@@slymcfly123 I have a more cynical view of why the parole board approved him. Red is simply broken, he understands there is no chance for a real life in the outside world anymore since he is old and institutionalized, and it really makes no difference whether he gets out or not. It's not that the board thinks he can successfully rejoin society, its more-so it's impossible for him to be any kind of threat.
Sorry for replying to this 7 month old comment, personally, I think it was mainly due to the fact that all his previous answers were generic ones like "Yes, I'm rehabilitated, no danger to society here", because all the years he spent in prison it felt like home and things made sense there so he wanted to stay for the most part, but eventually he no longer wished for that life and he gave a genuine heartfelt answer and not a generic response, which is what the board were looking for. (Also the changing of the times and members of the board probably helped)
Literally every actor in this film was PERFECTLY cast. You know a film is great when you watch one scene, and immediately want to watch the whole movie all over again. That's how it is when I watch Breaking Bad clips.
It wasn’t just about telling the truth. It was about seeing that his spirit was broken and that he wasn’t a threat to anyone on the outside if he was released.
No. He wasnt broken. He was hardened. And he knew and finally accepted the system for what it was. He was past trying to please or give the 'right answer' anymore. He was content with his fate. Ironically, the officer was enlightened enough to see that he deserved a second chance. Watch this again when you are 20 years older.
@@shownottell8804 watch the scene right before this when he was talking with Andy. He said he was an institutionalized man now and that he’d never make it on the outside. Andy tried to encourage him but his spirit was broken.
"You did it. You passed the test. This - all this! - was to get you to see that parole isn't a packet of papers or a stamp. The parole was inside you all along, Red. You just had to find it."
In the book, he killed 3 people including a baby, though the baby was unintentional collateral damage. He cut his wife's brakes but the wife offered her neighbor and her baby a ride and all 3 were killed.
Outstanding actor. Master of his craft. When he says these words, it's exactly what a man who is in prison in real life, for the same exact crime and the same exact situation, feeling mentally the same thing.. would do.
I was looking through the comments on here, and one writer mentioned Red being released from prison after 40 years, into a world which had drastically changed over the years! Reminds me of a case of a prison escapee, whose escape was profiled on "America's Most Wanted ". He had been in prison since the 1970's! He broke out, and was on the run for a while. However, he had stolen a vehicle from somewhere...... later, when he went to a gas station to fill the tank, he had no idea how to operate a gas pump. The world had changed so much during his years of incarceration. He eventually surrendered!
I met a guy once who had been in prison for quite some time. I was sitting (in a very public indoor place with many people around) and had a good 10 minute conversation with this guy about what a laptop was, and how far the internet he'd only barely heard of in prison had come. I daresay he was....bemused.
Do people realise how long 40 years is? 40 years ago was was long before UA-cam, streaming, tablets, laptops, mobile phones, the (public) internet itself, even computers were really rare back then! It's insane to think about.
Yeah it's wild what 40 years of difference makes. I want to say an IT teacher I had in hs had one of the first laptops about 40 years ago and some ancient modem that makes dialup look like highspeed internet. The laptop ran on a bunch of batteries or something too, not the rechargeable battery that every laptop comes with now. I also recall some PC tower being donated to him or the school that was several feet tall just some massive monstrosity.
Technological changes are fascinating. Think of a middle-aged man living in London circa 1917 who was born decades before the first Wright Brothers flight and now finds himself being bombed by four-motored aircraft equipped with radios. Yeesh!
4 decades in prison ! My Lord! I'm barely 40 years old. This character Red would literally be released into a new world from what he knew as a kid . and everyone he knew most likely died . that's scary. If he didn't get paroled this time he would have died in prison.
If not for Andy, he would have committed suicide or committed a crime to get thrown back into prison. The same walls the kept him in, are now the same walls that keep the world away from Red. Killed a man over a game of checkers.
