Author / Hayashi Ono
This movie has been talked about for twenty-seven years, basically knocking on the bone and sucking the marrow, becoming a small editor of the world, even the tiny props have been taken to do the mobile phone LOGO, eating meat, drinking soup basic slag. Today Xiaobian will insert another foot to add a little beautiful and useless cold knowledge for you, add some talk to your meal, and say something you don't know.
I. This old oak tree was struck by lightning!
Watching "My Savage Girlfriend" more than a decade ago, when Che Tae-hyun dug out a time ball under an old pine tree, my first reaction was- "Why pay tribute to my Shawshank Buxton Big Oak?!" ”
Later, an old grandfather came up to Pua Quan Jixian and said that the original old pine tree was struck by lightning, and the infatuated male protagonist transplanted a purely similar tree.
I said in my heart, Oh ~ it's a little new, this thunder cracks well! Unlike the tree, my Old Oak Tree in Shawshank Buxton was not properly poked there by lightning.
However, the old oak tree of July 29, 2011 "The Shawshank Redemption" was really struck by lightning!!!
In fact, this tree is not located in Buxton, Maine, as the film says, it stands in the Pleasant Valley of Malabar Farm State Park in Ohio. A few months before the film was shot, the crew had built a long stone wall beforehand, given it time to weather, and planted alfalfa grass around it.
On July 23, 2016, the crumbling and half-ruined old tree was completely destroyed by a strong wind and fell down.
II. Do you know the name of Stephen King's original book?
Stephen King was born on September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine, UNITED States
Everyone knows that Stephen King is a prolific best-selling author, and that the movie "The Shawshank Redemption" originated from a collection of novellas, "Different Seasons", but in the first edition in 1982, the short 85,000-word novel was called "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption", that is, "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption".
(Right) Cover of the original 1982 novel
Until the preparatory stage shortly before filming began on June 6, 1993, the film was still called "Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption", which caused trouble for the director that many actresses mistakenly thought it was a Biography of Rita Hayworth, and even some agencies at that time introduced a bunch of young models, and director Frank Delabont was overwhelmed and simply changed it - "The Shawshank Redemption".
Stephen King only paid a nominal fee of $1,000, but he never cashed in. Many years later, he framed the check and sent it to director Frank De la Bonte, with a note that accompanied it: "In case you need bail." dear Stephen. ”
III. How tall is Tim Robbins?
Tim Robbins (born October 16, 1958 in West Covina, California)
We see Tim Robbins in "The Shawshank Redemption" like a clothes rail, always standing out from the crowd, which seems to have changed in huayi brothers' "Nineteen Forty-Two", because his role as Father Megan always sits there and prays, and Zhang Hanyu's height of 1.78 meters can still be carried.
But there are times when you stand up —
Every time I see this still, I feel that Zhang Hanyu is a brick, because Tim Robbins is actually 1.96 meters tall! 5mm taller than Jeremy Lin.
I've seen all kinds of Hollywood male stars in the height rankings before, and the number one is always Dwayne Johnson, who is said to be 1.95 meters tall. I think Johnson can take a break.
IV. Morgan Freeman's own son appeared on camera, but we ignored it
Red, played by Morgan Freeman, derives his name from the first three letters of Redemption.
Because the original Red was an Irish Caucasian, the director envisioned four stars coming to the show.
During this period, director Frank De la Bonte kept coming up with a face in his mind, thick and simple, and the conscience of mankind was responsible, and this person was Morgan Freeman.
Morgan Freeman is an interesting person, and the images of him on the screen fire are all white people in the script. For example, in the famous 1998 disaster film "Sky and Earth Collision", Morgan Freeman became the president of the United States! Yeah, why can't the president of the United States be black? Later, Hollywood counterparts wondered again, why can't God be black? So there was Kim Carey's "Counterfeit Gods".
Bruce Almighty (2003)
In my opinion, it was wise for the director to bring in Morgan, not only to spare the "voice from heaven" praised by his peers, but also to bring in a son in vain.
At 2 hours and 8 minutes of the film, the photo on Red's parole file is of his youngest son, Alfonso Freeman.
Alfonso Freeman was born on September 13, 1959
Not only that, in the scene where Andy is in prison, Alfonso also plays a young man who is booing! Shout "Fresh fish! Fresh fish today! "That one.
In 2007, Morgan Freeman also starred in "Bucket List" with this young son, a very good movie, Douban 8.7 points, which friend can watch it when he is unhappy, and he has a strong sense of gain - life where there are so many twitter and crooked life.
