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@11:14 when the probation board stamps Red's, Morgan Freeman, file with a denial; the picture used was Morgan Freeman's son. When Stephen King wrote the novela, he mean described the character of Red as being a red head Irishman, hence the nickname Red. But Darabont, the director, liked Morgan Freeman's ability to speak. Thus, they added the joke that Freeman said, "it's probably because I'm Irish." Stephen King has never cashed the check for selling the movie rights to novela. It's because King loved the director, they are friend's, and he loved the movie.
Let me mention this as well. You two discuss the prison. It was an actual prison. It's located in Ohio. It was an old prison that was built about 100 years ago. It's no longer being used. I believe it is now abandoned.
@@marcusvachon845 And you can actually tour it as well. Exterior shots were shot at the actual prison in Mansfield...the built a set for the interiors based on the interior of the actual prison. Touring the prison is creepy.
Pulp Fiction,Lion King,Forrest Gump,Leon the Professional,True Lies,The Mask,Ace Ventura,Legends of the Fall,Speed came out the same year. What a year for movies
We hope to cover all of those on this channel, so many great pieces of art out there, it's a great time to start our journey through the history of cinema!
You know what always weirdly makes me confused? I never once remember doubting Andy's innocence when I first watched it - the thought never even crossed my mind that he wasn't innocent. But when I watch these videos, I feel like there's always so much doubt. Maybe I'm just too trusting of a person, Idk, just always confused me why I never even thought that he could be guilty
Brooks played magnificently by the late James Whitmore, broke my heart when he hung himself. He just couldn’t adjust to the outside world! Andy playing the music from The Marriage of Figaro over the loud speaker was such a classic scene!
They say it at the beginning of Red's parole hearing every time for how long he's been in there, and you missed it every time. Among so many other things.
The Redemption is about Red. He lacks hope, and in the end, he finally understands Andy. Red's comment about "maybe I'm Irish" was in reference to the book. Red is Irish in the book.
10/10 This is How Movies Should Be Made This movie is not your ordinary Hollywood flick. It has a great and deep message. This movie has a foundation and just kept on being built on from their and that foundation is hope. Other than just the message of this movie the acting was phenomenal. Tim Robbins gave one of the greatest performances ever. He was inspiring, intelligent and most of all positive. His performance just made me smile. Robbins plays Andy Dufresne who was wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and her lover. He is gets to life sentences but yet never gives up hope. In he becomes friends with Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding played by Morgan Freeman. Freeman who gives the finest performance of his career has unlike Robbins lost hope. He is in deep regret of the crime that he committed. His way of deflecting the pain away is by trying to not feel anything at all. With his friendship with Andy he learns that without our hopes and dreams we have nothing. Andy also becomes friends with the rest of Red's group. James Whitmore also gave a great performance as Brooks Halten who gets out of prison parole but in the words of Red he has been "institutionalized". The directing by Frank Darabont was just magnificent. He kept this movie at a great steady pace along with the writing and great cinematography. He portrayed prison life in such a horrifying way, but not in terms of the physical pain but the stress and pain that wares mentally on the inmates, some of which deserve a second chance. Whatever you do, don't listen to the people who say this movie is overrated because this is one of the most inspiring and greatest movies ever. It has everything you could possibly want.
Sorry, but I think it is one of the most overrated movies of all time. It's a great movie, but not nearly close to one of the best of all time. There are so many plot holes and unbelievable things that kind of take you out of the movie.
Tim Robbins is an Oscar winning actor. He starred in many films, "Bull Durham," "Hudsucker Proxy," "Mystic River," "Portlandia," "Castle Rock," "Dead Man Walking," and numerous other films.
I dont think he is a good actor at all outside of this movie. Even in this movie there are a bunch of scenes he creeps me out. I am sure this is why he cant have a woman his own age in reality. Only one like 30 years younger.
@@brettrobinson2901 Everyone elses opinion is irrelvant when it comes to thinking about mine. If you like Beets the vegetable, it is not going to make me eat them. Understand? So might as well stop wasting your time with others opinions on a subject.
When I was in college around 20 years ago I did a student exchange program and lived in mexico for 6 weeks. The one free weekend we had my friends and I went to the place Andy escapes to, Zihuatanejo. It's the single most beautiful place I've ever been. I remember sitting at a table on the beach, with my new friends, drinking a coco loco. This mariachi band walked up to us and we paid them a couple of bucks to play Hotel California while we drank on the beach. I remember looking around at all of us drinking Ice cold drinks on a warm sunny day at the beach and thinking to myself, this moment is perfect. Still do 20 years later.
The circumstances made him appear guilty. Often, it is the husband that is the murderer in crimes of passion and infidelity. The fact they could not find the gun where he said he threw it, and the fact he had means, motive and opportunity, made it highly suspicious.
@@omgbygollywow Yes, but what I was pointing out he wasn't "framed", which would require that false evidence or false testimony was allowed but being "railroaded" indicates that despite the lack of concrete evidence, he was wrongfully convicted based solely on circumstantial evidence.
It’s not a Canadian suit it’s a Canadian tuxedo. Red tells Andy that going to Mexico was a “shitty pipe dream…”. And then Andy escaped through a shitty pipe.