Fun fact... the character Red was originally written to be a white (Irish) guy. The director had several other major actors in mind for the role: Gene Hackman, Harrison Ford, Clint Eastwood, Paul Newman, and Robert Duvall. Sidney Poitier was also considered at one point, but he said he didn't want to play a convict. All these guys are great actors in their own right, but damn... Freeman absolutely nailed it. It's hard to imagine anyone else in this role.
Not long ago I saw a picture of myself in my freshman year of college. Sitting down in the middle of group of students. I was leaned, muscular and athletic. I told my mother. Wow, that kid is long gone, he died several years ago. She said: It's still you. But I beg to differ. All those cells died and millions other regrew. I think in a way we keep dying, and regenerating as the years goes by and stages/layers of our self's fade away in the atmosphere.
@@macree01 Consider for a moment that they may not even be talking about 'getting fat'. I, too, look back at pictures of myself the same way, even from as recently as five years ago. The shell in which I exist now is a product of cancer, chemotherapy, and radiation. It gets a little better every day, but I know and accept that I will never physically be the person I once was. Have a good day pronouncing your judgement so wisely upon others.
@@CVSoprano Oh ok. Using your example of going through cancer treatments, including chemo, excuses everyone else from letting themselves go as soon as they hit 30. Totally.
I like that Red never full explains his crime, for anyone wondering, Red's in jail cause he accidentally killed his wife and pregnant neighbor. In the book, he states that he would never do it again if given the 2nd chance
@@accountnamewithheldI haven't read the book and I am a bit confused. "...he accidentally killed..." and "...cut his wife's brakes...wanted insurance payout...". It doesn't seem accidental to me. Which is from the book?
@@bennylloyd-willner9667He cut the brakes because he wanted the car to fail, but presumably didn't want anyone else to drive it when it happened. He probably had a scheme set up so that he would either bail on the car or be minimally injured. The women had no idea there was anything wrong with the car, didn't prepare for it, and died as a result.
@@straysheep4467 From what I remember from the book, he hated his father-in-law and wanted to kill him by blowing up his car. FIL didn't go to work that day, so he let his daughter, Red's wife, drive the car because she wanted to go shopping. She had their infant son with her, and she was giving her neighbor a ride. Red was only 19 at the time and was just as horrified and grief-stricken as everyone else. There was no insurance scheme, he just wanted his FIL dead.
He's been rehabilitated because he fully acknowledges what he did, and he knows that no amount of time in prison can change that or make it go away. If he could change that past, he would but knows he can't. Inside those walls or outside them, he's still an old man who used to be a dumb kid. It's a beautiful sign of maturity
In so many ways, this might be one of the most real, touching, genuine , and best played scenes in cinematic history. Worth watching and listening to over and over to catch every nuanced facial and vocal expression. Morgan Freeman absolutely nailed this.
Red couldn't care less anymore if they denied his parole again because they denied him few times previously. He just got fed up with it eventually. He told it from the heart, that he regrets the murder he committed and he has to carry the burden that he killed someone for the rest of his life and can't change anything about it, and not the rehearsed responses the board have heard all the time. That convinced the parole board that Red had truly changed and won't reoffend and come back to prison, hence why they granted his parole.
@@suleymanbabak1973 no I didn't thanks for pointing that out. I.just thought red didn't care anymore if they granted or denied parole as they denied him parole about 4 times
His character was in his late teens to early 20's when he went in, after 40 years that makes his character around 60+ years old. No house, no family, no spouse, no connections.... NOTHING. Him saying what he said to the parole board was him coming off as a broken man with nothing to live for other than not being behind bars, just a shell of a man looking to die in the next 10-20 years with nothing to show for his existence.
I wanna talk to him, I wanna 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. Love that line.
Those walls didn't meant anything to him anymore, his mind was institutionalized as he has quoted before. To him his biggest prison is the guilt of the crime he has commited and all that left now is the old man counting his days.
I love how Red slowly gave up on trying to get out, and then just said what was on his mind to get out. They wanted honesty, and Red gave them honesty. The lack of music and the tired tone of voice Freeman uses is great for this scene.
