The Shawshank Redemption, analysis

The Shawshank Redemption

        For my film analysis, I chose the movie The Shawshank Redemption. Frank

Darabont directed Shawshank and wrote the screenplay based on the novel Rita

Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by author Stephen King. The movie was do in

1994 and produced by Niki Marvin.

        The movie stars Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins as two convicts helping time

in a New England prison named Shawshank. Tim Robbins plays a man named Andy

Dufresne, a banker, who requires convicted of murdering his wife and her lover and is sent to

prison in Shawshank. Andy eventually becomes true friends with a fellow convict by the

name of Ellis Boyd Redding(Morgan Freeman) who is able to jump anything for anyone

within reason. The theme follows the prison life of Andy Dufresne and his eventual escape

from Shawshanks walls.

        The movie follows a formalistic style of direction under Frank Darabont. He

interweaves scenes with exquisite fluid shots. The shots are not jarring or edgy cut. Darabont

tends to take the story at a distance allowing the characters to lay down their traits to the

audience instead of pushing a barrage of angles at the audience. The bunk of the

camera is intricately placed in all scenes. The movie is a perfect example of classical

cinema.

        The most unique part active the style of the movie is in the cinematography by

Roger Deakins. The whole story looks like it was filmed with a blue filter out.



The filters

give a finicky beauty to the scenes, which in turn causes more salient feelings for the

audience. With this filter the movie tends to bring out the two different colour of blue and

brown. The blues of the uniforms are all the more dramatic compared to the drab brown

buildings surrounding the prisoners. The colors also produce dramatic...

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