The picture of young Red in his parole file is his son, Alfonso Freeman. He's also the inmate doing the "reeling 'em in" motion when Andy first arrives.
If you guys pay close attention, when Brooks was set free, the camera was in front of him and showed the prison that he wanted to return to behind him. When Red was set free, the camera was behind him, showing the free life that he wanted to return to in front of him. On another note:since the book was named in this movie, I think you guys would actually love “The Count Of Cristo” 2002 film.
"Who is Rita Hayworth?" Wow, how time flies and it shows how people are soon forgotten. In the 1950s, Rita Hayworth was like what Scarlett Johansson is today.
Great reaction and commentary, thanks. The actor who played Boggs also played Drake, one of the marines in the film Aliens. Also, Red's parole file photo is actually Morgan Freeman's real life son.
I won't comment on the movie (it's an obvious 10/10) but on your reaction type / structure / whatever: 1) Do what you feel like doing. 2) Personally I want long intros, long outros. Discuss what you know, what are your predictions, what are your afterthoughts. That's what I'm mainly here for. I'm not fond of reactions where during the end credits people go" ok, thanks, bye". If I'm tuning into your channel it means I relate somehow to you and I'm interested in what you have to say. Thanks!
I agree. Most reactors barely say anything. The thing that caused me to sub was that they actually have discussion both before and after. In my opinion, they're getting better at this with every video, especially Gabi. Just my thoughts
(Tell me you're a Millennial, without telling me you're a Millenial.) "He's got all this information in his head. Who carries it?" EVERYONE born before smart phones. It was called "knowledge."
Lmao tell us you don’t know what a millennial is without tell us you don’t know what a millennial is… if they’re 25 they aren’t millennials… you obviously need to work on getting some “knowledge” 😂🤡
"Million Dollar Baby" by Clint Eastwood is another MASTERPIECE! Morgan Freeman, Hillary Swank, and Clint Eastwood amongst others. It won a ton of awards but still VERY underrated!!! Trust me. It's amazing.
42:30 Unfortunately you cut out the part where Tommy told the story of the real murderer, proving that Andy is innocent. I am always looking for this one because it is the main key element in the whole movie representing a twist, especially because you guys indicated before this point that Andy really murdered his wife because he has this cold and creepy look. Overall enjoyed your reaction and aftermath thoughts!
@@TheDravic Lol! That's not the point. They cut the most key moment of the movie out. I've watched dozens of reactions to this movie, and it's the first time someone cuts this moment out entirely.
Red has been in Shawshank 20 YEARS, not 25. A prison needs administrative offices, storerooms for food, clothing, a laundry, cafeteria and dining room, meeting rooms for hearings, and more. The powder is lice killer; don't want an invasion of body lice in a group facility like a prison. I'm sure you'd eventually figure it out, Andy's rock hammer is used to carve his own chess pieces out of the rocks he manages to get. Worried about the poster and the rocks?! How about fear of the warden finding the rock hammer?! Brooks was put into Shawshank in 1905 ("nineteen-ought-five"), got the librarian position in 1912, been in prison around 44 years at the time Andy was reassigned to the library! Red's final parole hearing was after his 40TH YEAR. Red's discovery of HOPE is the redemption.
Fingerprinting used to identify criminals can be traced back to the time of Hammurabi (1792-1750 BC), and the modern method can be traced to Alfonse Bertillon in in 1879, so yeah, they had fingerprinting technology "back then".
"Come And See" from 1985 would make a great reaction, it's regarded by many the greatest war movie of all time and had the number one spot on the Letterboxd top 250 films ever made.
Red was actually an Irishman in the book.. it's a great callback haha. You must check out "Stand by Me" based on Stephen King's "The Body", from the same collection of short stories as this one. Love as always ❤
finally you guys react to the magnificent Shawshank Redemption hahaha. By the end of the movie it's evident that Andy and Red were nothing short of brothers, they spent 2 whole decades getting to know each other
Morgan Freeman & the white guy. 😂 I think Tim Robbins is underrated. He low key had a ton of great performances in his career…even in some mediocre movies. One of my favorite guilty pleasure movies he was in is a comedy with Martin Lawrence called Nothing to Lose. One of my favorite great movies he was in was a movie called Mystic River, which had an amazing cast overall.
