Comparison of The Shawshank Redemption and Cool Hand Luke Introduction Throughout the years, the interest in entertainment involving prison escapes has yet to diminish in popularity. With older classics such as the novel-turned-film The Count of Monte Cristo and a more recent television series titled Prison Break, the subject of convicts attempting to flee from captivity is unlikely to disappear any time soon. Two well-known and highly acclaimed movies about this particular topic are The Shawshank Redemption and Cool Hand Luke. Each movie was adapted from its literature version, and both films are critically-acclaimed classics which continue to be well-liked. Both The Shawshank Redemption and Cool Hand Luke occur in a similar setting with …show more content…
In The Shawshank Redemption, Andy did not actually commit the crime that he was convicted of in court, which is why his sentence can be considered unjust. Also, even though both films contain themes about the corruption that power causes, they showcase different ways to react to those in positions of power. Throughout the movie, Dufresne plays the system, doing what is asked of him so as to be in good standing with the warden and guards. In another review from Roger Ebert, he explains how, “For the warden, [Andy] is both a challenge and a resource; Andy knows all about bookkeeping and tax preparation, and before long he's been moved out of his prison job in the library and assigned to the warden's office, where he sits behind an adding machine and keeps tabs on the warden's ill-gotten gains” (“The Shawshank Redemption”). Because of this, Dufresne has more freedom and protection within Shawshank. The warden allows him to remain alone in his cell, expands the library, and gives him more leeway and freedom around the prison. Being so close with those in power is what allowed Andy to escape so flawlessly, and this scenario represents the idea of keeping friends close and enemies closer. Dufresne successfully breaking out of Shawshank showcases the importance of hope, and this, along with the outcomes of those in charge of the prison, created the satisfying ending of justice being
The Shawshank Redemption is an inspiring story about Andy Dufreine and his efforts to maintain hope in horrible situations. The directors used many effective methods that displayed signs of hope in such a horrible place. Andy maintained hope by distracting his mind and always staying occupied. Andy was also inspired to survive by helping others find hope in life.
In 1947, Andy Dufresne, a banker in Maine, is sentenced for killing his wife and her lover. He is given two lifelong incarcerations and sent to the famously brutal Shawshank Prison. Andy always claimed that he was innocent, but his personality led a lot of people to doubt him.
A parent chooses the punishment to correct the child for his or her wrong. The child though is the person that decides whether the punishment will convict and transform him. The child has the power to choose how the punishment will affect them. In both the novel One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the movie The Shawshank Redemption (1994), punishment is given to a person who did not deserve it. Both Ivan Denisovich Shuhkov and Andy Dufresne are found guilty of a crime they did not commit. The prison tries to punish Shuhkov and Dufresne. However, Shuhkov and Dufresne were able to surmount the prison's attempts. Through their mind they were able to weather the guards' futile attempts at breaking them down.
First, Andy preserves his self-respect by fighting or defending himself from the rape squad of Shawshank Prison known as “The Sisters”.
The authors begin the book by providing advice on how a convict can prepare for release from prison. Throughout the book, the authors utilize two fictional characters, Joe and Jill Convict, as examples of prisoners reentering society. These fictional characters are representative of America’s prisoners. Prison is an artificial world with a very different social system than the real world beyond bars. Convicts follow the same daily schedule and are shaped by the different society that is prison. Prisoners therefore forget many of the obl...
Many books get adapted into movies, but very few get two movies made after them. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), directed by Mel Stuart and Tim Burton, respectively, are two different alterations of Roald Dahl’s novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964). Both versions follow the similar plot of five children finding a Golden Ticket that enables them to tour Mr. Wonka’s chocolate factory and compete for the grand prize. As the movies progress, each child faces some sort of accident, leaving Charlie as the only child left to become heir to the factory. Both directors, however, went in different directions in regards to their adaptations. Charlie differs from Willy in that
The movie Shawshank Redemption depicts the story of Andy Dufresne, who is an innocent man that is sentenced to life in prison. At Shawshank, both Andy and the viewers, witness typical prison subculture.
