🇬🇧BRIT Reacts To THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994) - FIRST TIME WATCHING - MOVIE REACTION!
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- 🇬🇧BRIT Reacts To SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994) - FIRST TIME WATCHING - MOVIE REACTION!
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Hi everyone, I’m Kabir and welcome to another episode of Kabir Considers! In this video I’m going React To SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994) - FIRST TIME WATCHING - MOVIE REACTION!
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That you hated the Warden shows the depth of the written character and the phenomenal acting by that actor. This is one of the best acted movies I have ever seen. Each character was more than whT they seemed and we got glimpses of those differences, just enough to give hope or misery.. it is one of my favs for sure
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Another Steven King short story turned into a great movie. He has probably created more stories to big moves than any other author ever.
This movie hooked you deep and early. Your verbal comments show how this move did what all good movies do: got you involved. The Shawshank Redemption truly is a masterpiece.
Loved your reaction and how involved and passionate you were with the storyline. It's an amazing movie on all levels. It's one you can watch over and over and never tire of it.
Thanks so much :) it’s a fantastic movie. I really bonded with the characters!
I’ll never get tired of watching someone watch this for the first time.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen this movie over the years, but Brooks hanging himself makes me cry every single time.
A lot of people don't realize Stephen King writes anything other than horror.: A mesmerizing tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is one of Stephen King's most beloved and iconic stories, and it helped make Castle Rock a place readers would return to over and over again.
Stephen King was in a grocery store once and a woman almost ran into him with her cart. She looked up at him and said, "Hey I know you. You're the Stephen King guy who writes those scary books! That may be for some people but it's not for me. I prefer more uplifting books like the Shawshank Redemption."
King smiles and says, "I wrote that one too."
The woman shakes her head, "no you didn't!" and leaves. 🤣
He writes in several genres and does them all exceptionally well. One of my favorites is a high fantasy novel called Eyes of the Dragon. When Game of Thrones came out, I hoped they would look at Eyes of the Dragon, but they haven't so far. After what they did to The Dark Tower, a high fantasy/western novel series, I think maybe it's a good thing.
Adaptions of his movies really are a crap shoot. haha
But at the same time, there's a bit of horror in everything he writes. A lot of it in this movie, the leeches and the confrontation in Stand By Me... The Green Mile is obvious.
@@oliviarogers2808 he's also been know to respond to people who ask why he writes such gruesome stories. His pet response is "why do you assume I have a choice?"
Stand By Me is probably his other most famouus non-horror story
Love the movie and reaction. Just sad that no reactors include one of the best part of dialogue in the movie, Red’s final narration.
“I find I’m so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.”
I also like Red's echo of "get busy living or get busy dying."
That's just a *shitty pipedream*.
they are probably just sitting silently watching it because they are paying attention
“…g_dda__ed right”
"Rita Hayworth an actress? must be code for something?" 🤣🤣 Rita Hayworth was an American actress in the 40's. Love your reactions.
He knew she was an actress. He meant her name as code for something else illicit.
Through the first half of the movie I kept saying to myself, "Omg, he's so sweet, thinking the prison's not corrupt or that the guards give even a fraction of a f*ck." Don't ever change, my friend. ✌🏽💜
A bunch of friends and I went to see this when it first came out. One of the guys was really moved by this saying it was the most beautiful movie he had ever seen. My roommate is 72 just got out about a year ago. He had been in the Texas prison system since he was 30 years old. When he was about 20, he was sentenced to life in prison for multiple armed robberies and attempted murder. He was paroled after 7 years but a couple of years later he was pulled over for drunk driving. The cop saw a pistol lying on the front seat and of course arrested him. They immediately revoked his parole and he spent the next 42 years behind bars.Oh, the stories he could tell! There are so many things that are new to him! I've done my best to reorient him to life in the 21st century. When he got his smartphone I helped him set it up and he was amazed at some of the things it could do, like googling things watching movies etc. He's doing well, and got his social security and VA pension and is thinking about getting a car. I told him no drunk driving and no pistols!
He's lucky to have you. And you get to hear stories no-one else ever will.
@@Deathbird_Mitch thanks Mitch! Yes, he doesn't mind talking about stuff if you ask him. Lots of stuff some good some real bad. Yes now that he's out he's having to get used to a different diet. According to him, meals were heavy on cornbread and beans along with ground up animals that the prison raised, and dessert once a week. Anyway he's adjusting well.
You are a hero to be such a good friend.