(I have a few time-coded comments at the end...) This film REALLY resonates with me. I'm a Desert Storm veteran. I was suffering from PTSD, but the Army misdiagnosed me with a condition that wouldn't receive treatment or compensation. I filed for compensation in 1993, but was denied. (A LOT of soldiers were misdiagnosed with personality and adjustment disorders by the military. Often, this was done intentionally, because it allowed the military discharge those "problem" soldiers quickly and without any need to provide medical care or compensation. And this isn't my conspiracy theory. The military recently lost several lawsuits over this.) I then spent the next 30 years living below the federal poverty level with a misdiagnosed mental illness, being given the worst possible medications. In 2022, the VA corrected my diagnosis to PTSD. I then spent 6 months reliving 30 years of trauma going through my records to complete a new compensation claim. In October 2022, I finally got my disability compensation. Andy was sentenced to prison for a crime he didn't commit. I was discharged and thrown away for a medical condition I didn't have. Andy spent 19 years in prison. I spent 30 years in a prison of poverty and mental illness. When I was preparing my case for the VA (and reliving my trauma), I felt like Andy crawling through those 500 yards of shit-smelling foulness. When the VA awarded me the disability compensation, I felt like Andy driving through Fort Hancock, Texas in a convertible with the top down. And now, I'm living a modestly comfortable life in my own Zihuatenejo. The one difference is that 28 years of my severance pay were stolen thanks to Trump's "fixing" the VA claims backlog. (By "fixing" I mean denying veterans the right to reopen old claims. If the VA had realized their mistake just 2 years earlier, I wouldn't have gotten financially screwed.) Anyways... [00:08:56] The gun. First, removing the gun from the cloth is more dramatic; the gun is revealed instead of just shown. Second, guns need to be cleaned and oiled. Cleaning the gun metal makes it more susceptible to rust. Adding the oil protects the metal. But, the oil attracts dust. So, to prevent that, the oiled gun is wrapped in a cloth to protect it. They did have fingerprinting at that time. However, if it had been tossed in the river, the fingerprints would likely have been removed. The gun would have still been useful to Andy because they also had ballistic testing at that time. A bullet fired from Andy's gun could have been compared to the bullets in the victims. [00:14:26] The Powder: It is a delousing powder. The same thing as flea powder for dogs. There are several possibilities for what the chemical actually was. I think it was most likely NCI powder (96% napthalene, 2% creosote, and 2% iodoform). It may have been MYL (a mixture of pyrethrins) or DDT (Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane), both of which were used by the US Military in WWII. However, I doubt a poorly-funded prison in Maine would be receiving the military's latest chemicals. (By the way, DDT is some VERY NASTY stuff. The US banned its use in 1972.) [00:30:45] The "typewriter" thing is a manual 10-key adding machine. The number pads on modern keyboards are based on those adding machines. I'm not sure how things are today, but back in the 80's learning 10-key was essential in accounting. [00:35:15] The $200 dollar check probably arrived in 1955. In 2023, that would be a little over $2,200. [00:40:07] The "Harvey the Rabbit" Andy is talking about is from the 1950 film Harvey (with James Stewart). I highly recommend it. [00:51:28] That $370,000 would be worth almost $3.5 million in 2023. [00:51:37] Yes, "The Daily Bugle" is in the Spider Man comics. However, "The Daily Bugle" is a common name for newspapers, like "... Times" and probably "... Statesman". I couldn't find a Daily Bugle, but I did find a "Portland Press Herald" that was being published around that time. [00:57:55] People use all kinds of masks to hide their bad behavior. Billionaires use the masks of "job creators" and "philanthropists" to hide their greedy behavior. We've had people who use "devotion to country" as a mask to hide their desire to destroy that country. There really aren't more people hiding their crimes behind a mask of religious piety. It just seems that way because the hypocrisy of that piety is especially repugnant. [01:10:14] Keeping in mind that I am NOT a scholar of the civil rights movement... It is my understanding that most of the codified civil rights violations were happening in the South. Things like designated bus seats, water fountains, etc. I suspect that the racism in 1960's Maine was mostly informal.
New sub. I like your intro and review, like you said if someone wants to skip, the new YT feature makes it easy for anyone to see timeline! Also i appreciate the effort u put in editing such a long movie, and having the best parts in YT cut 👍
A piece of trivia... toward the beginning, when Andy arrives at the prison and they are being walked off the bus, the inmate that says "reelin' 'em in" was played by Morgan Freeman's son, Alfonso Freeman.
Green Mile, blade runner movies, about time, whiplash, wolf of wall street, la la land, se7en, django unchained , good will hunting, sound of metal, coco and soul are some from a wide variety of genres that I would love to hear your input on. Keep up the great work, really enjoy your discussions 👍
Tim Robbins, aka The White Guy, also did Jacob's Ladder and Arlington Road, both movies are really good. He also had a memorable small part in War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise. As for how deep a story is, well I think as long as you can point to things in the movie to support your interpretation then no one can say you're wrong. Some people might see this movie as 'just a prison movie' and that's all, even though the movie itself underlines 'hope'.
Love you guys break down first of all. But I think when he first thought about breaking out, is when he was carving his name and the wall started to break off easy. Being a man that understood Time/pressure of rocks or maybe the pressure he was under…idk. Love the detailed break down again. Yall make ppl think super outside the box. Keep doing it!!!!
Dude! I'm an outdoors/fitness kind of cat but you guys rock the casbah so hard with your reactions that here I am on a Sunday watching a FIFTH reaction of yours IN A ROW! smh lol Peace and aloha
The redemptiom is about RED, that is why he is called this way "RED emption". Red tells us the story of how Andy influenced him. He thought he would die in the prison but thanks to the friendship with Andy he got his SHAWSHANK RED EMPTION
The facility they shot the movie at was the former Ohio State Reformatory. Its a historic site that does tours and is in their 9th year of the Shawshank Hustle marathon. I'm participating this year.
Another prison movie I feel doesn't get enough love is "The Count of Monte Cristo". It's a 2002 movie that's really really good and I don't see many reactions for it.
When asked why they call him Redd, Morgan Freeman replies "Maybe it's because I'm Irish" ... He says that, because in the novel this movie is based off of, the character Redd is in fact Irish ... Morgan says that line as a nod to his character in the novel.
