sometimes need to be controlled by other hard people. The problem is when that force isn't aimed correctly. The guy getting beat down by the captain on his first night vs Bogs getting beat down are essentially the same thing. The only difference being the audience knows for a fact that Bogs is a piece of shit.
I was lucky enough to see this movie in a theatre in NZ, must have been early 1995. I had heard absolutely nada, nothing, zero about it, just decided to go to the movies with my gf and happened to pick this one. I still remember walking out of it thinking how on earth that I'd never heard of it because it was one of the best movies I'd ever seen. The marketing must have been totally abysmal!
@@unknownsword9042 It doesn't matter if it showed the inmates as "overly sympathetic." The American prison system is just legalized cruelty. We throw people in there and leave them to rot. The result is a punishment that is often magnitudes worse than the crime that landed them in prison. We criminalize people for petty wrongs and, if they get out of prison, often come out criminal-ish than when they entered. This movie is special because it reminds us that prison inmates are humans too. It's too easy to discard prison inmates when treat them as a faceless mass with a villianous moniker. It's easy to justify inhumane assaults when they're done to people we believe are evil. Byron Hadley and Warden Norton are the most evil people in this movie and deserve to be in the prison that they purported guard. The only difference is that Norton and Hadley's evil is legal.
That minute or two at the end to summarize thoughts and feelings about the movie is a really nice change. So much more satisfying than an abrupt end of the video at the movie’s credits
I'm 73. I happened to stumble upon the condensed non-pay versions of Chad and Arianna watching Band of Brothers, and looked at others, and decided they were the best of the watchers on that particular series. So then I came across this one with The Shawshank Redemption (1994). What I would recommend, sometime down the road, is the movie The Big Country (1958) with Gregory Peck and Charlton Heston. IMHO it's a top-three all-time western with both the original of The Magnificent Seven (1960) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).
I'm 33 so allow me to counter pitch some westerns.
The remake of 3:10 to Yuma
The Unforgiven
There Will be Blood
it makes me happy that even the warden knows that Red is Andy's friend 🙂
What I love about Shawshank Redemption is what Andy was planning on doing was right there in front of your face the entire movie, but it's not until retrospection kicks in and the movie just outright tells you that he had been planning escape from the day he entered the prison, from his first real conversation with Red about the small pickaxe up to and through the next 20 years, taking the Wardens ill-gotten money, implicating the Warden and the guards in heinous barbarism, etec., etc.. He saw all of that coming and planned for it.
James Whitmore who played Brooks is a veteran actor who goes back to classic movies of the 1940's. He has resume longer than your arm. He can do it all drama, comedy and musical numbers. He even played an ape in the original 1968 "Planet of the Apes" movie.
One of my favorites, very emotionally satisfying, especially the final 30 minutes.
The story isn't Andy's, it's Red's. The redemption was his.
For me this movie is special because it was filmed in the area where my uncle was living at the time. he got to be an extra in the film. Near the end when Red looks into the shop window, my uncle is the guy that walks by behind him. It's only a couple frames but I can tell its really him and I can't watch this movie without appreciating that shot a little more.
'The Shawshank Redemption": A tale about Hope, Friendship, and "The Count of Monte Cristo! 12:25 A little-known song for Andy Dufresne: ruclips.net/video/5-fcvnYDEJ0/видео.html 16:10 Warden Norton's song: ruclips.net/video/JDNd81-QQHs/видео.html 17:26 Red's last word on "rehabilitated." 19:56 Red's song: ruclips.net/video/i1LvlKvr3B4/видео.html 20:09 Test audiences wondered what happened to Andy and Red, so this scene was added.
A couple of pieces of trivia about the movie ... the main guard, Captain Hadley, is played by Clancey Brown. He is also the voice of Mr. Krabbs on Spongebob ... second piece of trivia ... when Red is asked why they call him Red, he responds "Maybe it's because I'm Irish" ... In the novel the movie's bringing to live, Red is actually an Irish guy ... so Morgan Freeman saying that is a shout out to the original Red in the novel.
One of my favorite movies of all time! Loved your reaction to this. :)
Fun Fact: at 11:21 the actor who says "and you gave it to him." Was Silvio Dante from the Sopranos and was the guitarist in Bruce Springsteen's "E Street band."
