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Tuesday, June 13, 2006
The Shawshank Redemption
Just watched The Shawshank Redemption. It's been on my watching list for a while and tot i ought to be getting it after last night's drama-and-action-packed The Negotiator.
For those who didn't know the existence of this movie, here's a little synopses from movies.yahoo.com: Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), a mild mannered New England banker, is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover. Despised at first by the other inmates because of his introverted manner, Andy slowly forges an unlikely friendship with Red (Morgan Freeman), a seasoned lifer and his gang. Soon, Andy also becomes popular with the prison guards, including the vicious Captain Hadley who offers him protection against the jail's rougher convicts in exchange for financial counseling. The prison warden also takes advantage of Andy's banking knowledge by exchanging privileges for creative bookkeeping. Over a twenty year period, Andy is able to maintain his sanity and dignity in prison not by physical force but by mental force. His smarts and confidence keep him going and he is able to teach the other prisoners that hope is the ultimate means of survival.
The following scene was set in the hearings room, where a parole board decide if a prisoner with a life sentence gets to be free again. Before this scene, the character Red has entered this room twice for his parole rejected with his oh-so-cliche "Yes, I'm a changed man! Oh yes, I'm sure ready for the society... blah blah blah...". This is his third time.
274; AN IRON-BARRED DOOR 274
slides open with an enormous CLANG. A stark room beyond. CAMERA PUSHES through. SIX MEN AND ONE WOMAN sit at a long table. An empty chair faces them. We are again in:
INT -- SHAWSHANK HEARINGS ROOM -- DAY (1967)
Red enters, sits. 20 years older than when we first saw him.
MAN #1: Your file says you've served forty years of a life sentence. You feel you've been rehabilitated?
Red doesn't answer. Just stares off. Seconds tick by. The parole board exchanges glances. Somebody clears his throat.
MAN #1: Shall I repeat the question?
RED: I heard you. Rehabilitated. Let's see now. You know, come to think of it, I have no idea what that means.
MAN #2: Well, it means you're ready to rejoin society as a--
RED: I know what you think it means. Me, I think it's a made-up word, a politician's word. A word so young fellas like you can wear a suit and tie and have a job. What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did?
Long silence.
MAN #2: Well...are you?
RED: Not a day goes by I don't feel regret, and not because I'm in here or because you think I should. I look back on myself the way I was... a stupid kid who did that terrible crime...wish I could talk sense to him. Tell him how things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone, this old man is all that's left, and I have to live with that.
(beat)
RED: Rehabilitated? That's a bullshit word, so you just go on ahead and stamp that form there, sonny, and stop wasting my damn time. Truth is, I don't give a shit.
The parole board just stares.
I'll leave the ending of this scene for those who will be watching this film.
*quite-inspired*,
Yong
For those who didn't know the existence of this movie, here's a little synopses from movies.yahoo.com: Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), a mild mannered New England banker, is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover. Despised at first by the other inmates because of his introverted manner, Andy slowly forges an unlikely friendship with Red (Morgan Freeman), a seasoned lifer and his gang. Soon, Andy also becomes popular with the prison guards, including the vicious Captain Hadley who offers him protection against the jail's rougher convicts in exchange for financial counseling. The prison warden also takes advantage of Andy's banking knowledge by exchanging privileges for creative bookkeeping. Over a twenty year period, Andy is able to maintain his sanity and dignity in prison not by physical force but by mental force. His smarts and confidence keep him going and he is able to teach the other prisoners that hope is the ultimate means of survival.
The following scene was set in the hearings room, where a parole board decide if a prisoner with a life sentence gets to be free again. Before this scene, the character Red has entered this room twice for his parole rejected with his oh-so-cliche "Yes, I'm a changed man! Oh yes, I'm sure ready for the society... blah blah blah...". This is his third time.
274; AN IRON-BARRED DOOR 274
slides open with an enormous CLANG. A stark room beyond. CAMERA PUSHES through. SIX MEN AND ONE WOMAN sit at a long table. An empty chair faces them. We are again in:
INT -- SHAWSHANK HEARINGS ROOM -- DAY (1967)
Red enters, sits. 20 years older than when we first saw him.
MAN #1: Your file says you've served forty years of a life sentence. You feel you've been rehabilitated?
Red doesn't answer. Just stares off. Seconds tick by. The parole board exchanges glances. Somebody clears his throat.
MAN #1: Shall I repeat the question?
RED: I heard you. Rehabilitated. Let's see now. You know, come to think of it, I have no idea what that means.
MAN #2: Well, it means you're ready to rejoin society as a--
RED: I know what you think it means. Me, I think it's a made-up word, a politician's word. A word so young fellas like you can wear a suit and tie and have a job. What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did?
Long silence.
MAN #2: Well...are you?
RED: Not a day goes by I don't feel regret, and not because I'm in here or because you think I should. I look back on myself the way I was... a stupid kid who did that terrible crime...wish I could talk sense to him. Tell him how things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone, this old man is all that's left, and I have to live with that.
(beat)
RED: Rehabilitated? That's a bullshit word, so you just go on ahead and stamp that form there, sonny, and stop wasting my damn time. Truth is, I don't give a shit.
The parole board just stares.
I'll leave the ending of this scene for those who will be watching this film.
*quite-inspired*,
Yong
