Today brings you a classic prison escape movie starring Eastwood to escape from Yakala, and the redemption of Shawshank, the number one movie in film history, borrows from this film to some extent.
The story takes place in 1960, on a dark, cold, rainy night when Bank Robber Frank is captured and imprisoned. Because Frank had a high IQ and was given special care, he was sent to the most heavily guarded Yakala prison. The warden personally met Frank and warned him that the prison was unbreakable and not to make any ghost ideas. But he didn't know that it was his reception that gave Frank the opportunity to see the overall architectural model of the prison, which facilitated his future planning of his escape route.
In prison life, Frank met the rich old Li who secretly raised small mice, and old Li stayed in prison for half his life, but he was open-minded and optimistic, and could find fun in boring life. In prison, Frank, because of his handsome appearance, attracts the provocation of the fat brother who likes men, and it is clear that the fat brother has not taken advantage of anything, while Frank is sent to the library because of this provocation to give in to the black prisoner Inlis.
The elder Black Inclus, who had been sentenced to ninety-nine years of service ten years earlier for killing two white men, had long since lost hope in life. When Old Black felt frank's powerful aura of not accepting defeat and denying his life, he admired him and quickly became a pair of tribulation friends with Frank. In addition to Old Lee and Old Black, Frank also met the doctor who liked to draw, and the doctor painted the figure wearing a very dazzling little chrysanthemum on his chest, and he told Frank that the little chrysanthemum was the hope in my heart, and no matter how strong the prison could not lock them. The doctor's spirit of not giving up hope deeply touched Frank.
Soon Old Black told Frank that no one had ever managed to escape in Yakala Prison, because one in every three prisoners was guarded by a jailer and had to deal with countless roll call calls every day. Even if you can escape the jailer, it is still impossible to escape from the cell. The walls of the cell are made of steel, and it is impossible to break through the walls. If you want to dig tunnels, it is even more impossible, because the prison is built on the island, and the ground is full of rocks. Even if you are lucky enough to escape from the cell, there is a wide bay in front of the prison, and if you want to swim over, you will be frozen to death if you want to swim over.
However, Frank also learned from Old Lee that there was a ventilation duct at the top of the cell, and the prison that looked like an iron wall had cracked in Frank's heart to freedom. When Frank conceived the escape plan, life in the prison became dark, and during a wind release, the fat brother who had not tasted the small fresh meat once again raided Frank, and although Frank was the victim, the inhuman warden locked Frank up and even abused Frank with a high-pressure spray gun, and did not release him until two days later.
On this day, when the warden was inspecting the cell, he found a portrait from the doctor that defame him, and the warden, in a fit of rage, confiscated the doctor's painting tools and forbade him to paint. The inability to paint deprives the doctor of hope in life. Emotionally agitated, he cut off his fingers with an axe in public while doing carpentry work. When the doctor is taken away, Frank finds a brilliant yellow chrysanthemum that the doctor left for him, and Frank can't help but feel sad about it, which deepens his hatred for Yakara.
One day, Frank stumbles upon a small reptile crawling out of a small iron window under the wall in his cell, and for the first time he leans down and notices a common passage outside the small iron window, where countless crisscrossed pipes lead straight to the roof. Frank sneaks out the nail clippers hidden in the Bible and gently pries up the wall by the iron window, finding that the cement block is easy. It can be pried off.
At dinner the next day, Frank and his neighbors, car thieves, and the brothers Daeon and Xiao'an, who had a history of escaping from prison, sat around a table. Frank solemnly declares that he has thought of a way to escape from prison. First, the whole prison is very dilapidated, the humid air has long corroded the cement, they can easily poke a large hole; second, through the small iron window can enter the public passage, climb the pipes to reach the top of the building, and then climb through the top vents to the roof. As for the holes dug, you can tear off the advertisements in the magazine to make cardboard, and then paint them with painting paint to make a similar small iron window to hide your eyes. After escaping from prison, facing the bay, Daan and Xiaoan can steal some raincoats and cement glue from the garment factory where they work, and make simple life rafts and life jackets so that they can cross the sea and flee to the other side.