Also this is a case where the movie is far superior to the source material. Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption was a short story King wrote in college. The entire arc of Andy getting the wardens ill gotten gains is absent. In the book there are multiple wardens and Andy gets his money from investments a friend made for him while he was in prison.
Needless to say the addition of one warden and his money laundering truly ties the story together.
That's crazy, I didn't know Steven Van Zandt was in this movie?! I didn't see his name on IMDB cast for this movie? Did he go by a different name? That film isn't even listed on his IMDB filmography. You must have him confused with someone else.
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That wasn’t Silvio is was the guy that played Richie Aprile
The character Andy Dufrain was played by Tim Robbins, who has also been in "Bull Durham", "The Player", "Bob Roberts", and "Mystic RIver". He was also the producer of "Dead Man Walking" and he was married to actress Susan Sarandon for a long time.
Hadley the psychopath cop is the voice actor for Mr. Crabs in SpongeBob SquarePants. Also the bible that hid the rock hammer opened to the book of exodus which means exit. When the warden was in his cell the first time he takes Andy’s bible and gives it back at the last second and says your salvation lies within. The salvation was The Christian Salvation and the Rock Hammers salvation. Great Review, Great Movie.
Shawshank is a fantastic film. Great in every way, it plays on emotions amazingly and the story is incredible. Genuinely one of the greatest movies of all time. Also, anything starring Morgan Freeman is a win haha
The whole creating a person out of thin air can still apparently be done. Valuetainment did an interview with Matthew Cox who detailed some of what he did.
I mean it's quite easy with identity theft. Then you got somebody they trust and you in. I remember having that conversation with my cousin ages ago and he was talking about security. A wall of encryption and how hard it is, of course he was right and that does deter you. So you either go the long way around or find somebody who is allowed in and use them. It's kinda laughable as the decades went by thinking of a billion customers where they have to issue a security breach notice about their information. So many keys in one place easier to take them all than just one or two.
Every ounce of this slang is still used in the military. I served 20 and it feels like home hearing it.
That Warden is like a plantation owner. And they still walk amongst us today. With Judges on the pay roll. No wonder we're the most incarcerated county on the planet.
The man who played the Warden was Bob Gunton. I've seen him in four movies, and three TV shows, and he was really good at playing the smug villain.
One of my favorite movies, ever! I mean, you can't find something really bad within it. Really really good!
One of the best movies ever made! It was nominated for 7 Oscar’s, one of them was for the best movie, but didn’t win a single one.
The reason: Forrest Gump, was nominated for 13 and won 6.
The Lion king won 3 and Pulp fiction won 1.
1994 was a awesome movie year💪🏻
19:58 Freeman: "I think it's the excitement only a Freeman can feel."
"Andy" was played by Tim Robbins. He Played "Merlin" in Top Gun and was in "Bull Durham" and "the Hudsucker Proxy".
"The Green Mile" and "the Shawshank Redemption" should be watched together, but Shawshank First.
I think you're lying.
If you read the book, as he worked in the library, he got hold of plans to the prison. He timed it for that night as they were planning on changing the sanitation system and putting bars on the end of the pipes.
Love this movie so much and watching your reaction was like watching it again for the first time. That ending is so moving.
the guy who played elmo nailed his part.
This movie is so brilliant and so were the 90s. This and the green mile have the same feel and were written by king and directed by darabont. Both incredibly beautiful films
the man (Tim Robbins) that played Andy was in a bunch of movies including Top Gun (characters name was Merlin)
1) Red's mug shot photo is Freeman's son.
2) Red lectured Andy about a "shitty pipe dream". Andy escaped through a "shitty pipe".
3) Andy hid the rock hammer in the Bible, specifically in the book of Exodus (which means, "exit").
The rock hammer hidden in Exodus… chef’s kiss
I still love the fact that the rock hammer was under "Exodus"!
Such a great movie. So many states in the north/northeast have rock walls/stone fences. The were used for property division/marking and even for detaining livestock. To me it adds to the beauty of the countryside.
The Shawshank Redemption is one of my all time favourite movies. To me the story is allegorical in nature, and it always reminds me to keep pushing myself no matter how hard life gets and to keep having hope. Keep going and get through those difficult times, things will get better if you hold on and don’t give up.
I can remember hiding things in those old tin boxes. Thanks for the reaction Adrianna....you are always my favorite on here.
This is one of my all time favorite movies. If you want to see Tim Robbins in an entirely different type movie, see Erik The Viking. It's a comedy-fantasy movie. It's British made, so it has little bit of a Monty Python vibe to it. John Cleese from Monty Python is also in the movie.