It never ceases to amaze me how young ones never have an inkling of what the scene about the delousing powder was all about. How times have changed...!
Probably been mentioned, but ... Since you mentioned Spongebob ... The main guard, Captain Hadley is played by Clancey Brown ... He is also the voice of Mr. Krabbs on Spongebob.
Just like 'Benny', Andy and other prisoners; Brooks carved his name on his prison wall. Sadly, he's 'prison' was on the outside 😭 This truly was and is an amazing movie..
Haha I really like your intros. Sitting around and shooting the shit with friends about movies (and any tangents you may go off on)...is literally what life's all about! LOL Don't change a thing. Also fun fact...this was Morgan Freeman's first time doing a voice-over! Crazy right?!
I love that you guys mention Morgan Freeman's voice being so good for narration and such, since this is the movie that started that idea. As for a godly presence, you'll have to watch Bruce Almighty for that one. 😉
Interesting point about symbols of the passage of time. Another such symbol were the sexpot posters. Rita Hayworth was the sexpot of 1940’s cinema. Marilyn Monroe represented their incarceration during her 1950’s heyday. Raquel Welch represented the time passage into the 1960’s. Bus segregation seating primarily was a Southern issue, I think. Red was on a Greyhound leaving from Maine. Racial seating may not have been an issue on that type of bus versus a southern city mass transit bus.
I think it's funny how millennial reactors think Freeman looks so young in this movie. I'm over fifty, grew up watching Mr. Freeman and he's always looked old to me.
49:25 In the script only the warden was supposed to be looking, but Morgan and Clancy knew that could be an iconic shot, so they improvised looking too, which makes sense to me, they'd all be curious.
Your lady mentioned marriage, my man. And she got you to shake hands on it. No escape now. (Actually, she seems like a great person. I wish I'd met someone like her when I was your age, in 1976.) Tim Robbins is six foot five. He towered over everyone. The director had to position the cameras and arrange the actors so Robbins's height wasn't a distraction. You should see him in the movie Bull Durham (1988). The contrast between the roles is mind-boggling. His character in Bull Durham, Ebbie Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh, is as much a flake and a goof as Andy Dufresne is a genius with unlimited resource and nerve, playing the long game the entire time. Robbins is a great actor.
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@11:14 when the probation board stamps Red's, Morgan Freeman, file with a denial; the picture used was Morgan Freeman's son.
When Stephen King wrote the novela, he mean described the character of Red as being a red head Irishman, hence the nickname Red. But Darabont, the director, liked Morgan Freeman's ability to speak. Thus, they added the joke that Freeman said, "it's probably because I'm Irish."
Stephen King has never cashed the check for selling the movie rights to novela. It's because King loved the director, they are friend's, and he loved the movie.
Let me mention this as well. You two discuss the prison. It was an actual prison. It's located in Ohio. It was an old prison that was built about 100 years ago. It's no longer being used. I believe it is now abandoned.
@@marcusvachon845 And you can actually tour it as well. Exterior shots were shot at the actual prison in Mansfield...the built a set for the interiors based on the interior of the actual prison. Touring the prison is creepy.
Pulp Fiction,Lion King,Forrest Gump,Leon the Professional,True Lies,The Mask,Ace Ventura,Legends of the Fall,Speed came out the same year. What a year for movies
We hope to cover all of those on this channel, so many great pieces of art out there, it's a great time to start our journey through the history of cinema!
Half named are notable... Half are shit. Same as any year.
The 90's had a lot of great years for movies, but for my money 2007 has been the best 'modern' year for cinema
@@mwilsonUT Why?
@@mwilsonUT Just asking why you are partial to 2007...?
You know what always weirdly makes me confused? I never once remember doubting Andy's innocence when I first watched it - the thought never even crossed my mind that he wasn't innocent. But when I watch these videos, I feel like there's always so much doubt. Maybe I'm just too trusting of a person, Idk, just always confused me why I never even thought that he could be guilty
He asked for the hammer to carve rocks, not to escape. That was by accident when he was trying to carve his name
Have respect his name is Tim Robbins and did not die out..he is a treasure of an actor..
Films such as The Player, Short Cuts, and The Hudsucker Proxy validate that.
Brooks played magnificently by the late James Whitmore, broke my heart when he hung himself. He just couldn’t adjust to the outside world! Andy playing the music from The Marriage of Figaro over the loud speaker was such a classic scene!
The way he narrates "I was hoping Jake would stop by, and say hello." -- that breaks me.
They say it at the beginning of Red's parole hearing every time for how long he's been in there, and you missed it every time. Among so many other things.
Exactly
That bugged the sheet out of me.
They are always talking. Sometimes better to react than to keep talking. Talking does not equate to reacting.
That's why I stop watching this channel, in 12:01 Morgan said "1949" then the guy starting to guess what year it is by looking at the car😂
The Redemption is about Red. He lacks hope, and in the end, he finally understands Andy.
Red's comment about "maybe I'm Irish" was in reference to the book. Red is Irish in the book.
10/10
This is How Movies Should Be Made
This movie is not your ordinary Hollywood flick. It has a great and deep message. This movie has a foundation and just kept on being built on from their and that foundation is hope.