The Bucket List (2007)
V. In reality, there are really prisoners who imitate Andy to escape, resulting in the suicide of the prison guards
There has never been a shortage of aspirants in this world.
There is a case in the United States where prisoners successfully escape from prison by imitating Andy's methods. In 2007, two inmates at Union County Jail in New Jersey managed to escape, but they weren't so lucky, after all, in the movie, Andy crawled through the stench of 500 yards equivalent to five football fields, all laid out by chocolate syrup and wood chips, and the pipe still smells of chocolate two years later.
The bad luck of the two prisoners was that they were finally successfully captured, and they really thought it was 1966.
Unfortunately, this escape directly led to the suicide of a thin-skinned prison guard, Rudolph Zurick! It actually ends like the villain Sam Norton in the film, sentimental.
The two captured prisoners were completely indifferent to Zurik's death, and they shrugged their shoulders and said, "It's none of my business!" ”
VI. The voice of the crab boss in SpongeBob SquarePants comes from this old brother
Actor Clancy Brown was born on January 5, 1959
"The Shawshank Redemption" not only has the second generation of stars, but also the third generation of rich officials, this evil Man Byron Hedley, with a black stick and a cold gun, and finally crying like a little girl, the actor Clancey Brown was originally an innocent and ignorant young man, obsessed with fantasy of literary and artistic youth, do not know why the fierce god evil, the character of money and death will always find him.
For example, in "SpongeBob SquarePants: Rescue Adventure", the crab boss who fired Brother Octopus for a dime and sold SpongeBob SquarePants to flying Dutchmen for six cents and two cents-
Crab owner Mr. Krabs
How pompous the Family of Clancy Brown is, you can see by his birth name, Clarence J. Brown III– Clancy Brown III.
His ancestors were the founder of brown publishing house, the oldest publishing house in the United States, which is said to have been founded in 1837 and specializes in literary works. Not only that, but his grandfather and father were both members of Congress. In real life, Clancy Brown is a warm and kind person, and he is very popular in Hollywood.
Clancy Brown once said of himself with a wry smile : "The good man character movies I played didn't sell well." ”
VII. One thing that needs to be corrected, this movie has a bug
Everyone knows that the beautiful woman on Andy's wall is Named Raquel Welch, and that the stills are from the movie "One Million Years B.C.
The beautiful woman was born in Chicago on September 5, 1940, and is still alive. She was a member of the British royal family and the 21st great-granddaughter of Edward I. When her branch basically collapsed, she dropped out of school at the age of 17 and married, and her first job was a hotel cocktail waiter, until june 1957, when she was elected Miss California, including the most photogenic miss, the best figure and so on.
For fifty-three years, from 1960 to 2013, she was the face of Foster Grant, a well-known American eyewear brand.
Raquel Welch (born 5 September 1940)
Chinese audiences are hindsighted about her, but they are very familiar with her daughter, especially the older generation after the 70s. Her daughter Tanee Welch starred in the famous American drama "Eagle Crown Manor" in the 1980s and was the first American star to break the cover of Chinese mainland film magazine.
Tanee Welch Tahnee Welch (born 26 December 1961)
This girl was born in 1961, which means that the little shorts beauty hanging on Andy's wall is a mother!
The Shawshank Redemption quotes the film A Million Years Ago, which did premiere on December 30, 1966, but it was a European memory, and premiered in the United Kingdom (an Anglo-American co-production).
"A Million Years Ago" was actually released in the United States on February 12, 1967, when Andy had already gone to the sea in Cihuatanio, Mexico, to bask in the sun.
By the way, let's talk about this beautiful woman —
How can "The Shawshank Redemption" pass Rita Hayworth in one stroke?
In fact, it is not the first time that Rita Hayworth and her "Gilda" have appeared in the film, and the first film to talk about this movie was the Italian "Bicycle Thief" in 1948.
A classmate who had not seen it roughly understood the situation, that is, a poor and unemployed father took his son to find a broken bicycle in Rome. He looked for the broken bike because it was his fault, the father's profession was to put movie posters on the streets, and the project he was working on was Rita Hayworth's Gilda.
This girl is good at this, if you get involved in "Gilda", you will definitely get an Oscar nomination for best movie!
VIII. One more thing to correct is that The Shawshank Redemption is not a directorial debut
Blowing up this kind of thing is easy to grasp the fire, and many times it will blow through the sky, such as - "He only brushed the world first in the first film" and so on, almost said "he is still a child"
Regarding director Frank De la Bonte, I have read no less than ten manuscripts to comment on this, and it is almost an ironclad case.
Directed by Frank Delabont Frank Darabont (born January 28, 1959)
In fact, as early as 1983, Frank had already made "The Woman in the Room", and as for what style, you can see his co-writers - Stephen King.
