Shawshank Redemption - Death
“The Shawshank Redemption” was first released as a film in 1994. The original storyline of the film came from a Stephen King short story called “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption”. The film was directed my Frank Darabont. The film didn’t have instant success after its release. It was caught in the shadow of movies such as “Forest Gump” (which was released not long before it). But soon after its release onto VHS it became in many peoples minds one of the greatest films of all time. Frank Darabont used death to do many things in the film, some of these things include; showing the harshness of prison, showing the presence or lack of hope, showing the lack of identity in prison, to alter the way the audience feels about a character and also to build suspense.The director uses the death of the character the inmates labeled Fat Ass to show us the harsh reality of what prison was like. During the movie we see “Fat Ass” in his cell on his first night before he starts crying and pleading his innocence with the guards. The other inmates are chanting loudly and yelling things at the new inmate. The guard orders them to stop and they all do, accept for Fat Ass. The guard threatens him and then opens his ce
The director used the death of Fat Ass to also show how each inmate was just another crook. Inmates would know each others names and why they were in prison, but other than that they were all identical to one another on the outside. To the guards the only difference between inmates was a different number on their shirt. The morning after Fat Ass died Andy asks another inmate what Fat Ass’ name was. The inmate replies “It doesn’t f***ing matter what his name was, he’s dead”. Andy thinks for a moment and realizes that the man is right. The director uses death to show that in prison everyone is no one. Frank Darabont uses the death of the character Brooks Hatlen to show the audience how having hope can help free a man, but having no hope can help kill a man. Brooks Hatlen had been in Shawshank prison for 50 years, and when his parole came through, he had gotten so used to prison life he came close to killing one of his friends just so he could stay in prison for longer. Brooks left prison and later committed suicide. The character Red says to Andy “Hope is a dangerous thing, hope can drive a man insane, it’s got no use on the inside, you had better get used to that.” And Andy replies by saying “Like Brooks did?” It becomes clear at this point that the thing that killed Brooks the most was his lack of hope. The director used the death of Brooks Hatlen to show how strong and how much ho
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