In the icy cold waters of San Francisco Bay their floats the notorious Island of Alcatraz. It is no more part of pop culture for being just an island than it is for having a prison on it. No. Alcatraz was so notorious because it had some of the world’s most dangerous and violent criminals inside the walls of the prison. The prison had incredible security and was renowned for being inescapable, except when it was broken out of. In 1962 four men devised and perpetrated a brilliant almost fantastical escape, the only traces of their making it out are the mysterious gifts received by the families, personal belongs left on the shore, and that their bodies that were never found.
“Social Control are techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society.” In Shawshank penitentiary the guards would heavily beat inmates if they stepped out of line. They would also confine a prisoner into the “hole.” No one desired the “hole,” because it was a tiny concrete cell with no outside light, and they only were served small rations to survive on. It is hard to have a social norm in prison, because after all, it is a place that is inhabited with juvenile adults. If something in a penitentiary could be considered normal it would be listening to the guards, obeying the warden, and keeping your head down. Andy Dufresne had most of these concepts. He developed a respectable relationship with the warden. Plus the warden (to his downfall) trusted Dufresne. By creating a regular routine, “social norm,” Andy was able to escape without being
In the book Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption written by Stephen King, Andy Dufresne becomes wrongly imprisoned in Shawshank State Prison for the murder of his wife and her lover. Andy becomes engulfed in the prison life as he makes friends. As the book, as well as the movie, transpire you see Andy becoming one of the prisoners. The movie describes it perfectly when Andy says: “On the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.” Andy and the other inmates are all locked up metaphorically as well as literally, hiding from themselves. Shawshank uses the isolation to submerge their prisoners to be unable to function past the prison walls.
Corruption of justice in the prison system is relevant in Stephen Kings, novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. The Cause of this corruption was the greed of the administrators, and the lasting effects it had on the prisoners mentally, physically, and emotionally.
One of the most alarming aspects of this book is the author’s mentality. Throughout the book, Hassine appears to be quite the well-rounded individual. He specifically regarded the prison mentality by saying: “If you throw a prisoner in a dark cave, he’ll learn how to see. In fact, if you give him enough rats, he’ll get fat. You can try feeding him cockroaches to punish him more, but he’ll eventually get fat on those too. As some inmates boast, ‘What doesn’t kill me, only makes me stronger (Hassine, Irwin, Bernard, McCleary, & Wright, 1999).” This quote displays Hassine being highly self-aware of his environment. As the book progressed, so did a sense of realization of the predicament that Hassine is in, in terms of incarceration. As Hassine described in the quote above, prisonization is a process, a difficult process, but is one that can be adaptable. The way Hassine described the prisonization mentality was approaching the topic with a more human perspective.
Some people have no idea what it feels like to be in prison, according to statistics simply one out of every five people really knows what the prison life is like. Nearly 1.4 million people out of the U.S.’s 280 million people that remain in prison. (Thomas, 2). One of the main reasons people know about prisons is because of the movies. The things that contribute to people stereotyping the prison life is news, movies, and books. Prisoners do receive three meals a day, workout facilities, a library, as well as other things. People are also given the idea, through the mass media, that prisoners are free to walk around certain parts of the prison. Throughout my research I plan to learn the answer to a question remaining what is prison life really like for inmates?
In The Shawshank Redemption, a film directed by Frank Darabont, Friendship is a prominent theme that is explored throughout the story of Andy Dufresne, Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding and their imprisonment and subsequent friendship. Darabont uses a range of techniques in this film to convey that theme of friendship, such as lighting, dialogue, music/score, Camera angles, mise-en-scene and camera shots.
The mass media uses prison life as the source for movies and television shows. Over the years there have been many movies written about prison but the most prominent in my mind is Frank Darabont’s, The Shawshank Redemption. Throughout the film there are many examples of the falsities of prison life. There are some elements of truth but they are out weighed by the misconceptions. Numerous prisoners are allowed to walk around the prison and the prison yard with no guards in sight. In actuality there are always guards around, especially on the inside. The prisoner’s movement through the prison is highly restricted.