Shawshank Redemption

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Shawshank Redemption

• A PowerPoint by Carrie Hess

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Characters

• Andy Dufrasne played by Tim Robbins.
• A New England banker accused of murdering his
  wife and her lover. Claims he is innocent, but
  everyone is innocent in Shawshank.
• Likes to collect rocks, read, starts a library,
  and dreams of building a boat at the Pacific
  Ocean.
• Close friends with Red and Brooks.
• Works Cited www.movies.yahoo.com/shawshankredempt
  ion

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• Ellis Boyd Red Redding played by Morgan
  Freeman.
• Fellow inmate and prisoner in Shawshank.
  Imprisoned as a young man he has almost been
  entirely institutionalized. Very close friends
  with Andy and dreams of being free someday.
• Works Cited www.dvdanswers.com/
  images/screenshots/shawshankredemption

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• Warden Norton played by Bob Guntan.
• The warden is a very religious man who on the
  side is hiding money in false bank accounts and
  using Andy so his crime cant be traced to him.
• He enjoys using sadistic means to torture his
  prisoners such as throwing them in the hole. He
  is very powerful and exerts immense influence on
  the prison.
• Works Cited www.dvdanswers.com/
  images/screenshots/shawshankredemption.
• www. timmargh.net/.../the_ shawshank_redemption_3.
  jpg

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• Brooks Hatlen played by James Whitmore
• The prison librarian, Brooks has been in
  Shawshanks for almost all of his life.
• He is known for his caring personality( takes
  care of a baby crow Jake), but eventually is
  released.
• He gives into institutionalization and commits
  suicide because he cant live in the real world.
• Works Cited www.theboxset.com/images/
  reviewcaptures

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• Tommy Williams played by Gil Bellows
• A young man in and out of prison his whole life,
  Tommy came to Shawshank for robbery.
• Has a wife and child at home, so he enlists
  Andys help in learning how to read and write so
  he can get a high school diploma.
• Was in prison with the man who killed Andys wife
  and her lover.
• Works Citedhttp//www.gonemovies.com/WWW/Raketnet
  /Drama/ShawshankTommy.jpg

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Theme

• Institutionalization is a major theme in
  Shawshank Redemption. Many prisoners have been in
  the prison for so long that they have been
  institutionalized, which means the only life that
  they know is the one within the prison walls. Ex
  Brooks lived most of his life in the prison, so
  when released he does not know how to live in the
  outside world. Things have changed so much while
  he was in prison and he even thinks of crimes he
  could commit in order to be thrown back into
  prison. He eventually commits suicide because he
  cannot handle life in the real world.
• Works Cited www.dvdbeaver.com/.../
  shawshank/11336a.jpg

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Symbols

• The Holy Bible To the warden, the Bible is
  sacred and to be followed at all times, so it is
  a rule book.
• To Andy he hides his rock hammer in the Bible
  going against the rules completely.
• Embroidered His Judgment Cometh and that Right
  Soon a symbol of the wardens faith, but ironic
  because his own judgment will come when Andy
  anonymously tells on him.
• Works Cited www.moviedeaths.com/
  images/grabs/shawshank

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Symbols Continued

• The music symbolizes hope and especially Andy's
  hope that he will someday be free and living on
  his own again. The music can be in his heart and
  mind and the warden cannot take that away from
  him.
• The harmonica is a symbol of harmony and it shows
  the harmonic relationship between Andy and Red
  because Andy gives it to Red. It also symbolizes
  hope.
• www.theboxset.com/images/ reviewcaptures,
  www.silentrunningaudio.com

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Technical Shots

• Aerial shot A shot taken from the air which is
  often used for large crowds or to emphasize how
  expansive and large something is.
• Close up The camera focuses in very closely upon
  a person or object to emphasize the importance of
  an expression or meaning of an object.
• Works Cited thewebshite.net/ off/images/shawshan
  k.jpg
• www.americanrhetoric.com/ images/shawshank4

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Technical Shots continued

• Two Shot Shows the relationship of two people by
  body language and their discussion when it is
  only them in a shot.
• Long Shot This type of shot emphasizes size and
  the enormity of a setting. It also can emphasize
  the quantity like in this case the amount of
  prisoners Shawshank holds.
• Works Cited www.smh.com.au/ffximage/
  2004/09/23/shawshank
• www.geocities.com/ aaronbcaldwell/Shawshank04.jpg

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Background Information

• Shawshank was the quietest film to be nominated
  for seven academy awards. It did not win any.
• In 1995, a year after it came out in the
  theaters, Shawshank became the top video rental
  of the year.
• Based on the book Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank
  Redemption by Stephen King
• An actual correctional facility was used that had
  been shut down for cruel and unusual punishment.
• The original Red was a white, Irish man with red
  hair, but Morgan Freeman was chosen because his
  personality matched perfectly.
• The last scene on the beach was almost left out
  of the movie, but it was too important that they
  be reunited for the audiences sake. It showed
  the love story between two friends who transcend
  life and space in order to remain close.
• Shawshank Redemption shows that with hope and
  persistence, everyone can find their own place in
  the sun.
• Get busy living or get busy dying- its
  important to have hope and to live for something
  or else it isnt worth living.