I grew up watching Morgan Freeman. My first time seeing him was on a children's television show called The Electric Company that was on in the late 60s/early70s. A few others in the cast became somewhat well known but not like Morgan Freeman.
Rita Moreno. Also very well known.
Morgan playing Vincent the Vegetable Vampire is still one of my favorites. Just can't stop eating vegetables. Mel Brooks as the Blond-Haired Cartoon Man unscrambling sentences was cool too. Electric Company was like a matured version of Seasame Street with sketch comedy.
I remember The Electric Company most for the Spider-Man appearances.
Morgan as Easy Reader. Yes!
I watched Electric Company too. Does anyone else remember a segment with a toy roller coaster that carried chocolate powder? I don't remember if it was on Electric Company, or on some other similar show.
It's #1 on IMDB Top 200.
Brooks didn't have a family because he killed them. It's in the novella.
#1 I knew that. He killed them? I did not know that. Well, I’m sure he had a good reason.
@@jasonm8017 Brooks killed his wife and daughter after a losing streak at poker.
Red sabotaged the brakes in his wife's car for insurance money. He ended up killing her, a neighbor and the neighbor's little boy. Steven King wasn't as sentimental with the characters, as the movie.
@@TangentOmega TY, maybe I should read more? Always tell myself I just don’t have the time. Not the only lie I tell myself.
This is a film about male friendship and its beauty. It's perfection. The best finale of all time.
One of the films I can watch over and over, like Goodfellas. One never gets tired of the plot, the characters, the writing. Just awesome.
Goodfellas is so trite. Growing up in a mob town, it's nothing special, but I can see why others find it fascinating.
I will admit I did not see this film because of Tim Robbins relationship to Susan Sarandon, not a fan of her off script. Seen them in Bull Durham, didn't care for their performances. Always liked Morgan Freeman. Seeing these reaction videos, I have missed out on a really, really well acted, screen masterclass of a movie. The movie gets you invested right from the start. So well done to everyone making this classic.
my favorite movie ever, I love Andy and Red's friendship development soo much. The movie has a lot of good life lessons worth remembering
One of the best movies ever in my opinion. I’ve seen it so many times and it never fails to move me
It was awesome :)
The best. Everything was perfection.
Brooks had arrived at Shawshank in 1906; 50 years later, he's released into a totally alien world. It's been 2 world wars and a change in culture that includes women being more independent and actually going out and holding jobs. It's so different, and Brooks has no family or friends outside of prison, to help him adjust.
Now that you've seen this non-horror prison story written by Stephen King, you should now watch another Stephen King prison period piece set in the American South in 1935.
I promise you, it's even better!
You didn't name the other movie.
The green mile, I googled it,took.0000456 sec. This comment took longer. Learn to google.
The prison this was filmed in is in Mansfield Ohio. About an hour south of where I live. Its a tourist attraction now. If anyone is ever in the area I highly recommend the tour. It's the Mansfield reformatory.
I'm really glad you're working your way through a top movies list. It will give you so much better appreciation for film than just responding to the latest reaction trend. And it will be more fun for film buffs and older folks (You know, people who have seen a lot of films in their life, and require more of their movies.)
Yeah I’m really looking forward to getting deep into the list, so many iconic names on there!
Fun facts:
The "shit" in the pipe was made from oatmeal and chocolate sauce.
The room in the halfway house was actually inside the prison where they filmed the movie (Mansfield, OH).
One of my most favorite movies! It’s excellent! I’ve watched it countless times.
I can watch this movie over and over! Brilliant!
Rita Hayworth was the beautiful actress in the black and white movie they were watching. She was the Marilyn Monroe of the 1940s.
Andy went in in '49. It says so when they show his bus arriving at the prison.
Green Mile, Shawshank, Forrest Gump, the Sting, Saving Private Ryan, are my short list of the 5 greatest movies ever made. Your mileage may vary.
And of course Green Mile and Shawshank, though they are very different movies, are both prison movies adapted by Frank Darabont from works by Stephen King.
I normally don’t like prison movies but I kept hearing how good it was. I was not disappointed. It is an excellent movie and there are lessons to be learned. Thanks for your reaction.
The powder that they were dusted with was DDT powder to kill lice. DDT was used to kill all kinds of bugs and insects. It was banned here in the U.S. in the late sixties I think. Could be early seventies.
'Delousing'
The ending is just so perfect
The warden was a complete coward. He knew exactly how his time in prison would be.
Agreed. He could dish it but couldn’t take it
If you haven’t already seen it “The Green Mile” is another great movie. Stars Tom Hanks and other A List stars.