Other than just the message of this movie the acting was phenomenal. Tim Robbins gave one of the greatest performances ever. He was inspiring, intelligent and most of all positive. His performance just made me smile. Robbins plays Andy Dufresne who was wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and her lover. He is gets to life sentences but yet never gives up hope. In he becomes friends with Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding played by Morgan Freeman. Freeman who gives the finest performance of his career has unlike Robbins lost hope. He is in deep regret of the crime that he committed. His way of deflecting the pain away is by trying to not feel anything at all. With his friendship with Andy he learns that without our hopes and dreams we have nothing. Andy also becomes friends with the rest of Red's group. James Whitmore also gave a great performance as Brooks Halten who gets out of prison parole but in the words of Red he has been "institutionalized".
The directing by Frank Darabont was just magnificent. He kept this movie at a great steady pace along with the writing and great cinematography. He portrayed prison life in such a horrifying way, but not in terms of the physical pain but the stress and pain that wares mentally on the inmates, some of which deserve a second chance.
Whatever you do, don't listen to the people who say this movie is overrated because this is one of the most inspiring and greatest movies ever. It has everything you could possibly want.
Sorry, but I think it is one of the most overrated movies of all time. It's a great movie, but not nearly close to one of the best of all time. There are so many plot holes and unbelievable things that kind of take you out of the movie.
@@omgbygollywow what is the plot hole?. . . .
12:01 Dude, Morgan just told you the year. Open your f*ckin' ears! 😉
I was about to say that, Morgan said 1949 then the guy starting to guess the year by the car 😂
Tim Robbins is an Oscar winning actor. He starred in many films, "Bull Durham," "Hudsucker Proxy," "Mystic River," "Portlandia," "Castle Rock," "Dead Man Walking," and numerous other films.
I dont think he is a good actor at all outside of this movie. Even in this movie there are a bunch of scenes he creeps me out. I am sure this is why he cant have a woman his own age in reality. Only one like 30 years younger.
@@WheresWaldo05 Tim Robbins was married to Susan Sarandon, who is 12 years older than him, for 20+ years
@@WheresWaldo05Well...not many would share your point of view...
@@charlieboy6315 Thanks for helping make my case.
@@brettrobinson2901 Everyone elses opinion is irrelvant when it comes to thinking about mine.
If you like Beets the vegetable, it is not going to make me eat them. Understand? So might as well stop wasting your time with others opinions on a subject.
When I was in college around 20 years ago I did a student exchange program and lived in mexico for 6 weeks. The one free weekend we had my friends and I went to the place Andy escapes to, Zihuatanejo. It's the single most beautiful place I've ever been.
I remember sitting at a table on the beach, with my new friends, drinking a coco loco. This mariachi band walked up to us and we paid them a couple of bucks to play Hotel California while we drank on the beach. I remember looking around at all of us drinking Ice cold drinks on a warm sunny day at the beach and thinking to myself, this moment is perfect.
Still do 20 years later.
Andy wasn't "framed" for the murders because the evidence wasn't made up to place the blame on him. At most, he was "railroaded" for the murders.
The circumstances made him appear guilty. Often, it is the husband that is the murderer in crimes of passion and infidelity. The fact they could not find the gun where he said he threw it, and the fact he had means, motive and opportunity, made it highly suspicious.
@@omgbygollywow Yes, but what I was pointing out he wasn't "framed", which would require that false evidence or false testimony was allowed but being "railroaded" indicates that despite the lack of concrete evidence, he was wrongfully convicted based solely on circumstantial evidence.
@@chuckster255 Yes, I was confirming what you said.
It’s not a Canadian suit it’s a Canadian tuxedo.
Red tells Andy that going to Mexico was a “shitty pipe dream…”. And then Andy escaped through a shitty pipe.
You discussed at the beginning your (relatively) long intros. I love your long intros! (And you long discussions afterwards.) Great stuff! Thanks.
Tim Robbins like many great actors and actresses can express themselves without words. Just a look is very effective.
One of the best Stephen King adaptations ever! Great reaction!
Stephen King is a fabulous storyteller. The 'horror' in this story is the way some people treat other people! Great reaction.
The picture of young Red in his parole file is his son, Alfonso Freeman. He's also the inmate doing the "reeling 'em in" motion when Andy first arrives.
If you guys pay close attention, when Brooks was set free, the camera was in front of him and showed the prison that he wanted to return to behind him. When Red was set free, the camera was behind him, showing the free life that he wanted to return to in front of him.
On another note:since the book was named in this movie, I think you guys would actually love “The Count Of Cristo” 2002 film.
"Who is Rita Hayworth?" Wow, how time flies and it shows how people are soon forgotten. In the 1950s, Rita Hayworth was like what Scarlett Johansson is today.
Great reaction and commentary, thanks. The actor who played Boggs also played Drake, one of the marines in the film Aliens. Also, Red's parole file photo is actually Morgan Freeman's real life son.
I won't comment on the movie (it's an obvious 10/10) but on your reaction type / structure / whatever:
1) Do what you feel like doing.
2) Personally I want long intros, long outros. Discuss what you know, what are your predictions, what are your afterthoughts. That's what I'm mainly here for. I'm not fond of reactions where during the end credits people go" ok, thanks, bye". If I'm tuning into your channel it means I relate somehow to you and I'm interested in what you have to say.
