Speaking of prison break movies, it's easy to think of the classic "Shawshank Redemption", and some fans can say classic film noir such as "The Hole" and "The Man's Fight", many of which are more classic than "The Shawshank Redemption". But why the latter can stand out and get more recognition. In fact, it is nothing more than a synthesis of time and place.
Just imagine, if a very good work does not contain this excellent soil, then this work will always seem out of place with the era at that time, such a work naturally could not win resonance at that time, and the final result must be very sad.
On the contrary, if a work draws on the nutrient experience of many predecessors, coupled with the promotion of the times, as well as the inclusive soil and a group of eager audiences, then the work will most likely become a classic work. Obviously, The Shawshank Redemption is one such work.
Today, however, we don't talk about this classic, let's look at another work that is not so classic, it also has good parts, and these good parts are borrowed by the latecomer "The Shawshank Redemption".
The movie recommended to you today is the 1979 prison break film "Escape from Yakala". This film is a very good prison break movie, and it also provides a lot of references for latecomers.
If you're familiar with The Shawshank Redemption, you'll find that many of the scenes and story settings in this film are reflected in the latter. So if you don't know this movie, just watching the latter, you will feel intrigued, but when you understand the commonalities of this type of film, and then watch "The Shawshank Redemption", you will feel that it is not so classic, but just absorbed the nutrients of the previous work, and then fully displayed at a suitable time.
"Escape from Yakala" is a prison break film, and for the more classic predecessor "Hole", the setting of this film is the opposite. The scene set in "The Hole" is an ordinary prison, and the scene set in this film is a highly centralized prison. Compared with the later work "The Shawshank Redemption", the setting of the characters in this film is slightly thin, but the main characters still have certain reference value.
First of all, we are talking about the background of the prison, the background of this film, the prison director is a one-handed character, and there are too many things about the punishment of prisoners. The prison director represents a reign of violence under which ordinary prisoners have no human rights to speak of.
This is the inducing reason for the escape from prison that this film wants to explain. The protagonist could have served his sentence here, but in this isolated place, he faces two threats, one is the aggressive people's eyes on him, and the other is the invisible pressure from the prison director.
These two reasons were also removed unchanged in The Shawshank Redemption. Andy faces the nuisance of homosexuality and the repressive rule of the warden. Under this double pressure, the freedom Andy wants is even more precious.
However, the reason for the escape in this film is not so high, he does not want a higher level of freedom, but only after seeing the inhuman rule in this prison, a natural urge to escape from prison. This is the original kinetic energy, and it is displayed reasonably.
The daisies in this film are like the group of people sitting on the roof drinking beer in "The Shawshank Redemption", which is a rare moment, and under this moment, both films can show the prison prisoners' desire for freedom. The only difference is that drinking beer in The Shawshank Redemption seems more in line with the modern understanding of freedom.
In addition to these details that are called freedom, the details of the prison escape that the whole film shows us are also the essence of the imitation of the later "Shawshank Redemption", including the use of inconspicuous things as a tool for digging walls, and the use of excavated dirt to carry outside with clothes. And the masks used to camouflage jailbreaks are actually the same. I will not dwell on it here.
The above details are necessary for us to understand The Shawshank Redemption more fully, and even more important for our more comprehensive and systematic understanding of a prison break movie.
For example, in almost all prison escape movies, the protagonist must have a good body, because a good body has the ability to work; secondly, it also needs a lot of knowledge reserves. The protagonist's various science and engineering knowledge in this film, and the financial knowledge possessed by Andy in "The Shawshank Redemption", are all helpful to him.
In addition, strong psychological qualities are also essential, if you are still a person who is afraid when you see the guards, you will naturally not choose to escape from prison under his eyes. Looking at these protagonists after successfully escaping from prison, there is no doubt that their psychological quality is very strong. This is the main reason for their success.
The last point is naturally a strong hands-on ability, except for the drill bit that is a bit exaggerated, other places reflect the excellence of the protagonist's hands-on ability. With the above basic conditions, the rest is left to luck, and the main reason why the prison break movie can attract more audiences is the exaggerated luck component to the extreme.
Above, the more you watch, the more you will feel that in fact, "The Shawshank Redemption" is not classic, excellent works naturally have excellent charm to speak of, but without the reference significance of the previous work, this charm will naturally be boring.
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