I'm 40 years old. If I was in prison for the last 40 years I couldn't leave. I'd violate parole on purpose. Why? Because eventually there comes a time when you are so out of touch with the real world you could no longer function. What happened in the last 40 years? Computers, cell phones, video games, libraries are basically none existent, etc etc. The world would just be more alien than relaity.
The difference in Red’s character between the first parole board hearing and the last is amazing when you consider that both things were probably shot on the same day. Just a brilliant actor.
If there is one person I would love to meet, it would have to be Morgan Freeman. I wish him the best of luck with any future projects and want him to have a much longer, happy life. And I espescially thank him in this role as Mr. "Red" Redding.
Yeah determination/determined is definitely a weird English word, it has more than one meaning and they aren’t connected in any super obvious way, but they do actually come from the same root. “Determined” can describe a persons mood or attitude, ie “They told him to quit but he continued on, he was determined to succeed no matter what.” That person has a general feeling or status called “determination.” It means they’ve made up their mind, they are set, firm, resolved. Meanwhile you’ve got the use in this scene: “determination”, the status of a request. “I’ve asked you for parole, permission to leave prison early. What is your determination? What is the status of your decision, what choice have you made?” Both uses are about making up your mind, but the version most people think of is the first one, a specific circumstance where the thing you’ve made up your mind to do is to push onward, to persevere, to succeed. But technically as seen in this movie, “determination” can refer to any decision at all.
This movie should have been the most Oscar-lauded film in cinema history; in stead it flopped but over time became the phenomenal classic masterpiece it is.
Imagine sitting on set and getting this line from this fantastic actor. I get chills just watching this scene. And I looked at her for over 1mil. times. It's about how life passes us by, really. It has nothing to do with punishment, that is only if life itself is not a punishment.
Red realizes that he was telling the parole board what they wanted to hear, knowing he keeps getting rejected, here, he takes responsibility for his actions, that's whatnmakes prisoners go free.
The moment that sold me on Freeman as an actor? When the parole board head turns the page to write something and we watch Red glance away to his left with the slightest of eye rolls. Great acting! Great directing! And great editing to NOT cut that out. It tells us all we need to know about Red, who knows (!) that he just sealed his fate for the next decade. Perfect setup for the twist!
I kind or reject the idea that the move was a flop. It has a relatively low budget and had a pretty good return. It returned a tidy profit for investors. Over the long haul it became quite profitable. If anything I think they would be wise to stop putting billions of dollars into blockbusters like comic book movies, Star Wars and Star Trek and make more of the "mid budget" movies that keep showing a positive return. You would get more diversity in characters, voices, stories, visions, roles, scenarios and such with far smaller losses for the "flops". We're even seeing it in premium cable and streaming services where producers, writers, director and actors will accept smaller upfront fees to make their passion projects with some degree of creative control. Short run series, smaller scale films etc. We're getting a golden age in television and projects that wouldn't have made it in the old studio big film days. With pretty good financial returns. I know that the writers' strike indicated that some of the short season or limited run models did hurt staff writers who had to jump from gig to gig without getting something in the back end. There are some downsides. But oh my when a big budget film flops do they ever take a loss.
The whole movie was perfect...i want to shake the editors hand...for the carefully placed edits...i make vlogs so i m learning to edit..and this movie is a perfect lesson in storytelling and timing ie pacing...i never went to film school bit i think this movie is or should be part of the curriculum...
They should remake this except make the main characters fall in love in jail and enter a relationship. Would make the two of them reuniting in end more powerful.
What's your favorite moment from The Shawshank Redemption?
This one! ...and the ending, where the two men meet up at the boat
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Boggs getting his karma
HBO Max - There are so many great moments! - And all differently themed!
The scene!!
This scene was when Morgan truly became a Freeman.
to build on the bad joke, he changed his first name, got himself a crowbar, and saved humanity from aliens.
lmfaooo
I see what you did there.
