rewatched 'shawshank redemption'
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elliclerElli, do you HAVE to have so many opinions nobody cares about???
Shawshank Redemption:
- VERY little violence
- homos are scary & bad (UGH)
- the narrator always comes across as being in love with their subject (Great Gatsby!!). was this intentional for King or an artifact of the adaptation?
- Maine is VERY hhhhwhite, casting Freeman is inspired
- Andy had waited intentionally, could've skipped earlier. obvious question: waiting for Red??
- 'i'm tired of being afraid/scared all the time' - Red when released on parole
- very sanitised portrayal of violence, prison order, relationships. even sanitised masculinity! no wonder it comes across as VERY homosocial (esp Andy&Red's friendship), but everyone among prisoners are best buddies, and even guards (not everyone! just the warden and that one guy!) only screw over Andy specifically. no everyday violence. no grounds to be horrified w/the way the prison system is set up, as if it's mostly equitable - just philosophically the *idea* of losing your freedom. i think it perpetuates a myth abt prisons being just psychologically hard, nothing about terrible physical hardship & indignity & a thousand injustices & wolfpack ethics. not grounded in reality and not embodied.
- REALLY homosocial. Andy & Red's bond is - oh, i don't have words for it. they don't write fic that good about them, not even close.
- ofc nothing about racism b/c who cares. in a movie abt prison. right???
- but the narrator is not a second fiddle or a buddy or a sidekick. he's *our eyes*, we the audience are invited to identify with him and we are privy to his inner life thus we have the strongest bond with him. ...ok *maybe* the movie doesn't *quite* balance that ideally. http://www.kimgalovich.com/images/3002%20Final%20Paper.pdf
'color-blindness, which can also be called ‘color evasiveness’' 'a white audience in the 1990s would probably find it easier to ignore racial issues and keep the real world out of their film.' ROLLEYES
also a v.good article Vera, Hernan, and Andrew Gordon. "The Shawshank Redemption: True Romance" here
- i need to read King's story. 'Andy was a part of me they could never lock up'
- Ebert: 'The key to the film's structure, I think, is that it's not about its hero, but about our relationship with him - our curiosity, our pity, our admiration. If Andy had been the heroic center, bravely enduring, the film would have been conventional, and less mysterious.'
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-shawshank-redemption-1994
- violence:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-09-23-ca-41876-story.html
'envisioned the rest of the cons as a bunch of swell and softhearted guys who were probably put away for overzealous toenail clipping'
' The inappropriateness of having them in the same film with vicious attempted gang rapes seems not to have occurred to anyone with any influence.'
'The film's periodic bouts of violence are probably also intended as a reality booster.'
' "Shawshank's" zealousness in trying to cast a rosy glow over the prison experience'
Shawshank Redemption:
- VERY little violence
- homos are scary & bad (UGH)
- the narrator always comes across as being in love with their subject (Great Gatsby!!). was this intentional for King or an artifact of the adaptation?
- Maine is VERY hhhhwhite, casting Freeman is inspired
- Andy had waited intentionally, could've skipped earlier. obvious question: waiting for Red??
- 'i'm tired of being afraid/scared all the time' - Red when released on parole
- very sanitised portrayal of violence, prison order, relationships. even sanitised masculinity! no wonder it comes across as VERY homosocial (esp Andy&Red's friendship), but everyone among prisoners are best buddies, and even guards (not everyone! just the warden and that one guy!) only screw over Andy specifically. no everyday violence. no grounds to be horrified w/the way the prison system is set up, as if it's mostly equitable - just philosophically the *idea* of losing your freedom. i think it perpetuates a myth abt prisons being just psychologically hard, nothing about terrible physical hardship & indignity & a thousand injustices & wolfpack ethics. not grounded in reality and not embodied.
- REALLY homosocial. Andy & Red's bond is - oh, i don't have words for it. they don't write fic that good about them, not even close.
- ofc nothing about racism b/c who cares. in a movie abt prison. right???
- but the narrator is not a second fiddle or a buddy or a sidekick. he's *our eyes*, we the audience are invited to identify with him and we are privy to his inner life thus we have the strongest bond with him. ...ok *maybe* the movie doesn't *quite* balance that ideally. http://www.kimgalovich.com/images/3002%20Final%20Paper.pdf
'color-blindness, which can also be called ‘color evasiveness’' 'a white audience in the 1990s would probably find it easier to ignore racial issues and keep the real world out of their film.' ROLLEYES
also a v.good article Vera, Hernan, and Andrew Gordon. "The Shawshank Redemption: True Romance" here
- i need to read King's story. 'Andy was a part of me they could never lock up'
- Ebert: 'The key to the film's structure, I think, is that it's not about its hero, but about our relationship with him - our curiosity, our pity, our admiration. If Andy had been the heroic center, bravely enduring, the film would have been conventional, and less mysterious.'
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-shawshank-redemption-1994
- violence:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-09-23-ca-41876-story.html
'envisioned the rest of the cons as a bunch of swell and softhearted guys who were probably put away for overzealous toenail clipping'
' The inappropriateness of having them in the same film with vicious attempted gang rapes seems not to have occurred to anyone with any influence.'
'The film's periodic bouts of violence are probably also intended as a reality booster.'
' "Shawshank's" zealousness in trying to cast a rosy glow over the prison experience'