Da An and Xiao An are habitual prisoners who have escaped from prison and said on the spot that they joined this dangerous plan. The thief, on the other hand, was eager to return home and was willing to take the risk of joining the program. Soon everyone started to act as planned. First Frank and the car thieves cooperate, one digging a hole, the other putting up a sentry, and Daan and XiaoAn did the same. In order to speed up the progress of the family, Frank stole a spoon while eating, and successfully welded the tip of the spoon handle and nail clippers, greatly improving the efficiency of the hole. As for the soil dug out of the hole, they poured it into the toilet and washed it away, and part of it was sprinkled on the road when they let the wind blow in their pockets. Later, there is a similar plot in the Shawshank Redemption, and while the digging is almost complete, they begin to use torn magazines mixed with cement to make dummies and fake windows.
Then the car thief asked for paint from the prison guards, painted the dummy's head and the fake window, and put hair on the dummy's head, and the image was realistic. After the dummy head is ready, Frank has the ability to doppelganger, and he puts the dummy head on the pillow and pretends to sleep. This was done to deceive the jailer, and then he sneaked out of the cave and climbed to the top floor. But when he got to the top floor, Frank discovered that the ventilation ducts were not only too high, but also welded to death by iron bars. Finally, with the help of Daan, Frank managed to climb the iron bar, but found that the metal cover at the opening of the ventilation duct was riveted to the iron pillar. For iron bars, only one iron pipe is needed to pry open, but to open the nailed metal cover, they also need an engine, drill bit and small flashlight.
Soon after, Frank notices a small desktop fan at a music gathering of the prisoners. When the meeting was over, Frank took advantage of the chaos to put a small fan into his instrument box and asked the rich man Lee for wires and drills. In the public passage at night, Frank successfully transformed the small electric fan into a small electric drill, and Daan also borrowed a small flashlight from his fellow prisoners, and the two worked together to successfully pry open the iron pillar on the duct and remove the rivets from the metal cover. Finally, one weekend, Frank's pre-prison work was ready, and they decided to leave next Tuesday.
During the weekend day, during dinner, they put a chrysanthemum in a cup in honor of the doctor, but the warden brutally tore the chrysanthemum. Old Li, who had been friends with doctors for many years, was stimulated on the spot and died of a heart attack on the spot. The warden's unmerciful intimidation of the crowd, some of whom were destined to spend their entire lives in Yakala, undoubtedly stung Frank once again.
On weekend nights, the warden himself comes to Frank's cell for an inspection, which alerts Frank. The next day, Frank learned that Daan and Xiaoan had prepared a life raft and life jacket, and decided to start the operation that night. In the evening, Frank and the three brothers Daan and Xiaoan successfully came to the ventilation duct, but the car thief at this time was so frightened that he was afraid and did not dare to move. Time was running out, and Frank and the other three had to leave first, and they managed to climb through the ventilation duct to the roof, then climbed all the way down the drainage pipe, and then crossed the barbed wire gate, which was not technically difficult. With superb cover, the three of them successfully came to the beach, and then they kept blowing up the life raft made of raincoats, and then left across the sea with the life raft. After the escape, the warden himself came to the other side of the bay to search, and when she saw a chrysanthemum lying quietly on the rock, he believed Frank that they had escaped because there were no chrysanthemums growing on the island. But in order to maintain the myth that no one in Yakala had successfully escaped from prison, the warden announced to everyone categorically that the escapee had drowned in the sea.
The escape from Yakala is based on a true story, but after Frank escaped with the brothers Daan and Xiaoan, whether he lived or died is still a mystery. The film's performance of the prison escape process is extremely realistic, the storyline is also quite tense and exciting, before the Shawshank redemption came out, this film can be called the leader of the prison escape film, but after the Shawshank redemption came out, escaping from Yakala was gradually forgotten. Well, let's go here today, welcome to subscribe, and bring you a movie with a wonderful plot every day.