If you haven't seen this one, your movie life is incomplete...
2007-02-26 17:51:29 · 13 answers · asked by Untouchable 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
it was a great movie....about someone's life being incomplete just because they haven't seen a movie is a bit too much though.....one of my favorite movies is pulp fiction, and sometimes I do feel people are missing out if they haven't seen that movie.
2007-02-26 17:55:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
" Adapted from a Stephen King novella, The Shawshank Redemption takes a prison drama and twists it into a fascinating existential treatise on how to approach the business of day-to-day life in the face of a desperately Sisyphian reality. As the film's signature line suggests, "Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'." Filmed on location in an Ohio prison, the film occasionally lapses into familiar formulas and well-known stereotypes of the prison-drama genre, but overcomes them due in no small part to a pair of transcendent performances by Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins. Director Frank Darabont and cinematographer Roger Deakins (a Coen brothers collaborator) recreate the drudgery and hopelessness of prison life in both the look and the details of dreary rituals of daily life. Spanning twenty years in the lives of its protagonists, Darabont's screenplay and direction allow us the luxury of getting to know these men -- hardened criminals, with little hope for the future -- through a series of quietly captivating scenes that slowly build atmosphere and tension without sacrificing characterization and thematic integrity. A critical success but a box office failure when it was first released, the film was nominated for seven Oscars, but won nary a one. Only when Shawshank was released on video did it steadily garner full-fledged public reverence..
2007-02-27 06:08:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The movie, based on a short story by Stephen King titled RITA HAYWORTH AND THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, is one of the best stories and films ever. I agree, all should see this winner.
2007-02-27 01:56:39 · answer #3 · answered by Daydream Believer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought it was a great movie. A bit different from the book it was based on but just as good if not better.
2007-02-27 01:56:57 · answer #4 · answered by hitwoman001 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All around a fantastic film, but I dig it so much more, as it's probably the best book to film translation I've ever seen.
It's so close you can almost read along with the movie.
2007-02-27 01:56:03 · answer #5 · answered by jickbahtech 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Although as you claim it is a movie you must see, unfortunately I can no longer watch it or any other Robbins/Sarandon movies because they are communists. Time to take Propaganda out of Art.
2007-02-27 02:00:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree that this movie changes life. I loved it. The character were well written and well acted. When crooks scratched his name in the beam...And later they saw that he was there...heartbreaking. Great flick.
2007-02-27 02:01:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, depending on your favourite type of movies, if you like drama, then you might be missing out. I love this movie.
2007-02-27 01:57:54 · answer #8 · answered by BaSoOoL 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is one of my all time favorites I love Morgan he is the best so sad what happens it's a must have
2007-02-27 02:02:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its great. i havent even seen the real version, but i watch it all the time on TNT since i was a kid.
2007-02-27 02:19:27 · answer #10 · answered by jean grey 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