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Shawshank Redemption Oral Text.
- HOW VERBAL AND VISUAL TECHNIQUES GAVE A STRONG IDEA
- HOPE
- Dialogue
- "Hope is a good thing"-Andy
- "I hope to see my friend Andy"-Red
- "Here's where it
makes most
sense, we need
it so we don't
forget."-Andy
- "We sat and drank with the sun on our shoulders and felt like free men"
- "Hope is a good thing"-Andy
- Visual
- Symbolism
- Beers on roof-Andy bringing back normality, friends and hope.
- Harmonica- Andy Gives Red to play Red-Music symbolises freedom and hope for Red. Red opts not
to play it itimmediatly-It means something very personal,precious to Red.-RELUCTANT TO PLAY- meaning something deeper for RED.
- Beers on roof-Andy bringing back normality, friends and hope.
- Symbolism
- Dialogue
- SYMBOLISM
- Harmonica
- Harmonica- Andy gives Harmonica to Red, Red opts
not to play it itmmediatly obviously meaning
something very personal to Red.
- Harmonica- Andy gives Harmonica to Red, Red opts
not to play it itmmediatly obviously meaning
something very personal to Red.
- Beers
- Normality and Freedom.
- Normality and Freedom.
- Compass
- Red is choosing compass instead of gun-'compass vs gun. Having hope he'll meet Andy, moving on. Gun +Murder-instituionisation
- Red is choosing compass instead of gun-'compass vs gun. Having hope he'll meet Andy, moving on. Gun +Murder-instituionisation
- Brooks
- Institutionalization. Lived in fear outside prison, to afraid to move own by
himself, ended up comiting suiside.
- Institutionalization. Lived in fear outside prison, to afraid to move own by
himself, ended up comiting suiside.
- Rock Hammer and Bible
- Andy's Salvation-Ironic reference by Andy in Bible "You were right. Salvation lay within"
- Andy's Salvation-Ironic reference by Andy in Bible "You were right. Salvation lay within"
- Posters
- Secrets and freedom-Hid Andy's escape route
- Secrets and freedom-Hid Andy's escape route
- Italian Opera
- Freedom-"The moment everyone felt free"- Red. Andy
brought even more normality to the prison, not just to his
gang but to the whole prison.
- Freedom-"The moment everyone felt free"- Red. Andy
brought even more normality to the prison, not just to his
gang but to the whole prison.
- Harmonica
- HOPE
- INSTITUIONALIZATION
- Parallel scenes between Brooks and Red
- FORSHADOWING: This scene correlates. Both characters leave prison in fear, afraid of the new uncertain world that are now in. Brooks ends his life and Red begins his.
- Camera Shots-When both characters leave shawshank, the camera is showing them exiting the gates, Brooks is shot with his body facing the camera and the gates (iron
bars) behind him. Conversly Red is shot to with the camera behind him, facing the green, vast landscapes.
- Camera Shots-When both characters leave shawshank, the camera is showing them exiting the gates, Brooks is shot with his body facing the camera and the gates (iron
bars) behind him. Conversly Red is shot to with the camera behind him, facing the green, vast landscapes.
- Brooks: "I'm tired of being afraid all the time. I've decided not to stay"
- Red: "All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I don't have to afraid all the time"
- FORSHADOWING: This scene correlates. Both characters leave prison in fear, afraid of the new uncertain world that are now in. Brooks ends his life and Red begins his.
- Setting: Shawshank Prison: Imposing structure shown by panning low lit camera shot. Impsoing structure. Court yard, to landry area to personal cells and finally solitary confinment.
- Red's Dialogue: "These walls are funny, first you hate em' ten you get used to them. After long enough you depend on them. That's institutionalized"
- "Hope is a dangerous thing, it can get a man killed"-Red
- Narration: Get busy livin or get busy dying"
- Parallel scenes between Brooks and Red
- RELATIONSHIPS OF CHARACTERS
- RED AND ANDY
- HOPE VS INSTITUIONALIZATION
- Red lives in fear, doubts that he'll survive living in outside world.
Andy persuades Red that hope is the thing that keeps him
physically and mentally sane in Shawshank. "Hope is the best of
things" . It makes him a better man. Andy's determination and
sheer will to keep having hope helps him survive the mental and
physical torment he suffers in shawshank. He expresses the
spirit/power of hope to other prisoners-Beers on roof, libary,
helping Tommy pass high school equivlancy test.
- Red lives in fear, doubts that he'll survive living in outside world.
Andy persuades Red that hope is the thing that keeps him
physically and mentally sane in Shawshank. "Hope is the best of
things" . It makes him a better man. Andy's determination and
sheer will to keep having hope helps him survive the mental and
physical torment he suffers in shawshank. He expresses the
spirit/power of hope to other prisoners-Beers on roof, libary,
helping Tommy pass high school equivlancy test.
- HOPE VS INSTITUIONALIZATION
- RED AND BROOKs
- After Brooks died, correlation grows with Red and Brooks. Both Characters left. Red found freedom. Brooks ended his life and Red started his life. Carried Brooks memory to living freedom because brooks was too frightened and only
found freedom through death. 'Brooks was here'-'So was Red'-Shwoing both in same position only that Red managed to break physcological barrier and keep the promise to Andy.
- Brooks: "I'm tired of being afriad all the time. Iv'e decided not to stay"
- Red: "All I want is things to be back where things make sense. Where I don't have to be afraid all the time
- After Brooks died, correlation grows with Red and Brooks. Both Characters left. Red found freedom. Brooks ended his life and Red started his life. Carried Brooks memory to living freedom because brooks was too frightened and only
found freedom through death. 'Brooks was here'-'So was Red'-Shwoing both in same position only that Red managed to break physcological barrier and keep the promise to Andy.
- ANDY AND WARDEN
- When Andy becomes submissive towards the Warden, makes audience think warden has managed to physcologically break Andy. Tension, doubt concern grows
towards Andy when Heywood said Andy asked for 6 feet of rope, making the audience believe Andy is soon going to make a fateful decision like ending his own life.
However, we discover Andy manipulated the warden into thinking we was finished shown in the flashback., instead actually escaping.
- When Andy becomes submissive towards the Warden, makes audience think warden has managed to physcologically break Andy. Tension, doubt concern grows
towards Andy when Heywood said Andy asked for 6 feet of rope, making the audience believe Andy is soon going to make a fateful decision like ending his own life.
However, we discover Andy manipulated the warden into thinking we was finished shown in the flashback., instead actually escaping.
- RED AND ANDY
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