Thanks!
I agree. Most reactors barely say anything. The thing that caused me to sub was that they actually have discussion both before and after. In my opinion, they're getting better at this with every video, especially Gabi. Just my thoughts
Good for you for standing up to commenters who try to push you around concernibg your approach. You do you!
(Tell me you're a Millennial, without telling me you're a Millenial.) "He's got all this information in his head. Who carries it?" EVERYONE born before smart phones. It was called "knowledge."
Lmao tell us you don’t know what a millennial is without tell us you don’t know what a millennial is… if they’re 25 they aren’t millennials… you obviously need to work on getting some “knowledge” 😂🤡
30:49 "Oh look, a typewriter thing." 😂😂
As a kid, I remember seeing Morgan Freeman on the kid's show "The Electric Company:" He was Easy Reader, and was cool and hip back then (early 1970s).
"Million Dollar Baby" by Clint Eastwood is another MASTERPIECE! Morgan Freeman, Hillary Swank, and Clint Eastwood amongst others. It won a ton of awards but still VERY underrated!!! Trust me. It's amazing.
I have a hard time watching that movie. I can never see it again, because of the subject matter and what happens.
42:30 Unfortunately you cut out the part where Tommy told the story of the real murderer, proving that Andy is innocent. I am always looking for this one because it is the main key element in the whole movie representing a twist, especially because you guys indicated before this point that Andy really murdered his wife because he has this cold and creepy look. Overall enjoyed your reaction and aftermath thoughts!
The description literally says
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@@TheDravic Lol! That's not the point. They cut the most key moment of the movie out. I've watched dozens of reactions to this movie, and it's the first time someone cuts this moment out entirely.
Yeah, a huge story point to completely omit, odd editing choice.
@@TheDravic - That shouldn’t leave such a key point out of the movie, there was no point in leaving it out. You’re point was not made buddy.
@@kristianberg4264 how would they know to keep it in?
I really like that you are taking notes during the movie.
Interesting decision to edit out the first revelation of the movie
There is so many great movies out that i would find it impossible for me to pick a best movie of all
Fun Fact : $370,000 in 1966 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $3,464,330.56 today.
I could listen to Morgan Freeman narrate my life and it would be interesting! 😅
Red has been in Shawshank 20 YEARS, not 25. A prison needs administrative offices, storerooms for food, clothing, a laundry, cafeteria and dining room, meeting rooms for hearings, and more. The powder is lice killer; don't want an invasion of body lice in a group facility like a prison. I'm sure you'd eventually figure it out, Andy's rock hammer is used to carve his own chess pieces out of the rocks he manages to get. Worried about the poster and the rocks?! How about fear of the warden finding the rock hammer?! Brooks was put into Shawshank in 1905 ("nineteen-ought-five"), got the librarian position in 1912, been in prison around 44 years at the time Andy was reassigned to the library! Red's final parole hearing was after his 40TH YEAR. Red's discovery of HOPE is the redemption.
Woah wow what a huge reaction video
Fingerprinting used to identify criminals can be traced back to the time of Hammurabi (1792-1750 BC), and the modern method can be traced to Alfonse Bertillon in in 1879, so yeah, they had fingerprinting technology "back then".
Saw it in the theater at 17 years old. Its still my favorite movie. A great great movie in an era of great movies.
Can’t wait for you guys to see this movie. It’s gonna be a ride for sure. I used to watch this every night when I went to bed.
What a strange edit, who misses out one of the pivitol moments? In fact it was a few pivitol moments.Thats bizarre.
"Come And See" from 1985 would make a great reaction, it's regarded by many the greatest war movie of all time and had the number one spot on the Letterboxd top 250 films ever made.
in the novella "red" was actually a white irish guy... but in this his last name is Redding so it still works
Red was actually an Irishman in the book.. it's a great callback haha. You must check out "Stand by Me" based on Stephen King's "The Body", from the same collection of short stories as this one. Love as always ❤
I like that they take notes.
My top 5 favorite of all time.
Truly exceptional, we didn't think we'd come across a film as impactful as Forrest Gump but this... this is up there now for us!
Honesty and a new warden!
finally you guys react to the magnificent Shawshank Redemption hahaha. By the end of the movie it's evident that Andy and Red were nothing short of brothers, they spent 2 whole decades getting to know each other
Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it.
Morgan Freeman & the white guy. 😂
I think Tim Robbins is underrated. He low key had a ton of great performances in his career…even in some mediocre movies.
One of my favorite guilty pleasure movies he was in is a comedy with Martin Lawrence called Nothing to Lose.
One of my favorite great movies he was in was a movie called Mystic River, which had an amazing cast overall.
Don't forget he was Nuke LaLoosh in the movie Bull Durham as well. 😊
@@Fred-vy1hm Yes! Great one!
I enjoy your whole vids . One of my.favs movies .
I enjoy your channel 😍✊
I never noticed that it was Exodus, thank you😊😊😊
(I have a few time-coded comments at the end...)
This film REALLY resonates with me.
I'm a Desert Storm veteran. I was suffering from PTSD, but the Army misdiagnosed me with a condition that wouldn't receive treatment or compensation.
I filed for compensation in 1993, but was denied.