Warden Norton is one of the most hated characters in movie history. The actor who plays Norton is named Bob Gunton and he's a decorated Vietnam War veteran who saw combat with the 101st Airborne. He is 76.
One of the greatest movies....ever! 🧡💛💙💚
A classic! One of my favorites!
Greatest movie ever!!! I suggest you watch Pulp Fiction next
Both of which lost the Best Picture Oscar to "Forrest Gump" - 1994 was a strong year for legendary movies.
@@joeday4293 don't forget Airheads, Dymb and Dumber and It's Pat!
This was based on a novella written by Stephen King. One of his best stories ever. Great reaction, so glad you enjoyed it!
The Green Mile is another good one.
The prison is real, not used any more in Ohio.
Most of Steven kings drama fictional books are amazing reads. Try Delores Claiborne and Misery. Those are my favorites outside of his horror stories.
Stephen King was in a grocery store once and a woman almost ran into him with her cart. She looked up at him and said, "Hey I know you. You're the Stephen King guy who writes those scary books! That may be for some people but it's not for me. I prefer more uplifting books like the Shawshank Redemption."
King smiles and says, "I wrote that one too."
The woman shakes her head, "no you didn't!" and leaves. 🤣
I loved the symbolism of, all through the movie, we saw lights going off in many cells, but never once in Andy's. The last night he spent there, we saw the lights go out. We thought it might be that he finally gave up hope, but it was more like "be sure to turn the lights off when you leave!" hahaha
I always love how much younger Andy looks in the outside
I watch this movie every time it's on. I just love it. It shows the inhumanity and humanity in that jail. There are some really brutal and beautiful moments here. Somewhere in the movie Andy tells Red that he was straight as an arrow in life, it took jail to make him a crook. Best ending ever!
So glad you loved this film. It is easy to see a "director's cut" if you want. The film is supposed to end when Red is on the bus, after his "I hope" monologue. Frank Darabont wanted to end the film with the audience "hoping" that Red and Andy reunited - after all, "hope is a good thing" But, American test audiences wanted everything spoonfed to them and demanded a "happy ending", so the studio demanded that final beach scene be tacked on. Still a magnificent film but I think I prefer the director/writer's version..
Talk about timing!! I work where this movie was filmed and today my staff put together a gift bag for you! How crazy is that?! Needless to say, you'll know it when you see it, lol. Your reaction was priceless and I'm glad you finally watched it.
I acted in Shawshank for two months. Great experience!
One of the best films ever made.
One of only a handful of movies I teared up at the end
Crazy that this movie didn’t get the appreciation it deserved at the time it was in theaters
My all-time favorite movie!! It's a masterpiece!!
Your naivete regarding the guards not giving a shit about what the prisoners do to each other is truly sweet and touching.
This movie was filmed in a real prison (closed long before the movie). You can even take tours of the prison. It's the Ohio reformatory in Mansfield Ohio. I live about an hour north from it. The tour is pretty interesting. I recommend if anyone is in the area to stop and check it out.
My favorite movie of all time
"what do you mean no? Did you feel any sympathy for your victims?" About as appropriate a reaction as I've ever seen
You said it all Kabir....one of my favorites, always. Great storytelling by Redd...it's a long movie, but every second captivates you and you are certainly engaged by the story, and then the wonderful feel good ending...my heart wanted to burst. "Hope is a good thing, and no good thing ever dies", what a feeling Redd felt at that sentence, and a great feeling we all need, never give in, have some hope to forge through the pain, the meaning for life....it gives you a purpose...and through this story, it was beautifully expressed. 💙🌺
I haven't seen this movie in decades. Great reaction choice.
I love this movie!
Fun facts:
The building they used still stands in Mansfield, Ohio. It is now a tourist attraction and was a real prison. Had the privilege of walking through it 4 times. The interior (cell blocks) is in a different location though.
The tunnel was a mock-up they built and can be viewed at the prison in Mansfield. It is a life-sized mock-up.
The tree under which the Red located the stone and Andy's letter was on a farm in Mansfield. It suffered storm damage and had to be removed. The wood was cut and sold to woodworkers everywhere. I'm proud to say I obtained some small pieces of this wood and made 5 pens out them.
One of the best movies ever made !
And Andy went in in 1947, and asked for Rita Heyworth in 1949. Brooks arrived in 1905 and was there 50 years, so he got out in '55. I think it's possible that as a reactor and thinking all the time about what to say, and then talking over some of the dialogue, you're going to miss a lot of details.
Your reaction to this movie was so cute you just can’t help yourself. A great story by the writer Stephen King. Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman were so good in this movie.