OK parole denied
Definitely the movie he became the kind wise old man we all know and love
20 years: “Sit”
30 years: “Sit down”
40 years: “Please sit down”
How many times did you watch it to recognize this ?
Salute to you 😚
salute to you bro
1960s
1970s
1980s
Times are changing
I have seen this movie countless times. Never noticed this. Kudos to you, sir.
Imagine Red's reaction when he learned that is parole was approved. "Damn I wish I would have thought of that speech 20 years ago."
That's the thing: it was a process.
Except if he had, he never would have met Andy.
His parole was approved not because of that speech but because "his time has come"---they were gonna give him that parole regardless of what he saids.
@@slymcfly123 I have a more cynical view of why the parole board approved him. Red is simply broken, he understands there is no chance for a real life in the outside world anymore since he is old and institutionalized, and it really makes no difference whether he gets out or not. It's not that the board thinks he can successfully rejoin society, its more-so it's impossible for him to be any kind of threat.
Sorry for replying to this 7 month old comment, personally, I think it was mainly due to the fact that all his previous answers were generic ones like "Yes, I'm rehabilitated, no danger to society here", because all the years he spent in prison it felt like home and things made sense there so he wanted to stay for the most part, but eventually he no longer wished for that life and he gave a genuine heartfelt answer and not a generic response, which is what the board were looking for. (Also the changing of the times and members of the board probably helped)
There is no denying that Morgan Freeman nailed this role to perfection. Extraordinary actor.
Literally every actor in this film was PERFECTLY cast. You know a film is great when you watch one scene, and immediately want to watch the whole movie all over again. That's how it is when I watch Breaking Bad clips.
Besides narrator, Freeman carried the movie. Tim was his sidekick. Although many will disagree on that.
@@nahor88and it's more relevant because in the book he's a red-haired Irishman, that's why he's "Red".
Just another predator in real life.
I agree. The best.
Red had secondary protagonist powers
"Have you been rehabilitated?"
"No"
APPROVED
Here after Sheldon Johnson is going back to prison after going on the Joe Rogan podcast.
Deuteragonist powers
It's hard to believe that he didn't win an oscar for his outstanding performance in this great film
I thought he won supporting actor
@@cameraroll5077 He won for Million Dollar Baby. Not for this film
Politics
Lots of competition at the time. Hollywood actually produced classics.... sad to see the decline of film
Really I never knew that
He finally was approved after telling the truth for once rather than saying what they wanted to hear.
Politician is full of bs. Never give what they want just tell them the truth and stop wasting our time with their bull 💩
The truth will set you free as the saying goes. The problem is in knowing whose truth.
It wasn’t just about telling the truth. It was about seeing that his spirit was broken and that he wasn’t a threat to anyone on the outside if he was released.
No. He wasnt broken. He was hardened. And he knew and finally accepted the system for what it was. He was past trying to please or give the 'right answer' anymore. He was content with his fate. Ironically, the officer was enlightened enough to see that he deserved a second chance. Watch this again when you are 20 years older.
@@shownottell8804 watch the scene right before this when he was talking with Andy. He said he was an institutionalized man now and that he’d never make it on the outside. Andy tried to encourage him but his spirit was broken.
I like how by this point Red just doesn't care one way or the other because he knows it doesn't matter.
The possibilities of a situation is endless,so yeah...that explains the thing.
"You did it. You passed the test. This - all this! - was to get you to see that parole isn't a packet of papers or a stamp. The parole was inside you all along, Red. You just had to find it."
Shawshank Redemption if it was an awesome movie.
What do you mean “if”?
and all the friends he made along the way
Even though Red murdered someone, he wasn't subject to the deadly malevolent spirit that a lot of convicts had. He genuinely regretted what he did.
In the book, he killed 3 people including a baby, though the baby was unintentional collateral damage. He cut his wife's brakes but the wife offered her neighbor and her baby a ride and all 3 were killed.
@@Boaz833how do you offer a baby a ride?
I think they mean offed instead@@southsidesaiyan8641
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@@southsidesaiyan8641 You say 'Hey baby, you want a ride?'
