the story of the great movie (The Shawshank Redemption)

The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American prison drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on Stephen King's novella Rita Hayworth and the 1982 The Shawshank Redemption. 

The film tells the story of banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), who is sentenced to life imprisonment in a prison. Shawshank State for the murder of his wife and her lover, despite his claims of innocence. 

Over the next two decades, he befriends fellow prisoner, contraband smuggler Ellis "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman), and becomes instrumental in a money laundering operation led by warden Samuel Norton (Bob Gunton). 

William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, and James Whitmore appear in supporting roles.

Darabont bought the film rights to King's story in 1987, but development did not begin until five years later, when he wrote the script over eight weeks.

 Two weeks after submitting his script to Castle Rock Entertainment, Darabont was given a $25 million budget to produce The Shawshank Redemption, which began pre-production in January 1993.

 While the film is set in Maine, principal photography took place from June to August 1993 approx. Entirely in Mansfield, Ohio, where the Ohio State Penitentiary serves as the eponymous prison. 

The project attracted many stars for the role of Andy, including Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, and Kevin Costner. Thomas Newman provided the film's score.

While The Shawshank Redemption received critical acclaim upon its release—particularly for its story, Robbins and Freeman's performances, Newman's music, Darabont's direction and screenplay, and Roger Deakins' cinematography—the film was a disappointment at the box office, earning only $16 million during its run.

 Initial theatrical. Numerous reasons have been cited for its failure at the time, including competition from Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump, the general unpopularity of prison 

films, its lack of female characters, and even a title that was considered confusing to audiences. It went on to receive numerous award nominations, including seven Academy Award nominations, and a theatrical re-release which, along with international acquisitions, increased the film's box office total to $73.3 million.

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Over 320,000 VHS rental copies were shipped throughout the United States, and on the strength of its award nominations and word-of-mouth, it became one of the top video rentals of 1995.

 Broadcast rights were acquired after Castle Rock was purchased by Turner Broadcasting.

 System, and was shown regularly on the TNT network starting in 1997, increasing its popularity

. Decades after its release, the film is still broadcast regularly, and is popular in many countries, with audiences and celebrities citing it as a source of inspiration or naming it a "favorite" in various polls, leading to it being recognized as one of the most popular films.

 "The most beloved films of all time. In 2015, the US Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."7

In early 1947, Portland, Maine, banker Andy Dufresne arrived at Shawshank State Prison to serve two consecutive life sentences for the murders of his wife and her lover. 

He befriends Ellis "Red" Redding, a goods smuggler serving a life sentence, who buys a rock hammer and a large poster of Rita Hayworth for Andy.

 Andy is assigned to work in the prison laundry, and is frequently sexually assaulted by the prison gang "The Sisters" and their leader, Boggs Diamond.

In 1949, Andy overheard the leader of the Rangers, Byron Hadley, complaining about an inheritance tax and offered to help him protect the money legally. 

After the Sisters' attack nearly kills Andy, Hadley beats and incapacitates Boggs, and is subsequently transferred to another prison; Andy was never attacked again. Warden Samuel Norton meets Andy and reassigns him to the prison library to assist elderly prisoner Brooks Hatlin, a front for using Andy's financial expertise to manage the finances of other prison staff, other prison guards, and the warden himself.

 Andy begins writing weekly letters to the state legislature asking for money to improve the dilapidated prison library.

Brooks was paroled in 1954 after serving 50 years, but was unable to adjust to the outside world and eventually hung himself.

 The legislature sends a donation to the library that includes a recording of The Marriage of Figaro; Andy plays an excerpt from the public address system and is punished with solitary confinement.

 After being released from solitary confinement, Andy explains to the fired Red that hope is what will get him through his sentence.

 In 1963, Norton began exploiting prison labor for public works, taking advantage of reduced skilled labor costs and receiving bribes.

 Andy launders money using the alias Randall Stevens.

In 1965, Andy and Red become friends with Tommy Williams, a young prisoner imprisoned for burglary.

 A year later, Andy helps him take his General Educational Development (GED) exam. 

Tommy reveals to Red and Andy that his cellmate at another prison has claimed responsibility for the murders for which Andy was convicted.

 Andy gives the information to Norton who refuses to listen, and when Andy mentions money laundering, he sends Andy to solitary confinement and Hadley shoots and kills Tommy under the guise of an escape attempt.

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 Andy refuses to continue laundering money, but Norton threatens to destroy the library, remove the security guards from Andy, and move him to worse conditions. Andy is released from solitary confinement after two months, and tells a skeptical Red that he dreams of living in Zihuatanejo, a Mexican city on the Pacific coast.

 Andy also tells him about a certain hayfield near Buxton, and asks Red to promise, once he is released, to recover the package Andy buried there. 

Red is concerned about Andy's mental health, especially when he learns that Andy asked one of his fellow inmates for some rope.

At roll call the next day, guards find Andy's cell empty. An angry Norton throws a rock at a poster of Raquel Welch hanging on the cell wall, revealing a tunnel that Andy has dug with his rock hammer over the course of nearly two decades.

 The previous night, Andy used the rope to escape through the tunnel and sewer pipe into the prison, taking Norton's suit, shoes, and ledger containing evidence of money laundering.

 While the guards search for him, Andy pretends to be Randall Stevens, withdraws more than $370,000 in laundered money from several banks, and sends the ledger and other evidence of corruption and murder at Shawshank to a local newspaper. 

The state police arrive in Shawshank and arrest Hadley, while Norton commits suicide to avoid arrest.

The following year, Reed is released on parole after serving 40 years but struggles to adapt to life outside prison and fears he never will.

 Remembering his promise to Andy, he visits Buxton and finds a stash containing money and a letter asking him to come to Zihuatanejo. 