Fun fact. So the movie was made in Ohio near one of my relatives city. my cousin tried out as an extra and was cast as a bag boy in the grocery store scenes. its funny because he had initially tried out as a corrections officer or cop and was cast as a bag boy....real occupation at the time? police officer🤣 he just has one of those baby faces that the casting agent couldn't see him as an officer. he's now the director of safety in that town.
The camera angles are very good seeing how Tim Robbins is 6'5".
Loved your reaction! This movie is damn near perfect in every way. I always found it really interesting that they avoid telling the audience what the actual crimes of the inmates were. It lets the audience connect to the characters and see them as just people passed what their crimes were. Just think, you never learn what Brooks’ crimes actually were and so his end breaks you. The only other crimes that are explicitly stated are Tommy and Red who’s stories are about reform and growth. It’s just a nice reminder to the audience about empathy.
Great movie, reaction & commentary. Would love to see your reaction to the movie "Seven" with Brad Pitt & Morgan Freemen, both are police detectives who work together to track down a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as a motif in his murders. I love psychological thrillers, the movie creeped me out but I loved it. Here are some other good thrillers - "The Call" with Hailie Berry, "Misery" with Kathy Bates and James Caan and of course "Silence of the Lambs" with Sir Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster. Another good one to watch on your own time is "Knock Knock" with Keanu Reeves.
Love this movie. So great.
The story is based on my great uncle, Frank Freshwater. My grandpa is Henry Freshwater, his little brother. The whole thing was an accident being he was driving and didn't see the other car till it was too late. He was known as the shawshank fugitive and when he excepted my grandmother's family (mobsters) helped him get the alias William Harold Cox. He wrote letters to my mother and all her siblings before turning himself in. Looks so much like my grandpa it's crazy. It makes me sad I never got to meet him in person.
I'm not doubting Frank Freshwaters’ story, as it did happen and he was also called the "Shawshank Fugitive". But the only thing that connects his story to Shawshank, is that he was originally imprisoned at Mansfield Reformatory (where the film was shot), and that he escaped prison (which by the way, he wasn't even in Mansfield Reformatory when he escaped). There's also the fact that, you know, Frank actually killed someone, whereas Andy was didn't and was framed. Shawshank was inspired by different prison stories written by different authors! Notably, the story "God Sees the Truth, But Waits" by Russian author Leo Tolstoy served as major inspiration. In fact the stories have similar plot beats. A well respect individual with a great job (Andy who was a banker and Ivan Aksionov who was a merchant) is accused of a crime they did not commit, both are punished and sent to horrible places (Shawshank prison and a Siberian Mine), both of them meet someone who can prove they are innocent (Tommy: who was a cellmate with the guy who killed who killed Andy's wife and the golf pro and Semyonich: who was the guy who killed the merchant who Ivan was accused of murdering), main difference is that Andy manages to escape, while Semyonich wishes to have Ivan forgive him for ruining his life and saying that he will inform the higher ups running the mine of Ivan's innocence. Ivan doesn't at first, saying that God will forgive him but Ivan just can't, but upon seeing that Semyonich was weeping and was indeed truly sorry, Ivan cries and forgives him. Semyonich, true to his word, informs the governor that Ivan is innocent of his crime, and just before Ivan was to be released, he dies in his sleep. Oh, and one more thing. You can confirm that Shawshank isn't based on Frank Freshwater or any other true story, but inspired by fictional stories like the previously mentioned "God Sees the Truth, but Waits", by LOOKING IT UP ON THE GODDAMN INTERNET! If you could actually prove that there were in fact, more connections between Frank Freshwater and Shawshank other than the hearsay and anecdotes you've spouted, it still doesn't change the fact that King's inspiration were fiction prison stories that he have read and liked.
Good night!
Excellent movie in every way.
Boggs getting what is due, is one of the most satisfying scenes in cinema.
One of my top ten movies of all time. Morgan Freeman is in my top 5 actors for life. He’s extraordinary.
That old prison is right down the hill from me about 4 miles. The hotel Brooks stayed at was an old building in downtown Mansfield, Ohio. Steven King wrote this as well as the green mile, another great story. The farmland scene before the rock wall is also here about 4 miles south of me. Love your reaction!
Andy went in 1949 - Red (Morgan Freeman) states that when Andy first arrives.
"I can already tell that guy there on the left is going to be pretty mean."
That guy there on the left is the voice actor for Mr. Crabs on Sponge Bob Square Pants.