Outstanding actor. Master of his craft. When he says these words, it's exactly what a man who is in prison in real life, for the same exact crime and the same exact situation, feeling mentally the same thing.. would do.
How would you know? :D
Unless you're the guy with the stamps... ^^
You dont know this until you find yourself in the same situation
Personally I find this scene more powerful than the ‘get busy livin’ or get busy dying’’ scene.
"You can never change the past nor control the future, but you can change the mood of the day by touching someones’ heart with your smile"'
dont see how that applies here, he didnt smile once.
I was looking through the comments on here, and one writer mentioned Red being released from prison after 40 years, into a world which had drastically changed over the years! Reminds me of a case of a prison escapee, whose escape was profiled on "America's Most Wanted ". He had been in prison since the 1970's! He broke out, and was on the run for a while. However, he had stolen a vehicle from somewhere...... later, when he went to a gas station to fill the tank, he had no idea how to operate a gas pump. The world had changed so much during his years of incarceration. He eventually surrendered!
I met a guy once who had been in prison for quite some time. I was sitting (in a very public indoor place with many people around) and had a good 10 minute conversation with this guy about what a laptop was, and how far the internet he'd only barely heard of in prison had come. I daresay he was....bemused.
Do people realise how long 40 years is? 40 years ago was was long before UA-cam, streaming, tablets, laptops, mobile phones, the (public) internet itself, even computers were really rare back then! It's insane to think about.
Yeah it's wild what 40 years of difference makes. I want to say an IT teacher I had in hs had one of the first laptops about 40 years ago and some ancient modem that makes dialup look like highspeed internet. The laptop ran on a bunch of batteries or something too, not the rechargeable battery that every laptop comes with now. I also recall some PC tower being donated to him or the school that was several feet tall just some massive monstrosity.
Technological changes are fascinating. Think of a middle-aged man living in London circa 1917 who was born decades before the first Wright Brothers flight and now finds himself being bombed by four-motored aircraft equipped with radios. Yeesh!
@@stevedalbor1001There was a guy who lived from 1870s to 1970s, he went from horse carriages to jet planes with nukes.
Discovering the escape tunnel was perfect, but honestly the whole movie was outstanding.
4 decades in prison ! My Lord! I'm barely 40 years old. This character Red would literally be released into a new world from what he knew as a kid . and everyone he knew most likely died . that's scary. If he didn't get paroled this time he would have died in prison.
If not for Andy, he would have committed suicide or committed a crime to get thrown back into prison. The same walls the kept him in, are now the same walls that keep the world away from Red. Killed a man over a game of checkers.
It is like being in school and not being allowed to leave the building and not learn anything besides how to save your own hiny.
imagine the difference between 1927 and 1967 and having to navigate that
Fun fact... the character Red was originally written to be a white (Irish) guy. The director had several other major actors in mind for the role: Gene Hackman, Harrison Ford, Clint Eastwood, Paul Newman, and Robert Duvall. Sidney Poitier was also considered at one point, but he said he didn't want to play a convict.
All these guys are great actors in their own right, but damn... Freeman absolutely nailed it. It's hard to imagine anyone else in this role.
That was Sammy Davis jr
Strange because Sidney played a convict in The Defiant Ones.
Not long ago I saw a picture of myself in my freshman year of college. Sitting down in the middle of group of students. I was leaned, muscular and athletic. I told my mother. Wow, that kid is long gone, he died several years ago. She said: It's still you. But I beg to differ. All those cells died and millions other regrew. I think in a way we keep dying, and regenerating as the years goes by and stages/layers of our self's fade away in the atmosphere.
i think you been hitting that crack pipe a lil too hard.
Great excuse for getting fat! Whatever helps you sleep at night.
@@macree01 Hey! A person's weight is how I measure their soul's progress too!
(ie; you completely sailed right past the point, and into the bay.)
