Since "The Shawshank Redemption" appeared on the big screen in 1994, in recent years, it has surpassed its "opponent" "The Godfather" to become the first in IMDB film history, and perhaps it is the film's reflections on freedom and redemption that have infected generations of people
But this classic film from shooting to release is not smooth sailing, once released to lose money...
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >1, box office loss to vomit blood</h1>
As a globally recognized classic film, the investment of 25 million yuan that year only paid for 28 million at the box office. According to Hollywood's accounting system, the filmmakers can only get 55% of the money.
So, even though Stephen King, the author of the original book, only charged $1 in royalties on the face of his friend Frank Dalabant, "The Shawshank Redemption" still lost more than 10 million yuan in blood.
Not only the box office, but also the major awards of that year were only empty of nominations and few awards, and the reason was probably that the films of 1994 were too powerful.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >2, the most "stupid" decision</h1>
Each film seems to have a bumpy road to determining the lead actor, and at the beginning, the male protagonist Andy identified in "The Shawshank Redemption" was played by Kevin Costner.
But at that time, he deliberated and decided to take on another high-investment sci-fi action film" "Future Water World", so he proposed to the crew to resign. Unexpectedly, "Future Water World" did not work well and became a "bad movie", and Tim Robbins, who succeeded Kevin, left his name forever in this most classic movie.
Later, Kevin also publicly stated many times that quitting the role of Andy was definitely the stupidest decision he had made in his life.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >3, become the food of the prop</h1>
When andy finally gets a chance to escape from the sewers, you'll see a lot of black stuff in the pipes, sticky and dirty. Later, tim Robbins, the actor of the male protagonist, said in an interview that those things were actually chocolate syrup water.
And in the shot of Andy walking in the snow, the snowflakes that create the atmosphere are actually potato flakes, I don't know whether to praise the director for being too imaginative, or to say that I am clumsy...
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >4, the car always has problems</h1>
After Andy escapes from prison, he drives the roads of Mexico in an open-top sedan, and if you know it, you will find out that the car is a Pontiac GTO that was only launched in 1969, and the background of the film is three years ago in 1966.
It is said that at that time, the crew originally contacted a Mustang produced in 1965, but did not want the owner to temporarily change his mind, which had to have this bug.
This is not the only car that has also gone wrong.
There is a scene where Baugus is maimed by Captain Hadley and sent to an ambulance, but in fact, in the filming at the time, the old ambulance broke down, so the car we see in the film was actually moved by the staff.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >5, "humanitarian care"</h1>
The American Humanitarian Association oversaw all the shoots involving crows, and in one scene, the oldest prisoner, Brooks, fed maggots to his crows, which they felt was inhumane to maggots, and demanded that a maggot die naturally in this clip, and the crew would only have to obey.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right> the 6- and 9-hour conversation was cut for only 5 minutes</h1>
The scene where the two protagonists, Andy and Red, talk to each other, only takes up about five minutes in the movie, but in fact they shoot for nearly 9 hours!
During those 9 hours, they talked while Morgan Freeman, who played Red, kept playing with the ball, so much so that when he went to the set the next day to shoot, he had to ice his arm.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >7, the warm ending is not easy to come by</h1>
The final scene in the film is when Andy and Red reunite on the beach and hug. This scene is not in the original novel, but due to the strong insistence of the partners, the director had to add it, and even tried to secretly cut it at one point.
But when the demos were screened, the audience seemed to be very fond of this ending, which made the director determined to make concessions, retaining the scene that still seems to be tearful to this day.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >8, small details of the heart</h1>
Morgan Freeman plays a character named "Red", which is the first three letters of the English word redemption "Redemption", which is also what the whole film wants to express, Andy's redemption of himself, his old friend Red, and the redemption of other inmates.
As can be seen from the small details in the film, every shot of the director does not come out of thin air.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >9, interesting cameos</h1>
Finally, there are a few very interesting cameos in the film that are worth mentioning.
Morgan Freeman's youngest son, Alfonso Freeman, came to the show to run a dragon suit. It was when the new prisoners who came to the prison got off the bus that the black boy who shouted "today's new prisoner" in the crowd, although he only had one line, but his expression was not very in place.
The prison guard who shouts "lights out" at the beginning of the film is also a prison guard in his actual identity in life, and he is still quite able to drive the atmosphere.
There is also a warden of the Ohio Juvenile Detention Center, who is not here to play the role, but in the film makes a cameo appearance as a black prisoner, the black prisoner who is riding in the prison car with Tommy, and I don't know how he feels about the exchange of this identity.
Finally, I would like to conclude with a classic line from The Shawshank Redemption:
Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
Cowardice imprisons the soul of a man, hoping to set you free.
Those sad, painful, struggling things, one day, you will definitely laugh and say it, as long as you don't give up hope!