Jacob's Ladder has to be my favorite of Robbins' movies. Won't put details in the comments for the sake of avoiding spoilers, but if you know, you know.
Tim Robbins plays Andy.
Jacobs Ladder, Mystic River(won an Oscar), Top Gun, War of the Worlds, Nothing To Lose.
solid movies to watch.
"Greed" was noticed! Gotta love that. I've called it "The Trumpshank Redemption" for years 👀
Should've included more of Tommy being taught by Andy. You become more invested in the character and then you understand the shocked reaction when he's killed. You can literally see a bright future cut short and it is utterly heartbreaking.
Raquel Welch the last poster on Andy's wall is a great fan of the movie.
There's a reason this has been called one of the best movies ever since it was released.
13:16 Hands down the best reaction to one of the best moments in Movie History!
Tim Robbins (Andy Dufresne) was also in Top Gun, Jacob's Ladder, and The Player.
The head guard is played by Clancy Brown...the voice of Mr. Crabs. I first saw him in a movie called BAD BOYS with Sean Penn. He played a character named "Viking". Check it out if you get a chance. Also, a little fun fact, in Stephen King's story "Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption",the character Red actually was Irish, not Black, So they threw in that little joke for the movie 😁
I often wonder how many convicts tried to give Reds speech to parole hearings after watching this movie earlier in life!
FUN FACT -The arrest picture of young Red is Morgan's son. Also if you look at the right time you can see that Red's cell is room 237.
I felt the difficulty of reentering society after 4 years when I was a younger man. Brooks 50 years and his suicide makes sense for such a shock. The repetition and normalcy of jail gets comfy in weird ways after awhile. Took me a few years to get over the desire to ask to use the restroom...
I love your reactions to all these wonderful movies ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
You have a great charisma and a beautiful smile☺️
Greetings from Chile
14:55 studies now show that someone's shoes are among the first things you notice about them :D
They say that love of money is the route of all evil. When more and more money started pouring in, the warden was already overcome with greed.
3:30 It isn't just that the music is beautiful, in fact that is seen as one of the best recordings of that particular song by two of the best singers of their era. You have to remember that most of these men have not physically seen a woman in years or even decades. And they have been without recorded music almost as long. Radio is something you never miss until it is gone completely.
Quite so, Gundula Janowitz was von Karajan's favourite singer...
best bromance story ever, i cry my soul out every single time
To add to the fear of Andy climbing down that claustrophobic pipe, in the book it describes how he didn't know if the end of the pipe was open or not, maybe with some sort of grate on it. If so, he would not have been able to go back the other way. Gives me shivers every time I think about it.
This movie is at the top of many lists of the "best movies ever".
Nice reaction. Fun fact the actor who plays Byron Hadley, the head guard, is played by Clancy Brown. And he is none other than the voice of legendary cheap skate Mr. Krabs from Spongebob. True story. MONEY!
One of the best stories and read and the movie is just as good.
Credit to the entire cast, the director and obviously Maestro Stephen King.
I can't help but notice Andy is personally profiting off of prison labor. Not only does he help the warden steal from the public, he makes off with the money at the end. Something to think about.
The most satisfying ending in the history of film. For real.
It might interest you to know, that the sociopath prison guard is played by Clancy Brown, who is known for the voice of Mr.Crabs on "SpongeBob SquarePants"
He was in a 1997 film - Nothing to Lose with Martin Lawrence. Fun comedy. He has two sons with Susan Sarandon.
Man did I enjoy watching this with you, Arianna. You make everything great because you really get into this. Thank you.
Truly one of the all time greats that one. Always hits me in the feels.
You did so well by splitting this into two parts. One of the best reactors on RUclips, you include the good lines and don''t skip dialogue, some people cut all the good parts and you can't even follow the flow of the movie. Well done!
IMHO, this is probably the best 90s movie ever made.
Andy is played by Tim Robbins. He's in another great movie called Mystic River. Also if you want to laugh he's in Nothing To Lose starring with Martin Lawrence.
You did a magnificent job reacting to this classic. It was great watching it with you. As though I was seeing it for the first time. Look forward to future movies on this channel.
This is what Andy did to the warden He said '🖕🖕🖕🖕' to the warden....and it was the Most Satisfying situation ever.....