@@macree01 Consider for a moment that they may not even be talking about 'getting fat'. I, too, look back at pictures of myself the same way, even from as recently as five years ago. The shell in which I exist now is a product of cancer, chemotherapy, and radiation. It gets a little better every day, but I know and accept that I will never physically be the person I once was. Have a good day pronouncing your judgement so wisely upon others.
@@CVSoprano Oh ok. Using your example of going through cancer treatments, including chemo, excuses everyone else from letting themselves go as soon as they hit 30. Totally.
Morgan has been Perfect in every role he ever had. A brilliant actor. A wonderful man who sees the good in everything ❤️
Absolutely agree!😁
He has had some duds.
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Like everyone in every human activity...! Life is not a fairy tail...!
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And after that, he realizes the world outside is like a huge prison, with its rules.
The world have many aspects,its a place that you can live when you find good... either you are animal or human.
It's the rules that make it livable, or else it would be an anarchic post-apocalyptic hellhole.
all realities have degrees of confinment, you need them, makes you move
HBO got the BEST REAL "CINEMATIC" content in the humanity.
This is CINEMA.
I like that Red never full explains his crime, for anyone wondering, Red's in jail cause he accidentally killed his wife and pregnant neighbor. In the book, he states that he would never do it again if given the 2nd chance
Yup. He cut his wife's brakes. Wanted the insurance payout.
@@accountnamewithheldI haven't read the book and I am a bit confused. "...he accidentally killed..." and "...cut his wife's brakes...wanted insurance payout...". It doesn't seem accidental to me. Which is from the book?
@@bennylloyd-willner9667He cut the brakes because he wanted the car to fail, but presumably didn't want anyone else to drive it when it happened.
He probably had a scheme set up so that he would either bail on the car or be minimally injured.
The women had no idea there was anything wrong with the car, didn't prepare for it, and died as a result.
@@straysheep4467 ok, innocent enough, who would guess tampering with the brakes could endanger someone 😁
@@straysheep4467 From what I remember from the book, he hated his father-in-law and wanted to kill him by blowing up his car. FIL didn't go to work that day, so he let his daughter, Red's wife, drive the car because she wanted to go shopping. She had their infant son with her, and she was giving her neighbor a ride.
Red was only 19 at the time and was just as horrified and grief-stricken as everyone else. There was no insurance scheme, he just wanted his FIL dead.
He's been rehabilitated because he fully acknowledges what he did, and he knows that no amount of time in prison can change that or make it go away. If he could change that past, he would but knows he can't. Inside those walls or outside them, he's still an old man who used to be a dumb kid. It's a beautiful sign of maturity
In so many ways, this might be one of the most real, touching, genuine , and best played scenes in cinematic history. Worth watching and listening to over and over to catch every nuanced facial and vocal expression. Morgan Freeman absolutely nailed this.
World's beautiful and peaceful voice- Morgan Freeman
He doesn't give a beep
“I swear to god you let me outta here, first thing I’m gon’ do is kill again!” APPROVED.
Someone's been watching a little too much Family Guy!!😁
Still one of the best films ever made
One of the greatest moments in film history.
tspdtPlatz 444 platz
what a great piece of acting , it doesnt get much better than this
HBO you didn't upload clip, this is an emotion, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION.
Andy, how have you been? Nice tan! Wow the water is a Blue I have only seen in dreams. Tell Red I said hello! Take care my Friend, my Friend.
That young kid is long gone. This old man is all that's left. I have to live with that!
Watching Morgan Freeman work is a real treat.
Red couldn't care less anymore if they denied his parole again because they denied him few times previously.
He just got fed up with it eventually.
He told it from the heart, that he regrets the murder he committed and he has to carry the burden that he killed someone for the rest of his life and can't change anything about it, and not the rehearsed responses the board have heard all the time.
That convinced the parole board that Red had truly changed and won't reoffend and come back to prison, hence why they granted his parole.
they were going to release him anyway. Didn't you notice the guys never had a clue or even actually cared what Red felt?