The magic of the pair is that they started working together in 1983, only to meet for the first time a decade later, in 1993, because of The Shawshank Redemption.
This Stephen King is multi-homely, which shows this!
Frank Delabonte didn't go to college for a day, and after graduating from high school at the age of 17, the poor Hungarian descendant had his first job selling sodas at an Egyptian theater kiosk in Hollywood, working part-time as a seat usher, in order to watch movies for free. In 1971, after watching George Lucas's Th.1138, he decided to pursue a career in film and television.
"The Shawshank Redemption" was also favored by many people in the script stage, and the first to start was Rob Reiner, the director of "Few Good People" (who is also the director of "Bucket List"), who offered co-writer Frank a sky-high price of $250W! It is planned that Tom Cruise will play Andy and Harrison Ford will play Red.
Director Rob Reiner was born on March 6, 1947
However, frank finally refused after a few days of entanglement, because he wanted to "do a big thing himself"!
By the way, Andy's gun-pulling hands at the beginning of the film are the director's own hands, and later Andy carved a clip on the wall.
Director Frank believes that only he can express the complicated mood of the male protagonist at that time.
IX: Because of the crash with "Friends", "The Shawshank Redemption" overturned at the box office
"The Shawshank Redemption" invested $2500W, was released on September 25, 1994, and grossed only $727,327 in the first week!
It was officially released in October 1994, and the rest of the month was filed, and the total number of room tickets was only 1800W. Until the following year, it received seven Oscar nominations, and the re-release recovered 1000W box office.
"The Shawshank Redemption" is losing "Forrest Gump", even if it is a year of movies around the world, good tigers do not fight wolves!
This year's North American box office ranking is like this -
1. "Forrest Gump"
2. "The Lion King"
3. "True Lies"
4. "Merry Christmas and Crazy"
5. "Stone City Paradise"
6. "Dumb and Dumb"
7. "Burning Pursuit"
8. "The Speed of Life and Death"
9. "Stranger in Disguise"
10. Pulp Fiction
The most unfortunate thing about "Shawshank Redemption" is that on the second day of the official release, the gold medal American drama "Friends" was launched.
Time also, fate also ah~
But even so, Warner Pictures still solemnly printed and distributed 32W video tapes on the market, and that gesture was like a farewell to the body, but it did not think that it would inadvertently insert willows and burn the camp, becoming the most expensive one in the 1995 videotape market!
And in one fell swoop, he killed the "Godfather I" that has dominated the list for twenty-three years, becoming the top of the Douban list in various countries!
X. Regarding the music in the film, the opening credits are not female jazz
Xiaobian has also seen in a large number of articles, there is a mention of the opening of the female vocal jazz "If I Didn't Care", it seems that those colleagues are really cold, all kinds of care.
In fact the song was sung by a man, and it was four!
"If I Didn't Care" was the 1939 pop song of the year, and The Ink Spots choir (not the band) sold millions of records that year! This million listeners bought records just to hear the title song.
Lead singer Bill Kenny's signature is that all of his trebles are false, so it sounds a bit easy to tell that I'm male and female, and he calls the form he invented "Top & Bottom".
In addition, the opera played by Andy in the film is Mozart's favorite mozart work "Sull'aria Che soave zeffiretto" ("West Wind Blowing" or "The Soft Beard in the Wind"), excerpted from "The Wedding of Figaro".
XI: Where is the Côte d'Azur in the end film?
First of all, let's talk about the main shooting location of this film -
The main building of the prison is actually the Reform Hospital in Mansfield, Ohio, which is located at 100 Reform Road in Mansfield.
Since the release of the movie, this place has become a place for Internet celebrities to punch in.
According to the tourism board, an average of about 20,000 tourists come to visit each year, bringing in about five million US dollars in annual revenue for the local area.
The rewards may be the result of the attention paid by various government departments when the film was filmed on the spot. They actually sent Dennis Baker, the former warden of the Ohio State Reform Prison, to not only be an enthusiastic consultant but also to help make cameos, and the man sitting behind the old cloth on the bus was the same person.
There is now a Shawshank Pedestrian Street dedicated to tourists, and local businesses have joined in the windfall. There, you can buy modified "Red Wine," "Shawshank Cake," and even a local pizzeria called "Two Cousins Pizzeria" that says it tastes good.
The sea that Andy says at the end of the film has no "memory" at all is actually located in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
This large blue sea area, in the end, there is still a "memory" -
The Allen Greene, the agent and friend of director Frank De la Bonte, died of AIDS shortly before the film's release.
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