(A LOT of soldiers were misdiagnosed with personality and adjustment disorders by the military. Often, this was done intentionally, because it allowed the military discharge those "problem" soldiers quickly and without any need to provide medical care or compensation. And this isn't my conspiracy theory. The military recently lost several lawsuits over this.)
I then spent the next 30 years living below the federal poverty level with a misdiagnosed mental illness, being given the worst possible medications.
In 2022, the VA corrected my diagnosis to PTSD. I then spent 6 months reliving 30 years of trauma going through my records to complete a new compensation claim.
In October 2022, I finally got my disability compensation.
Andy was sentenced to prison for a crime he didn't commit. I was discharged and thrown away for a medical condition I didn't have. Andy spent 19 years in prison. I spent 30 years in a prison of poverty and mental illness.
When I was preparing my case for the VA (and reliving my trauma), I felt like Andy crawling through those 500 yards of shit-smelling foulness.
When the VA awarded me the disability compensation, I felt like Andy driving through Fort Hancock, Texas in a convertible with the top down.
And now, I'm living a modestly comfortable life in my own Zihuatenejo.
The one difference is that 28 years of my severance pay were stolen thanks to Trump's "fixing" the VA claims backlog. (By "fixing" I mean denying veterans the right to reopen old claims. If the VA had realized their mistake just 2 years earlier, I wouldn't have gotten financially screwed.)
Anyways...
[00:08:56] The gun. First, removing the gun from the cloth is more dramatic; the gun is revealed instead of just shown. Second, guns need to be cleaned and oiled. Cleaning the gun metal makes it more susceptible to rust. Adding the oil protects the metal. But, the oil attracts dust. So, to prevent that, the oiled gun is wrapped in a cloth to protect it.
They did have fingerprinting at that time. However, if it had been tossed in the river, the fingerprints would likely have been removed. The gun would have still been useful to Andy because they also had ballistic testing at that time. A bullet fired from Andy's gun could have been compared to the bullets in the victims.
[00:14:26] The Powder: It is a delousing powder. The same thing as flea powder for dogs. There are several possibilities for what the chemical actually was.
I think it was most likely NCI powder (96% napthalene, 2% creosote, and 2% iodoform).
It may have been MYL (a mixture of pyrethrins) or DDT (Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane), both of which were used by the US Military in WWII.
However, I doubt a poorly-funded prison in Maine would be receiving the military's latest chemicals.
(By the way, DDT is some VERY NASTY stuff. The US banned its use in 1972.)
[00:30:45] The "typewriter" thing is a manual 10-key adding machine. The number pads on modern keyboards are based on those adding machines. I'm not sure how things are today, but back in the 80's learning 10-key was essential in accounting.
[00:35:15] The $200 dollar check probably arrived in 1955. In 2023, that would be a little over $2,200.
[00:40:07] The "Harvey the Rabbit" Andy is talking about is from the 1950 film Harvey (with James Stewart). I highly recommend it.
[00:51:28] That $370,000 would be worth almost $3.5 million in 2023.
[00:51:37] Yes, "The Daily Bugle" is in the Spider Man comics. However, "The Daily Bugle" is a common name for newspapers, like "... Times" and probably "... Statesman". I couldn't find a Daily Bugle, but I did find a "Portland Press Herald" that was being published around that time.
[00:57:55] People use all kinds of masks to hide their bad behavior. Billionaires use the masks of "job creators" and "philanthropists" to hide their greedy behavior. We've had people who use "devotion to country" as a mask to hide their desire to destroy that country.
There really aren't more people hiding their crimes behind a mask of religious piety. It just seems that way because the hypocrisy of that piety is especially repugnant.
[01:10:14] Keeping in mind that I am NOT a scholar of the civil rights movement...
It is my understanding that most of the codified civil rights violations were happening in the South. Things like designated bus seats, water fountains, etc. I suspect that the racism in 1960's Maine was mostly informal.
New sub. I like your intro and review, like you said if someone wants to skip, the new YT feature makes it easy for anyone to see timeline! Also i appreciate the effort u put in editing such a long movie, and having the best parts in YT cut 👍
They all four are great reactors🙌🌚
New to the channel..love your approach, looking forward to more XO
"Morgan Freeman and the White guy" 😂
Great reaction 💯
One of my favorites! Beautiful movie 🥲
Yes, they had fingerprinting technology back then, but it was very much in its infancy.
A piece of trivia... toward the beginning, when Andy arrives at the prison and they are being walked off the bus, the inmate that says "reelin' 'em in" was played by Morgan Freeman's son, Alfonso Freeman.
Green Mile, blade runner movies, about time, whiplash, wolf of wall street, la la land, se7en, django unchained , good will hunting, sound of metal, coco and soul are some from a wide variety of genres that I would love to hear your input on. Keep up the great work, really enjoy your discussions 👍
"He's gonna get busy tonight." Well, yeah, but... not in the way you thought.
They didn't literally meet in paradise. They figuratively met in paradise.
I can see you guys overcoming the tough new subscribers hurdle. Good luck
Fingerprinting had been around for a very long time, but it started in the U.S. around 1902.