@@suleymanbabak1973 no I didn't thanks for pointing that out. I.just thought red didn't care anymore if they granted or denied parole as they denied him parole about 4 times
A film revolving around crime but the biggest crime was that it never won any Oscars despite seven nominations. Brilliant film.
Beautiful...that's how I feel for leaving my last company 😢
His character was in his late teens to early 20's when he went in, after 40 years that makes his character around 60+ years old.
No house, no family, no spouse, no connections.... NOTHING. Him saying what he said to the parole board was him coming off as a broken man with nothing to live for other than not being behind bars, just a shell of a man looking to die in the next 10-20 years with nothing to show for his existence.
If for some reason you never watched this movie, do yourself the favor and fix this mistake. Great story, great performances, great cinema.
hey person that is scrolling, have an awesome day!
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You too .
*APPROVED*
I'm going to try. I hope you do as well good soul
One of the best movie scenes in movie history.
This one scene is worth an Academy Award.
💯% 👍👍
The best part of this excellent movie. Only thing that compares is “Get busy living or get busy dying…”
One of the greatest scenes in movie history. Freeman is so awesome, as the entire movie was.
I wanna talk to him, I wanna 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. Love that line.
Those walls didn't meant anything to him anymore, his mind was institutionalized as he has quoted before. To him his biggest prison is the guilt of the crime he has commited and all that left now is the old man counting his days.
I love how Red slowly gave up on trying to get out, and then just said what was on his mind to get out. They wanted honesty, and Red gave them honesty.
The lack of music and the tired tone of voice Freeman uses is great for this scene.
Morgan Freeman is just on another level. One of the absolute GOATs of acting.
I'm 40 years old. If I was in prison for the last 40 years I couldn't leave. I'd violate parole on purpose. Why? Because eventually there comes a time when you are so out of touch with the real world you could no longer function. What happened in the last 40 years? Computers, cell phones, video games, libraries are basically none existent, etc etc. The world would just be more alien than relaity.
The fact he never mentioned his victim might not go down too well with the board
Exactly, one of the reasons why the hype behind this movie is more cultish than based on real objective fact/merit
Why would he need to do that? They can see who the victim was. And it's a movie.
@@anneeq008 you should go tell that to the library of congress
When Red went in, women wore dresses that went down to their ankles.
When he got out, women were wearing mini-skirts.
Red here dont mash up,he tells the reality not from the mind but from the heart.Such a great movie.
The difference in Red’s character between the first parole board hearing and the last is amazing when you consider that both things were probably shot on the same day. Just a brilliant actor.
Definitely one of my all time favorite movies
Morgan is finally a free man
If there is one person I would love to meet, it would have to be Morgan Freeman. I wish him the best of luck with any future projects and want him to have a much longer, happy life. And I espescially thank him in this role as Mr. "Red" Redding.
It was an abrasive but good pitch from a sales perspective.
Red showed he isn't needy but at the same time regrets what he did.
He finally spoke from the heart!
non English speaker here, google gives me mixed results: what does determination approved mean in this context? at 2:34
Approved for parole, released out of prison.
They together came up with the decision and determined that he should be released from prison
Yeah determination/determined is definitely a weird English word, it has more than one meaning and they aren’t connected in any super obvious way, but they do actually come from the same root.
“Determined” can describe a persons mood or attitude, ie “They told him to quit but he continued on, he was determined to succeed no matter what.” That person has a general feeling or status called “determination.” It means they’ve made up their mind, they are set, firm, resolved.
Meanwhile you’ve got the use in this scene: “determination”, the status of a request. “I’ve asked you for parole, permission to leave prison early. What is your determination? What is the status of your decision, what choice have you made?”
Both uses are about making up your mind, but the version most people think of is the first one, a specific circumstance where the thing you’ve made up your mind to do is to push onward, to persevere, to succeed. But technically as seen in this movie, “determination” can refer to any decision at all.
FREEDOM
Thank YOU “escape” for that SHORT & Sweet Explanation!!(i got Tired readin that Other one-just above yours)😂✌️
My #1 movie, no doubt about it. Great direction, great picture, amazing acting, great story perfectly adapted.