Reed violates his parole by traveling to Fort Hancock, Texas, and crossing the border into Mexico, admitting that he finally feels hopeful.

 He finds Andy sanding an old boat on Zihuatanejo Beach, and the two reunited friends happily embrace.

Darabont first collaborated with author Stephen King in 1983 on the short film adaptation of The Woman in the Room, purchasing the rights from him for $1—a dollar deal that King used to help new directors build their resumes by adapting his short stories.

 After receiving his first screenwriting credit in 1987 for A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Darabont returned to King with $5,000 to purchase the rights to adapt Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, a 96-page novella from King's 1982 collection is different. Seasons, written to explore genres other than the horror stories for which he is best known.

 Although King did not understand how the story, which focused largely on Reid thinking about fellow prisoner Andy, could be turned into a feature film, Darabont believed it was "obvious". King never cashed the $5,000 check from Darabont;

 He later framed it and returned it to Darabont with a note that read: "In case you need bail money. With love, Steve."

Five years later, Darabont wrote the script over eight weeks. Expands on elements of King's story.

 Brooks, who in the novel was a minor character who died in a nursing home, became a tragic figure who eventually hanged himself. 

Tommy, who in the novel trades his evidence that exonerates Andy for a transfer to a better prison, is killed in the screenplay on the orders of Warden Norton, a composite of several commanding figures in King's story.

 Darabont chose to create a single jailer character to serve as the primary antagonist

. Among his sources of inspiration, Darabont listed the works of director Frank Capra, including Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946), calling them tall tales; 

Darabont likened The Shawshank Redemption to a tall tale rather than a prison film.

 He also cited the film Goodfellas (1990) as an inspiration for using dialogue to illustrate the passage of time in the screenplay, and the prison drama Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) directed by John Frankenheimer. 

While later scouting locations for filming, Darabont came across Frankenheimer who was researching his own Prison Against the Wall project. Darabont noted that Frankenheimer took time out of his exploration to provide Darabont with encouragement and advice.

At the time, films set in prisons were not considered potential box office successes, but Darabont's script was read by then-Castle Rock Entertainment producer Liz Glotzer, whose interest in prison stories and the reaction to the script led her to threaten to quit if she did not produce Castle Rock Company The Shawshank Redemption Film.[8] Director and Castle Rock co-creator Rob Reiner also liked the script. 

He offered Darabont between $2.4 million[42] and $3 million to let him manage the project himself.

 Reiner, who previously adapted King's 1982 novella The Body into the 1986 film Stand By Me, planned to cast Tom Cruise as Andy and Harrison Ford as Red.

Castle Rock offered to finance any other film Darabont wanted to develop. 

Darabont seriously considered the offer, citing his upbringing poor in Los Angeles, believing it would raise his standing in the industry, and that Castle Rock could have contractually fired him and given the film to Reiner anyway, but he chose to stay on as director,

 saying in a 2014 Variety interview, " "You can keep putting off your dreams for money and, you know, die without doing the thing you set out to do.

" Instead, Reiner served as Darabont's mentor on the project.

 Within two weeks of pitching the script to Castle Rock, Darabont had a budget of $25 million to make his film (he received a $750,000 screenwriting and directing salary plus a percentage of the net profits), and pre-production began in January 1993.

Freeman was chosen at the suggestion of producer Liz Glotzer, who ignored the novel's character's description of a white Irishman nicknamed "Red".

 Freeman's character hints at the choice when Andy asks him why he calls him Red, to which he replies "Maybe because I'm Irish." Freeman chose not to research his role, saying "acting as someone who is incarcerated doesn't mean that." “It doesn't require any specific knowledge of prison...because men don't change. 

Once you're in that situation, you just follow whatever line you have to follow.”[2] Darabont was already familiar with Freeman from his small role in another prison drama, Brubaker (1980), while Robbins was excited to work alongside the actor, having grown up watching him on the Electric Company children's television show.

Darabont initially looked at some of his favorite actors, such as Gene Hackman and Robert Duvall, for the role of Andy Dufresne, but they were not available

 Clint Eastwood and Paul Newman were also considered.[44] It was offered to Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, and Kevin Costner, and the role was relinquished[8]—Hanks because of his starring role in Forrest Gump,[40] and Costner because he had a starring role in Waterworld.

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Johnny Depp, Nicolas Cage, and Charlie Sheen have also been cast in the role at various stages.

 Cruise attended script readings, but refused to work with the inexperienced Darabont. Darabont said he chose Robbins after seeing his performance in the 1990 psychological horror film Jacob's Ladder.[46] When Robbins was cast,

 he insisted that Darabont use experienced cinematographer Roger Deakins, who had worked with him on The Hudsucker Proxy.[8] To prepare for the role, Robbins observed caged animals at the zoo, spent the afternoon in solitary confinement, 

spoke with prisoners and guards, and had his arms and legs shackled for a few hours.

Brad Pitt was initially cast in the role of Tommy, then dropped out after his success in Thelma & Louise, and the role first went to Gil Bellows.

 James Gandolfini passed on portraying prison rapist Boggs. Bob Gunton was filming Demolition Man (1993) when he went to audition for the role of Warden Norton.

 To convince the studio that Gunton was right for the role, Darabont and producer Nicky Marvin arranged for him to record a screen test on a day off from Demolition Man. They made him a wig as his head was shaved for the role of Demolition Man

. Gunton wanted to depict Norton with his hair as it could then turn gray to express his aging on screen as the film progressed. Gunton had his own screen test with Robins, who was portrayed by Deakins.

 After he was confirmed for the role, he used a wig in the first scenes of the film until his hair grew back.

 Gunton said that Marvin and Darabont saw that he understood the character, which worked in his favour, as did the fact that his height was similar to Robbins', allowing Andy to make reasonable use of the warden's suit.