Welcome to Shawshank!!!

Fear can hold you prisoner - Hope can set you free.

This is one hell of a movie!! If you haven’t seen this movie, you are missing something! This is one of those movies which you would want a copy of your OWN :D

Some of the dialogues that made me rewind those scenes and watch them again:

[Andy = Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins)
Red = Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding (Morgan Freeman)]

Warden Samuel Norton: I believe in two things: discipline and the Bible. Here you’ll receive both. Put your trust in the Lord; your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank.

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Red: [narrating] The first night’s the toughest, no doubt about it. They march you in naked as the day you were born, skin burning and half blind from that delousing shit they throw on you, and when they put you in that cell… and those bars slam home… that’s when you know it’s for real. A whole life blown away in the blink of an eye. Nothing left but all the time in the world to think about it.

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Boggs: Now, I’m gonna open my fly and you’re gonna swallow what I give ya to swallow. And when you swallow mine you’re gonna swallow Rooster’s cause ya done broke his nose and I think he oughta have something to show for it.
Andy Dufresne: Anything you put in my mouth you’re gonna lose.
Boggs: Naw, you don’t understand. You do that and I’ll put all eight inches of steel in your ear.
Andy Dufresne: All right. But you should know that sudden serious brain injury causes the victim to bite down hard. In fact, I hear the bite reflex is so strong they have to pry the victims jaws open with a crowbar.

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Andy Dufresne: Forget that… there are places in this world that aren’t made out of stone. That there’s something inside… that they can’t get to, that they can’t touch. That’s yours.
Red: What’re you talking about?
Andy Dufresne: Hope.

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Red: Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.

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Andy Dufresne: Get busy living, or get busy dying.

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Red: [narrating] Forty years I been asking permission to piss. I can’t squeeze a drop without say-so.

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Red: These walls are funny. First you hate ‘em, then you get used to ‘em. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That’s institutionalized.

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Andy Dufresne: If they ever try to trace any of those accounts, they’re gonna end up chasing a figment of my imagination.
Red: Well, I’ll be damned. Did I say you were good? Shit, you’re a Rembrandt!
Andy Dufresne: Yeah. The funny thing is – on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.

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Andy Dufresne: [in letter to Red] Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

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Red: Rehabilitated? Well, Now let me see. You know, I don’t have any idea what that means.
1967 Parole Hearings Man: Well, it means that you’re ready to rejoin society…
Red: I know what *you* think it means, sonny. To me it’s just a made up word. A politician’s word, so young fellas like yourself can wear a suit and a tie, and have a job. What do you really want to know? Am I sorry for what I did?
1967 Parole Hearings Man: Well, are you?
Red: There’s not a day goes by I don’t feel regret. Not because I’m in here, or because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then: a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try and talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can’t. That kid’s long gone and this old man is all that’s left. I got to live with that. Rehabilitated? It’s just a bullshit word. So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time. Because to tell you the truth, I don’t give a shit.

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Red: [narrating] I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they’re gone. I guess I just miss my friend.

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4 Comments »

  1. 1

    Ctrl C, Ctrl V still rulez :D

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    prao Says:

    You want me to criticize this movie?? suggestions to make it better? Its Top 2nd shiks… Its PERFECT for me :D 10/10

    All I can do is enjoy every bit of the movie. Altering the dialogues is nothing less than degrading it.

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    Prasil Says:

    You should read Stephen King’s original novella, too. “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption”. Though, I must say, this is one of the rare incidences where the movie was a cut above than the novel :)

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    tovorinok Says:

    Hello

    Great book. I just want to say what a fantastic thing you are doing! Good luck!

    Bye


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