Tim Robbins, aka The White Guy, also did Jacob's Ladder and Arlington Road, both movies are really good. He also had a memorable small part in War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise. As for how deep a story is, well I think as long as you can point to things in the movie to support your interpretation then no one can say you're wrong. Some people might see this movie as 'just a prison movie' and that's all, even though the movie itself underlines 'hope'.
Love you guys break down first of all. But I think when he first thought about breaking out, is when he was carving his name and the wall started to break off easy. Being a man that understood
Time/pressure of rocks or maybe the pressure he was under…idk. Love the detailed break down again. Yall make ppl think super outside the box. Keep doing it!!!!
“Crazy” is not a one-word-fits-every-single-situation adjective. Expand your vocabulary. 😉
28:42 and I think he is cool!! So between the three of us, we think he is cool, calm and collected. Allllllright.... I'll see myself out.
45:20 Very true. And today we have so many people permanently in solitary. *Children* are often in solitary for their "safety".
Dude! I'm an outdoors/fitness kind of cat but you guys rock the casbah so hard with your reactions that here I am on a Sunday watching a FIFTH reaction of yours IN A ROW! smh lol
Peace and aloha
The redemptiom is about RED, that is why he is called this way "RED emption". Red tells us the story of how Andy influenced him. He thought he would die in the prison but thanks to the friendship with Andy he got his SHAWSHANK RED EMPTION
The front of the prison is to show how the prison had an exterior to present to the outside world, and to hide the realities of the prison within.
The facility they shot the movie at was the former Ohio State Reformatory. Its a historic site that does tours and is in their 9th year of the Shawshank Hustle marathon. I'm participating this year.
I don't think I ever noticed that the ax was kept in the bible starting at Exodus before. Good observation.
i totally forgot that Chuck Rhoades Sr. was the prosecutor! 🤣🤣
Another prison movie I feel doesn't get enough love is "The Count of Monte Cristo". It's a 2002 movie that's really really good and I don't see many reactions for it.
“Hey, 6 to 7 inches…that’s above average.” 🤣❤️
"baby powder" 😂😂😂😂
When asked why they call him Redd, Morgan Freeman replies "Maybe it's because I'm Irish" ... He says that, because in the novel this movie is based off of, the character Redd is in fact Irish ... Morgan says that line as a nod to his character in the novel.
"So in 1949"
"So this is like the 50s?"
Close enough
53:31 the harmonica playing here was just befitting.
It never ceases to amaze me how young ones never have an inkling of what the scene about the delousing powder was all about. How times have changed...!
09:10 Oiled cloth to keep it from rusting
Probably been mentioned, but ... Since you mentioned Spongebob ... The main guard, Captain Hadley is played by Clancey Brown ... He is also the voice of Mr. Krabbs on Spongebob.
Just like 'Benny', Andy and other prisoners; Brooks carved his name on his prison wall. Sadly, he's 'prison' was on the outside 😭 This truly was and is an amazing movie..
"We stole a balloon!"
You guys have the absolute best reactions and commentary!!
I knew it was a gun because they always wrapped it in a rag...? proceeds to predict every twist in the plot... never saw this movie before!
Haha I really like your intros. Sitting around and shooting the shit with friends about movies (and any tangents you may go off on)...is literally what life's all about! LOL Don't change a thing.
Also fun fact...this was Morgan Freeman's first time doing a voice-over! Crazy right?!
Facts bro, it’s your channel do whatever you want. Loving the content so far
I love that you guys mention Morgan Freeman's voice being so good for narration and such, since this is the movie that started that idea. As for a godly presence, you'll have to watch Bruce Almighty for that one. 😉
Interesting point about symbols of the passage of time. Another such symbol were the sexpot posters. Rita Hayworth was the sexpot of 1940’s cinema. Marilyn Monroe represented their incarceration during her 1950’s heyday. Raquel Welch represented the time passage into the 1960’s.
Bus segregation seating primarily was a Southern issue, I think. Red was on a Greyhound leaving from Maine. Racial seating may not have been an issue on that type of bus versus a southern city mass transit bus.
I can't believe you didn't cry at the end! Possibly the greatest movie of all time. Stephen King is once again proven to be the goat.. 🐐
How in the world to do you skip to Andy talking to the warden and cut out the discovery process of Tommy's testimony? Who's doing the edit???
Yeah, I was waiting for that scene too because he kept saying how Andy looks like a killer. 😂
I think it's funny how millennial reactors think Freeman looks so young in this movie. I'm over fifty, grew up watching Mr. Freeman and he's always looked old to me.
49:25 In the script only the warden was supposed to be looking, but Morgan and Clancy knew that could be an iconic shot, so they improvised looking too, which makes sense to me, they'd all be curious.
If she says it's a castle, then it's a castle 😂
Love to get your guys reaction to Prisoners.
Your lady mentioned marriage, my man. And she got you to shake hands on it. No escape now.
(Actually, she seems like a great person. I wish I'd met someone like her when I was your age, in 1976.)
Tim Robbins is six foot five. He towered over everyone. The director had to position the cameras and arrange the actors so Robbins's height wasn't a distraction. You should see him in the movie Bull Durham (1988). The contrast between the roles is mind-boggling. His character in Bull Durham, Ebbie Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh, is as much a flake and a goof as Andy Dufresne is a genius with unlimited resource and nerve, playing the long game the entire time. Robbins is a great actor.