"I want to try and talk some sense to him"....such a overwhelming thought...
This movie should have been the most Oscar-lauded film in cinema history; in stead it flopped but over time became the phenomenal classic masterpiece it is.
One of the best monologues in cinematic history.
Imagine sitting on set and getting this line from this fantastic actor. I get chills just watching this scene. And I looked at her for over 1mil. times. It's about how life passes us by, really. It has nothing to do with punishment, that is only if life itself is not a punishment.
This movie should've won best picture over Forrest Gump.
Red realizes that he was telling the parole board what they wanted to hear, knowing he keeps getting rejected, here, he takes responsibility for his actions, that's whatnmakes prisoners go free.
I still remember the applause in the cinema when the red stamp “Approved” was revealed 👏🏻 We love you Red
Red's philosophy is my philosophy regarding job interviews, life, friendships, romantic relationships, and existence itself.
This here is one of the greatest scene in cinema history, hands down.
before he was just telling them what he thought they wanted to hear, in the end he was honest, parole be damned.
He crushed that scene.
The moment that sold me on Freeman as an actor? When the parole board head turns the page to write something and we watch Red glance away to his left with the slightest of eye rolls. Great acting! Great directing! And great editing to NOT cut that out. It tells us all we need to know about Red, who knows (!) that he just sealed his fate for the next decade. Perfect setup for the twist!
Amazing scene.
The whole movie was a work of art.
Never realised this was Commander Bruce Maddox from star trek
One of the most incredible performances in film history :) A real rocket ship moment caught on film.
One of the greatest Actors of our time.
This is a great scene. Red gives them an honest answer and they know he has learned his lesson and he is finally parolled
This is what my next job interview will look like
I never understood why this movie flopped in the theater.
probably the title
I kind or reject the idea that the move was a flop. It has a relatively low budget and had a pretty good return. It returned a tidy profit for investors. Over the long haul it became quite profitable. If anything I think they would be wise to stop putting billions of dollars into blockbusters like comic book movies, Star Wars and Star Trek and make more of the "mid budget" movies that keep showing a positive return. You would get more diversity in characters, voices, stories, visions, roles, scenarios and such with far smaller losses for the "flops". We're even seeing it in premium cable and streaming services where producers, writers, director and actors will accept smaller upfront fees to make their passion projects with some degree of creative control. Short run series, smaller scale films etc. We're getting a golden age in television and projects that wouldn't have made it in the old studio big film days. With pretty good financial returns.
I know that the writers' strike indicated that some of the short season or limited run models did hurt staff writers who had to jump from gig to gig without getting something in the back end. There are some downsides. But oh my when a big budget film flops do they ever take a loss.
A formidable actor, and among the very best anywhere.
One of the best movies ever!. Nuff said.
I was hoping you guys would include the entire end💋🔥
You know, Red, hope is a good thing.
Perhaps Morgan Freeman's best in screen monologue!
This is one of the best movies ever !
This movie was just so damn good.
This is me after getting rejected from many job interviews😅
Red: “Prove to the court that I am sentient”
Parole Board Officer: “What?”
Red: “Oh sorry, wrong trial”
The whole movie was perfect...i want to shake the editors hand...for the carefully placed edits...i make vlogs so i m learning to edit..and this movie is a perfect lesson in storytelling and timing ie pacing...i never went to film school bit i think this movie is or should be part of the curriculum...
do you realize .....just how much capacity of....understanding things......has ...that....”sunny”......god bless him
One of the best films ever
Morgan Freeman was born to play this role!
It's my ambition to one day do my performance review with the boss in exactly this style.
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One of the greatest movies.....it gets greater evrytime I watch it
Brilliant speech,he played the card well and won.
This scene is where he earnt most of his freckles
I want to talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are....but I can't. Jesus that hit me.
without even blinking his eyes once.
They should remake this except make the main characters fall in love in jail and enter a relationship. Would make the two of them reuniting in end more powerful.