I never realized how often Kabir cusses until now. LOL
I loved your reaction! You were very astute with little things like the wall being soft to carve his name. Feel free to talk through the movie as much as you want as it is a reaction channel. Lol
Thanks so much :) yeah I think a lot of people don’t realise the purpose of this channel 😅
After Brooks dies and Red says "He should have died in here' you can hear a Crow "Caw" in the background. Kind of like Jake agreeing with Red.
Zihuatanejo, I think my spelling is correct. A very small town (or was) way down the WestCoast. Fantastic, undisturbed or ruined by tourists like me. The surfing 🏄♂️ was fantastic. I’m not sure but this movie & an unprecedented amount of shark attacks 🦈 (5or6yrs later)put it on the map. 🇨🇦 cheers 🍻
Friendship doesn’t die easy. I’ve lost one real one ever, but that was unfortunate. Bonds only break because someone did it intentionally, their bond never got broken.
The movie star was Rita Hayworth.
My absolute favorite movie of all time!
Prison is located in Mansfield Ohio, was the Ohio Reformatory, now it's a museum.
In a cut scene, jake the crow also died.He had died of starvation since Brooks wasn't around to feed him at prison, and had no natural self preservation abilities.
One of my favorite. I can't watch it enough
Great reaction, Kabir. Glad you enjoyed this as much as so many of us have
Great reaction!
Woohoo! This is going to be a fantastic reaction! This is in my top 5 favorite movies!
And again, I love the way you've been editing your videos 😁 Hope you're well and staying cool 💙
in the late 40s when this was set, the powder was most likely DDT for lice
A piece of trivia … the actor who plays Captain Hadley, the main guard, is also the voice of Mr. Krabbs on Spongebob
I live about an hour away from Mansfield Ohio. That's where this was filmed. You can still visit the old prison with all the set props from the movie.
"They send you here for life, and that's exactly what they take. The part that counts, anyway."
An absolutely stunning and beautiful movie.
Ona of my absolute favorites!
One of my favorite movies!!! You definitely get emotionally involved with the characters.
Another great movie is Schindler’s List. It is a you have to watch it once and everyone needs to see it. It is based on a real man during the Holocaust. It is a hard and emotional movie but definitely worth it.
In Andy’s case, smart is smart, it’s our choice how we use our intelligence
Thank you Kabir, I really enjoyed your reaction to one of my favorite movies, please keep them coming. A few facts from the movie, and my observations:
1. Andy told Red that he had asked his wife to marry him under that tree. So I think that he had buried some kind of memento there to signify the start of a new chapter in his life. Then chose that spot again for Red to find what he had left for him, signifying a new start for both of them.
2. When Red is finally paroled, it seems to be that the parole board sees that he has had his spirit broken and lacks hope. But could also be that 50 years was the standard time for "life" when Brooks was released, and it had been amended to 40 years by the time Red got out.
3. When the warden opens Andy's Bible to see where the rock hammer had been, I'm sure that there was a certain depth needed to conceal it. However, it was at the first page of the second book of the old testament called Exodus. The story of how the Jewish people fled from persecution in Egypt.
Love love love this movie!!!!!
"That car looks really old. What is it, the 70's or something?" More like 23 years prior (not long after World War 2), or the difference between 2022 and 1999! Time is strange that way, I suppose.
Those cars were still around in the 70s, but they were mostly worn-out beaters driven by low-income and young drivers. Just like today you still see some tattered survivors from the 1990's.
Plus to be fair, some British cars from the 1970s more closely resembled our 1940s cars than any of our 1970s cars ever did. You can even see some Rolls from later than that, which still strongly resemble our 1940s models. And that was a feature, rather than a drawback, since our 1940s models were always regarded as way more solid than anything made since.
An uncle of mine had one. One day he knocked over a telephone pole with it, but surprisingly, he was still able to drive it home.
Another great Stephen King adaptation is Misery, great movie with James Caan (RIP) and Kathy Bates.
Misery would be a great movie for him to watch!!
You missed one KEY to the timeline, Red got turned down in 59, that was 10 years after his 20 years, thus Andy was in for 10 years in 57 and came in in 1947. So, 65 would have been his 16th year in prison.
There are very few serious films about a friendship between two men without the obligatory female love interest.
Another Stephen King nugget of gold. 👍
This movie was filmed at Mansfield prison in Mansfield Ohio just a few hours from my city. They shut the prison down just beg they started filming this movie and they allowed good behavior prisoners to stay behind as extras. One of my uncles was actually visible in a scene in the movie, obviously uncredited.